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Thursday,
THE BATTALION
Brainy bunch meets in Dali
Thursday, July
Hey
DALLAS (AP)
Smartypants!
Yeah, you. The one by the
hot air balloon shaped like a gi
ant brain.
What is the five-digit num
ber in which the first two dig
its are the product of the fourth
and fifth, the second is four
times the last, the last digit is
seven less than the fourth, and
the third is the sum of the first
and second?
Wow, that was quick. Is
18,992 your final answer?
Lucky guess, you brainiac.
It’s hard to stump mem
bers of American Mensa, the
high IQ society holding its
annual convention this week
in Dallas.
Not only are they discussing
such cerebral topics as the
ethics of human gene research
and hypersonic flight, they are
learning to ballroom dance, re
cite limericks and analyze
movie stars’ handwriting.
Very useful stuff.
And that is only during the day.
At night, there is socializing
and mingling at singles-pairing
parties.
T here is a literary costume
ball, a rave party and wine-tast
ing demonstrations.
For the unattached intellec
tual, the annual gathering is a
fun way to meet like-minded
mates. (Genius man seeks ge
nius woman. Send photo of IQ
test.) /If,'
"Then there’s that great big
brain, full of hot air.
T he group this week plans
to launch a hot-air balloon in
the shape of a giant brain —
billed as “anatomically correct”
except for eye-popping colors.
The 100-foot-long balloon was
invented by a neurosurgeon
and loaned by a German med
ical company.
More than 1,200 Mensans
are attending the convention,
which runs through Sunday.
T he membership of Mensa is
made up of people who score in
the top 2 percent on any stan
dardized intelligence test.
But Mensa members are not
all college professors and rocket
scientists, said Pam Donahoo,
executive director American
Mensa.
The Arlington, Texas-based
organizations 49,000 members
include such trades as construc
tion workers, truck drivers and
restaurant employees,
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from every walk of
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Marine killed in Vietnam received his dog tags in
an Independence Day ceremony after two Flori
da businessmen found them for sale in a back-al
ley market in Flo Chi Minh City.
Rob Stiff and Jim Gain were so sickened at the
discovery of Lance Cpl. Allan George Decker’s
tags that they returned to Vietnam in May to buy
them and hundreds of others. Upon returning to
America, they began trying to reunite soldiers and
their families with the lost tags.
On Wednesday, the men gave Decker’s moth
er the tags at the Orlando cemetery where he was
buried after his death in 1968.
“I just hope that other families can find the
kind of peace that I have felt today,” said Ruth
Decker. “The Lord had his hand in this from the
beginning.”
Since the end of the war, Vietnamese field
workers have found all sorts of military debris:
boots, helmets, badges, buttons, medals and
dog tags.
Servicemen usually wore the tags — silver discs
that listed a soldier’s name, military identification
number and blood type — around their necks, but
in the field many put them in their boots so they r
wouldn’t jingle.
Stiff and Gain weren’t looking for war memen
tos when they traveled to Vietnam in January’.
T hey wanted to check the commercial climate for
possible business ventures. But in a market not
frequented by tourists, they found the dog tags
dangling from a string.
“It was really eerie and we were disgusted,” said
Stiff, 27.
Despite their revulsion, they left the tags there.
But back home in America, they could not escape
the memory.
“People asked, ‘What if diey’re lake?’ ” Stiffsaid.
“Well, our question was, ‘What if they’re real?’ ”
In May, they returned to Vietnam to buy all the
American dog tags they could find. It took days to
scour Ho Chi Minh City and sort through thou
sands of tags — some printed in Vietnamese, oth
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religious liberty in action.”
Religious freedom, he said, “is more than the right to believe in God’s love. It is the right to he
an instrument of God’s love. Such work is beyond the reach of government and beyond the role of
government.”
A small group of protesters jeered Bush’s remarks.
Some of the skepticism about Bush’s initiative stems from questions about whether tax dollars
would help pay for programs that mix religion with social services — for instance, a drug treatment
program that helps people overcome addiction by finding Jesus. Also at issue is to what extent gov
ernment-funded religious groups can consider applicants’ religion in deciding whether to hire them.
Before his speech at Independence Hall, Bush and his wife, Laura, went to the Greater Exodus
Baptist Church where the president played touch football with young people at an “urban block
party” for children and families who participate in mentoring programs run by various churches or
religious charities.
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giving him. And I guess, at
this part of his life, it’s some
thing he’d be reluctant to
give up.”
Montford, who was out of
town and could not he reached
for comment Tuesday, said in
the statement that he will make
no decision about his plans un
til after he leaves the universi
ty. He did not indicate whether
he would remain in Lubbock,
where he served as Lubbock
County district attorney for
eight years before becoming a
senator.
“This will be a tremendous
loss for Texas Tech and Lub
bock,” said Mayor Windy Sit-
ton. “In die five years ha’s been
here, he has exceeded people’s
expectations.”
Montford presided over a
system that includes the
24,000-student university and
the Texas Tech Health Sciences
Center, which operates satellite
campuses in Amarillo, El Paso
and Odessa.
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likely to vacate their plans.
“I don’t see the Navy doing anything that’s notsuppoi
the local community,” she said. “I don’t think they will foL
way into anywhere.”
Although the Navy has said it’s too early to comment:
proposed bombing plan, environmentalists and local
mounted a swift response. '
Hutchison’s reaction comes just a day after Kenedy Cl
commissioners voted unanimously against the plan.
Corpus Christi Mayor Loyd Neal, who has been worlaa
Navy officials as chairman of the South Texas Military'F
Task Force, said it is time to move on.
“You have to have respect for those most closely affectfl I
far as I’m concerned the people of Kenedy County baw#
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