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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. JULY 25, 1979 Page 7 what’s up Wednesday MOVIE: “Horsefeathers,” a Marx Brothers movie, will be shown at 8:45 p.m. in the Grove Theater. iTEXAS FIREMEN’S TRAINING SCHOOL: There will be a field demonstration of new firefighting equipment, chemicals and techniques open to the public at 8 p.m. at the Brayton Firemen’s Training Field south of campus. ALENDAR: Any person, group or organization who would like to have something printed in the What’s Up column should fill out a form provided in Room 216, Reed McDonald. The name, date and purpose of the event should be included. Thursday |THEATER: Stagecenter Inc. presents “Dirty Work at the Cross road,” a Gay Nineties melodrama today through Saturday at 204 W. Villa Maria Rd. The musical begins at 8 p.m. and admission is $2.50 for adults and $1 for children under 12. MOVIE: “Slaughterhouse Five,” based on Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s book, will be shown at 8:45 p.m. in the Grove Theater. iSTROS TICKETS: ABGS is selling tickets for the Astros vs. Dod gers game this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. There will be a charter bus available. All tickets are for seats behind first base. For more information call Becky at 845-5541. Friday ^ROMETS: The Texas A&M Gamers club will meet at 7 p.m. to play wargames and role playing games in Room 137A and 140B today through Sunday at 6 p.m. 10VIE: “Omen,” starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick, will be shown at 8:45 p.m. in the Grove Theater. IIDNIGHT MOVIE: “M-A-S-H,” starring Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland, will be shown in the Grove Theater. Saturday 10VIE: “Damien. Omen II, starring William Holden and Lee Grant will be shown at 8:45 p.m. in the Grove Theater. Sunday 10VIE: “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, will be shown at 8:45 p.m. in the Grove Theater. Amino acid code nears completion Basic research to duplicate the ge netic code in a laboratory at Texas A&M University has received $44,000 in additional funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, bringing total sup port for the project so far to $260,000. Chemist Dr. Janos Fendler and biochemist Dr. Joseph Nagavary have already succeeded in forming a f. ino shipbuilding chniques studied Already credited with the invention of gunpowder and early print ing, the Chinese may also have been ahead of the rest of the world as nerchant marine shipbuilders, according to a Texas A&M University ;eographer. Scholars have largely ignored important contributions by the hinese to peacetime sailing, said Donald Keith, a Ph.D. student in nderwater archeology. Keith believes some of the most important features of merchant |hips — from watertight bulkheads to transom stern, larger sizes and ultiple masts — may even have originated in the Orient, a theory e hopes to support with other underwater digs in Korea and Thai land. Evidence that these important features were in existence before 300 A. D. in the Orient came in 1974 with the excavation of a pre- jmably seagoing vessel from the waters of Ch’uanchou Bay, China, eith said. He said Western scholars have ignored Chinese contributions to jhipbuilding and later scientists failed to double-check earlier col- agues’ claims. As recently as 1978, four years after the important Ch’uanchou Bay pnd, one scholar referred to the nautical achievements of China as aving “little impact on ideas in neighboring land,” despite the echnological advances the excavation represents, Keith said. “It seems clear that the interpretations of evidence have been onsistently biased by the preconception that Oriental ships ‘ought’ o be different,” he said. “There is a lesson here for all scientists,” the Texas A&M re- earcher said. “While there is security in adhering to conventional ^^^^^Tisdom, there is also the danger of transmitting and reinforcing mis- :aken ideas which have found their way into discussion. “What begins as a theory, if repeated often enough, becomes fact. )nce accepted, mistaken ideas are virtually immortal,” Keith said, vhose recent studies of Chinese seagoing ships won a student award rom the Social Science Association. In addition to conducting his degree research, Keith spends time vorking with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology headquartered at Texas A&M. A nonprofit scientific body, INA relocated here several v 'ears ago to make landlocked Texas A&M the foremost world center Ots] or training professionals who dive on underwater digs. adesh sssxsxgg ner M. ED ! ind..- T.V., Pool, and n miifsc BAIXILOOM Snook, Texas DANCE DOTSY Saturday, July 28th 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. 2 for 1 Draft Beer. Tickets available at gate. Only 15-mmutes from Bryan-College Station. 3 miles west of Snook on FM 60 (intersection FM 60 & FM 3058). chain of 41 amino acid units, the building blocks of protein. That breakthrough last year was the longest molecular chain (called polypeptides) ever achieved under such laboratory condition, which in clude on ooze patterned after primevel conditions many scientist think once covered Earth. By forming the polypeptides under these condition, the two sci- \il" entists believe they have confirmed such a spontaneous chemical reac tion could occur, possible sparking the first life on this planet. Work has been slow and time- consuming since the advances of the last year or so, said Fendler. He said it is tantamount to throwing mate rial for several houses into the sea and hoping enough washes up to build one. “Forty-one bricks is a long way from a house,” he said. Fendler says if the research is car ried to its logical end, it would be the first time that information of DNA had been copied from basic chemical reactions. “But that conclusion is in the far distant future and each step of study becomes more complex,” Fendler said. You Can Buy (U> FMOIMEEIT From Any Professional Audio Store. .... 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