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In response to Eric Monson of Temecula regarding NFL officials: Get off your high horse, and cut those guys some slack! If not for the refs keeping things fair and organized on the field, chaos would assuredly ensue. Refs, and umpires alike, have the unpleasant task of playing bad guys to overpaid crybabies who would, otherwise, win under their own set of rules. Referees and umpires continually get pushed around, spat on, and heckled for trying to keep the game fair. In a loose comparison, sports officials are like the dishwashers, garbage men, teachers, nurses, and others in low-paid professions.

Low-frequency radio waves can kill zebra mussels, which cause millions of dollars in damage by clogging water intake pipes at power plants and other installations, researchers reported Tuesday at an American Chemical Society meeting. Zebra mussels in an aquarium that were exposed to very low frequency electromagnetic waves--about 60 hertz, similar to what is emitted by a power outlet--died within 40 days, according to researchers from Purdue University-Calumet in Hammond, Ind.

A primary source of food for young fish is quickly disappearing from the Great Lakes, according to scientists who fear it could jeopardize decades of progress in restoring fish populations. Diporeia, half-inch-long shrimp-like crustaceans, have vanished from Lake Erie and are declining at alarming rates in lakes Michigan, Ontario and Huron--a phenomenon scientists suspect is linked to zebra mussels, a Black Sea native that arrived in this country in the late 1980s.

Two young zebras of an endangered species died at National Zoo facilities this winter, apparently because keepers failed to feed them enough fat and protein and keep them sufficiently warm during Washington's frigid nights, officials said Friday. A 1-year-old male zebra from the Detroit Zoo spending his first winter in the nation's capital, was discovered dead in a heated barn at the zoo Feb. 1 after a night when the temperature fell to 24 degrees.

Glowing zebra fish could be used to identify pollutants in drinking water supplies if a research project under way at the University of Cincinnati proves successful. The glow comes from firefly genes inserted in the DNA of zebra fish. The fish light up when exposed to PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, which are known to cause cancer in humans. "These fish are much more sensitive than current water-testing systems that can detect concentrations of PCBs," said Dr.

The lone black stallion's battle cries fell on deaf ears. As pink tendrils of morning sun climb over an alpine meadow on East Pryor Mountain, the agitated horse, Two Boots, wants his harem of mares back from Lakota, an upstart stallion who stole his herd the evening before. A new day has dawned, and Two Boots emerges from the timber, arching his neck, nostrils flaring, ready to rumble. But Lakota and the mares are nowhere in sight.

Zebra Technologies of Camarillo, which manufactures bar code and plastic card products, has expanded its partnership with Miles Technologies of Barrington, Ill., to include the company's Eltron Card Printer Products. Miles Technologies, a value-added reseller of Zebra products, already has a strong industrial customer base in the automatic identification/data collection market, officials said.

Vasile Petean fled Romania 14 years ago to escape a communist regime that crushed individual expression and civil liberties. But since moving to the United States, Petean has enjoyed the freedom to express his views--like protesting a court order by painting a San Juan Capistrano house he's building in zebra stripes. The Orange County Superior Court order issued May 6 bars him from building a two-story home in the gated, pricey McCracken Hill neighborhood.

Zebra Technologies in Camarillo has been chosen to manufacture digital driver's licenses and various identification cards for the state of Arkansas. Zebra was selected by Viisage Technology of Littleton, Mass., which is the system integrator for the project. The estimated value of the contract is in excess of $1.4 million over five years. The project calls for the installation of 178 of Zebra's Eltron-brand printers and related products in July and August.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the registration statement of Eltron International in Simi Valley, and a special meeting of shareholders to vote on its merger with Zebra Technologies will be held at 9 a.m. Oct. 26 at the Radisson Hotel in Simi Valley. The Eltron board of directors has selected Sept. 4 as the record date for eligibility to vote at the shareholder meeting. Both Eltron and Zebra plan to announce third-quarter earnings before the meeting date.