Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1990 pages 1320 Chuck features editor museums bats exhibit sex comedian find jokes in Tempo suicide excites to types by Michael Matza Knight Ridder newspapers the Story broke with the Dawn eight Days Boston awoke to the news that the body of Charles Stuart had been fished from icy water beneath the Tobin the 30yearold who riveted the nation with his tale of an october assault that wounded him and killed his pregnant wife plunged to his death from a height of 300 then of twists word leaked out that Stuart was the chief suspect in the murder and that his younger May have been ultimate villain barely had the ultimate Vic Tim been recast As the ultimate villain when Hollywood came Boston officials and lawyers have been besieged by those looking to turn tragedy into theatrical and publishing reporters for the Boston Globe and the new York times have been approached by Book publishers in search of an publishing houses in new York and Boston have received at least 10 Book pro so no publishing heavy weight has weighed last Joe an experienced True crime told a gathering of to writers in los Angeles that he was not eager to return to the in the Stuart so i dont see any Good said the author of fatal i who is there to Root for movie types within Days of the the prosecutors office had logged a dozen Calls from movie types in los Angeles and new in an apparent preemptive lbs announced plans to turn the sensational Case into a to drama based on a lbs Crew from the weekly series Rescue 911 was coincidentally with the ambulance that responded to stuarts frantic earphone Call for help on the night of the which occurred after he and his had left a childbirth the couples child was delivered prematurely and died 17 Days Arnold executive producer of Rescue and producer for the Tel movie was not sure whether he would attempt to buy life Story rights from the two Princi pal people Are he and you dont need rights to Tell their entertainment by Malcolm Abrams and Harriet Bernstein of the Many decisions facing Young one of the most perplexing is the diaper dilemma cloth or Dis Posable cloth diapers Are cheaper and pose no Burden to the while pin free besides being infinitely More convenient to fit better a product called Didere snug May end the debate once and for they Are the Only for fitting and reusable cloth diapers patented in the United states that Are shaped like an hourglass with Elas tic around the Didere snug incorporate the pin free convenience of disposable diapers with the durability and financial savings of velcro instead of pins or plastic the diapers use velcro they Are designed to last for years Andare available in three Culley the president and founder of Vendor notes that the diapers have wide spread fathers who Are afraid of pins like the As do children in potty training who can participate themselves in the transition out of he besides being an ecological improvement Over Vel Cro cloth diapers dont take up As much shelf which should please the and with plastic diapers costing about a Consumers will be pleased to return to the old fashioned Price of cloth diapers Mere a Odds 100 per cent Eta 1991 Price same As regular cloth preg Aphone the preg Aphone is one of those wonderful ideas that started out As a joke and turned into a the device an oversized Stethoscope in Bright yellow with a mouthpiece at one end and a funnel at the other is used communicate with unborn Dawn a California Busi Ness gave it to a Friend As a Shower she now runs preg Aphone research has shown that at six months children hear and learn in the Hod son and according to a study conducted by California pre Natal specialist Rene Van de they not Only but Chil Dren who were spoken to in the womb scored significantly higher than other children in tests dealing with Early speech and use of com Pound there is also Evi Dence that the bonding Between child and Parent is stronger when there is prenatal says the preg Aphone is available at a number of maternity shops or directly from preg Aphone in Ven new equipment to ease Burden of raising kids future future Stum by Malcolm Abrams and Harriet looks at consumerism in the 21st offering a catalogue of fun and stimulating products that will Likely be available by the year Odds 100 per cent Eta 1990 Price infant Safe seat anyone Avo has Ever tried to restrain an Antsy toddler while heeding natures or sought a clean and quiet spot in a Public place to change a diaper will Welcome the it was Jacqueline now three years who inspired her parents Vincent and Marie and her Grandfather Stephen Rinaldi invent this changing it Carne Down to a matter of said when we went somewhere and i had to use the or even a dressing it was impossible to hold onto her and take care of my own likewise with finding a place to change i just got disgusted by the Lack of facilities for the solution was the bolted to a Wall in rest rooms or dressing room the compact unit has safety doors that fold out to make a full length changing table Complete with a safety strap for holding baby in place or they can be pulled up and snapped into place to form a seat equipped with safety a prototype has been shown to people at a health department clinic in new an Airport in Connecticut and a famous in Atlantic optimistic interest seems High and the Siani clan is they will soon begin to manufacture their patented product and make it available around the Odds 70 per cent Eta 1991 Price not available meals for kids Mary Anne Jackson came up with this idea while juggling motherhood with her career in the food As a manager in a major food corporation in Illinois she de voted sunday nights to preparing healthy meals that would be easy for a baby Sitter to serve to her when Jackson lost her Job she turned her sunday nights into a my own meals is her these nutritious meals Are the first to be packaged for Mas Market distribution with the Toto eight year old in the meals Are made without artificial Ingre mag or the food is vacuum sealed in a special air and moisture proof Pouch and cooked under sterilization is reached faster with the thin Pouch than with jars or the process seals in More of the natural color and nutritional value of the As Well As a firmer shelf stable the retort As it is renders the product shelf stable for As Long As a that Means no refrigeration is Neces be displayed next to the dry pasta in your Superman Jackson experimented with 25 different meals before she whittled her menu Down to after much consultation with her prospective Market kids the winners in clude my favorite my meat balls my Turkey meat my kind of Chicken and the meals should take away some of the guilt from parents who dont have time to because mothers have to remove the food from the Pouch and arrange it and put it on a they feel As if they Are serving a says Jack Odds 100 per cent Eta 1991 Price under tomorrow in Tempo future stuff for ears and Teeth new York times scientists seek to untangle mystery of rain forests by William Booth the Washington Post Barro Colorado Panama for scientists who want to unravel the mysteries of the tropical rain for this Island in the Middle of the Panama canal is an irresistible place of double dealing and in where animals pursue hid Den agendas and plants live Shady and often disingenuous in this dark and humid world populated by giant rodents and see through nothing is As it but just As researchers begin to tease apart the tangled plot of one of the greatest mysteries in the forests Are disappearing around sitting on the porch of their re search station at drinking cold panamanian Beer and watch ing the bats come the scientists at Barro Colorado Island can look across Gatun Lake and witness the deforestation creeping Down the once verdant a microcosm of what is happening throughout much even at Barro Colorado in the Middle of what ecologists con Sider a Garden of Eden for tropical the feeling is never far away that within a generation there Wash ton Post photo smithsonian botanist Kevin May be Little Forest left to the Only Likely exceptions would be protected reserves like Barro a world Centre for tropical studies located in the Middle of the Panama canal and operated by the smithsonian tropical research Hogan in unique rain Forest on Barro Colorado scientists have Learned that As the forests so does the Cli mate that favors their recent work in Brazil by Eneas Salati of the University of Sao Paulo has shown that As much As half of the water that Rains on the Amazon rain Forest comes from evaporation arising from the same new computer simulations just published by the United kingdom meteorological office indicate that if the Amazon forests were converted into cattle rainfall could decline As much As 20 per in Panama scientists have documented an unmistakable decrease in rain Over the last 50 in 1925 annual rainfall was almost 10 feet on Barro Colorado today it is about eight feet a a reduction researchers consider dra smithsonian scientist Donald Windsor and his Robert Stallard of the geological sur initially suspected the de creased rainfall was directly due to extreme deforestation in the Panama canal but Stallard speculated in de Cember that the trend May be an Early signal of something worse that global climate is perhaps As a result of the Green House but change May not be new to the far from being consistently Pristine they now appear to have been subject to enormous sifting through the tiny i Cro fossils of pollen grains and Plant remains found at the Bottom of smithsonian Pale botanist Dolores Piperno and colleagues have shown that the effects of the last ice age some years ago had a profound Impact on the Tropi Cal where climate May have been nine degrees cooler and much Piperno said she believes prehistoric people also substantially altered the face of the a Leo indians who crossed Over the siberian land Bridge and moved into South America hunted the mastodons and giant ground sloths that once roamed the they May have even caused the animals today Only smaller mammals re main in the on Barro Colo they survive because game wardens patrol keeping poachers at x Large troops of howler and spider monkeys still crash through the Forest a still largely unexplored place where bizarre animals and parasitic and symbiotic plants spend their there Are also Large populations of agouti and Pacas on the these huge rodents can reach 22 the Pacas Are asocial and carry Sharp incisors that they use to disembowel other when they growl like smithsonian Mamm Logist Nicholas Sra the has launched a project to tame Pacas and imprint social behaviour on the Young so they can be raised together in cages for ;