NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 20, 1983
Page 9
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VATICAN CITY — John Jackson, a Colorado University physics professor, presents Pope John Paul II with a three-dimensional statue of the body that may have been covered by the Shroud of Turin, the ancient linen that some Christians call Christ's burial cloth.
Scientist uses computer to make statue of Christ
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VATICAN CITY — An American scientist who took computer measurements of the Shroud of Turin gave Pope John Paul II a fiberglass statue yesterday that may be an exact likeness of Jesus Christ.
John Jackson, a University of Colorado physics professor, studied the shroud along with 39 other scientists in 1978. He used the computer measurements to produce an exact three-dimensional replica of the image on the shroud, a strip of linen many Christians believe was Christ's actual burial cloth.
JACKSON, 37, presented the statute to the pope during John Paul's weekly appearance in St. Peter's Square.
Jackson's work shows a man with an elongated face, a beard, mustache and shoulder-length hair an image similar to depictions of the body. As on the shroud image, the statue's hands are crossed just above the pelvic area.
"It's all mathematical logic," Jackson said of his computer methods in producing the statue. "The construction of that statue is not the imagination of a sculptor. It's objective, hard mathematical rigor that forms that image."
The shroud contains the image of a man who apparently suffered the same wounds the Bible says Christ suffered when he was scourged and crucified.
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Doctors say genetics aided Goliath's death
The disease also causes tumors of the pancreas and that could lead to low blood sugar / which would weaken a person.
THE RABINS POSTULATED that Goliath suffered from multiple endocrine neoplasia, a hereditary tumor in endocrine glands.
"He also came from Canaan and the Scriptes say that Joshua reported a tribe of giants lived there. That could have been his family since the disorder is hereditary," she said.
The Rabins said the disease causes tumors in the pituitary gland and pressure from such a tumor may have cut down Goliath's vision, not allowing him to take much heed of David.
In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a husband-and-wife team from Vanderbilt University in Nashville theorized that Goliat may have suffered a rare disorder that causes tumors to grow into the endocrine glands while help regulate the body's growth and functions.
"It's possible that on the morning of the contest, Goliath was in a weakened state," Mrs. Rabin said.
"It would explain why Goliath was so large, why he couldn't really see David and why he was felled by a small rock from a slingshot," said psychiatrist Pauline Rabin who formulated the theory with her endocrinologist husband, David Rabin.
BOSTON — David of Biblical fame may have killed Goliath because the Philistine suffered a rare growth disorder that made him a giant, but also allowed a pebble from the youth's slingshot to penetrate his brain, doctors said Wednesday.
"In the disorder, the body produces extra growth hormone and
BUT THE COUPLE said in the end it may have been a cyst caused by the disease on Goliath's forehead that may have done him in.
"The Scriptures that David took a little stone from a river / and I take that an pebble / and I take the forehead, "Mrs. Rabin said.
that would account for Goliath's giant height," Mrs. Rabin said. The Bible said he stood 6 cubits and that's what's the equivalent of 9-foot tall.
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WASHINGTON — Income and spending among Americans grew more strongly in September than they had since May, setting the stage for an unexpectedly vigorous finish for the 1983 economy, the government said yesterday.
But the improvement missed the bettlerwether housing industry, where housing starts plunged 13.5 percent in September, government figures showed. It was the biggest decline since the start of the recession in May 1981.
The slowdown took the annual rate of housing starts to 1.652 million units for September, the lowest level of production since April. Both government and industry have set gage interest rates for the precautions taken by builders who saw their
projects begin to outrun sales as early as June.
PERSONAL INCOME ROSE a healthy 0.9 percent last month and spending jumped 1.5 percent, the most growth for both pillars of the recovery in five months, the Commerce Department said.
The report, which also revised upward consumer spending for both July and August, provided one of the last remaining ingredients necessary for the most important economic indicator — Thursday's quarterly measurement of U.S. gross national product.
In light of a second-quarter growth that set a five-year GNP record at a 9.7 percent annual rate, the third quarter might be too behind, analysts said.
The result is a stubborn momentum for the recovery that could make the system unstable.
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