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THE BATTALION
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1980
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Productivity
may result in
weight gain
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United Press International
SAN DIEGO — Researchers say
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pany executive, but he also stands a
better chance of becoming over
weight than his less productive co
workers.
Dr. Fred H. Mattson of the Uni
versity of California at San Diego
said Wednesday an efficient worker
spends less energy at his job, thus
increasing his chances of gaining
weight.
But the worker’s less-efficient
counterpart burns more calories
working around his tasks.
Mattson, director of the universi
ty’s Lipid Research Center, said his
findings are part of an ongoing, year-
old research program involving
obese men at the university’s Clinic
al Research Center, under a grant
from the National Institute of
Health.
Volunteers, who usually are refer
red to the program by their doctors,
live at the center for a period of about
two months in a controlled environ
ment in which each individual is fed
a daily diet of 1,000 calories while his
physical activities are monitored.
Mattson said goals of the project
are two-fold:
— To find out what causes obesity,
defined as people who weigh more
than 10 percent above their ideal
weight.
— To determine the effect of va
rious nutrients on the level and type
of blood cholesterol in the body.
Mattson said a major finding of his
research is that overweight men tend
to be more efficient in their tasks
than others who are able to maintain
normal body weight.
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still baffles scientist
United Press International
PEKING — On a cold December
day 50 years ago in the nearby village
of Zhoukoudian, a 26-year-old
anthropologist plucked a skull from
under bis shovel in a cave where loc
al peasants had reported finding
“dragon bones.”
He held out a brown wooden
drawer from an ordinary filing
cabinet at the Institute of Vertebrate
Paleontology. Inside were molars
much like those dentists work on to
day, except larger. In another draw
er lay the skull and jawbone, like
dusty rocks, covered with cotton.
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Professor Pei Wenzhong made
one of greatest scientific discoveries
of all time.
The skull of “Peking Man,” a hu
man with overhanging brow and
massive jaws who lived 200,000-
600,000 years ago, was the first solid
evidence that modem man evolved
from apes. The skull also proved man
had used fire centuries earlier than
had been believed.
But the famous skull, and four of
five others found in the same cave,
disappeared during World War II on
their way to the United States.
The international mystery has
never been solved. China’s Peking
Man specialist, Wu Rukang, a col
league of Pei, hopes the United
States can find the relics.
“The only specimens we have of
our Peking Man are these five teeth,
a lower jawbone and a skull in two
pieces,” Wu said in gentle dismay.
Wu said the precious skulls were
kept at Peking University Medical
College until the United States en
tered the war in the Pacific in 1941.
Two American scientists working at
the college, Henry S. Houghton and
a man recalled only as T. Bowen,
took the skulls by train to Tianjin
(Tientsin) to be shipped to the Un
ited States on an American freighter
for safekeeping.
“We do not know what happened
to the men,” Wu said. “Some people
think the train was captured by the
Japanese, others say the ship was
sunk by a Japanese torpedo.
“A professor at the New York
Museum of Natural History thought
the boxes were seized in Tianjin. We
investigated but could not find them
there.
“When I went to a conference in
Toledo, Ohio, last spring, many
American anthropologists said they
wanted to help us find ttiesfej
have not given up hope, I*J|
there is no trace of them in J
Japan or the United States' ’/
On a small hill nearZhouU’j
excavations continued in the l|j
several caves. During MmB
tung’s 1966-76 anti-intellf&
“Cultural Revolution,” thtijs , 1
pologists were “writing
ary posters and attending to c
meetings,” Wu said, siontoc
the agei
In late 1978, anthropology political
local workmen resumed dig
new cave near the original on
Jen’s 1
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A dozen workmen, weapon a tw
dened faces peering from trfgenc)
fiir caps, haul wheelbarrowJjprderec
fist-sized rocks from the can a|—Tc
Over the hill, visitors pole* P<-v in
the cave — 40 yards higkillp ns ar
yards wide — where these!# — N
Man skulls were found. Higbiphvate
cave wall a white sign says,"® r ^ s ^
Man skull was picked up 1
1929." n, -Tc
Foreigners now can visi ttl*. nur
hut need special visasbJ.i nust ^
Zhoukoudian is outside thej
radius of Peking in which fo'd
PC or
can circulate. A soldier guanj
t, the Man
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Peking men and women, roBL t J,.
of the species" Homo erectus’wT . )si
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The anthropologists (iMj c
thousands of rocks cut into tool® ]n j )() ]
which the cave people cut® “y (U ,
meat. And they cooked it. JL^ w
In the 13 layers of centoM®^
refuse dug from the cave,
ashes, and some are as thiol p ()na j (
yards. The museum scientistp ana g (
the Peking Man cave dweller® g ()U(
their fire burning all thetimef jj ves a
it never could be re-started,i® es 0
probably burned for centurief w | iee l
In the museum’s glass cast®y e d
thousands of animal bones^puket
those of mice and birds to: "rate it
toothed tigers and rhinoceros dxpans
of the animal fossils date back! lii-ht tr
lion years. iBennei
An analysis of 22 bonesofdffrjf the
Peking Man occupants of tkplotor
showed 15 died under 14 vf-Tight ti
age, three between 15and3(l. form tl
three between 40 and50yeaJ
only one lived to between
years. Some skulls are battered
dicating Peking men and wo®
led each other.
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institutions and colleges ini
since 1977 fixed the dateofthei
human bones at 600,000)
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