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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1981
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Colorado may receive state fossil
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tot thinking i DENVER — The stegosaurus —
tions ofwhal;;, n armore<; l dinosaur 20 feet long
^fith a brain the size of a walnut —
tiay be in line for a bit of posthumous
lonor from the state of Colorado.
State Sen. Polly Baca Barragan
r auctions wij introduced a bill in the Colorado
'suspecting, [J enera [ Assembly Tuesday to de-
lare the stegosaurus the official state
t’s walking is «tt »ssil.
X) because tlieu Barragan said she thinks it’s time
poundattbe® he state had an official fossil. It
aid. Iready has a state flower (the col-
roup of professs lnll)ine ) ; state birc ^ dark bunting);
working the# tate anima l (bighorn sheep), and
ig youths to i: tate tree (Colorado blue spruce). So
:ables. by not a state fossil?
The Democratic legislator said
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the idea was first suggested to her
last March in a letter written by the
fourth grade class of teacher Ruth
Sawdo at McElwain Grade School in
Thornton after they made a study of
dinosaurs.
“We are not sure if we even have a
state fossil and we would like your
help with this as we think Colorado is
richly endowed with fossils and
maybe this is something our class
could pursue,” the students wrote.
Barragan said it was too late in
1980 to draft such legislation, but
said she had a bill pre-filed for 1981
— even before her daughter, Moni
ca, 9, joined the class this past fall.
The children initially considered
recommending a supersaurus, but
dropped that idea after Dr. James A.
Jensen of the Earth Sciences Prepa
ration Laboratory at Brigham Young
University told them scientists had
not found enough of the creature to
mount and did not really know what
it looked like.
The youngsters then decided to
recommend the stegosaurus, a crea
ture whose remains were first disco
vered in Colorado at the Morrison
Quarry near Golden in 1877. Five
skeletons have since been disco
vered in the state, including one dug
up by Canon City High School stu
dents in Garden Park near Canon
City.
Scientists said the stegosaurus
was 20 feet or more in length, co
vered with horn and had a long tail
with four spikes. Despite its massive
size, it had a tiny brain only the size
of a walnut.
Barragan admits she really doesn’
have a favorite among the dinosaurs
but was willing to abide by whatever
the students wanted. She said her
daughter personally favored the di-
plodocus, a plant-eating dinosaur.
“They’re going to have to answer
the questions,” Barragan said,
laughing. “I don’t know anything ab
out the stegosaurus. I told them if
they really want this, they should get
a campaign going and contact other
schools to join the effort. ”
Only dying will be given artificial heart
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Uni-
'ersity of Utah review committee
ed since IMt a PP rove d an artificial heart for
"My wifeissii mirmn implantation says the first re-
je y_” ipient must be a patient who would
to stop thepnsi without it, but researchers want
t will hurt lilt k subject to have a good chance for
d argued thal I ino ™ a ^bf ( ] ’.
After eight months of considera-
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jetion board ill ' on ’ 13-member Review Board
neyfortheU or Research with Human Subjects
mied the injure ! ave its a PP rov al Tuesday to a uni-
the resideni ,ers ‘ty research team’s request to
mplant their polyurethane heart in a
hat an injunefc ' luman '
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Dr. Ernst Eichwald, the board
rhairman, said the Food and Drug
^ministration must now approve
he device, which already has been
uccessfully tested in animals. The
;o-ahead was expected in about 30
lays.
Eichwald said the doctors agreed
he first patient would be someone
rndergoing cardiac surgery whose
ratural heart could not be restarted
yany means. The patient would be
aken off the heart-lung bypass
machine and the artificial organ im
planted.
“There would be no danger to the
patient’s life with the implant be
cause he would die without it, ” said
Eichwald, a university pathologist.
“There is no risk because this is the
only possibility this patient would
have.”
But cardiac surgeon William De
Vries, head of the operation team,
says they are not considering the
surgery a last ditch means of prolong
ing the recipient’s life.
“My hope is that the patient can
live a suitable, acceptable lifestyle,”
DeVries said. “But we can’t say how
long he will live. It’s hard to put a
time value on it.”
DeVries has already placed the
heart in cadavers and found it main
tained acceptable blood pressure
and flow. He also has implanted the
heart in dozens of calves and sheep.
“They had a mean survival period of
three months. But we hope to do
better in humans,” said the surgeon.
The first human recipient would
be a “high-risk” person facing cardiac
surgery who is otherwise in good
health. The subject must be between
17 and 60, DeVries said.
The patient also must be willing to
live tethered to an external air pump
which will drive the heart. Tubes
from the electrically driven pump
will enter the recipient’s chest.
And the patient also must have
some financial resources. The heart
and power systems each cost about
$5,000, and the 10-day hospital stay
will run about $4,000. Then, modifi
cations to the person’s home would
be about $30,000.
Artificial hearts have been tested
on humans at least twice before. A
patient of Texas surgeon Denton
Cooley 10 years ago survived for
nearly three days. Another patient
lived eight hours in an experiment in
Argentina last year.
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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Withered Christmas trees that
brought holiday cheer a month ago are being used to rebuild sand
dunes along hurricane-scarred South Padre Island.
High winds and storm surges flattened the dunes and cut passes
deep into the island when Hurricane Allen hit last August. Cameron
County officials said the trees, staked down and tied together with
twine, will anchor the blowing sand and start the dunes building again.
“When the wind hits the barrier we provide, it causes the sand to
drop out and build up. When the wind blows, the sand bounces along
the ground and falls out at the base of the trees and builds a small
I mound,” Country Marine Agent Jack Rickener said Tuesday.
“After we have a small mound, we will be able to transplant dune
grass. This will stabalize the mound by holding the sand in place,” he
[said.
} The entire project cost the county $2.52 for the twine.
| “It’s inexpensive, ” Richkner said, “because what do you do with old
i Christmas trees but burn them?”
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