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Page 6B Tuesday. De« |: ': ■ • ' i > Sell your books at LJsedOaakQraker* and double or triple your money Accounting Author: Warren • Edition: 19th (list price: $93.67) 4 Biochemistry Author: Stryer • Edition: 4th (list price: $101.33) Calculus Author: Larson • Edition: 6th (list price: $1 18.76) Typical B.S. (average buy back) $23.42 $25.33 $29.69 At UsedOookOroker you get back $60.88 How IVIuch Will You Get; Anywhere Else? WWW STATE THE BATTALION NASA Space station equippc with new solar panel ‘wing Only one of two 115-foot blankets unfolded on first. SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — NASA officials were assessing their options early Mon day about when to finish unfurling the international space station’s newly at tached set of powerful so lar panels. The debut of the $600 million solar wings was incomplete as only the right panel was deployed Sunday. Although the right wing has started gen erating electricity, some of its tension cables appeared to be slack. Engineers are trying to figure out if this will be a problem in unfurling the left wing and if that can be done or should be delayed until today, when astro nauts on the space shuttle Endeavour conduct their second of three spacewalks during this mission. “Since we are in a good, safe posture, there’s no rea son to be in a big hurry and deploy the other blanket until we absolutely under stand what we saw, or what we’re looking at right now,” said lead flight di rector Bill Reeves. The crew of Endeavour was to have a light sched ule of activities Monday after a busy day of con struction work. During a 7 1/2-hour spacewalk, astronauts Car los Noriega and Joe Tanner helped attach the truss con taining the solar wings to space station Alpha. It went smoothly until the right wing’s unfurling did not proceed after commander Brent Jett Jr. entered com puter commands to do so. A computer software problem prevented the latches and retention pins on the wings from open ing so the panels could be deployed. New software was sent up, and Jett was able to open all the latches and pins, except one on the left wing. He continued to send commands and eventually freed the stuck pin. The right wing’s de ployment delighted Norie ga and Tanner. "Ah, it looksbeil Noriega exclaimed* “More power i('i|r tion,” Tanner said. It took less than, utes for the wing to spread i 115 feet. Noriega and 'ptried t< were the first spae f a 56K to have their bdem to equipped with sc wnload eras that provfeps w'lii views of what the mi|iane< they drove in boll surimg leased latches \ 'ebknov (aching the solar eeckan "W pmmre Recent all of our moveni udents h and slow and steu ow eonr iso the pictures."Tai ; ^While before the flight, orkisli 56k mo First heart surgery planned for tige leot trai iteamoi Titir TYLER (AP) — Five-month-old Karma is preparing to undergo open-heart surgery on Saturday to save his life. No ordinary patient, the tiger cub is thought to be the first of his species to have surgery that corrects a con genital heart defect. And the ground breaking procedure will be done in a human facility — Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. “Heart bypass surgery to allow surgeons to correct congenital heart defects in children is routine,” said Dr. Sonya Gordon of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medi cine. “However, the procedure on a 45-pound tiger may create some unique challenges since it hasn’t been done before.” Karma’s surgery — a collabora tive effort of Texas Children’s Hos pital and the A&M veterinary school — aims to correct a heart defect that is common in humans, doctors said. “He has a big hole inside the heart and there is obstruction of a pathway of blood to the lungs,” Dr. Charles Fraser, chief of cardiac sur iveu tim In resp om on-c wut slo' The procedure on a 45-pound tiger may create some unique chal lenges since it hasn't been done before/' Texas Children’s Hospital.^ Monda\ \ editions of ihc!'. Prv . .7, ingTelegraph. “We are going to closeik^;. t | ieil and fix the pathway soblooda \\ lo the lungs more radii; I he cat will stay atthc» on , overnight, then be transport; Texas A&M College of \er7j^^ Medicine. Karma is expected to® | ^ three to five days there intheifJI | ^ care unit. Doctors expect him ^, ] ■ , I'ov^r c/v^n 'tftpr thp nnprqfinn iW ^ n-ca — Dr. Sonya Gordon Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine c<rver s(xm after the operation. Karma, who lives atligerOL Wildlife Refuge north ofTvfcs . l | ltu ly tires and becomes shortof ; F, ' Refuge officials said hewsMr so< growing as qiuckls as hissisteaf 1 ! 11 ^ “His body is trying torf, his heart is having a hard time® . 1 ing up,” said Tetri Block,refiid oa > s ^ director. F von, out reserving texts gives you first dibs on Who can Used books are 25% OFF the price of new and reserving them is quick and convenient. Reserve your texts through our website, or fill out a text reservation form in the store. 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