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VoLUME 51, NuMBER 24 , MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER Roc lovers invade emorial . By KAREN FOLLETT P·atrcia Horan's presentation on depleted uranium (DU). Horan, From May 27 to 30, Memorial _. a geochemist at Memorial, ex University's St. John's campus .· plained her findings of ·Du to was swampedwith geologists and delegates. This . session, which geoscientists who were participat- , was held on the last day of the · ing in the Geological Association conference, was important be ~:f: , .. ~ Jid:l4. .f.. of Canada/Mineralogical Asso- cause it concentrated on unique -n '"'"'rnn i--,..""""'•- ~:~~ n:~a "'~*- -_~.w.... ciation. of Canada (GAC/MAC) firidings and research here in r.:rm •·~"·Ill!' -t,W.'1J.·'l¥~ · .-·r.trn:· ;,.\\\~;~·•\... ~~"~--~~: Joint Annual.Meeting. Newfoundland and on campus at ·s·z:nr :: .. l~\1\i~·~\:· :~,..l,~':'''.. ~ 'Qrf'' •t)l'u.l:~( *f""•·.'l,;,:·' ·' Roughly 1050 delegates from all MUN. ·t1.1ff·. \t;fii-'i'. .t~~;\1 nm: f.;~ .ld<~~t over Canada and the world de- DU has been found to be linked "":"'or;!!!!!!!; ~- •.,,.¥ .. :·· "~ scended onto MUN for twenty with "Gulf War syndrome," after special sessions, eight general ses- testing was done on urine and sions and four symposia. bone samples of Britis4 and Ca- The decision on the location for . nadian Gulf War veterans. · the conference is tisuillly made As Horan said in her presenta- · three or four years prior to the tion, this research has been origi event, said Frank Blackwood, nal and unique to this university. chairman of the GAC, and is usu- Some of. the equipment that was ally held in larger cities, mostly on needed for the experiments and their university's campus.
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