LET'S TRY IT AND SEE

For the second time in eight months, a NASA space shuttle will carry a suite of University of Colorado at Boulder experiments to the International Space Station in an educational effort involving thousands of kindergarten through 12th-grade students around the world.

Slated for launch Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Fla., the space shuttle Endeavour will carry three experiments designed and built at CU's BioServe Space Technologies Center.

Participants in the CSI-2 effort will chart the growth and development of tomato plants, yeast cell genes and a crystal "garden" in the weightless environment of space. Results will be compared with similar experiments being conducted in K-12 classrooms around the world, BioServe Director Louis Stodieck said.

More information on BioServe can be found at colorado.edu/engineering/BioServe/index.html.

SAD ENDING

"Any time you have an animal like a bear in a tree, it's potentially a dangerous situation. Things can happen fast."

Mark Gocke, Wyoming Game and Fish Department spokesman, on the killing of a mother black bear who rushed down a tree in an attempt to attack Game and Fish officers.

ROCKY FLASHBACK

10 years ago, Aug. 6, 1997

• New pipeline expected to cut natural gas prices.

A major new pipeline will bring lower natural gas prices to the Denver area next year, KN Energy officials said Tuesday. The 100-mile Front Runner Pipeline from Wyoming to Brighton will carry 250 million cubic feet of gas per day, nearly half the Denver area's consumption in a typical day.