The Columbian from Vancouver, Washington • 23

CafombieH MW Timdey 11Wedwwdoy Aueiwt 1 1M HPV 9 To the weatherman: Hire hawks to predict Lab chimps returned to wild New with to to lm boyd The New York TbiMU ROBERTSVILLE Liberia -landing on the bow of the outboard jjotor boat rocking in the brawn water of the little Bam river Beta? try to pay them back by letting nan clipped her hand around lire oat their Urea in their ni jouth and bellowed toward the island "Char-lie! Char-lie!" reeearcfc facility operated by the York Blood Center in aaeodation the Liberian Intitule for Biomedical Research our reenoniibility responsibility by lettinf Vilab II a complex of laboratories adjusting to freedom for example those that an not eating or are being frequently beaten up by other animals can be returned to the protection of dvilixation Most of the chimps however do sssekstss Bratman said They learn to forage for food build nests in the trees have sexual relations give birth in the past lib years four babies have been bora on Red Deer Island can for to a passenger in the "Wait till you see Charlie" she ed fantastic" She ipiir "Char-lie! Char-lie!" For a while it seemed no one wu Then finally a i He the beach and waded thigh-deep into the water Scowling be raised his right band and let fly a rock in the and let in to beep an adult SEAT in hare often put to death Until recently they hare not been able to be returned to the wild because they survival skills most captivity but soma poachers who kill the the baby for flLIOOar With that in mind Brotman and Alfred 14 Prince the New York-director of the Vilab project In 1171 to try to develop a i to return the chimps to the Though that may sound like a simple and logical Idea only a few laboratories have set up such programs Then an currently as rnaqy as 1500 in American labs breeding facilities and soon Almost all of them will spend their entire lives behind bars in hepatitis asymptomatic carrier These must stay in captivity Vilab's rehabilitation program begin by placing groups of about 14 chimps between 5 and 10 years of age on an island downriver from the inhibit On the island the chimps are provided with some supplementary food and their progress carefully monitored Any animals that are not of the the rirer sereral It into of its Bratman I tell you? be plained cried the Spanish conquistadors They know an Inca art objects were made of copper alloy If a human baby were born in the same stage of development as a newborn kangaroo it would be delivered at two months Memo to the Weather Bureau: Hire hawks They can predict the weather changes 200 miles away 12 hours in advance Your old telephone if typical had 72 nuts-and-bolts in it Your refrigerator 275 Your car 1500 Before anybody ever called it cancer one ailment feared worldwide wu known as the Where did New York City get the brows stones for its brawsstones? East Longmeadow Mass mostly The old quarries there are abandoned now Filled with water Qi Isn't there some sort of gu or anything at all between the heavenly bodies of oeter space? One molecule per square centimeter mostly You need a million molecules per square centimeter to make a cloud Then are some of Wu Louis Braille inventor of Braille priatlag for the blind himself blind? He was At age 2 he blinded himself accidentally white playing with an awl in his father's saddle shop near Paris Thou female beetles know how to interest a romantic partner During one mating season scientists carefully noted the activities of 20 females in a log Thereto flew 900 mates per hour Incidentally female beetles afford to get headaches When a mate beetle drawn to a female finds out she's not feeling well tonight he kills her New Englanders of old piled rocks In a ring to make a small corral near each village green Therein they held stray sheep goats cows dogs whatever livestock climb out It wu known the pound and eventually gave the phrase When Just a toddler Thomas A Edison stacked up a huge nest in a Charlie is one of about ZOO chlm-i in Liberia who bare nlmk in studies of research that now to be dose to a successful He is the on Red Deer Island a sort of half war house for a select group of expert-animals that an in the of being reintroduced to the wild did human nan society a head of Vilab a said them natural staff boosing and acrecned-ln chimp bungalows set in the rain forest about 40 mtiM fnm Monrovia is one of several hepatitis research institutes that are attempting the difficult task of returning chimpanzees to the wild in Africa It wu established 10 years ago and about SO chimps wen captured to serve as an initial experimental and breeding colony Young chimps are excellent i for hepatitis research becaus an so genetically doss to and exhibit the same biochemical changes from the hepatitis rinses yet they do not contract the clinical that tests on humans so risky Brotman emphasised that no experiment performed at Vilab has ever resulted in the death or disablement of a chimp But the chimps lose their rains as research animals by the time they reach about four years of age Since a chimp may live for 40 years that learn a long retirement Some can be put into aoos or used in breeding programs but for the rest the prospects are bleak It is expen- It took six months and the Intervention of a string of officials all the way up to the president before the rates were waived When sbe did leave the hospital she could barely talk or walk and spent most of her time sleeping or watching TV her mother said "Now Katie is Just like a normal said Julie Beckett 24 Although she is still undergoing speech therapy Katie hu been promoted to first grade her father said that's no mean accomplishment for that Katie's hospital stay began when she contracted a viral infection White in the hospital she drew milk Into her lungs and slipped into a two-week coma that left her paralysed -During the next few months Katie slowly regained the ability to move her midis but could not breathe or swallow ftr ege 2 she began to breathe on her own but still needed a ventilator much of the time and had to be fed through a tube in her stomach doctors told then that they had done much they could do for her in the hospital They asked us if we wanted to think about taking her Girl improves under home medical care the young and form a closely knit troop with a normal social hierarchy "Many of these animals lived in my house and dept In my bed as Infants" Bratman saii But after they have been two to three rears on the island i walk among them safdy7 An adult male chimp weighs in at about 150 pounds is stranger than a man and far more aggrndve than a gorilla" The process does not end there however After five or six years on the island the chimps need to be transferred to a game reserve where they win have enough space roughly one acre per chimp to fond for themselves without anyone bringing them groceries The area into which they are released must also not have other chimpanzee troops too dose by since that could lead to conflicts that the tenderfoot chimps unused to the laws of the Jungle would probably patients to receive payments white living at home Jute Beckett a Junior high school sr hu apoken at meetings i the nation about home care for ventilators and nachines She is also state of Sid Kids need Involved People or SKIP a Maryland-based advocacy group for parents of technology-dependent children or four to the times a day and er tiring able to be a family wu very difficult for she saidTnfou be a family Jut The door wu someone wu always in If you wanted to tickle or do anything that parents do with their kids you Jut do it" coming home Katie hu so strong that she now needs ventilator only at night end doctors fed that one day she may be able to do without it entirely Julie Beckett said care hu worked so well for Katie: No one knew she would do this well But of course no one knew at Julie Beckett said By CYNTHIA BENJAMIN The Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS Iowa Katie Beckett needs a ventilator to help her breathe at night but that Mop her from riding a bike dancing to Michael Jackson and attending Julie Beckett said The Becketts were willing to do all that wu required renting a ventilator feeding Katie through the tube four times a day pounding her i mucin and suctloiiiiic her bugs But they afford it on their own and the red tape stood in their way were willing to keep her in the hospital for 115000 a month but not to let her come home for SJM0 a Julie Beckett said Medicaid lacked rates to hdy people in our Beckett The couple took their their congressman Ren Tom Tauke who discussed it with Vice President George Bush Bush in turn discussed the situation with the president On Nov 10 1001 Reagan cited Katie in a nationally broadcast speech as an example of what can happen when government rates run amok The next day he phoned to tell the Becketts the waiver had been granted Katie went home the next month In the 2Vk years since Medicaid rake have ben changed to make It easier for the nation's 5000 ventilator problem to The little girl whose ed a change in federal regulation when President Reagan learned that red tape wu keeping her from recovering ai home is improving steadily ana living a near-normal 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