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through fence into street slo
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A
parked jetliner waiting for
maintenance began rolling
and smashed through an air
port fence Wednesday, com
ing to a stop with its nose
blocking a side street.
“It was parked overnight
outside a hanger for mainte
nance. Somehow it moved.
They don’t know how. No one
was on it. It’s under investiga
tion,” Los Angeles International
Airport spokesperson Harold
Johnson said. It wasn't being
towed or moved, he said.
Investigators were trying to
determine if the American
Airlines 767’s parking brake
was properly set, Johnson said.
He did not know who parked
the jet or if the small blocks
normally put next to airplane
wheels to keep the plane from
moving had been used.
There were no injuries, and
airport operations were not
affected, he said. But the
plane cut a telephone line.
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“An investigation is under
way as to how the aircraft man
aged to move on its own,"
American Airlines said in a
statement issued from its Fort
Worth, Texas, office.
Airport spokesperson Nancy
Castles said one of the plane’s
engines was scratched, so the
Federal Aviation Administration
will have to ensure it is flight
worthy. That was the only
apparent damage to the aircraft.
FAA spokesman Jerry
Snyder said investigators were
looking into the aircraft’s
maintenance procedure!
The accident wasrepon
8:50 a.m. along Work
West, a little-used road
the western edge of the
used primarily by k
employees. The jet tra:
only about 60 feet, bum
enough to get the nose
feet into the street ant
power lines, officials said
Power was shut down a
era I nearby buildings and:
lights so the jet could
removed. The plane was
towed to the maintenance Ie
Drug could help build muse
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a couch potato’s
dream: Instead of sweating and straining, people
someday may simply pop a pill to get in shape,
say researchers who have identified how muscle
cells get stronger from regular exercise.
Researchers at Duke University and the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
have found the chemical pathway that muscle
cells use to build up their strength and endurance.
With this basic knowledge in hand, it may
now be possible to develop a pill that pumps up
muscle cells without all that exercise, said Dr. R.
Sanders Williams, dean of the Duke University
School of Medicine.
“That may be one of the
possibilities,” said Williams.
But, as a physician,
Williams said the main target
of the research is to help peo
ple with heart disease or other
conditions that keep them
from doing enough exercise to
remain healthy.
“This could lead to drugs
that will let people get the
health benefits of regular
exercise, even if they cannot
exercise,” said Williams. This
could improve the health of
u
This could lead to
drugs that will let
people get the health
benefits of regular
exercise, even if they
cannot exercise.
Dr. R. Sanders Williams
Duke University
School of Medicine
patients with heart or lung disease, or lower the
risk of diabetes II, for instance.
“It is possible it could become a drug of
abuse because it would enhance the performance
of athletes,” he said.
In the study. Williams and his colleague!
ated a group of mice with genes
expressed a signaling protein called calmodi
dependent protein kinase, or CaMK. When
signaling protein is activated, it and another
tein, calcineurin, trigger the physical
that muscle cells undergo after intenseexerci!
Williams said that mice with a high level
CaMK expression developed more mitochone
in muscle cells and saw an increase of a t)
cell called the “slow twitch” muscle. These
muscle cells that power sustained activity
as required by marathon runners.
The researchers found
mice with high levels of Cal!
developed the same healthy
cle cells as mice that did exero
“The effect increases morr
the slow twitch muscles, buJ
also increases the number
mitochondia in the fast
muscle cells,” he said. That
very similar to what happens
very intense training.
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inside a cell that provideenerg
metabolizing oxygen and nutntt
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produce more work over a ®-
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it should made the development easier.
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Passenger held for
self-heating shoes
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man
was detained briefly Wednesday at
the San Francisco airport after
batteries and wires were spotted
in his shoes.
The shoes were blown up by
police, even after it was determined
they were not dangerous and con
tained no explosives. The shoes
apparently were designed to heat up
and keep the wearer’s feet warm,
said airport spokesperson Ron Wilson.
The man had arrived as part of a
tour from Shanghai to New York.
The suspicious shoes were spotted
in his carry-on luggage as he tried
to pass through a gate in an
United Airlines terminal to catch a
connecting flight, Wilson said.
Wilson said the man sp f. v
English and could not exp |ai ,
the shoes were for or how
connect the batteries.
Police took the shoes to a ■
ed area to examine them,
Wilson said a P relimma L
ground check of the ^
up nothing suspicious,
name was not released
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