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\"Be the Dinosaur\" has several video game simulations, where visitors can \"be the dinosaur,\" at least virtually. For instance, visitors can control a digital triceratops or T-rex and lead them through a day in the life of one of these giant reptiles. [R. Lewis Ferguson] said, \"The game tells you when you have to eat, when you have to get water and um... well, when to poop.\" He laughed. \"Everybody poops.\" \"We added a lot, too,\" Ferguson said and pointed to a wall where the outlines of several dinosaurs are painted. Among them is the deadly velociraptor, one of the more vicious thunder lizards featured in the \"Jurassic Park\" movies.

\"We are going to really depend on our docents for this exhibit. We anticipate a huge attendance and could use the help of anyone interested,\" [R. Lewis Ferguson] said. \"It's a win-win-win! We get the help we need, guests and tour groups get guided tours with knowledgeable docents and the docents receive training and the chance to really make a difference.\"

FROM THE ARCHIVES: You'd never know who you'd meet at an Irish Times staff dance in the 1940s, as editor Bertie Smyllie recorded in this \"Irishman's Diary\". - JOE JOYCE WHY I went to the Irish TimesStaff Club Dance in Clery's Ballroom the other night I do not know. I have passed the stage at which dancing interested me, if it really ever did, and besides, I was not built to shine as a \"jitterbug\". Yet I went, and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed it all. At such functions, it always is the people rather than the dancing that interest me. And there were some very interesting folk at this particular \"hop\". I could scarcely believe my eyes when I saw Professor Erwin Schrodinger romping about in the \"Walls of Limerick\" - or was it the \"Waves of Troy\"? I just don't know - but there the great man was, and dancing remarkably well.

Like many cities, Charleston was built on a river - one that shaped the course of its history and something the Clay Center hopes will attract visitors to its latest exhibit. STEAMworks, the Clay Center's new gallery, will open to the public Saturday. Its first exhibit, RiverWorks Discovery: A Journey of Exploration and Imagination on America's Waterways, features displays from the the National Rivers Hall of Fame, at the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa. \"The exhibit travels all over the country, and while we've had this in the works for a while, I don't think it could've come at a better time, when we're talking about conserving our waterways in view of the recent water crisis, said R. Lewis Ferguson, director of arts and science education for the Clay Center. \"I think this will be a great opportunity for people to learn about the conservation, commerce and culture of rivers. Charleston is a river city, and we wouldn't be here if it weren't for the river. A temporary exhibit, RiverWorks will be open to the public until June 29. The space previously housed the center's Gizmo Factory, a display Ferguson described as a \"physics arcade that had been featured on the lower floor of the Clay Center since it opened in 2003. According to Ferguson, the gallery, which featured more than 30 exhibits exploring physical science and emphasing creativity and engineering, is not retired forever - the center plans to re-use some of its exhibits upstairs.

A longtime member of the Neurological Society of America, Dr. Ferguson was named one of the top five neurosurgeons in the city in 1993 by Chicago magazine. Dr. Ferguson routinely performed more than 400 procedures a year. He specialized in treating aneurysms and preventing and treating strokes. He was one of the first brain surgeons in Chicago to regularly operate under a microscope more than 20 years ago and taught others the technique, [Gerry Luken] said.

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[R. G. Ferguson] acknowledged that such a move could bring objections from advocates \"who may not understand the addition of treatment chemicals and the beneficial role of chemicals, when used judiciously and selectively to improve water quality.\"

1947 Cpl. Don F. Ruth has received the Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm from Commandant Jean Ducq, military and air attache of the Belgian Embassy, Ottawa. Announcement of the award to Cpl. Ruth for services in World War Two was made by the Belgian government some time ago, and the decoration arrived from Ottawa this week. The citation reads: \"In recognition of your gallantry during the battles which brought about the liberation of Belgium.\" Cpl. Ruth, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Ruth, old-time residents of Salmon Arm, was a despatch rider in the 45th Canadian Transport Corps and went to France shortly after D-Day. He enlisted in the Rocky Mountain Rangers in 1935 and served more than five years in World War Two.

[R. Brian Ferguson] said no one knows exactly when neighborhood gangs with colorful names like Plug Uglies, Dead Rabbits and Bowery Boys took hold in New York, although he guesses not before 1820. Ferguson said the riots that form the climax to [Martin Scorsese]'s movie were bloody battles that took place over four days in 1863 and killed about 300 people in today's Soho. Reflecting the anger over an expanded draft, many African-Americans wound up murdered by immigrants who resented the idea of having to go to war for the freedom of Southern blacks who might then come up north and steal their jobs. To take a walking tour of the \"Gangs of New York\" neighborhoods, contact R. Brian Ferguson by mail at Rutgers University-Newark Campus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 241 University Drive, Newark, NJ 07102.

\"I remember listening for those words, 'We've had separation. It's on the way down,'\" said [George McKinney], 66, of Hurricane. \"Then there was a period of interference. And at the point that it landed, it was, 'The Eagle has landed.' Prior to landing, they called it the 'Lunar Module I,' but once it touched down, it became the 'Eagle.'\" \"It was quite an accomplishment, quite an engineering feat for our space program,\" [Sam Knotts] said. \"Look at the jobs that resulted from that event. Look at what's happening in North Korea now - if we didn't have the missile systems we have today, they would be walking all over us. And a lot of that was a result of what happened in the space program.\" * Space Walk, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Clay Center and beyond. \"It starts outside the building, near the ElectricSky Theater dome. Head down Lee Street and check out the planets along the way,\" [R. Lewis Ferguson] said. \"It ends at the far reaches of frigid space - at Ellen's Homemade Ice Cream - with a special 'space-flavored' ice cream.\"