I, 1997 Tuesday • September 30, 1997 S The Battalion TATE (ewish astronaut settles in aboard Mir i Soul Food. le acting nages of jbblerand is, Soul the sleeper rearofbig- ction films, vie goers la still ex- >sage to r is not al- s simple ood, a that bind iiiccess. ginal. ! that looks and that in smell lis film will gh-school y rich man. j SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) the just started his four-month slay aboard Mir and already he has i holiday coming up: Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. | Astronaut David Wolf’s mother ijoubts her son — the first Jewish .imerican to live on the Russian jpace station — will be able to take lime off to observe Rosh Hashana iiis week or the rest of the Jewish High Holy Days. • But “maybe he’ll get a vision of the High Holidays closer to heav- tn than we will,” said Martha [aratz of the Jewish Community Center of Indianapolis, Wolf’s boy- lood hangout. “It’s a lovely bought, isn’t it?” And Wolf did take up a mezuza, rolled piece of parchment in a tase that traditionally is attached the doorpost of a new home. Mir will be Wolf’s home until ate January. He moved in Sunday becoming the sixth American to :ve aboard the station — and ipent Monday getting to know the dace and his two new Russian rewmates. “I doubt really if they’re going to jive him time off for a holiday, I re- ily doubt that, and he wouldn’t :ven consider asking,” said his nother, Dottie Wolf. “He will just ay'Happy New Year’ to the Rus- staurant l e Dining Fine -2868 sians, in Russian, and maybe he will teach them something about our New Year.” With all the last-minute uncer tainty over her son’s launch to Mir and questions about his safety, Wolf said she forgot to ask whether he packed the traditional honey and apples to celebrate the New Year. (He didn’t, says NASA.) She was more interested in whether he remembered to take his screw driver for the inevitable space sta tion repairs. (He did.) When he flew on space shuttle Columbia in 1993, Wolf took up a Torah pointer and a shofar, the ram’s horn that is blown to an nounce the new year, for Indi anapolis’ Beth-El Zedeck Temple, where he had his bar mitzvah 28 years ago. This time, the temple gave him a mezuza, which he will return early next year and affix to a new educational wing. “Since Mir going to be David’s home, we thought it would be ap propriate,” said Rabbi Sandy Sasso. She and her rabbi husband, Dennis, offered a special prayer for Wolf during a Sabbath service at tended by the astronaut’s parents and grandmother on Sept. 20, five days before he left for Mir aboard space shuttle Atlantis. The opening verse of the She- ma, the prayer that is tucked in side the mezuza, is: “Hear, O Israel, the lord our God, the lord is one” — an especially fitting line consid ering how borders and divisions are invisible from space, the rab bis said. Wolf also took up a mezuza for the Jewish nursing home in Indi anapolis where his aunt lives. His sister, Anne Berggren, said he probably won’t unpack the two mezuzot. But he will open her Hanukkah gift after it arrives on a Russian supply ship in October — a menorah and gelt, or holiday candy that looks like coins. “People don’t realize when they’re up there, they’re just not putting out fires, so to speak, that they have lives back on Earth and it’s important that they are able to observe certain holidays,” Berggren said. Wolf, 41, an unmarried doctor and engineer, certainly will think about Rosh Hashana, which begins at sundown Wednesday night, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the following week, even if he can’t observe them properly, his mother said. On his way to the launch pad last Thursday, he shouted: “Happy New Year, folks!” (Of course, there’s a sunrise and sunset every 90 minutes in orbit, one of the many aspects of space- flight that could raise questions of Talmudic complexity for an obser vant Jew. Then again, observant Jews aren’t supposed to be riding in vehicles on the High Holy Days or the Sabbath.) Wolf spent Monday with his Mir predecessor, NASA astronaut Michael Foale, whose 4 1/2-month mission included a devastating collision and frequent computer crashes and accompanying power outages. The two will work side by side until the hatches between the docked Atlantis and Mir are closed Thursday, so Wolf can get the inside story on life aboard the cluttered, ruptured station. Atlantis is sched uled to pull away with Foale on Fri day, after six days of linked flight, and return to Earth on Sunday. Since arriving on Mir, Wolf has expressed again his confidence in the safety of the 11 1/2-year-old space station and the importance of his research up there. Wolf said her son would not have gone — and NASA would not have sent him — if Mir were as dangerous as some members of Congress and others say. Still, as a mother, she worries: “He’s going to be gone so long.” Health officials extend ban due to Red Tide HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — State health offi cials Monday extended a ban of clam, mussel and oyster harvesting to the lower Texas coast in the wake of a red tide outbreak that has killed millions of fish in past weeks. Meanwhile, wildlife officials tested water samples and flew over the coastline to try to de termine where the algae might spread next. “No one has a clue as to what’s going to hap pen. No one can even second-guess this thing,” said Larry McEachron, science director for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Coastal Fisheries Division. Red tide is a bloom of microscopic algae that attacks the nervous systems of fish and creates a reddish tint in seawater. Its toxins can kill many fish species, but only infected clams, mussels and oysters are unsafe for human consumption, state jiealth officials said. "Clams, mussels and oysters concentrate the toxin. When people consume those, the toxin can make them ill,” said Kirk Wiles, assistant di rector of the Division of Seafood Safety at the Texas Department of Health. Systems include nausea, dizziness, tingling sensations in the extremities and dilated pupils. Illness can last several days but is not usually fa tal, Wiles said. Airborne toxins also can cause nose, throat and eye irritations. Red tide was spotted several weeks ago off the coast of Port O’Connor, then moved south in the Gulf of Mexico to San Jose Island, where 2 1/2 million fish washed ashore last week. Although it has since dissipated in those ar eas, the red tide has spread to the lower coast, where thousands more fish were found dead over the weekend from the south end of Padre Island National Seashore to South Padre Island. In response to the movement, state health of ficials extended a ban on clam, mussel and oys ter harvesting from the upper coast down to South Padre Island, Wiles said. Only Galveston Bay is excluded. Although commercial oyster harvesting does not start until Nov. 1, Wiles said recreational fishermen may be catching infected fish. “We are warning people not to consume clams, mussels and oysters from any of those waters,” he said. “This includes recreational har vesters or people who eat brown edible mussels off the jetties from Port Aiansas south to South Padre Island.” If the red tide persists and spreads into the Texas bay system, health officials may be forced to suspend commercial oyster harvesting as well, Wiles said. “It’ll depend on the circumstances we see over the next several weeks,” Wiles said. “We’ll be monitoring how long the red tide stays and where it goes.” Upr 'COO ; / off Sun. - Thurs. 3 PM-10 PM • Fri. - Sat. 3 PM-Midnight 3803 South Texas Ave. • Bryan Body Piercing Body Piercing J O One coupon per piercing. Expires Oct. 1, 1997. 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