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% Daily ®ar Mwl Duke Officials Seek Wetland Funding •Officials at Duke University say restoring Duke Forest's wetlands would help filter pollution from city streets. Associated Press DURHAM - Duke University is ask ing for nearly $600,000 in state funding to turn part of Duke Forest into the wet land it was a century ago and create an open-air water filter. The wetland would filter grease, oil, metals and other pollutants washed from Durham streets by storm water runoff, as well as sediment and nutrients. It would help keep those pollutants out of an underground stream 20 feet Oldest Known Shipwrecks Found by Explorer Associated Press 1 EL AVIV, Israel - Using the same techniques he used to locate die Titanic, explorer Bob Ballard said Wednesday that he has found the oldest known deepwater shipwrecks: a pair of wine laden ships dragged to the depths of the Mediterranean during a fierce storm more than 2,500 years ago. 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The stream, Sandy Creek, now pours those pollutants unchecked into New Hope Creek, sullying the Jordan Lake tributary with sediment and toxic sub stances. The project’s water-quality improve ment and environmental benefits could persuade the state-funded Clean Water Management Trust Fund to support restoring an eight-acre section of the for est near the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club, said Curt Richardson, a wet lands ecologist and director of the Duke University Wedand Center. “That stream’s not functioning any more the way it should be,” said Richardson, who would oversee the wet land’s creation. “When New Hope Creek comes into Durham it supports all overlooking the Mediterranean. “A lot of history books will be rewrit ten from what we are finding in the deep seas,” Ballard said. The contents of the ships indicate that they set sail from the Phoenician port of Tyre - now a city in Lebanon - about 750 B.C. Both vessels were transporting hundreds of amphorae, large ceramic containers filled with wine. Although the amphorae were found intact, the wine had seeped out and sand had filled them. The ships were headed either for of its functions and it’s considered a highly desirable stream. And then after Sandy Creek gets through feeding all of its sediment and nutrients and materials from all these parts of Durham and (New Hope Creek) leaves (Durham), it’s degraded. I think that’s just sad.” Duke’s interests in creating the wet land extend beyond its potential envi ronmental benefits. The site would also be a unique research resource for the university. Students at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment could study the wet land’s creation from start to finish, Richardson said. They then could con duct a host of studies on plant life, water fowl and other topics. The university’s grant proposal says the wetland center would provide Carthage - in modern-day Tunisia - or Egypt. The vessels are positioned upright about 1,500 feet deep on the ocean floor, about 30 miles off the shores of Israel. The route was not pre viously known as one used by Phoenician sailors. One ship is approximately 60 feet long, the largest pre-classical ship ever discovered, Ballard said. The smaller ship is located about two miles away and is 45 feet long. The ships are almost perfectly pre served -a result of the cold deep-sea News money for two graduate students to con duct research on sediment retention and water quality." That would enable Duke to verify in detail whether the wetland was performing its filtering function at the expected rate. “It would be sort of a model labora tory on wetlands, which really doesn’t exist anywhere in North Carolina,” Richardson said. Duke officials hope to hear by August whether the project will receive funding. David McNaught, the executive director of the Clean Water Management Trust Fund, said the orga nization has received 52 applications seeking a total of about S6O million. That’s about three times the maximum amount the trust is likely to award, McNaught said. waters and the relative absence of sedi ment at such depths. Stone anchors were found, as well as crockery, a wine decanter, and incense stands for offering prayers to weather gods. The ships probably went down in a violent storm and each likely carried a crew of six, said Lawrence Stager, an archeologist from Harvard University. The search was sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the United States Office of Naval Research and an Israeli archaeological institute. VideXN Briefs tI By Verna Kale Arts & Features Editor “Waking Ned Devine” If the banality of summer movies has already got you down, you might be able to find some respite with your VCR. “Waking Ned Devine” is out this month and offers refresh ment for those thirsting for a comedy with more to offer than bodily humor. Taking place in a small vil lage in Ireland, the story Hf Video Briefs “Waking Ned Devine” ffff “The Miracle" frrrr revolves around best friendsjackie (lan Bannon) and Michael (David Kelly). When Ned Devine wins 6,894,620 pounds in the lottery, he dies from the shock of it. Jackie and Michael decide to claim the money by pretending Michael is Ned. Such a ruse cannot remain a secret for long, and soon the whole town gets caught up in the madness. This film has humor with intelligence and heart, but do not fear, this movie is The Special Olympice are in town! Need Gaeh for the Gaines? ~ Participate in our life-saving & financially i rewarding plasma donation program. 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In the end a simple morality about friends remains, leaving the viewer with the feeling that maybe all is right in the world after all. “The Miracle” You will not find “The Miracle” at your local video store. The Neil Jordan film (“The Crying Game”), released in 1990 by Miramax, did not enjoy wide distribution. In fact, the only place you can find it around Chapel Hill is the Undergraduate Library. But its elusiveness only adds to the film’s appeal. In a small coastal town in Ireland, best friends Jimmy (Niall Byrne) and Rose (Lorraine Pilldngton) pass the time making up stories about people they observe. While discussing the imagined life of a beautiful American (Beverly D’Angelo), Jimmy develops a mysteri ous attraction to the sultry stranger. A different kind of love story ensues, one with a dark side rarely seen even in today’s most daring films. Jimmy’s obsessive love leads to ques tions which has answers that strike at the some of the most ancient of human experiences. This well-acted film about relation ships between family, friends, and lovers provides no easy solutions, but it does manage to portray the bittersweet in life in all its glory. The Arts & Features Editor can be reached at vee@email.unc.edu. 5
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