Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, November 8, 1994 TAG: 9411080109
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: VIRGINIA EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RAY REED
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
W.P., Roanoke
A: Could be you've seen several DC3s, according to three airport sources. Their appearance is nearly identical to the C46s, and a boom in air freight has caused the DC3 to reappear.
Despite being given a bad name in movies that portray the DC3 as a decrepit oil burner or a trademark of drug runners, it's a dependable workhorse, said Mark Courtney, planning and marketing director at the airport.
Low price and large capacity make it attractive to cargo carriers, and a spokesman at the air traffic control tower said controllers have seen a fair number of DC3s.
Six major cargo companies fly into Roanoke daily. None uses a DC3 on a regular route, but several contract carriers land here and some use DC3s fairly frequently.
Piedmont Aviation services several DC3s at the Roanoke Regional Airport.
Call 'em 2000s
Q: We refer to decades by such terms as the '80s or '90s. How are we going to describe the next decade?
T.H., Blue Ridge
A: The World Future Society polled its members on this very question.
Their answer seemed to follow the suggestive title of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi movie "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Sixty-four percent of the futurists preferred "the two thousands."
Five percent wanted "the oh-ohs" and another 5 percent-probably James Bond fans-liked "the double-ohs."
Some who didn't want to be quoted by name suggested "the oughts" and "the noughts," the old English terms for zero that introduced the 1900s.
Out of that group came suggestions for "the aughties and the naughties."
The overwhelming vote for the decade following the two thousands was "the teens."
How will we pronounce the names? The vote, by a whopping 69 percent, was "two thousand one." A minority preferred "two thousand and one."|
She's an M.D.
Q: What are Joycelyn Elders' qualifications to be surgeon general of the United States? What medical school did she attend?
A.C., Roanoke
A: Elders is a medical doctor; she's a pediatrician with a specialty in endocrinology.
She graduated from the University of Arkansas Medical School in 1960 and served an internship at the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis. For her pediatric residency, she returned to the University of Arkansas.
Elders was director of Arkansas' state health department from 1987 until 1993.
Your question apparently has occurred to others; two years ago, the American Medical Association passed a resolution saying the surgeon general should be a physician.
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by CNB