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University Daily Kansan
Second Section
Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1986
Nurse finds Russians proud
By Sandra Crider Staff writer
Love of travel and an interest in international health took a member of the University of Kansas staff into the Soviet Union last November.
There, Barbara Gill learned not only about their medical technology but also about Russian pride, curiosity and isolation.
"The people that I got to talk and visit with were very hard-working and had a lot of pride in their country and in their work," she said Monday. "But there was also a sense of unhappiness, especially in the inability to travel."
Gill, a registered nurse and cardiovascular clinical specialist at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.. toured the Soviet Union as part of an education exchange program sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the Soviet Union's Ministry of Education.
She said she learned about the program through a professional journal and went through six months of screening before being selected.
Twenty physicians and nurses from the United States toured Moscow, Leningrad, Tbilii, Erevan and Baku. Out of the 20 members of the group, Gill was one of two chosen to present lectures to the Soviets.
Health & Science
After her visits to hospitals, clinical and research institutes and outpatient clinics, Gill said, she thinks Soviet medical care, although free, was far behind that of the United States.
"The facilities looked about 15 years behind ours. There was nothing high-tech," she said. "They were meeting the basic needs of the patients, but there was nothing disposable and their way of monitoring patients was a lot less advanced."
Gill, who is the heart transplant
team coordinator at the Med Center, said heart transplants were not performed in the Soviet Union but coronary bypasses, valve replacements and kidney transplants were.
The best of Soviet medical care is given to expectant mothers and their babies, she said. She said the pampered children seemed to be the country's only privileged class.
She said the Soviets were interested in learning more about people from the United States and they had many misconceptions about this country.
"Some of the misconceptions were that we had an extremely high crime rate, that there were only two social classes — the very rich and the very poor — and that we were, as a people, very nuclear aggressive," she said.
Although language was a barrier for Gill, who does not speak Russian, she said she did find Soviets who could speak English
Gill said that her most fascinating encounter was a long discussion with a young English teacher from Siberia.
MIAMI- Technological advances are changing global weather in ways scientists can't predict or understand, researchers said Monday at a meeting of the American Meteorological Society.
Weather on world changing
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John Dutton, head of Pennsylvania State University's department of meteorology, said, "Human activity has begun to affect the planet, producing global changes.
"What we're trying to do here is discover how the planet works, in order to avoid having an inadvertent experiment with the planet's future."
dioxide, have increased dramatically. Carbon dioxide levels, for example, have doubled since 1955, largely as a result of the burning of fossil fuel, researchers said.
Since the dawn of the industrial age, levels of several atmospheric gases, such as methane and carbon
Those gases have helped insulate the earth and raise the planet's temperature 2 to 4 degrees. This process is known as the greenhouse effect.
Ralph Cicerone, a scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said levels of dimethyl sulfide, which play a role in cloud formation, also have risen steadily and could increase the earth's cloud cover.
Scientists don't know whether increased cloud cover would enhance the greenhouse effect, making the
earth still warmer, or block the sun's rays, making the planet progressively colder.
— an interaction they said had traditiously been absent.
Scientists at the week-long meeting called for a merging of the various earth sciences - meteorology, oceanography, biology and ecology
John Eddy of the Boulder center said, "We are working on one big giant jigsaw puzzle of countless pieces. We've made great progress in understanding the individual pieces. Now it's time to concentrate on how the pieces work together. We are close to the creation of a new science."
Quality of environment surveyed
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decade, the group said Monday.
WASHINGTON — A National Wildlife Federation survey indicated that the majority of a sample of its readers saw no improvement in the environment in the last five years and expect none for the rest of the
In a survey published in the February-March issue of its National Wildlife magazine, the federation said many Americans thought that the quality of the environment was deteriorating.
pollution as the greatest threat to the environment, followed by air pollution, hazardous wastes, overpopulation, acid rain, soil erosion, nuclear power plants and pollutants in the home.
The organization based its conclusions on a poll of 1,500 of its readers.
Those questioned chose water
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