June 21, 1995

CROSSVILLE, Tenn. — A drug dispensed in deer food has reduced the threat of human disease from ticks, a University of Tennessee scientist said Wednesday. The project by Dr. Reid Gerhardt, a UT entomologist, has reduced by six times the tick reproduction near Cumberland County’s Fairfield Glade community. The area was hit in 1993 by

TULLAHOMA, Tenn. — An astronaut with ties to the University of Tennessee Space Institute has become the Russian space station’s Mister Fix-It. Dr. Norman Thagard, an American, and two Russian cosmonauts have been orbiting the Earth in Russia’s Mir space station since March 16. Thagard’s mission has been medical experiments, but he is a multi-talented