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ptually are, and how it all works.”
An important aspect of the show is the light
ing safety it teaches children.
arah Fowler, an A&M gradu-
te student in the architecture
epartment, is part of the group
orking on the visualization
ortion of the project.
“We hope that the people
oming to watch (the show)
get a general sense of light
ing safety — that’s our main
oncern,” Fowler said. “And
en they come away with a Id
le of how it works and why it’s
[angerous in some respects and
retty neat in others.”
People do not always realize
le dangers that are associated
ith lightning and storms,
rville said.
“Lightning kills about 100 people in the
Jnited States each year and injures between
and 500 people,” he said. “When lightning
hrikes the body, it sends the heart into fibrilla-
|onand the person will die in five to 10 minutes
■first aid is not administered immediately.”
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strikes the body, it sends
the heart into
fibrillation, and the
person will die in five to
ten minutes if first aid is
not administered
immediately
— Richard Orville
atmospheric sciences professor
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stargazers across North
\merica will watch the full
bon dim into a dark, ruddy orb
Saturday night as the moon
prifts through Earth’s shadow in
She latest celestial event this
pr to pull eyes skyward.
Astronomers who scruti-
hized Mars this summer during
ts closest approach to Earth in
1)0,000 years were more recent-
y awed by red and green aurora
Displays as far south as Florida
pnks to big explosions on the
jlin.
And now more heavenly hap
penings are on the way.
Saturday’s lunar eclipse will
be followed by the Leonid mete-
ot shower, a total solar eclipse
Director
over the southern hemisphere —
and a chance for more auroras if
the sun stays active. Another
eruption Tuesday on the sun
may rank among the most
intense solar events ever record
ed. But the explosion was aimed
away from Earth, meaning it
would have little impact here.
Still, the otherworldly event
the public has the best chance of
seeing is Saturday’s total eclipse
of the moon. At its peak, the
moon will hang eerily in the
night sky like a dark, reddish-
orange coal.
Unlike unpredictable comets
and meteors, the moon is a reli
able show, said Stephen Maran,
a spokesman for the American
Astronomical Society.
“Nowadays people who’ve
grown up in the city or suburbs
have never seen the Milky Way,
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\griculture, said many positive
Ganges have occurred during
filer’s term as dean.
“We’ve seen a lot of empha-
fsonmore basic sciences in the
ollege and more attention
jven to environmental issues,”
fazer said.
Hiler has also done a good
ob of promoting diversity,
fazer said.
About a year and a half ago,
he College of Agriculture was
he first college to place a
ecruiter in south Texas. This
esulted in more students, pre-
lominately Hispanic, coming to
' &M, Bazer said.
“He’s the kind of person that
hard not to like,” Bazer said.
He always has a smile on his
face.”
Upon his retirement, Hiler is
onsidering several professional
options, including possibly
eturning to the classroom to
each.
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However, no deal was cut that
might spare him from death
penalties in other jurisdictions.
Ridgway has not been charged
elsewhere, but admitted dumping
victims outside the county and in
Oregon.
The King County agreement,
signed June 13, puts more mur
ders on his record than any other
serial killer in U.S. history.
Since signing off on the deal,
Ridgway has worked with inves
tigators to recover still-missing
remains of some victims, one of
the most baffling and chilling
serial killer cases the nation has
ever seen.
The Green River Killer’s
murderous frenzy began in 1982,
targeting women in the Seattle
area, mainly runaways and pros
titutes. The first victims turned
up in the Green River, giving the
killer his name. Other bodies
were found near ravines, airports
and freeways.
The killing seemed to stop as
suddenly as it started, with prose
cutors believing the last victim
had disappeared in 1984. But one
Thursday, November 6, 2003
Orville said he hopes the planetarium show
will increase awareness of the dangers of light
ning and will help people know what to do if
they find themselves stuck in a lightning storm.
“(People viewing the show) will learn to rec
ognize when there is a light
ning danger,” he said. “They
will learn to pay attention to
warnings from the National
Weather Service and the local
television stations.”
A&M has a lightning warn
ing system on campus to alert
people when there is a high
possibility for lightning to
strike on or near the campus.
“When there is a high
lightning electric field at the
earth’s surface produced by a
nearby thunderstorm, the
warning system will sound,”
said Orville. “A high electric
field at the surface (of the
earth) frequently precedes a
lightning flash to ground.”
If a student hears the warning system sound
— a horn will blare for about 15 seconds — he
should stay away from trees, light poles or high
open areas, and seek shelter inside a building or
car.
but even in the most light-pol
luted place I’ve ever been —
downtown Los Angeles — you
can see the moon,” he said.
Weather cooperating, people
in the eastern United States will
witness the entire eclipse; it will
already be under way when the
moon rises around sunset in the
West.
The eclipse reaches totality
at 8:06 p.m. EST. That stage —
when the moon, Earth and sun
are lined up precisely and the
moon passes through the darkest
part of Earth’s shadow — lasts
just 24 minutes.
The eclipse can also be seen
in South America, Europe and
Africa. The last eclipse of the
moon visible from North
America was on May 15, but
much of the United States was
cloudy.
of the killings Ridgway admitted
to occurred in 1990 and another
in 1998.
In court Wednesday, Ridgway
entered the 48 guilty pleas, one
by one.
He said in his statement that
he killed all the women in King
County, mostly near his home or
in his truck not far from where
he picked them up. He said he
enjoyed driving by the sites
afterward, thinking about what
he had done.
“In most cases, when I killed
these women, I did not know their
names,” Ridgway said in the
statement. “Most of the time I
killed them the first time I met
them, and I do not have a good
memory of their faces.”
He said he had several reasons
for preying on prostitutes.
“I hate most prostitutes and I
did not want to pay them for sex,”
he said. “I also picked prostitutes
as victims because they were easy
to pick up without being noticed.
I knew they would not be report
ed missing right away and might
never be reported missing. I
picked prostitutes because I
thought I could kill as many of
them as I wanted without getting
caught.”
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