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1. VLi'. Yu a- vv1 'M' M-'sh'' t. i -j i 1 ll .1 1 I 4 Dinosaurs are said to be hiding among the color bars, left Don't believe it? That's them, below. j.fjtiy 4 Eddie Edwards, owner of television station in Pittsburgh, buys WNUV By David Zurawik Television Critic WNUV (Channel 54) has a new owner.

Eddie Edwards, owner of Pittsburgh's WPTT and one of the few African-American owners of a TV station In the country, has signed an agreement to buy WNUV from ABRY Communications of Boston and has obtained the option on a Milwaukee station from GayLrd Broadcasting of Oklahoma City. ABRY, which manages the Milwaukee station for Gaylord, said in a news release that the purchase price for the two stations exceeds $100 million. "I'm Just happy that this has happened," Edwards told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This Is a big thing for me and for African-Americans in broadcasting. And I Just want to relish It." Edwards did not return phone calls from The Sun yesterday.

Nor did officials from ABRY Communications, which also owns TV stations in Milwaukee. Kansas City. Birmingham, and Cincinnati. ABRY bought the Baltimore station four years ago for a price estimated at $20 million to $25 million. Bruce Blnenfeld, program director at WNUV, yesterday said he did not expect Immediate changes at the station since such sales usually take at least six months to be finalized and approved by the Federal Communications Commission.

Blnenfeld said he and General Manager Joe Koff Intend to stay at WNUV for the immediate future. WNUV, which had primarily been known -for letting viewers decide what programs the station would air, has achieved a much higher visibility in the local TV Industry during recent months. The station has been a key player In negotiations to broadcast Baltimore Orioles' games next year. And. starting Aug.

30. It will be thg Baltimore home of David Letterman's new. show on CBS for at least a year. CBS made the one-year Letterman deal with WNUV after WBAL (Channel 1 1), Its local affiliate, refused to carry Letterman live at 1 1 :35 weeknights Instead of Arsenlo Hall's syndicated show. WNUV Is one of only two independent TV stations in Baltimore.

The other Is WBFF (Channel 45). which is affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting network. WBFF Is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group of Baltimore. Like Edwards, Sinclair also owns a TV station in Pittsburgh. The greatest effects of the sale could be felt In the relationship between WNUV and WBFF.

While the two stations have been rivals In Baltimore, media watchers say that could change once Edwards arrives. Edwards and Sinclair have worked together before. Edwards was formerly community affairs director at Sinclair's WPGH station in Pittsburgh. And WPGH currently has a business relationship with Edwards' WPTT, which al-' lows It to sublet blocks of time from WPTT and then program and sell ads for that time. One result of such a leasing agreement Is that It makes Sinclair much more dominant In the market, since It Is essentially programming two stations during certain times of the day.

With only two Independent stations in Baltimore, Sinclair would be even more powerful than it is In Pittsburgh If such an agreement is worked out between WBFF and WNUV. Steve Marks, general manager of Sinclair's WBFF, said such a situation In Baltimore was possible, but said official comment on whether It will happen would have to come from David Smith, one of the brothers who run Sinclair. None of the Smith brothers was available for comment yesterday. Focal Attraction It's computer art, but you have to see it to believe it I By Arthur Hirsch Staff Writer he main attraction lately at art and print stores looks like a pastel portrait of bad TV reception. Yet, folks stop and stare at these fuzzy Images.

They step forward and furrow their structing his wife on the proper viewing technique: focusing on a reflection in the glass, riot the surface of the picture itself. "Look at my foot." says Mr. O'Dell. Tm looking at your foot," she says. And, lo and behold, she sees the reflection of his foot The Statue of Liberty does not appear.

Minutes pass. Ms. O'Dell stares, then cries out like a satisfied customer in a faith-healing tent "Oh, I see it, oh I see it," she says. "Look, you can see right through It" Eric Focht of Annapolis shakes his head in despair. Tve never been able to see these things," he says.

"I've stared at It and stared at It. Maybe there's something wrong with my eyes." Produced by an Irving, Texas, company called NVision Grafix the prints which sell for about $20 each are the work of Mike Blellnski and Paul Her-ber, two 28-year-old men who met at the University of Texas at Arlington. Mr. Blellnski studied computer science, Mr. Her-ber studied art and engineering.

Tve been Involved In the technology several years," says Mr. Bielinskl, who was working as a computer programmer before starting NVision. Through a process of evolution, we decided to try to turn it into a business." It took the men about two years of part-time work to perfect the computer image, says Steven E. Kersen, NVlsion's marketing vice president NVision sold the first prints outside the Dallas area See HOLUSION, 6D, Col. 4 brows; they step back, squat down, stand up.

They look, then try not to look. A couple of Texan8 created these computer-generated prints and call them "Holuslons," which, when viewed Just the right way present the illusion of a scene in three dimensions. Without the use of 3-D. Available in Maryland since the spring, they could be the biggest optical phenomenon to hit the American shopping mall since Elvis sightings. They're Just going like crazy," says Ted Jackson, a sales clerk at the Art Emporium In the Marley Station Mall in Anne Arundel County, where a clutch of browsers gathers one evening to gaze into the picture frames like house cats transfixed at the living room window.

Look closely but not too closely to It's a tossup which Is more entertaining, looking for the three-dimensional Image or watching other people try it 1 see a whole bunch of dots with different colors. I don't see anything." says Sarah Engelskirch, a Pasadena teen-ager. Her friend, Annmarie Jacobs, of Pasadena, gazes Into the 22-by-28-lnch picture marked "Dinosaurs!" It appears the "Lady Liberty" holding her lamp against a cityscape. dinosaurs have fled, however, leaving behind an airy field of blue, green, amber. In minutes, though.

Miss Jacobs experiences a vision. "Oh my God," she says. "That's weird. I can see. There's one on the ground crawling.

There's one flying. I can see 1L" John and Joan O'Dell of Baltimore hunker down In front of a blue-green blur marked "Lady Liberty." He's in Rob Kasper Is on assignment. His Saturday's Hero column will return Aug. 28. How to keep pesky pests from bugging you Underwater filmmaker rck CaJoyianisof Catonsvflle was attacked and bitten by a shark.

The one here is a picture, however, at the National Aquarium at Baltimore. I for slugs and snails at night. Trees, especially oak, damaged by gypsy moth caterpillars. And, unfortunately, much more. But, according to Tiny Game Hunting," a book about pests and pest control, less than 1 percent of the world's 10 million species of insects are considered pests, and most have predators or parasites who are eager to eat them.

Like many things in life, some pests are both good and bad, usually depending on their cycle In life witness the butterfly and moth, which By Ann Egerton Contributing Writer Insects and other creepy crawly creatures have a field day In the garden (and the lawn, the orchard, the farm, the woods anywhere green things grow) every summer. Most of us have experienced the frustration and disappointment of losing vegetables and flowers from Individual plants to entire crops to various voracious insects and other members of the phylum Anthropod. Scientific nomenclature aside, to mournful gardeners they're Just plain chomp leaves and stems during their larval (caterpillar) stages and then, as beautiful adults, pollinate flowers and serve as hearty meals for birds. And while Ogden Nash may have observed that God made the fly but forgot to tell us why, the Tachinid fly, which resembles a large and hairy housefly, parasitizes insects, especially caterpillars (Including gypsy moths). Garden pests are a vital part of the food chain.

The ugly slug Is food for ducks and some snakes, and their larvae are dinner for fireflies, which feed the birds; the 4,000 species of aphids, which love buds and tender leaves, feed parasitic wasps; and white fly Is a staple for the lady bug, considered by many to be the best pesticide on legs. OAR0 LACHMANSTAfF PHOTO Shark attack, too close for comfort pesia or Dugs. Samples of damage in the garden include: Withered and unproductive vegetable plants, thanks to the cutworm that has sawed through the base ol the plant. Gaping holes In petals, leaves or fruits of any plant that strikes A a Japanese beetle's fancy. Exhausted, non-produc- Ing tomato or other vegetable plants, thanks to the white fly whose larvae have sucked the 'i plant to death.

By Steve McKerrow Staff writer Nick Caloyianls thinks sharks have irresistible charisma and he knows they have sharp teeth. The CatonsvlUe-based underwater filmmaker, one of a half-dozen or so In the world who specialize In filming sharks, has a red and purple scar on his right leg to remind him a wound that looks a lot like a shark's swept-fln body. While filming an agitated bull shark off Mexico's tela Mtrjeres last year for National Geographic, Mf. Caloyianls nearly lost his foot and 'suffered severe hand lacerations when the animal attacked It was the first time he had been bitten In almost 20 years of filming sharks. The encounter can be seen on "Mysteries of the Deep," the season opener of "National Geographic Explorer," which will be broadcast at 9 p.m.

tomorrow on cable's TBS. The two-hour premiere also Includes segments on the Cayman Islands and the film "Ocean Drifters," which follows a loggerhead turtle. The shark sequence, titled "Crlttercam," is about a compact camera that can be attached to See'SHARKS, 2D, Col. i Great success In killing pests can throw the food chain out of whack. Even the book "Controlling Lawn and Garden Insects," published by Ortho, a garden supply company owned by Chevron Chemical Company, counsels: To avoid killing too many beneficial Insects, it's best to use insecticides only when pests get out of control and then only on Infested plants." Some pest control may be necessary; so Is coexistence.

Many organic See PEST 5D Pol 1 Wilted or distorted nlanta CuU SCale 8 multiclred ROBERT K. HAMILTONSTAFF PHOTO ss 1,700 A garden'8 woret nightmare, Holey leaves and flowers, dinner a Japanese beetle. i Jto tiHi iTt- iTbulii 'Yin "tr Hnrffti ft 1.