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WEARING THE BLUE JUMPSUIT of a NASA astronaut, Dr. Bernard Harris smiles with satisfaction as hundreds of hands shoot skyward, responding to his request for two volunteers from among a thousand adolescents packed into the auditorium at Scotlandville Magnet High School in Baton Rouge, La.

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// An astronaut veteran of two space shuttle missions, Dr. Bernard Harris revisits Houston’s Johnson Space Center (left) and takes his Dream Tour to a school in Baton Rouge, La., where he coaches two students (above) in a simulated liftoff and promotes the importance of math and science education.

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Soon, a pair of wannabe astronauts joins him on stage where—lying on their backs with their knees in the air—they are buckled into genuine space shuttle seats brought to Baton Rouge to simulate an extraterrestrial journey.

“Five, four, three, two, one, liftoff!” says Harris, 54, leading the teens in a spirited countdown. Suddenly, an onstage screen shows the image of a massive space shuttle rumbling toward blastoff—complete with simulated smoke swirling through the air and the thunderous sounds of rocket engines igniting. One student passenger yelps amid the excitement.

“That gives you an idea of what it’s like to leave Earth,” Harris says with a chuckle.

Harris speaks from experience. A member of NASA’s 13th class of astronauts, the physician, scientist and businessman is a veteran of two space shuttle flights, during which he logged more than 438 hours and 7.2 million miles. On Feb. 9, 1995, he became the world’s first African-American to walk in space, dangling 250 miles above the Earth from a robotic arm attached to the orbiter Discovery.

“When you’re up there, you get to see the sun rise and set every 45 minutes,” he tells the students. “It’s pretty awesome. And remember, I got there because of my education.”

Seeds of inspirationCalling himself a “dreamer who

believes nothing is impossible,” Harris was born into poverty in Temple, Texas (pop. 54,514), and grew up with two siblings in a household headed by his mother in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Living today in Houston, Texas, he takes his Dream Tour across America to encourage teens living in the kinds of inner-city neighborhoods where he started out.

His message: Dream big, work hard and cherish your mentors.

“Believe in those who believe in you,” says Harris, pointing to the teachers standing along the auditorium aisles in Baton Rouge. “Take advantage of the teachers and principals and parents who are responsible for your being here.”

For Harris, his first mentors were the devoted, nurturing women in his family.

His great-grandmother, Lizzie “Honey” Emanuel, was the granddaughter of slaves and a pillar of Oakwood, Texas, where she managed her farm after her husband

died. “I saw at an early age what hard work could do,” Harris says. “And even though my great-grandmother didn’t have much schooling, she considered education very important. Nearly everyone in the following generations had a college degree.”

His mother, Gussie Emanuel Harris, earned her bachelor’s degree in home economics and worked as a cook in a restaurant in Waco, Texas, until landing a teaching job on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico.

“I was in an entirely different culture with people of different backgrounds, and we all had to learn to play together,” recalls Harris, who lived near the reservation for eight years. “I learned from the Navajo to love the Earth and nature and realized that we are all part of a larger universe.”

A vision for successFamily and teachers encouraged

Harris’ natural interest in science, and at age 13, his ultimate dream crystallized while watching history on his family’s black-and-white television set in Tohatchi, N.M. (pop. 1, 037). “In 1969, I saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon,” he says. “I

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decided that I wanted to be an astronaut myself, and that I wasn’t going to let anything get in my way.”

Nothing did.Inspired to pursue medicine by Dr.

Frank Bryant, his family doctor in San Antonio, Texas, Harris loaded up on math and science classes during high school. His circle of heroes expanded from Armstrong and Aldrin to include Dr. Joseph Kerwin, the first American physician to travel in space. “They were role models from afar,” Harris says. “They didn’t know me, but I knew everything about them.”

After studying biology at the University of Houston, he graduated from Texas Tech’s School of Medicine in 1982 and completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where another mentor, Dr. Joseph Combs, suggested that he specialize in an aspect of medicine in which NASA needed expertise. Winning a National Research Council Fellowship, he studied osteoporosis, a potential problem for space travelers.

In 1990, Harris was among 23 people chosen from 6,000 applicants for NASA’s elite astronaut training program. During his first flight in 1993 aboard the space shuttle Columbia, Harris was a mission specialist and studied the impact of zero gravity on the human body. Two years later, he was a payload commander of the Discovery flight, during which he and British astronaut Michael Foale took their historic five-hour stroll in outer space.

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// On his first NASA mission in 1993, Harris joined the seven-man crew of the space shuttle Columbia and conducted research in physical and life sciences during the 10-day flight.

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Giving backReady for a new challenge,

Harris left NASA in 1996 to explore the world of entrepreneurship. He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston and started Vesalius Ventures, a firm that invests in health care technologies and companies.

In 1998, he established the Harris Foundation “as a means to give back” by supporting math and science education initiatives and crime prevention programs for America’s youth. The seeds for the foundation were planted three years earlier while he worked at NASA and spoke to students on juvenile probation in Houston. He was struck by how many seemed without purpose, adrift in hopelessness.

Launching his Dream Tour in 2008 at a San Antonio middle school

named after him, he since has spoken to thousands of students in more than 30 cities, and with the support of ExxonMobil conducts summer science camps at 30 college campuses across America where mostly inner-city students study math, science and technology.

“We shoot off rockets, make solar cars, dissect sheep eyes, and write computer programs to operate robots. The kids love it,” says Wayne Trail, a physics professor who directs the summer science camp at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

Harris is an inspiration for the campers, says Trail, who adds: “Science and math are often perceived as too difficult, but when he stands there and talks about it, these kids can’t help but think they can excel in these areas, too.”

Harris says many youngsters don’t have voices of encouragement in their lives.

“I’m here to remind you that geeks—the people with knowledge and education—rule the world,” Harris tells the Baton Rouge students. “If someone teases you about being smart, look them in the eye and say, ‘Someday, you’re going to be working for me.’”

Listening in the auditorium is eighth-grader Tanayri Rodriguez,

who afterward says her encounter with Harris has her rethinking her career plan to work in a hair salon.

“Maybe a marine biologist!” she says. “I’d like to go down to the bottom of the ocean and see if I can find something new there.” ★

Visit theharrisfoundation.org for more information.

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Geraldine Bunn chats with Judge Joseph Schoeberl in the elevator of the Jasper County (Mo.) Courthouse.

WHEN A BUZZER SOUNDS and a green light illuminates on the brass call box of the 1916 elevator at the Jasper County Courthouse in Carthage, Mo. (pop. 12,668), operator Geraldine Bunn knows it’s time to give someone on the third floor a ride.

“I’ll be right back,” Bunn, 82, tells a group of people she’s been chatting with on the first floor.

As she’s done thousands of times, Bunn slides the elevator’s metal gate shut, then grasps a porcelain-knobbed lever and eases it to the right. The 1,000-pound capacity cage climbs slowly past a floor painted with a number “2.” Bunn glides the elevator to a stop, aligning it with the third floor of the courthouse.

“Sometimes I hit it on the spot and sometimes I don’t,” she says, adding that if the floors don’t align, she maneuvers the elevator until the floors are flush so riders don’t trip or stumble when entering or exiting the cage.

For 14 years, Bunn’s workday has been filled with the ups and downs of shuttling 200 or more

passengers between the basement, first, second and third floors of the elegant 1894 limestone courthouse.

“People always ask me, ‘Don’t you get dizzy?’” says Bunn, who lives in nearby Jasper (pop. 1,011). “No,” she assures them. She loves her

mobile office.Originally, the courthouse had only stairs.

Then in 1916 holes were bored through the building’s concrete floors, and the open-cage wrought-iron elevator was installed on steel cables and massive oak beams.

“In and of itself, the elevator is a tourist attraction,” says Judge Joseph Schoeberl, as he descends from his third-floor office and courtroom.

When Schoeberl steps out of the elevator, he pretends to trip over a slight gap between the floors, making Bunn laugh. “He’s always doing that to me,” she says.

Bunn provides a lift in every sense of the word. “She’s very cheery and brightens the day,” says Schoeberl, 62. “She’s like a cup of coffee in the morning.”

Working as an elevator attendant in today’s self-serve world is an “oddity,” concedes Bunn, who began operating the courthouse elevator part time in 2008.

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The nation’s first automatic elevator was installed in 1950 at Atlantic Refining Co. in Dallas, Texas, according to Stephen Showers, corporate archivist for the world’s largest elevator manufacturer, Otis Elevator Co. in Farmington, Conn. (pop. 23,641).

The system was called the Autotronic Elevator, which was short for auto and electronic and was advertised as “without attendant” or “operatorless,” Showers says. By the 1960s, automatic elevators were commonplace and manual operators were becoming obsolete.

While modern push-button elevators are quick and efficient, they lack the personal touch of Bunn, who greets courthouse employees by name and says the best part of her job is meeting people.

“There are so many nice people,” she says. “Even the prisoners will speak and tell me to have a good day.”

Her passengers range from shackled and somber county jail inmates to happy hand-holding couples with freshly inked marriage licenses, as well as tourists traveling through town on Route 66. Older folks on tour buses and schoolchildren on field trips also line up for rides.

“Some kids are happy on the way up and cry all the way down,” says Bunn, noting that individuals have different reactions to the 30-second rides.

Though the elevator is furnished with a small desk and a chair, Bunn seldom sits. When she’s not transporting passengers, she’s on the first floor greeting people visiting the courthouse.

“Can I help you, ma’am?” Bunn asks when she notices Kathy Baxter, 55, of Greenfield, Mo. (pop. 1,358), an obvious newcomer to the building.

“I need to take care of this traffic

Bunn demonstrates the sliding gate on the 1916 open-cage, wrought-iron elevator.

(Continued on page 16)

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Historical photographs and mementosadorn the elevator’s ironwork interior.

Bunn transports courthouse employees and visitors in her mobile workplace.

ticket,” Baxter says. “I can take you there,” Bunn says. As Baxter steps into the old-

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By Stephanie Vozza

When choosing paint, you’re typically concerned with color and finish. But what about VOC levels?

VOCs—volatile organic compounds—are chemicals emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids, including paint. They may have short-term and long-term adverse health effects.

“We used to think that new paint smell was a good thing,” says Shannon Kaye, host of the DIY Network program Fresh Coat. “Now we know that toxins are in odors as much as in things we taste and touch.”

VOCs may cause eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches, nausea, and kidney, liver and nervous system damage, as well as cancer, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Today, in response to environmental regulations and consumer demand, manufacturers offer paints with reduced VOC levels, which are safer for people and the environment. To compare brands, check the label for the VOC level. The lower the number, the lower the health risk.

According to current standards, paint with less than 5 grams per liter is considered “zero VOC.” Flat-finish paint with 50 grams per liter or less, and nonflat paint with 100 or less, can receive a “low VOC” certification from Green Seal, a nonprofit organization that regulates and endorses environmentally friendly paint products. Adding tint to paint may increase the VOCs.

“Families don’t realize that what they put on their walls can release chemicals for weeks and even months after the paint dries,” says Kimberly Button, a healthy-home consultant in Orlando, Fla. “No-VOC paints are a healthier alternative, because the amounts of chemicals are much lower.” ★

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The Evolution of Hearing ProductsDate

17th Century

1935

1984

2010

Easy to Use?

No

Weighed2.5 pounds

No

Yes

Invisible?

Hardly

No

No

Yes

Affordable?

Maybe

No

Not formost people

Yes

Invention

The Ear Horn

Wearable Hearing Aid

Digital Hearing Aid

Neutronic Ear

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