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A&M researchers study effects i h
of bacteria on ocean’s ecology
By Susan Miller
Reporter
Texas A&M is part of a broad-
based study group researching the
effects of methane-consuming bacte
ria on the ocean’s ecology.
Dr. Gary Wilson, professor of mi
crobiology at Texas A&M, said the
bacteria are helpful to the ecology
because they are able to consume
methane and these organisms pro
vide food for other sea life.
“These methane-utilizing bacteria
detoxify the methane for the sea or
ganisms they live in, and in doing so,
provide amino acids and nutrients
for the organisms,” Wilson said.
Chuck Kennicutt, an associate re
search scientist in Texas A&M’s Geo
chemical and Environmental Re
search Group, said without the
bacteria’s help, sea organisms, such
as mussels and clams, would not be
able to live in deep waters or near oil
seepages.
“The bacteria are what oxidize the
methane,” Kennicutt said. “When
they do this they turn it into organic
matter that mussels can directly as
similate.
“The mussels then obtain their
nutrition from the bacteria itself. So
the bacteria mediate the process.”
Over the past 20 years scientists
have discovered large communities
of such organisms. Researchers at
Texas A&M also have uncovered
thriving colonies on the sea floor in
the Gulf of Mexico, he said.
Kennicutt said these communities
represent a whole new component to
the slope ecology not previously rec
ognized.
“Slope ecology is defined, ba
sically, as how all the animals live to
gether in different water depths,” he
said. “The continental slope is de
fined by the water depth, which is
generally somewhere from 300 me
ters to maybe 2,000 meters deep.”
Since organisms that live in these
water depths cannot utilize sunlight
directly, it previously was thought
they were surviving off material uti
lized by organisms at more shallow
depths, he said.
“In fact, these organisms don’t
need sunlight,” he said. “They have
a mechanism of gaining nutrition
that is completly separate from what
you would see on land where sun
light is necessary.
“So this is a new type of mech
anism for living in the deep parts of
the ocean.”
This type of energy production is
called chemosynthesis. It is thesynl
thesis of organic compounds to ptol
vide energy for the organisms witkl
out sunlight.
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from the methane or other inoil
ganic compounds in the water,”kl
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only source of energy for the I
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Late night TV show to feature woman
with odd hobby of collecting gizzards
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MARLIN (AP) — It doesn’t always require a
stupid pet trick for the average person to get on
the “Late Night With David Letterman” show.
Sometimes it just takes a bizarre hobby.
For almost 30 years Ruth Stone has collected
turkey gizzards and the odd things that come out
of them.
Her hobby got her a round-trip ticket Monday
to New York to appear on the popular variety-
talk show hosted by Letterman. Her appearance
will be broadcast tonight.
Stone used to work at a turkey processing
plant and part of her job was to clean and inspect
the gizzards before they were shipped to stores.
While cleaning them, she noticed many of them
contained an odd assortment of small objects.
Her first find was a coin.
“I even got a spark plug,” Stone said. “And
things like rocks and marbles. Oh, and I got one
dice out of it.”
Over the years, Stone has collected hundreds
of the odd items. “Nearly all gizzards have a little
something in them,” she said.
As fast as Stone could bring the objects home,
her husband would build display cases for them,
and the cases now adorn several walls in her
home.
The unique knickknacks are a big hit with visi
tors, who often express amazement. “They say,
‘A turkey swallowed that?’ ” she said. “And I say,
‘Sure.’ ”
Stone and David Letterman might never have
crossed paths had it not been for a friendly cup
of coffee she offered Brent Shehorn, 19, and his
father one afternoon at her home.
The Shehorns immediately saw the display
boxes filled with items that had been discovered
in turkey gizzards: spark plugs, crucifixes,
change, springs, water nozzles, glass, marbles |
and shiny rocks.
“We were just amazed with it,” Brent Shehorn
recalled. “When I saw them, the first thing 1
thought was, that was something David Letter-
man would have on his show.”
Fans of the Letterman show know it is noto
rious for its offbeat humor, seen in such features
as “Stupid Pet Tricks,” “Top Ten Lists” and Let-
terman’s irreverent treatment of celebrities.
Shehorn wrote Letterman about the “Gizzard
Lady” last summer and finally was contacted
about her appearance.
Houston stripper teaches trade in classroom
HOUSTON (AP) — GiO struts to
the front of the class carrying an
armful of pastel chiffon, silk and
lace. She is wearing 4-inch spike
heels, blue lace stockings and an
electric blue teddy. When she turns
to face her students — 30 women,
many of them mothers, in their 20s
to 40s — the giggling stops.
“When you strip, wear pretty,
feminine underthings,” GiO sug
gested. “A lot of people like red and
black. But, to me, red and black says
cheap hussie. And I will have no
cheap hussies graduating from my
class! I want only sex goddesses.”
She drops the demonstration lin
gerie to strike her point with a “clas
sic sex goddess” pose — ankles tight,
one-knee bent, a hip cocked and
arms V-ed over her head.
For a moment, the raven-haired
stripper resembles Marilyn Monroe.
GiO’s job is disrobing. For the past
five years, the professional stripper
has taken off her clothes at a rate of
24 shows a week, about 35 weeks a
year, mostly in Canada. “I am a pro
fessional sex object,” she said matter-
of-factly.
your
sexual
About a year ago, she began shar
ing a few tricks of her trade with am
ateurs and novices through once-a-
month classes for the New York-
based Learning Annex. .Her goal,
GiO says, is to help women boost
their sensuality and self-confidence
and to express some of their sexual
fantasies or those of their mates.
“I teach women how to take con
trol,” she said. “I have had women
tell me it has saved their marriages.”
good way to enhance
relationship.”
GiO’s real name is Lisa Suarez.
She is 32 years old. She began danc
ing without a costume in New York
go-go clubs more than 15 years ago.
She said she needed the money to
pay her way through the Pratt Insti
tute of Design.
ation’s Gypsy Rose Lee,” she
emphatically. “I want to definestripl
tease for the rock ’n’ roll general
tion.”
It just might, agreed
i psychologis
offers sexut
gist
sexual
and marriage counseling. “If it’s
something you enjoy and that gives
you and your partner pleasure, I
don’t see anything wrong with it,”
Frede said when told.of GiO’s classes
on at-home stripping. “It might be a
After graduating and working for
Jimmy Carter’s first presidential
campaign, she danced in George
town clubs to augment her salary as
a junior exhibit designer for the
Smithsonian Institution in Washing
ton, D.C.
GiO takes the term “dancer” se
riously. In 1984, she spent a summer
training with Twyla Tharp’s dance
company. In 1986, her determined
competition at the Golden G-String
strippers’ convention in Las Vegas
was featured in a Twentieth Cen
tury-Fox documentary “Stripper.”
“I want to be known as this gener-
After watching a demonstratios
of one of her 30 regular acts, tkf!
Houston students had no doute
about her commitment or ability
GiO calls her class “How toStrif
for Your Man.” The Houston lessot
took place in a basement ballroom
the Stouffer’s Greenway Plaza hoti
apparently unnoticed by a group
librarians gathered just across
hallway.
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GiO’s sometimes brash self-confil
dence apparently developed at ail
early age. The only daughter of I
Cuban salesman and an Italia!
songstress, both first-generationi
migrants to the United States, sbl
says she was raised to pursue succesl
in whatever way she decided to (’
fine it.
Court battle
about oysters
to continue
Warped
by Scott McCulla
HOUSTON (AP) — The 500-
member Texas Oyster Association
plans to continue a court battle to
have this year’s oyster season
opened.
In late August, the Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department cancelled
the oyster season to allow depleted
populations a chance to recover.
The season normally runs from
Nov. 1 through April.
On Oct. 29, Chambers County
fish house owner Joe Nelson ob
tained two temporary restraining or
ders against the department.
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The department then filed coun
ter-motions that kept the season
from opening.
“We’ve tried to talk and negotiate
with them (parks and wildlife),”
Tom Hubs, president of the organi
zation said.
“But they didn’t want to listen to
what we had to say,” he added.
After talks broke off, the 500-
member association voted to start a
legal fund, and hired Austin lawyer
Jim Matthews to represent them.
“This is our last resort,” he said.
Hulls said he expected a lawsuit to
be filed in Travis County over the
next two weeks, but declined to say
more.
“I hesitate to say too much now
because it might tip the other side,”
Hubs said. “But our attorney has
something he’s working on.”
David Gottorn, parks and wildlife
spokesman, said, “No matter how
much legal wrangling goes on, it’s
not going to change one iota the fact
that there just are not enough
oysters on the bottom of the bays.”
Gottorn said the department has
provided the association with data
showing that opening the oyster sea
son would harm the oyster crop.
He said legal action by the group
has been expected.
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