| Show t I : MOVIES FEATURES ZbeSiallIcaktZtibunt TV ANN LANDERS COMICS S 1 1 -- THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1994 '- e 41 0''' --- I :: ' - I "P f -- - ' - WI 1 i 1 SCIENCE 1 ' UPDATES I I I RIF 11 1 - 1 I i 1 1 I I 1 t r I I i - L I ' i Recycling on the moon 1 I of age-ol-d i ' : life-save- I Ci - - ' r ' - " 111) :: ' t 1'" ' 3- ef: and sacs Pacific: Oceanz -- " : Blowhole r k t ) Ll " ' N ---- -- 0111 16 -- - -- e i -- - ' ''- - N' Lower jaw PtURITZV '' ' - - - t - - al isisaso '10 tel1111°1 Alr 4104 ' iits00' r goal-settin- ' ! - OF 0 ioo:)0 0 417 0o) y i th ‘t : - - - -- I " ClOospecta 0 14 - ! : - g ID - 00 Sleep it off Want to reduce your stress? 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IN THE MINDS OF BABES year -- asking mT-RIDDE- and how much — infants remember By Susan M Barbieri 4 If you have ever wondered why you can't remember a thing that happened to you before age 3 whether some people really can recall being born or whether your baby is quietly storing and remembering events of early life a University of Minnesota researcher may have some answers For the past eight years associate professor Patricia Bauer and her colleagues at the Institute of Child Development have followed hundreds of children from infancy through early childhood to track human memory development The study continues through 1996 "The question we started out with was simple: Are babies able to recall specific events that happened to them at some point in the past? It sounds like a straightforward question but it's complicated in a big way by the fact that babies don't talk" Bauer said reBauer became interested in search because of the "childhood amnesia" phenomenon commonly reported by adults Most people cannot remember events from earlier than age 3 — at least not firsthand Memory development in babies and toddlers is a relatively understudied area because it is so difficult to bridge the communication gap between adult researchers and preverbal children Bauer Minnesota group developed a technique called "elicited imitation" for interpreting babies' communication about their past experiences In a typical experiment researchers present the baby with two nesting cups and a rubber ball The items are placed in front of the baby who plays with them for a while The researcher then shows the baby how to make a rattle by putting the ball inside one cup and covering it with the other "We then provide the baby with the props again i ' The — al ' s near-soli- 4 ' I'm inviting them to imitate me" Bauer said "We're showing them something that we want them to remember and then we give them the opportunity to show us that they do" KNIGII ' f - lost to ”v infant-memor- y - N 0 4'41:"1 4 4t: 0 0 tca° 11! 3 - : When is a success not a success? When you're talking about female athletes and eating disor- ders Some of the traits attributed to the best female athletes — such as perfec- and high achieving tionism — also best typify female athletes with eating disorders says the Penn State Sports Medicine Newsletter According to the publication "evidence suggests that as many as 70 of collegiate athletes may be involved in some form of harmful weight-contrbe- havior including vomiting laxative use diuretic use and dietary bingeing" Speaking of bingeing binge drinking has emerged as one of the unhealthiest aspects of college life Freshmen of both sexes and students who live in fraternities and sororities are most likely to spend at least one night a week drinking to get drunk health experts tell the Los Angeles Times mobs 1 444040i4' 1 ""' -- mo O': Cost of winning f 440 e J vl ooo Alt "44 I A i'm'brA --- - ' ' sputter speed -- The rapid-fir- e cacophony of buzzes abound when the whales are in a gmup may be a form of social chatter Melodic trills and canarylike whistles may help coordinate herd movement An explosive bang signals aggression White whales of the North belugas are estimated to number as many as 100000 worldwide Favoring d ice frigid seas they can survive beneath finding air in a maze of fissures a 0 0- 1 14 '''' Get this: If every sedentary American walked an hour a day five days a week at a level of exertion within federal guidelines for a comfortable and sustainable exercise program the annual savings would be about $20 billion And adds a Brown University study in the Archives of Fam- Hy Medicine even if sedentary types were "paid" to walk the savings on health care lost wages and related expenses would still amount to $43 billion C - 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' Ready or not The decision to disfull-ter- a e4 Ak!! 40 ta0 caI 7 1 p MS c Eo L NEWS SERVICE earth-tone- The number of mammoths discovered at Tolo Lake near Grangeville central Idaho is climbing said Greg Lozinsld Idaho Department of Fish and Game regional conservation educator Lozinski said William Akersten state paleontologist from the Idaho Museum of Natural History in Pocatello confirmed the fossilized remains of at least six or seven animals that appear to be imperial and woolly mammoths One recent find on MFG property was thought to have been the remains of an ancient horse when a large fossil resembling a pelvic bone was uncovered That fossil turned out to be a huge mammoth and molar "It looks like a giant tire tread" Losinski said — Tribune staff reports 1 I 1 A - Ethereal New Age music seeps out of the suite of Deeanne Bevin acupuncturist and herbalist in Canandaigua NY In the suite's central waiting area wallpapers with intricate patterns of leaves echo the contents of glass gallon jars on shelves English translations for the names of Chinese herbs are handwritten in flowing script on each bottle The contents vary: pods roots shredded stems chunks of leaves and flowers sliced-ubark One jar holds what look like dead bugs shells of cicadas used for They're the cast-of- f itchy skin Another jar contains black cubes wrapped in cellophane — donkey gel a gelatinous substance from the skin of donkeys used to control uterine bleeding Bevin trained by Chinese healing masters in Hawaii practices herbal therapy as a traditional part of acupuncture treatment She is certified by the states of New York and Hawaii to practice acupuncture and she has several diplomas and membership certificates from herbal training institutes and associations in both states Western medicine is best for acute emergency health conditions Bevin says But Eastern medicine tries to prevent those crises by bolstering the body's healing powers This office is one of the places where herbal medicine is obtained under the watchful eye of an experienced but unconventional practitioner Another place is the supermarket consumers decide for themselves what The medical establishment typically has viewed herbal healing with alarm or condescension But in the past few years some doctors of the practice have called for a One Harvard University study estimates that 3 of the people in the United States use herbs for health Some herbs have documented benefits others probably do nothing but are harmless Some such as the comfrey have dangerous side effects that make even herbalists hesitate to suggest their use And some are virtual according to those who say they can't function without them "People want to believe in the marvelous and the miraculous" says Dr Edward Atwater a retired professor of immunology and rheumatology at the University of Rochester Medical Center who maintains a scholarly interest in the history of medicine He has visited China and seen traditional herbal medicine in widespread use there While noting that many modern medicines — digitalis quinine morphine aspirin — originated from plants Atwater says "there's an awful lot of quackery" in herbal medicine "A lot of it doesn't work except on a psychological basis" once-popul- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - three-roo- Uni- - L By Diana L Tomb 000 More mammoths ' ' remedies while GANNETT h - I i — UPDATES 17 - cracking down on marketing versity of Utah chemical engineers are investigating a technique for recycling waste on a future lunar system JoAnn S Lighty associate professor of chemical and fuels engineering and David W Pershing dean of the College of Engineering received a $400000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant for a three-yea- r study of the merits of burning as a means of recycling components from waste materials in the closed environment of a lunar space station "Our objective is to design and build laboratory-scal- e equipment to incinerate waste from the crew and from plants grown for food in a future lunar station" said Pershing associate director of the Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center a joint venture with Brigham Young University The contract is the first federal fund- ing awarded the University of Utah-UtaState University Institute for Life Support in Space I c 1 i 1 Government funds research 000 i L- 1 HEALTH 'I v - - o 80-pag- e 1 I 1 f 1 AK Lai )k -- - ' Chilling effect After only three issues the glossy "Cold Fusion" magazine has been converted into a newsletter and has quit in a dispute its editorialc-sfafwith Wayne Green the New Hampshire- based publisher University of Utah chemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann claimed in 1989 that they had harnessed fusion — the process that powers the sun and stars — in a simple apparatus operating at room temperature Most scientists roundly rejected such claims but a number of researchers worldwide continued to study cold fusion and their work was highlighted in the magazine which published its first issue in May with Eugene Mallove as editor In a Sept 12 statement Mallove said he and his staff quit because of a variety of disagreements with Green over the magazine's content managerial problems and the publisher's plan to change the glossy magazine to a much smaller newsletter Mallove said he and four other editors are seeking financing to start a new mag- azine dealing with cold fusion 1 B1 t - ) ) 4 SCIENCE & MEDICINE ) I)' 4 ' - e 0I young as 13 months babies are able to retain these events after relatively long periods of time Babies tend to have extremely good memory over a delay of about a week In one of Bauer's studies the children remembered these laboratory events over a delay of eight months "When you think about a eight months is an extremely long period of time" Bauer said The laboratory is enrolling babies at 13 16 and 20 months for the studies and testing them for their recall after intervals of one three six nine and 12 months "When the babies come back for their delay memory a lot of them are talking by that time Some of these babies are now 30 months of age" Bauer said Researchers listen to the children's comments and questions about the familiar lab setting and translate their verbal code into "memory talk" "When the child walks in the room and says 'Where are those clowns that go around and around?' that's starting to look a little bit more like what adults report about an event" Bauer said "She's telling us about something she remembers So as soon as they can talk they're starting to provide these little tidbits that look a lot like adult memories It's not all put together in a nice narrative story as an adult memory is but the pieces are 4--- e there" 4 ! Adult memories may be related as tidy narratives but adult memories are also unreliable An adult may report a memory as if firsthand when the memory actually may have been elicited through looking at family photographs or listening ' a See r04 44 4 6 01 B-- 6 Column 1 tb ' 03 TOMORROWS DAYBREAK! HOME & FAMILY: SWIM BABY SWIM WILD THINGSMUSINGS WITH JUDY MAGID COMMENTS? D4YBREAK SECTION: (801) 237-207- 5' t I - -- - - - 40 |
