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Show A: A. The Daily Herald Friday. September 20, 1998 Rehabilitated pelicans freed SEAL BEACH NAVAL WEAPONS STATION, Calif. Sixteen pelicans soared to (AP) frrfHrnr or nm&Ve uiiv,i WwwKj rf uvvuuiii aft Jl UWUtlllWlll for a disease that has killed more than 11,000 endangered pelicans and other birds in a month. The birds are dying from avian botulism, which has been found in fish the pelicans are suspected of eating in the Salton Sea, about 120 miles east of San Diego. Experts have been unable to prove whether illegal use of pesticides on farmland south of the Salton Sea was responsible, said Susan Saul, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Portland, Ore. Helms proposed for rodeo riders By WALTER BERRY Associated Press Writer Critics said it was another publicity stunt for Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who PHOENIX Prisoners on County GOP presidential candidate gave the nation's first women chain Bob Dole a tour Tuesday of his gang say they welcome the jail's "tent city," to opportunity where 1,600 escape their cells cKaJn inmates are for a few hours l,n,S housed. pulling weeds and ISP t SO Dad. At "These are not picking up trash jt dangerous people you along downtown who need to be OUtIlltO back streets. in displayed Shackled at the world for a Donna chains," ankles in Hamm of the prisof five. 15 women oner rights group wearing bright day." Middle Ground orange jumpsuits Rebecca Lopez, shouted through a and caps began -They month-long female inmate their bujihorn. stint in the morn- chain member chained tTpkk up gang ing sun Thursday cigarette butts and as reporters from some bag up around the world weeds." watched and passmotorists blared Arpaio, who enjoys his repuing rush-hotation as America's toughest their horns. "Jail life is boring. It's dehu- sheriff, called himself an equal manizing," said Rebecca Lopez, opportunity incarcerator who h 28, who is serving a believes in treating women no sentence for a parole violation on differently than men. g a offense. "I don t believe in discrimina"But this chain gang isn't so bad. tion in my jail system. Crime At least it gets you back into the knows no gender and neither outside world for a couple hours should punishment," Arpaio a day." said. ." east Astronaut anticipates sleeping in By MICHELLE KOIDIN Associated Press Writer j&WST W.Y if " SPACE CENTER, Houston Astronaut Shannon Lucid can't wait to sleep in, kick back in her big, comfortable chair and catch up with her family after spending a record six months in space. "I'm looking forward to having my family around. We're going to sit, we're going to talk," Lucid said today in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America." "I'm looking forward to not having the alarm clock wake me up in the morning and just sort of taking it easy for a little bit." Lucid has refused to slow down since the shuttle Atlantic docked with Russia's Mir space station Wednesday night in a mission that includes bringing home the biochemist. She's been helping her eight fellow space travelers transfer her gear from Mir to Atlantis, and move 2 tons of food, water and supplies in the other direction. She's also been busy showing fellow astronaut John Blaha around Mir, her home for a record six months and his for the next four. ; "Shannon's given me a cheeky out, and I'm looking forward to the stay," Blaha said, already wearing his blue cosmonaut jump4 suit. Lucid wasted no time chang--inout of her blue suit and getting into more casual clothes, include ing a red and white striped shirt. ?an9 gets the side n in w fKl i r si) ; and ATLANTA (AP) Rodeo bull riders might want to switch their Stetsons for protective headgear, government health officials say. Bull riders whether bucked off, kicked, tossed or stomped on bite the dust hard and wind up with 37 percent of all rodeo injuries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. 2 "This is a fairly hazardous sport with a high risk for injuries," said Joseph Sniezek of the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention Control. "We need to look at prevention strategies, and that might include a helmet." The agency looked at five rid-ewith varying levels of experience who took a beating on bull rides in Louisiana in 1994 and tte95. One 28 year-old man with !35 years' experience snapped his &ck when he was thrown to the ground. He left the hospital paralyzed and unable to eat, dress or walk by himself. ,v Female inmates say chain gangs better than time in jail cell fs -- Teen sentenced tor igniting dog A teenNEW YORK (AP) ager who killed a girl's dog by setting it on fire has been sentenced to the maximum penalty of six to 18 months in a juvenile facility. Family Court Judge Richard Berman on Wednesday called the named burning of the dog 1 1 -after the year-old girl's Granpa "a heinous act" grandfather before sentencing the boy. who admitted he i A also helped burn the dog awaits sentencing. On Sept. 25, 1995, the two youths soaked the neighbor's dog, a husky mix, with flammable liquid and then set the animal on fire. Campbell plans mail-ordmeals er NEW YORK (AP) Campbell Soup Co. will soon add turkey sandwiches, pasta and meatloaf to its canned soup business with a new line of frozen mail-ordmeals intended to fight high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes, The New York Times reported today. comd The Camden, the pany will begin program in January in Ohio, the newspaper said. The world's largest soup maker has been secretly developing the product for five years with the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association, the Times said. ur three-mont- AP Photo drinking-and-drivin- A Maricopa County Sheriff's Department detention officer collects identification badges from inmates working on the female chain gang in Phoenix Thursday. Fifteen women pulled weeds and picked up trash on city streets as members of the nation's first female prison work detail to work in leg irons outside of jail. J Researchers say Freud overrated unconscious our mind about what should work inside the therapy." In their experiment, Green-wald- 's WASHINGTON The unconthe a name team scious may not be as powerful as subliminal jammed between message Sigmund Freud thought, say two strings of letters and flashed it researchers who found a way to on a screen. Immediately aftershow that subliminal messages do ward, they flashed a second name, but called a influence the human mind target. the influence lasts only a fraction Some 300 student volunteers of a second. were asked to identify the target The study also casts doubt on the names as male or female. effectiveness of subliminal mesResearchers looked at what hapsages in advertising. when the subliminal and tarpened "The mind, when it's operating one were dissimilar names get unconsciously, is not nearly so male, one female. smart as Freud and other psychoanWhen the time between seeing alysts would have us believe," said the subliminal and target names University of Washington psycholoh of a second and was just gy professor Anthony Greenwald. little time to students had the and Greenwald two The study by assistants at the university's Seattle respond, they often got the target indicampus was being published today name's gender wrong. That in the journal Science. They offered cated the 'subliminal name had influenced them, steering them to a way to measure the effects of subliminal messages and showed that the incorrect answer. On the other hand, the students they only influence the mind for more easily identified the target of a second. about "That's important because the- name's gender if the interval ories of how the mind operates between the subliminal and target unconsciously are used in devising names was longer and they had psychotherapies," Greenwald said. ample response time. That indicat"As we change our concept of ed the subliminal name's effect h of had not lasted beyond how much the mind can accoma we second. change unconsciously, plish By KEVIN GALVIN f Jfi'iVitio the NmitKt th one-tent- Phwirinn AsmttA Dirt Pill Therattv! 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