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studies its jets
measures pressure, heat
Monday • September 12, 1994
Shuttle
82-foot boom
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
— Discovery’s astronauts fired
their steering jets Sunday at the
longest boom ever extended from
a space shuttle, an eight-story-tall
arm used to measure damage
from engine exhaust.
“It’s an awesome sight,” as
tronaut Susan Helms said of the
82-foot boom suspended over the
shuttle cargo bay.
Instruments at the end of the
boom measured the pressure
and heat of the jet exhaust as
well as contaminants, any of
which could ruin solar panels,
radiators and other large struc
tures on a space station.
The first shuttle-station dock
ing is scheduled for next May,
when Atlantis flies to Russia’s
Mir. Shuttles also would have to
dock frequently with an interna
tional space station that’s sup
posed to be built in orbit begin
ning in 1997.
Helms attached a 32-foot ex
tension to Discovery’s 50-foot
jointed, mechanical arm to
reach the jets on the shuttle’s
nose and tail.
Working from the cockpit,
Helms swung the boom so the
instruments at the tip were in
the direct path of the jets’ ex
haust. At one point, the end of
the boom hung 22 feet in front of
Discovery’s nose.
The experiment was inter
rupted when Helms ran into
the same trouble she experi
enced Saturday: She lost com
puter contact with the boom in
struments and had to reset a
circuit breaker. The crew had
to skip a few tail-jet tests be
cause of the time lost.A video
camera on the end of the boom
captured rare, tip-to-tip views
of the shuttle in orbit.
“I’m a big Michigan fan and I
was excited to hear Michigan
beating Notre Dame yesterday,”
in football, said astronaut Jerry
Linenger, who’s from East-
pointe, Mich. “But the biggest
cheer here was when we got the
(boom) picture looking back at
the shuttle. We let out a yell.
“The people at that Michigan
game couldn’t have yelled any
louder than the six of us,” he said.
Earlier Sunday, a laser
aboard Discovery flashed green
pulses at much of the world. The
laser light was reflected off
clouds, atmospheric pollutants
and Earth’s surface and back to
Discovery, where it was collected
by telescope for analysis by sci
entists studying global climate.
Discovery is flying as far
north as Hudson Bay and as far
south as Cape Horn in order to
cover as much of the atmos
phere as possible with the
laser, being operated by remote
control from Johnson Space
Center in Houston.
As of Sunday, NASA still was
unsure whether Discovery’s
laser-data recorder was working.
Most of the laser measurements
are sent instantaneously to
Johnson; the recorder is needed
to save the rest.
The nine-day mission is due
to end next Sunday. NASA will
add a 10th day for science pur
poses if power permits.
FDA to change drug labels
Agency plans to simplify packaging
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) —
The Food and Drug Administra
tion is planning to do for nonpre
scription drugs what it did for
packaged foods — simplify their
labels by making them easier to
read and understand.
Just as the new nutrition la
bels are helping people figure
out what’s in their food, the sim
pler drug labels would help re
duce some of the confusion about
choosing medication, the agency
said Friday.
“People have changed. Peo
ple are more interested in their
health,” said Michael Wein-
traub, director of the FDA of
fice that evaluates over the
counter drugs.
“If the consumer is ready to
take more control of their
health, to learn more about
their ailments and how they
can treat them ... it’s really go
ing to be helpful.”
Consumers aren’t likely to
notice a difference for several
years; changing labels is a pro
tracted process. The FDA will
work with its advisory panel to
explore various designs, includ
ing using pictures, bolder print
and less technical language.
The $ll-billion over-the-
counter drug manufacturing in
dustry put up little resistance.
“We are committed to good la
bel readability,” said William
Seller, senior vice president of
the Nonprescription Drug Man
ufacturers Association. “We’re
not sitting there saying this
shouldn’t be done.”
Halcion
Continued from Page 2
omitted roughly 30 percent of
the bad reactions suffered by
healthy Michigan prison in
mates. They had been test sub
jects in the 1972-73 clinical
study known as Protocol 321.
Reactions omitted from the
study included nervousness,
anxiety, paranoia, depression
and amnesia, according to the
Chronicle.
Although the FDA earlier af
firmed Halcion’s safety and ef
fectiveness, the drug has been
banned in four other countries.
British regulators suspended
Halcion’s license in 1991, citing
an insufficient margin of safe
ty. Norway and Argentina
banned Halcion in 1991. Brazil
did so in 1992.
Victims
Continued from Page 2
Goodwin settled her Halcion
lawsuit with its maker, the Up
john Co., in March for an undis
closed amount of money.
Ms. Goodwin, 56, filed suit in
U.S. District Court in June 1993,
contending she became psychotic
in 1988 after taking Halcion for
more than two years.
Papers filed in the lawsuit
stated that she had become
“paranoid, aggressive, suicidal
and totally irrational.”
Ms. Goodwin’s attorney, Tom
Alexander, described the law
suit’s outcome as a “moderate
settlement.”
He is bound by the same
confidentiality agreement Up
john has used in many of its
Halcion settlements.
A spokesman for the Michi
gan-based pharmaceutical com
pany said Saturday that it is try
ing to protect corporate informa
tion through such agreements,
not deny consumers information.
“We feel it is important to
protect many of the things that
are proprietary information,”
said Philip Sheldon, the
spokesman.
Alexander’s client was
placed in solitary confinement
at Ben Taub Hospital for two
days, then transferred to the
Harris County Psychiatric Cen
ter for two weeks, according to
the lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleged that
many of her “irrational and ag
gressive acts were directed to
ward her family members,
causing them severe mental
pain and suffering.”
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A weekly column dedicated to computing at Texas A&M
The Dorm Wiring Project
tiring the summer of
1993, Computing and
Information Services
(CIS), in conjunction with the
Student Housing Office,
started a pilot project for
wiring dormitory rooms with
Ethernet connections. This
allowed students to use the
campus network from their
dormitory rooms to access both
the campus network and the
Internet via Gopher, FTP,
Mosaic, etc. The initial project
involved Lechner Hall and
Clements Hall and consisted of twelve
connections in each dormitory. The re
sponse was very positive and demand for
more connections quickly rose.
The response was so popular during the
Spring of 1994 that the project was ex
panded to include eight dormitories with
two Ethernet connections in every room.
The eight dormitories that were selected
include Spence, Moore, Harrington,
Lechner, McFadden, Leggett, Dunn and
Keathley Halls. Because asbestos was
discovered in the “crawl space” of Hart
Hall, thereby precluding the wiring crew of
running wires in this area, Spence Hall has
recently replaced Hart Hall as a Dorm
Wiring Project site. The Student Housing
Office chose these dormitories as a sam
pling of each of the different kinds of
dormitories on campus.
The wiring of these dorms was com
pleted in late August, moments before the
arrival of the resident students. All of the
connections are twisted-pair Ethernet
(lOBaseT). The CIS Network Group is
building a separate FDDI backbone to
accommodate the dormitories. This sepa
rate ring will be routed to the main campus
FDDI backbone using a dedicated router.
Students will be responsible for provid
ing Ethernet cards for their machines, as
well as a connecting cable to connect from
their computer to the wall connector. CIS
will be provide a list of recommended cards
for the student to buy. CIS will also pro
vide—free of charge the necessary
A technician from Teknon, Inc, working
on the McFadden Hall dormitory.
software for the more popular platforms.
CIS will maintain a support staff to
answer student’s questions about the
installation of software, as well as how to
use it. There will be users group meetings
scheduled in the dorms for students that
use the Ethernet connections.
In conjunction with this project, there
will be an increase in the number of high
speed modems that allow greater connec
tivity to the campus network for students
living off-campus or in non-networked
dormitories. The CIS Network Group is
currently working on a plan for imple
menting SLIP and PPP on these modems
that will provide network level access to
the campus network.
If you have any questions about this
project you can contact Computing and
Information Services Problem and
Change Management (PCM) at 845-
9254. The Dorm Wiring Project will also
have a resource table at the Computing
Expo ’94, which will be held on Sept. 13,
14, and 15 in the Rudder Tower Exhibit
Hall, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. If you
have general networking questions there
is also a Network Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ) document available via
cqphf.r .TAMu . Fimi and also by anonymous
FTP from nkt . tamu . fdu as puh/nctwork/
FAQ. •
The authors, Chris Trust and David Hess,
work in the Network Group of
Computing and Information Services.
Computing Toolbox is published by Computing and Information Services (CIS) at Texas A&M
University. Please send comments, topic suggestions, and questions for the Computing Wizard to
suGGrs r@TAMU.rDu or call 845-9325. We want your input!