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The Gizeh 5th Street Public Market • Eugene • 342-6107 Clinton may allow marijuana tests WASHINGTON (AP) — Th«. Clinton administration decid ed Monday not to lift a bon on medicinal marijuana, but said NATIONAL it may allow privately funded experiment* to try to conclude whether the illegal drug has any real health bene fits rhe Public Health Service made the announc e ment in letters to members of Congress who had urged the administration to overturn former Presi dent Hush's twin on medicinal marijuana "Sound m lontific studies supporting these claims are lac king despite anecdotal claims that smoked manjunna is beneficial." wrote Assistant Health Secretary Philip Lee " this is a bureaucracy that is too dumb to figure out whether a wood could help AIDS patients sur vive. ' responded Roliert Kandall, the first person to legally ns eive medicinal marijuana under a gov ernment program Starting in J97H, certain patients who didn't find relief in traditional medications could apply to the Food and Drug Administration for permission to use marijuana. The FDA allowed medic mal marijuana to: ease nausea and loss ol appetite caused by c,nicer and AIDS treatments erase must !«• spasms for people with spinal cord injuries or multiple sclerosis, and alleviate the eye pressure that blinds glaucoma suf ferers such ns Randall Some studies showed marijuana helped those diseases, but others disagreed Hush in 1992 banned the medical testing or use of marijuana, saving it could harm patients who had safer alternatives The 15 people then receiving the drug were allowed to continue: eight nr*) still alive After patients' outcry. Clinton officials in Janu ary began reviewing the ban. In Monday's letter to Rep. Den Hamburg. D-Calif, the administration concluded there am legal dmgs to help all the dis eases marijuana advocates fear, and that marijuana studies aren't scientifically sound The Drug Policy Foundation of Washington al ready is discussing such trials, said president Ar nold Trebach. "But while that is being settled — and it could take a while — there is no reason in the world to say to a patient who is suffering from AIDS or earn er that you cannot try this drug." "Our people tell us these other medic ines make them very sick, said Meg Ryan O'Donnell, spokes woman for Hamburg who. along with seven other lawmakers, had pushed to restart the marijuana pro gram "But this is it for us. there's nothing else we can do." Comet fragments begin bombardment GREENBSLT.Md (AIM-The first (omul fragments struck Jupiter Monday with an explo sion Mvara) times more power ful than all of the world's nuclear weapons. l«-*iv»»x blac k scars the suet! of the earth. A Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet fragment called C. slammed into the gas hag-like planet arid set off a fi retaill that was briefly brighter in some wavelengths than the whole planet Some observing instruments watc hing from 480 million miles away were momen tarily blinded. Fragment C was followed by an equally large fragment 11 At least two more of the ill frag ments of Shoemaker-l.evy 9 are of similar size By Monday after noon, nine fragments had smashed into Jupiter sine e the bombardment started on Satur day The last fragment is e\|H*c t ed to hit the planet Friday Beginning Wednesday, three fragments will slam Into the plan et's upper atmosphere at aliocil the same spot over a 20-hour period. "You'll have three — boom, boom. boom,” said Heidi Ham med of the Spac e Telescope Sci ence Institute on Monday. "You are going to have one heck of a mess " The first of the three fragments, (J. is expected to hit just tmfore 4 a m. EUT on Wednesday. H fol lows 10 hours later and S will he 10 hours after that. Jupiter's rota tion is 10 hours, whic h means the fragments will hit nt nearly the same spot on the planet. Comet fragment G, the largest in the comet train, hit the planet early Monday with the biggest explosion vet — estimated at the energy equivalent of 6 million megatons Later, n Hubble Space Tele scope image showed that G's explosion created an almost per fect circle, centered with a dark spot and then shaded with a bruise-like edge "So there is now a black eye on Jupiter,” Hammel said She said the eye portion of the scar is HU percent of the size of Earth, and the bruise area goes far beyond. If fragment l. had bit Earth, said Eugene Shoemaker, a U S Geological Survey scientist and l.O-dist overer of the ( omet, "the i rater would pretty well have covered all of Rhode Island ." "It would also blanket the Earth with a fine layer of dust that would blacken tile sun," he said. Nonetheless, Shoemaker said the impact from a G-sized frag menl would not be as damaging as the asteroid that hit the Earth 65 million years ago and killed much of the planet's life Pulled by Jupiter's immense gravity, the comet fragments strike the top of the planet's atmosphere traveling nt about 130,000 miles an hour. The pier es. dew ribed by Shoemak er as "icy mud I wills," send pow erful shock waves through Jupiter’s atmosphere, creating instant heat that may reach 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A bubble of superheated gas then rebounds upward, creating the firelmll detected by telescopes on Earth. "The energy released is beyond any of our experiences on Earth." said I.ucy McFadden. a Univer sity of Maryland astronomer. Views from the Hubble Space Telescope and from observato ries on Earth show a path of black w ars across the southern face of Jupiter, which could last for many days. Large black clouds have formed and spread at each impact point. Although it is 11 times Earth's diameter, most of Jupiter’s sphere is hydrogen The gas gets denser and denser with depth, and a sol id core is thought to he at the cen ter. Shoemaker said fragment G may have punched up to 36 miles into Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. At that point, the pressure from the shock wave becomes so great that the frag ment is crushed and stopped. This is followed immediately by the fireball. All of the comets are hitting the backside of Jupiter, as viewed from Earth, but the fireballs rise so high that the Hubble is able to spot the cloud poking above the horizon. Also, Jupiter rotates once every 10 hours, so the impact sites quickly move into view Emerald Valley Kitchen EUGENE. OREGON TOMATOES Cooking with a Social Conscience « "✓V "'- ", *•- Hpnggj and Ecology Projects £Lj*C—^^ ^ ^ ^ .-r- ^r< ,—* /V- ^ 4 ✓*" TMI INTRODUCING! Creamy ®roc-©le Dip Guacamole Alternative