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Lead bullet that ended Lincoln's life. WM By Laura Meckler Associated Press WASHINGTON The bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln lies in a glass display case alongside his doctor's bloodstained shirt cuffs. Around the corner, dental instruments thought to belong to Paul Revere hang from a wall. is the leg bone of Dan Sickles, a Civil War general who preserved his shot-off limb for posterity at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and visited it occasionally. It's a museum where such quirki-ness is commonplace but rarely seen by the millions who visit Washington every year.

Congress has joined in an effort to change that by building a prominent new home for the museum's exhibits near the National Mall where many of the capital's main monuments are. Tucked inside a spending bill President Clinton signed last week is $500,000 for a commission to develop a plan for a National Health Museum. Hidden on an Army base far from the monuments, the current mu-, seum is inaccessible by public transportation, and what few visitors there are have to pass through a military gate and show personal identification if they visit on weekends. "Those collections belong at the Mall," said Mark Dunham, spokesman for the congressionally endorsed project. "They've been shoved to the sides for too long." Once a plan is in place, backers can begin raising some $100 million to create the museum.

The project has been stalled for lions more, noting that health care accounts for one out of every seven dollars spent in the United States. They envision an interactive museum that would bring health issues into focus: a healthy lung beside a smoker's lung, for instance, or the chance to use a computer to simulate performing surgery. Virtual reality would bring visitors inside the human anatomy, give them a bird's-eye view of an operating table or trace the pathways of the brain. The museum also undoubtedly would include the Army museum's collections, among them the world's most comprehensive set of microscopes, a large collection of Civil War skeletons, deformed but preserved fetuses. But Koop emphasizes that the museum will be about more than relics.

"I'm not interested in building a curio shop," he said. "I'm interested in an interactive museum." Founded as part of the Defense Department in 1862, the museum was the nation's first federal medical research facility. Museum doctors fought battlefield diseases during the Civil War and were called when Lincoln was shot. By 1955, the museum had found a home on the National Mall. It was pushed out during the Johnson administration, when a new location on the Mall was "promised but never worked out," said Koop.

years as debates played out over who would control and pay for the museum. The original plan was to move the museum to the Mall area, with the Department of Defense footing the bill for a new building. A few years ago, budgets tightened, and the Pentagon made it clear it was not in the museum business. Backers concluded they would have to raise almost all the money privately and began pursuing the project independently. 'Fascinating' Leading the effort is C.

Everett Koop, a former surgeon general, who visited the Army museum as a 10-year-old aspiring doctor. He remembers seeing skeletons of embryos at various stages before birth and a giant leg sick with elephantiasis, a disease that causes massive swelling. "It was fascinating," Koop said. That was during the museum's heyday, when it sat on the Mall next to the Smithsonian Castle and at tracted nearly 1 million visitors a year. In 1968, it was moved away to make room for a modern art museum.

Now Koop and others are campaigning to bring it back from its exile at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where attendance is expected to be about 45,000 this year. They have raised about $2 million and are confident they can raise mil The Washington Mint announces the limited advance minting of a milestone in silver proofs the WORLD'S FIRST $100 Silver Proof. This extraordinary piece of pure silver bullion has a surface area that exceeds 30 square inches, and it contains more than FOUR OUNCES OF PURE SILVER BULLION. And NOW, during a limited advance strike period, the VERY FIRST $100 Silver Proofs for 1998 are available at a special discount price only $99! 20 YEARS IN THE MAKING The 1998 Quarter-Pound Silver Proof is an exquisite adaptation of the United States Treasury's new $100 Federal Reserve Note. It took the Treasury unit over 20 years to create its first new $100 bill design since 1928.

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Vic Delnore of Norfolk, read about the beep in the newspaper, then heard it on his short-wave radio at his home in San Diego. "I tuned in, and, after several days of trying, sure enough, I heard a beep, beep, beep," said Delnore, who was a freshman in high school at the time. "It was, 'Wow, this is from I was really excited." The Soviets asked amateur radio operators around the world to record when and where they heard the beep. Delnore sent a letter to an address he had gotten from Radio Moscow. A few weeks later, he got back a shiny blue postcard with a drawing of Sputnik streaking across the sky on one side and written verification of his encounter with the future on the other.

inspiring future scientists Sputnik spurred the United States to beef up its technological research, in large part out of fear of falling behind the Soviets. It also inspired young people like Eldred and Delnore to pursue careers in engineering and aerospace. "It was really a tremendous incentive. This was a very challenging frontier and a very exciting place to be involved," Eldred said. Delnore is a flight researcher for Lockheed-Martin at NASA Langley.

He also is still an active amateur radio operator but has not tuned in to hear the Sputnik replica. "It's nothing special now," he said. But he's happy to know other people might be listening. "Maybe some 14-year-old will tune in, and it will launch him or her on a career," he said. NEWPORT NEWS, Va.

Nowadays, it's difficult to imagine how a simple beeping radio signal could captivate the world. But it did after the Soviet Union announced on Oct. 5, 1957, that it had launched Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite. For several days, the only proof of the claim was the steady beep, beep, beep that Sputnik broadcast as it circled the globe. Forty years later, the beep is back.

This month Russian cosmonauts launched a replica of Sputnik 1 from the space station Mir. Though a third the size of the original 183-pound sphere, Sputnik 40 is re-creating what once was a solitary signal from space. "There's a continuous beep, beep about 80 beeps a minute," said Jim Byrd, a Newport News, amateur radio operator who has heard it. "That's just like the original Sputnik." Launch unnoted in U.S. The launch of the melon-sized replica during a spacewalk Nov.

3 went largely unnoted in the United States. News accounts the following day focused on the efforts by cosmonauts to boost Mir's diminished energy supply and on how their spacewalk was hampered by problems with their spacesuits. If today's Sputnik beep is overshadowed by the problems of the Russian space program, the original beep was a testament to its prowess. Though some scientists and politicians argued otherwise, many Americans saw Sputnik 1 as a blow to JJJJJ dJCJ; A America's prestige and evidence the Soviet Union was ahead technologically and militarily. One U.S.

senator said unless the country changed its defense policies, the Soviets would move from "superiority to supremacy." Five days passed after the launch before the Soviet Union released a photo of Sputnik 1. In the meantime, all people had was their imaginations and the beep. Chuck Eldred was a freshman at the University of Vermont when he heard it. "I think we all heard the beep, beep, beep over the news," said Eldred, now head of the spacecraft analysis program at the NASA Lan-gley Research Center. "It was a whole new concept of having something man-made in orbit around the Earth.

That's something we sort of take for granted today." The Sputnik beep was important for the technological achievement it symbolized. But especially in the first days after the launch, the beep itself was big news. When it mysteriously ceased for six hours on Oct. 8, 1957, a Virginia newspaper played the story at the top of the front page. A meteor had temporarily interrupted the satellite's transmissions, the Soviets said later.

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