Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!byuvax!yoda!ldg From: ldg@yoda.byu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Screen Static Summary: Use a dryer sheet! Keywords: static, screen, prevent Message-ID: <65ldg@yoda.byu.edu> Date: 6 Mar 90 02:17:43 GMT References: <1990Mar5.171819.11458@athena.mit.edu> Reply-To: ldg@yoda.byu.edu (Lyle D. Gunderson) Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Lines: 28 In <1990Mar5.171819.11458@athena.mit.edu>, David I Resnick writes: >The screen on my Apple 13" color monitor serves as an excellent >dust collector. The only remedy listed in the manual is to >occasionally wipe the screen with a rag onto which some window >cleaner has been sprayed. Does anyone have a better solution? Would >buying one of those anti-glare screens block this problem, or would >the dust just accumulate on it too? You are not going to believe this. I remarked to my wife that the Mac SE at work (left on all the time) had been collecting dust very quickly, and needed to be wiped off daily. She remembered seeing something on one of the morning TV shows (the Home show?) about the problem, and gave me the solution: a used anti-static fabric softener sheet from the dryer!! It works! I used it once, a month ago, and there is NO dust on the screen. Not a speck. I have since tried it on several other CRTs, with the same result. Should work on your screen, too. What more could you ask for? It's free, it works, it's available anywhere laundry gets done. The brand I have, BTW, is Downy. It even smells nice. Lyle D. Gunderson N6KSZ CIS: 73760,2354 GEnie: L.GUNDERSON ldg@yoda.byu.edu "Any technology without some attendant risk 350 CB / BYU / Provo, UT 84602 of misuse is probably trivial" --Louise Kohl Relay-Version: Version 1.7 PSU-NETNEWS 5/20/88; site MAINE.BITNET Posting-Version: Version 1.7 PSU-NETNEWS 5/20/88; site MAINE.BITNET Path: cunyvm!maine.bitnet!greenman From: John Greenman Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: "CHINA RISING-The Meaning of Tienanmen" Message-ID: Date: Monday, 5 Mar 1990 22:39:19 EST I have just received a copy of a soon to be published book called CHINA RISING The Meaning of Tienanmen, by Lee Feigon, professor of Chinese history at Colby College, Waterville, ME. Publication date is set for May 4th, 1990. Publisher is Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1332 North Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60622-2632. (312-787-6262). The quote a press release on the book, "In blending his knowledge as a scholar of Chinese history with his on-the-scene experiences in China, Feigon has written a penetrating interpretation of events for the American reader--the first book on the Tienanmen rising which can clearly be called history, not journalism."..."Feigon uncovers the previously ignored connection between student organizers and high-level members of the Chinese Communist Party. These serious Marxist stalwarts who began the demonstrations differed from the younger "Woodstock generation" who dominated the media coverage and the protests in their later stages. Those students who sought an independent press, freer elections, and an end to bureaucraric corruption were shoved aside by more radical students and eventually by the party leadership." I have NOT read this book yet, but it comes highly recommended from an acquaintance who knows the author. Feigon has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Nation, Barron's, and the Chicago Tribune. He is director of the East Asian Studies program at Colby College, Waterville, Maine. The book will be 288 pages with maps and will cost $19.95 hardbound. Relay-Version: Version 1.7 PSU-NETNEWS 5/20/88; site MAINE.BITNET Posting-Version: Version 1.7 PSU-NETNEWS 5/20/88; site MAINE.BITNET Path: cunyvm!maine.bitnet!ia80024 From: Nicholas C. Hester Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Challenger Last Words Message-ID: Date: Monday, 5 Mar 1990 23:05:16 EST References: <23146@usc.edu> <610@ksr.UUCP> A few months back an engineer from Morton THiokol stated that he believed that the explosion of the Challenger was caused by premature detonation of the tank jettison charges, caused, he theorized, by static build up and discharge. Has this been followed up? ------- Nicholas C. Hester ia80024@Maine.Bitnet ia80024@Maine.Maine.edu