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Battalion/Page 13
February 3, 1982
Lending a helping hand
staff photo by Sumanesh Agrawal
Kyle Bromley, Brenda Heath, George
Gump, Reggie McMullin and Nancy
Spotts lend a helping hand to a bird
which was injured and suffering from
the cold. The bird was on a bench
outside Francis Hall when they saw it.
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Chinese archaeology flourishing
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Chinese archaeology, discour- 0 f them
aged during 100 years of social
upheaval, has flourished since Millions of Chinese peasants
the Comiimnist victory of 1949, were made aware of the import-
thanks to the nation’s amateur ance of archaeological finds.
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Houston is sinking, and so is
Arizona, says geophysicist
Ronald L. Brooks.
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Brooks, and his colleagues at
the GeoScience Research Cor
poration in Salisbury, Md., re
cently told Science Digest maga
zine that satellite data show huge
areas of the United States are
slowly subsiding.
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Brooks blames the sinkage —
which occurs almost exclusively
in Sunbelt states such as Texas,
Arizona and California — on a
population explosion that has
made huge demands on the
area’s underground water supp
ly, causing a drastic lowering of
the water table. Along with the
lowered water table came the
sinkage — a drop as great as 12.5
feet in Arizona and up to 7.5 feet
in Houston, so far.
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To keep the earth from fall
ing, says Brooks, cities must de
velop above-ground water sup
plies and stop relying as much
on depleted underground
aquifers.
Ironically, early satellite data
showed parts of Houston actual
ly to be rising. It turned out that
Vapidly growing Texassize sky
scrapers downtown were reflect
ing the satellite’s beam and giv
ing false readings.
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Why Pygmies are so small
United Press International
What makes Pygmies small?
Although they resemble people
with a growth-hormone defi
ciency, tests reveal normal levels
of the hormone in their blood.
According to new studies re
ported in the New England
Journal of Medicine, Pygmies
have a major deficiency of a sub
stance called “insulin-like
growth factor,” (IGF)-I, one of a
class of secondary growth fac
tors. The Pygmy study has
prompted the researchers to call
IGF-I, “possibly the principal
growth factor in human beings.”
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