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Page 16- PI.AINDKALKR-HKKALD, W.KDNKSDAV >1.4* 8.1985 Nation/World Trickster contributes Space crystals mark mission's success his magic to therapy By Dennis O'Shea United Press International A master magician, revealing the secrets behind his legerde­ main? He'd sooner spend the rest of his days trying to escape from a straitjacket and chains while dangling by a thread over a" bot­ tomless chasm. In other words, it just isn't done,. And, of course,HtTt just isn't done, David Copperfield is just tne magician to do it. He may get thrown out of the conjurers' guild for this, but Cop­ perfield -- the latterday Merlin and showbiz wiz who made the Statue of Liberty disappear on na­ tional TV -- opens up his bag of tricks any time the right person wants to peek inside. The "right"' person is a patient in rehabilitation and occupational therapy programs in the United States and abroad that have join­ ed Copperfield's "Project Magic." The project, founded in 1982, matches amateur and profes­ sional magicians with therapists in local hospitals to teach the art of astonishment to the disabled. Its inspiration, Copperfield said, was an aspiring magician wifh whom he corresponded several years ago. In one of his letters, the young illusionist included a newspaper clipping picturing him in a wheelchair. "He had never mentioned that to me before," Copperfield said. "He had just written letters say­ ing he was a magician. "He had such an incredible selfimage that he never thought of himself as disabled. He just thought of himself as a magi­ cian." That so impressed Copperfield that he went to doctors at, Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in In- glewood, Calif., where he met oc­ cupational therapist Julie De- Jean. She began using his illusions with some; of her patients and fouruj, they -- literally and figuratively -- worked like magic. Eventually, they put together a manual that includes tricks -- some simple, some more complex -- that can be performed by paralysis victims, arthritics, and patients with various physical, psycho-social and learning disabilities. Now, they estimate, "Project Magic" teams are at work in 500 programs in 18 countries. The manipulations involved in more than two dozen illusions recommended by Copperfield and DeJean can help some patients improve their physical dexterity, but the primary therapy is for the mind. 0 "Magic is a different kind of (therapeutic) activity," DeJean said. "You're doing something that involves a lot of people around you. It's socializing." By AlRossiter Jr. UPI science editor CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Challenger's astronauts proudly displayed a ' space-grown red crystal the size of a sugar cube, then packed up Sunday for this week's descent to California from a weeklong mission called an "outstanding success." NASA said the flight's scientific "yield had produced enough data to fill 50,000 200-page books and astronaut Bill Thornton said one crystal grown in the orbiting lab may be worth "more than three dozen diamonds." "The mission has been an outstanding success in all regards," mission scientist Geofge Fichtl said. The results already were being analyzed, and one suprise appears to be the discovery of new molecules iri the sun. Fichtl said. He said details would be announc­ ed later.. Commander Robert Overmyer and co-pilot Fred Gregory are scheduled to fire the shuttle's twin •braking rocket^ over the,Indian Ocean at 11:04 a.m. EDTand glide to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert of Califor- nia 1 hour, 6 minutes later. Forecasters said the weather at Edwards was expected to be exp­ edient and1 the Air Force opened the sprawling base to spectators. It will be the first California shut­ tle landing in more than eight months. After a week in orbit, the seven- man crew was looking forward to some of the amenities of life on Earth. "When we arrive at Eddy, a "beer of course would be nice." Gregory said. "But I think all of us want an ice cream with chocolate and strawberries on it. Mission scientists Thornton, Don Lind, Norman Thagard, Lodewijk van den Berg and Taylor Wang got in some extra, unplanned research with some of the experiments because of time freed by the launch of a tiny satellite last Monday instead of Sunday as originally planned. Thornton checked the two monkeys in the cages in the Spacelab module and said the astronauts will be bringing "a couple back that are even friendlier thajrthjey were to begin with." . "Those pffmates are part of the crew now,"he said. The monkeys and 24 rats aboard will be flown to Cape Canaveral after landing where the rodents will be killed for examination. The monkeys will not be harmed. Lind displayed one of the pro­ ducts of the missipn to a television camera by holding up a glass am-8 poule containing a six-sided crystal of mercuric iodide grown ^during the past four days in a • special furnance in the Spacelab module. ^We have managed to grow what really appears to be as far as I am concerned a really excellent crystal," Lind said. "Notice the symmetry of the whole thing. The , color is very accurate. That's what we've been dofffg up here in space today." Lind th^p packed the crystal and its container in a drawer in the side of Spacelab. Continental hiker seeks the good By Greg Henderson United Press International WASHINGTON - Standing out­ side the White House gate in her gray running shoes, 54-year-old Elena Hanuse looks more like a middle-aged Mary Lou Retton waiting to meet the President than a woman who just walked across the continent. "Many people expect at least somebody haggard and worn out Or somebody who )r sombody who is \ays. *At least I leeping under from the road^ is weathered. gaunt," she should be bridges." Just 300 miles from New York City and her goal of becoming the first woman to walk from coast to coast, Hanuse talks of the misconceptions that have followed her over 15 months and 3,600 miles. She likes best the story of Bran­ don, her 6-year-old grandson. Recently, while presenting a postcard to his first-grade San Francisco class, he announced: '"This is from my grandma," she explains, laughing. "She's out walking the streets.' "As I walked I heard so many horror stories from joggers, and I've had so many people warn me about all the bad and awful things out there and to be careful. Sure, they exist," she says, pausing. "But do you know how much good is out there and how eager people are to hear something good? " Terms like "goodness", "human potential", and "op­ timism", infiltrate a conversation with Elena. Early in the walk one watcher termed it "a walk on the positive side." Her book will take that title. Elena would draw little atten­ tion if not for 93 pounds of rust- colored musdd\at her right side. "A lot of people are intimidated by Bucky just because he's a Dober- man," she says. "If Bucky has a mean bone, I don't know where it is." Bucky has shadowed nearly every one of Elena's estimated 9,240,000 steps since she crossed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge on Jan. 4,1984. He was beside Elena down the California coast to the San Joachin Valley, crossed the snow- peaked Sierra Nevada, and ascended Death Valley, despite encounters with a 100-mph sand­ storm and a sidewinder rat­ tlesnake. "He put his nose down the wrong hole," Elena says. 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