Edgewood High School, El Corral, 1995, World Beat 6

Description:	flashThe U.S. Interior Departmentmoves the bald eagle from itsendangered species list to theless critical threatenedcategory. The PacificNorthwests spotted owl is leftto fend for itself when in June afederal judge lifts the 1991injunction that halted logging inthe owls habitat.The fossil of a previouslyunknown dinosaur, the 25-foot-long Cryolophosaurus ellioti, isfound in Antarctica.Despite a so-called fitnesscraze, the National Center forHealth Statistics confirms theAmerican overabundance offood combined with asedentary lifestyle is creatingan epidemic of obesity. Since1980, the number of overweight adults has ballooned toone-third of the population,with an alarming increaseamong children.Some of the 599 newlyrevealed secret ingredientsmajor cigarette-makers add toimprove taste and texture:beeswax, butter, carrot oil,citronella oil, cocoa shells,corn silk, dandelion rootextract, 31 chemicals that startwith ethyl, oak chip oil,vinegar, and dimethyftetra-hydrobenzofuranone.Three planets are discoveredorbiting a pulsar star 3,000light-years away in theconstellation Virgo. One is thesize of the moon and two arethree times more massive thanEarth; all are rocky worldswithout an atmosphere.NASAs space shuttle mission 64 tests theoperations of a Simplified Aid For ExtravehicularActivity Rescue (SAFAR) device. Crewmember Mark Lee maneuvers successfullyoutside the Discovery, while Carl Meadephotographs him against the background of Earth.Martin Rodbell andAlfred Gilman areawarded the 1994Nobel Prize inPhysiology orMedicine fordeveloping amodel of cellcommunicationthat hasmedical implicationsfrom cholera tocancer.The Food and DrugAdministrationinstitutes new foodlabeling on almost all foodsin response to consumerprotest against the manymisleading claims of foodproducers. The newreadable labels providerealistic serving sizes, listcalories from fat, and allowyou to compare differentnutrient values.Autostereograms,popularly known asMagic Eye, causelegions of people to starecross-eyed for long periodsof time. Based on a mysteryj) of neurology and3-D objects, patternelements fuse into left-eyeand right-eye images of asingle hidden object whichappears to befloating.In Ethiopia, anthropologists discover theskull of a humanancestor, Australopithecusramidus, 4.4 million yearsold. The new species hasfeatures midway betweenapes and humans andpromises to provide clues tostill earlier evolutionarystages.^k@mJapans Love LoveSimulation computer! program allowscouples to take anon-scientific lookat future offspringby digitallycombining their ownphotos to predict achilds appearance.
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