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NDP WOOD- ADDICTS All the News That's Fit mal UNBORN TV | NDP WOOD- ADDICTS | DUNN SNAFU Babies can become addicted to theirmother’s | The High Court declared in May that Senator favourite soap opera in the womb and are | Robert Wood (see interview in Issue 4) was calmed after birth by the same theme music, | ineligible to be a Senator due to the facthe was according to British medical journal Lancet. | a Britsh citizen when elected. Many in the Dr Peter Hepper, a psychologist at | Nuclear Disarmament Party thought that Irina a ura Queen's University, Belfast, tested the babies | Dunn - who beat Elaine Nile in a recount, of seven mothers who regularly watched the | deciding the result of Robert Wood's seat - ( F l series Neighbours. He played the soap’stheme | would pass the position back to Wood. Her as ue music to babies four to five days after birth | decision not to has fueled some discontent. along with eight other babies who's mothers “She has never been prepared to let the didn’t watch the series. Six out of the seven | party decide what should happen with the Natural gas may be used to fuel your car F ‘Neighbours’ babies stopped cryi the ” Mr Wood clai in July. under a new Swiss scheme being trialled by a pan = ee ee 4 : music was played; only two of eight in the Sen. Dunn said that “Anybody would be “a cs bee ae control group stopped crying. disappointed to lose a Senate position, but a ee eeccenee 1D The six babies adopted a “quite alertstate” | what’s most important to the 287,000 voters their home gas supply or gas stations using the system, designed by Sulzer Bros. Ltd. Car conversion costs are estimated at about $1,300; but 60 Iltres of gas costs under $3 - about one-tenth the price of petrol. Because of extra gas burned to achieve the same power, gas is about one-quarter the price of petrol. AGL claims running costs will be slashed h by more than half, because gas bums cleaner a iS I ay S e a r Cc than petrol and causes no emission problems. The trade-off is a 10-15% reduction in engine as the theme tune started, said to Dr Hepper. | are issues like Lucas Heights and the lack of a “Mothers addicted to these programs re- | port safety plan for nuclear warship visits in port settling down with acup of tea and feetup | Sydney Harbour.” to watch them, so they may be said to be Mr Wood said he was now open for any relaxed,” he said. “The foetus may become | job offers. conditioned to the tune.” power and reduced range on a tank. AGL plans to lease small compressors to = consumers which pump the gas from the home = supply into the car; it would take about9 hours £ to fill a 60-litre tank. Larger commercial 2 compressors can fill a tank in 3 minutes. Like $ LPG, converted cars could be ‘dual-fuel’ and 2 immediately switch back to petrol if required. 5 This schemeis a great first step to weaning ourselves and the world off fossil fuels. ° ° ° Oils Burn in Africa a Laboratory rats, like the extra-dimensional Thrower worked for months on unravelling Midnight Oit’s recent Diese! and Dust LP | mice of The Hitchhiker's Guide tothe Galaxy, _ the secret of the rats’ bowel movements and and Beds Are Burning single topped the South | may have had the last laugh.CSIRO research _ contacted a Czech scientist who had noted the African charts earlier this year. into rat behaviour has shown that rats are far same thing in the 1950s. The band, led by musician and proto-poli- | more sensitive to what happens around them The rats are too frightened by the students lician Peter Garrett, have donated South Afri- | than scientists believed - and laboratory rats during the week to have a “decent feed and a can profits from the records to the African | behave differently whenthey'rebeing studied crap,” Mr Thrower said. On weekends they National Congress and the Federated Union | than when the are not! eat, urinate and defacate less because they’re of Black Artists. In the first three months the Subtle stimuli such asthe amountofnoise calmer. album sold 60,000 copies. or movement in a laboratory alter rat behavi- “We might find that people have meas- “It’s ironic that the profits are coming | our and metabolism and ruin the conclusions __ ured and published findings that are ascribed from a wide spectrum of South African soci- | of many studies using rats and other animals. _to factors that don’t exist because of these ety,” said Mr Marco Boni, the South African CSIRO researchers at the Hobart Fisher- _ other factors,” he said. Vice-Consul in Sydney. “I’m sure if they | ies Research Station noticed that their rats “Tn a way, it looks (like) the humans are knew where the money was going they | were defecating far less on weekends than _ the ones being duped by the rats.” wouldn't be so keen to buy the records.” weekdays. Dr June Olley and Stephen (see graph) Spring 1988 ==, UNBORN TV | NDP WOOD. wa| ADDICTS | DUNN SNAFU Babies can become addicted to theirmother’s | The High Court declared in May that Senator favourite soap opera in the womb and are | Robert Wood (see interview in Issue 4) was calmed after birth by the same theme music, | ineligible to be a Senator due to the facthe was according to British medical journal Lancet. | a Britsh citizen when elected. Many in the Dr Peter Hepper, a psychologist at | Nuclear Disarmament Party thought that Irina a ura Queen's University, Belfast, tested the babies | Dunn - who beat Elaine Nile in a recount, of seven mothers who regularly watched the | deciding the result of Robert Wood's seat - ( F l series Neighbours. He played the soap’stheme | would pass the position back to Wood. Her as ue music to babies four to five days after birth | decision not to has fueled some discontent. along with eight other babies who's mothers “She has never been prepared to let the didn’t watch the series. Six out of the seven | party decide what should happen with the Natural gas may be used to fuel your car F ‘Neighbours’ babies stopped cryi the ”’ Mr Wood clai in July. cndel Wha SRIEL achat eimgltnlaned ty | eetbauaabebies stepper caging ghentte | sent, pods eae aaaly 4 i. music was played; only two of eight in the Sen. Dunn said that “Anybody would be “a cs bee ae control group stopped crying. disappointed to lose a Senate position, but gperaa is Canoge (ie Converse’ cate to The six babies adopted a “quite alertstate” | what’s most important to the 287,000 voters their home gas supply or gas stations using the system, designed by Sulzer Bros. Ltd. Car conversion costs are estimated at about $1,300; but 60 Iltres of gas costs under $3 - about one-tenth the price of petrol. Because of extra gas burned to achieve the same power, gas is about one-quarter the price of petrol. AGL claims running costs will be slashed h by more than half, because gas bums cleaner a S I ay S e ar Cc than petrol and causes no emission problems. The trade-off is a 10-15% reduction in engine as the theme tune started, said to Dr Hepper. are issues like Lucas Heights and the lack of a “Mothers addicted to these programs re- | port safety plan for nuclear warship visits in port settling down with acup of tea and feetup | Sydney Harbour.” to watch them, so they may be said to be Mr Wood said he was now open for any relaxed,” he said. “The foetus may become | job offers. conditioned to the tune.” power and reduced range on a tank. AGL plans to lease small compressors to = consumers which pump the gas from the home = supply into the car; it would take about9 hours £ to fill a 60-litre tank. Larger commercial 2 compressors can fill a tank in 3 minutes. Like $ LPG, converted cars could be ‘dual-fuel’ and 2 immediately switch back to petrol if required. 5 This scheme is a great first step to weaning ourselves and the world off fossil fuels. . ° e Oils Burn in Africa a Laboratory rats, like the extra-dimensional Thrower worked for months on unravelling Midnight Oit’s recent Diese! and Dust LP | mice of The Hitchhiker's Guide tothe Galaxy, _ the secret of the rats’ bowel movements and and Beds Are Burning single topped the South | may have had the last laugh.CSIRO research _ contacted a Czech scientist who had noted the African charts earlier this year. into rat behaviour has shown that rats are far same thing in the 1950s. The band, led by musician and proto-poli- | more sensitive to what happens around them The rats are too frightened by the students lician Peter Garrett, have donated South Afri- | than scientists believed - and laboratory rats during the week to have a “decent feed and a can profits from the records to the African | behave differently whenthey're being studied crap,” Mr Thrower said. On weekends they National Congress and the Federated Union | than when the are not! eat, urinate and defacate less because they’re of Black Artists. In the first three months the Subtle stimuli such asthe amountofnoise calmer. album sold 60,000 copies. or movement in a laboratory alter rat behavi- “We might find that people have meas- “It’s ironic that the profits are coming | our and metabolism and ruin the conclusions __ ured and published findings that are ascribed from a wide spectrum of South African soci- | of many studies using rats and other animals. _to factors that don’t exist because of these ety,” said Mr Marco Boni, the South African CSIRO researchers at the Hobart Fisher- _ other factors,” he said. Vice-Consul in Sydney. “I’m sure if they | ies Research Station noticed that their rats “Tn a way, it looks (like) the humans are knew where the money was going they | were defecating far less on weekends than _ the ones being duped by the rats.” wouldn't be so keen to buy the records.” weekdays. Dr June Olley and Stephen (see graph) S New Times Six - Spring 1988 Natural Gas Fuel 20 Sturt Krygsman Thrower worked for months on unravelling the secret of the rats’ bowel movements and contacted a Czech scientist who had noted the same thing in the 1950s. The rats are too frightened by the students during the week to have a “decent feed and a crap,” Mr Thrower said. On weekends they eat, urinate and defacate less because they’re calmer. “We might find that people have meas- ured and published findings that are ascribed to factors that don’t exist because of these other factors,” he said. “In a way, it looks (like) the humans are the ones being duped by the rats.” (see graph)