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A6 Missoulian, Saturday, June 27, 1998 FROM PAGE A1 NATION Alberton Hearts Internet showing 164,000 pictures of U.S. history Carlos Duran 's notion, he said, was to have only one rule: that the talk be about the heart and circulatory system. them while taking the 31 that illustrate James Agce's classic book, "Let us Now Praise Famous Men." Their collaboration described the lives of Alabama sharecropper families in the depression. Evans was an employee of the Farm Security Administration. Early items in the collection detail the effects of the depression on farms.

Then the emphasis shifts to the mobilization of effort for World War II. The five-year, $60 million National Digital Library Program million of it from private sources is due to be completed in the year 2000. The library already has 500,000 items on line, including maps, plans, drawings and other images as well as photographs. New software allows a closer scrutiny of the material, said Donna Lacy Collins, a library preservation specialist. The images can be seen on the library's "American Memory" website at http:www.loc.gov.

WASHINGTON (AP)-Thousands of photos showing Americans and the history they made from the Depression through World War II arc now available on the Internet. The Library of Congress began putting 164,000 pictures online Friday. Many had never before printed or displayed and almost all are in black and white, though some 1,600 arc in colon About 92,000 were snapped by two federal agencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt's time: the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information. They "include some of the most famous documentary photographs ever produced," the library's announcement said.

Some were taken by the artist Ben Shahn, others by Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange and more great names of 20th century photography. Among those newly available are 191 from Walker Evans, who shot in the possibility of a viral or bacterial factor in cardiovascular disease. Science has worked on the question recently in heart and other diseases. An Australian scientist has discovered a bacterial cause of peptic ulcers, which used to be thought of as caused by stress. At the first Scientific Encounter, Garon and Duran set up research that would use heart-related tissue from surgeries performed at the Heart Institute at St.

Patrick Hospital. "I suppose I'm living proof that collaborative partnerships can come out of this meeting," Garon said. Garon's lab has found microbial agents in heart tissue and is unfazed by a glitch in the research process this year. Armed with a new process invented by the lab's scientists, the staff is continuing the project. "We have microscopic evidence very strong microscopic evidence that bacteria are there," Garon said.

By the end of Garon's presentation, Yacoub had suggested an international consortium that would share samples of arteries for the research. Duran is pleased with the results of the Encounter. His notion, he said, was to have only one rule: that the talk be about the heart and circulatory system. Then, with enough time, and enough coffee, science is made. "There are so many things happening in cardiac surgery as well as in basic science," Yacoub said.

"We need strong interaction." Continued And like other residents, they complained of short-term health problems, although Steve Edgar maintained he also suffered a permanent injury to his eyes. MRL offered the Edgars about two years ago, a settlement they declined. Mediation efforts were unsuccessful and the case went to trial before District Judge Ed McLean. "We felt that there some claims unique to our clients," Steve Brown, one of the Edgars' attorneys, said Friday. Interestingly, the two sides didn't contest MRL's liability.

"We just agreed to try it on damages, with no admission of liability," Cox said. The Edgars, represented by Brown and Chuck McNeil, of Garlington, Lohn and Robinson, sought $150,000 for personal injuries and emotional distress, and an additional amount for loss of timber on their 80-acre property near Alberton. However, the jury gave the Edgars $28,000 for their personal injury claims, along with $10,328 for their timber loss. "We didn't really know what we might receive," Brown said. "It was the first of these cases to go to trial and we didn't really know what a Missoula jury would award." MRL attorney Ron MacDonald said the company felt the verdict was fair.

"This verdict is just a continuation of MRL trying to meet its responsibility in this derailment," MacDonald said Friday. "We were pleased that reason seemed to prevail here." The train company still has other suits pending from the derailment, including a class-action suit filed by attorneys in Missoula, Great Falls and California. Continued lot." Take, for instance, the morning's topic, which drew on several disciplines. Yacoub and Duran arc both interested in new investigation of the aortic valve of the heart. The valve has three flaps, called leaflets, that open and close for blood to pass through.

Science has always believed that the force of moving blood swells the end of the large vessel the aorta and then pushes the valve open, "For a long time, people thought of the aortic valve as just passive leaflets," said Yacoub. "We know now that that's not the case. It's an extremely complex structure. What's very exciting is the new data from studies." Research using sheep hearts has found that the aortic root dilates and the valve opens before the blood shows up. "'But from what cause?" said Duran.

"Why without any blood? We don't have the explanation for the mechanism of why it happens." What has made the discovery possible is new technology that uses crystals implanted in working hearts, digital three-dimensional sonometry. Some of the crystals emit signals, and some receive them, making it possible to measure the changing distances and shapes within the heart as it works. It records images in 200 frames per second, as opposed to older technology that only showed 30 frames a second, thus missing key events. "Sometimes I feel like I am the only one who speaks my language of cardiomcchanics," said Serjan Nikolic, a Stanford University professor of cardiovascular physiology who presented his sonomctric work to the group. "This is different, and I thank you for inviting me, Carlos." The collaboration studies an area that has implications for valve repair and replacement surgeries, Duran said.

"In general, the more we know about how the structure functions, the more we can aim toward that goal," he said, "whether we're doing a repair or a replacement." "Understanding the wonders of biology and trying to process it and recreate it, at all times you're learning how marvelous it is," said Yacoub. "It's just miraculously perfect." Among the collaborations spawned by the Scientific Encounter is a project between the Heart Institute and Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton. Claude Garon, chief of the Labs' microscopy branch, was interested several years ago Suburban supermarket roof collapses; one person trapped DNA 'You don 't have to dart or radio collar or handle the animals at all. People like the non-invasive aspect. They're intrigued by the high-tech part of it.

And of She was listed in serious condition with broken bones and facial injuries at Loyola University Medical Center. Authorities said the debris included hundreds of rolls of tar paper, each weighing 100 pounds, wooden pallets that held the rolls, part of a sprinkler system and ceiling material. Hospital spokesmen said three other people were treated at Loyola and released. Nine people -including a 2-year-old boy and girls ages 2, 4 and 5 were treated for minor injuries at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn and released. Mariano said the roofing project had been ordered by the building's landlord.

He said experts were called in to determine the reason why the roof collapsed. NORTH RIVERSIDE, III. (AP) Part of a supermarket roof collapsed Friday morning, injuring 13 people including an 82-year-old shopper who was trapped under the rubble for about two hours. The roof of the Dominick's Finer Foods Inc. market was under repair when a section about 40 feet in width and length gave way and crashed into the produce department.

The collapse came at about 10:30 a.m. while a number of people were shopping in the market located in a big shopping center in this suburb 10 miles west of downtown Chicago. The 82-ycar-old woman was buried under debris, authorities said. She remained in the rubble for two hours while rescue workers dug her out. course, grizzly bears are always charismatic.

Kate Kendall Firefighter convicted of murder, arson straight to the lure, lingering there to unravel twists of hair from the barbwire. At the center of the wire triangle is a scattered pile of decaying wood, still stinking slightly from its liquid bath of rotten fish and cows' blood. "I was a little leery of luring bears at first," Kendall said, "but there's no food reward with a liquid lure. There's nothing for them to become habituated to." Although her crews have never come across a bear at a hair trap site, they have found numerous toads, gobbling flies attracted to the lure's stench. "I really don't need to see any bears too close up," Nyckel said.

"That might be a little too exciting." Barring too much excitement, Nyckel plans to return to Glacier's wilderness next year, scrabbling through the brush once again with barbwire on his back and rotten fish juice at his side. The field project, Kendall said, is expected to last three years within the park. For lands outside the park, the project is funded for this year only. But by the time volunteers are retiring their hiking boots in 2000, the real work will just be starting for Kendall. She predicts it will take an additional two years to crunch the numbers and write up the results.

"Counting bears is going to take some time," she said, "even with all the technological advances. But this is what it's all been about. I've been working toward this project for more than 10 years, and it's really exciting to finally have it happening." employees Carolyn Kraus, 26, and Jimmy Cetina, 17, a 52-year-old customer Ada Deal and her 3-year-old grandson Matthew Troidl. The official probe concluded the fire was accidental, caused by an electrical malfunction in an attic. But prosecutors said the arson investigation was slipshod.

To show Orr had a motive for the fires, prosecutors entered into evidence a manuscript of a novel he wrote about a firefighter-turned-arsonist who got sexual kicks from setting fires. The book contains one chapter describing in detail a fire identical to the Olc's fire. Kendall hopes to put to rest some of the debate about grizzly status. She also hopes to establish long-term population trends, which can be monitored for years at little expense by collecting grizzly scat. Backcountry rangers, she says, could collect the scat while on regular patrol.

A quick DNA test to establish the bear's identity should allow scientists to map trends in bear numbers. Those trends, in turn, should allow land managers to make more informed decisions about proposed projects. The population trend project would cost little, she said, as rangers come across scat daily in their routine patrols. Wading through knee-high huckleberry just beyond a shredded log she says is a grizzly's day bed Kendall stops to examine a fresh pile of scat about 100 yards from a hair trap site. Pushing it apart with the toe of her boot, she nods slightly; "Looks pretty healthy." What may not be healthy is passing beyond the sign volunteers have posted on a nearby tree: Bear Lure Station Ahead Caution -Bears may be i'n the area Please turn around or pass through quickly.

Kendall and her volunteers do not turn around and do not pass through quickly. Instead, they walk LOS ANGELES (AP)-A former firefighter faces the death penalty after being convicted of murder Friday for a hardware store fire that killed a woman, her grandson and two employees. Investigators said John Orr set fires to develop material for a novel he was writing about an arsonist who got sexual pleasure from his crimes. Orr, 49, was found guilty of four murder counts for the fire at Olc's Home Center in South Pasadena. He was also convicted on several arson charges for a series of brush and house fires in the Los Angeles area in 1990 and 1991, one of which destroyed 67 hillside homes.

The penalty phase begins Tuesday. A former captain with the Glendale Fire Department and a top arson investigator, Orr denied setting the 1984 home center fire that killed 'l'Wl''W' Continued To tally the bruins, Kendall and her team lure bears into rings of barbwire, capturing hair on the sharp, metal thorns. The hair, once analyzed, tells her whether it was left by a grizzly or a black bear; whether it was a male or a female; whether it's Bear No. 1 or Bear No. and whether the bear is related to any of the many bears that left hair on other barbs.

Currently, the team is collecting hair from about 125 remote sites in and around the park, she said. Every two weeks, the traps are moved to new areas, and the cycle begins again. Eventually, it will encompass 2 million acres well over twice the range of any similar study ever conducted. To trudge 2 million wilderness acres requires a lot of footwork, and Kendall's team has been joined by researchers from the Forest Service, the state forests, Plum Creek, the state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta and British Columbia. The broad base of support, she said, reflects the excitement surrounding the cutting-edge project.

"It covers a lot of ground, but it's very non-intrusive," she said of her population study. "You don't have to dart or radio collar or handle the animals at all. People like the noninvasive aspect. They're intrigued by the high-tech part of it. And of course, grizzly bears are always charismatic." They are also elusive, which means Kendall's team often can be found clambering across steep, brush-choked slopes to reach the hair trap sites.

The sites primarily in grizzly travel routes must be at least a quarter mile from the nearest hiking trail, she said. "I've covered some wild country," said volunteer Duayne Nyckel. "I hiked about 82 miles my first week, and not all of that was on a trail, if you know what I mean." Nine months of the year, Nyckel teaches biology and ecology at an urban Chicago high school. But for three months this summer, at least, he will weave a path through a different kind of jungle. This summer, he will trudge up and down Glacier in search of bear hair.

"Every other study that has tried anything like this has used helicopters to reach remote sites," f'f Ct, Kendall said. "This is the first large-scale effort that is being done entirely on foot in the backcountry." The most remote hair traps, she said, are atop the Continental Divide, requiring a four- or five-day backpack. Half of those days are spent hiking off-trail, she said, calling the trip a "hellacious bushwhack." For Kendall and her volunteers, however, there is much more at stake than mountain adventure and backcountry vistas. There is the serious business of establishing a head count for Glacier's grizzlies. The last attempt at counting bears came 30 years ago, when a park researcher compiled an unofficial list of bear sightings along the Going-to-the-Sun Road.

He then made some educated guesses as to how many of those sightings were of different bears. He later extrapolated his guesses to fit what he considered to be Glacier's best bear habitat, and pegged the total number of bears at about 200. "That was a good effort for back then," Kendall said, "but he made a lot of assumptions along the way. There is no way it would stand up by today's standards. We really have no idea how many bears are out there." Solving that mystery should help park managers make land-use decisions for years to come, she said.

If successful, the method also could be used to monitor other wildlife, creating a whole new world of scientific exploration. But first and foremost, Kendall's work should shed some light on the status of grizzlies in general, both inside and outside the park. Currently, grizzlies are protected under the Endangered Species Act. That protected status affects all sorts of land management decisions, such as road closures and timber harvests. 'The criterion for deciding when to remove such protections has come under fire in recent years, with some groups suing federal agencies over that aspect of the bear recovery plan.

Until now, no practical method existed for nailing down firm population numbers. By extracting DNA from hair, Killed Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it fun profitable entertaining holy Just what are your plans for the weekend, anyway? Are they really that important? For a free booklet, write to: S.O.L., Box 442, Darby, MT 59829 CONCERT INFO Monday, June 29, 1998 7 pm at Bethel Baptist Church 1601 S. 6th St. West, Missoula, Montana "In order to preserve a wild, nonhabituated population of grizzly bears in Glacier National Park and elsewhere," he said, "we all must do our share to prevent bears from obtaining human foods." According to Vanderbilt, the young male was killed in a remote avalanche chute in the upper Two Medicine Valley, surrounded by thick alder. Because of the logistics required to reach the site, she said, the carcass will be left in the backcountry.

"It's not anywhere near a trail," Vanderbilt said. "It shouldn't cause any threat whatsoever by attracting other scavengers." Trails in the area, she said, are open once again to hikers and campers. Continued "The loss of human life and the subsequent killing of a grizzly bear family are both tragedies," said Steve Frye, the park's chief ranger. "As much as we regret killing any bears, especially grizzlies, the key to protecting grizzlies is prevention." According to Frye, grizzlies are quite intelligent, and can learn quickly to connect human activity with possible food sources. The family group killed, he said, first got into trouble while licking barbecue grills just beyond the park's eastern boundary.

ODD with Caras Nursery Landscape Lucas Attorney Ken Anderson, who prosecuted the Orange Socks case, said he still believes Lucas is guilty. "Lucas was proved guilty beyond ajcasonablc doubt to 12 citizens. The case has been reviewed by 23 judges over the past 14 years," Anderson said. a All Vegetables 12 price Annual (4 pack) 99f ea. Roses 2 off Annual (4-poo off become the oldest person executed by the state, is the first inmate to have a death sentence commuted since Phillip Daniel Tompkins was spared in July 1990 by Gov.

Bill Clements. The board's recommendation came 412 months after the same panel rejected a clemency plea from Karla Faye Tucker, a 38-year-old woman who confessed to the pickax slayings of two people but said she had become a Christian in prison and asked for mercy. She was executed Feb. 3. The difference between the cases is that Ms.

Tucker acknowledged her guilt while Lucas insists he's innocent and others aren't convinced he's guilty. "Each case is decided on an individual basis," Bush said. "In this case, there was doubt. There was enough doubt that he shouldn't get the maximum penalty of death." Williamson County District later proved he did not commit," Bush said. Jim Mattox, who as attorney general in 1986 launched an investigation that indicated Lucas may be innocent, applauded Bush's move.

"Gov. Bush's decision will make our death penalty punishment stronger than ever," said Mattox, who is seeking the office again. "But it was still politically risky, and I'd be glad to stand up and defend him against any attack." The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles this week voted 10-8, the minimum needed, to ask Bush to give Lucas a 270-day reprieve and voted 17-1 to recommend the death sentence be commuted to a lesser penalty. Bush had the option of accepting or rejecting the recommendation from the board, whose members he selected. Lucas, who at 62 would've Introducing KingKoil World's Best Selling Chiropractor Endorsed Sleep Continued His lone death sentence came from a San Angelo jury in 1984 for the rape and strangulation of an unidentified woman whose body, wearing only orange socks, was found on Halloween 1979 in a ditch north of Austin.

No witnesses or physical evidence linked Lucas to the crime, but he confessed four times. He now says he was lying and various investigations have raised questions about his guilt. Work records and a cashed paycheck indicated Lucas might have been in Florida at the time the victim was killed. "At the time it made its decision, the jury did not know and could not have known that Henry Lee Lucas had a pattern of lying and confessing to crimes that evidence System Caras 2727 South 3rd West Open 7 Days.