X-Message-Number: 7124
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 14:46:24 -0600
From: Michael Ravnitzky <>
Subject: hibernation, dormancy, winter sleep

The Defense Department has some military technical reports on 
*HIBERNATION*, *DORMANCY* AND *WINTER SLEEP*.

To get a complete list of technical reports on these subject keywords, 
contact the following:

At a government agency called DTIC: Defense Technical Information 
Center, there are a large number of government technical reports on 
almost any subject under the sun.

NOTE:  Donıt bother using the DTIC web site--in a nutshell, itıs 
worthless and omits the bulk of the two million technical reports in the 
DTIC collection.  Send a letter--youıll get much better results.

You'll have to select your own keywords for the exact subjects youıre 
interested in.  I suggest you select no more than ten keywords or less 
for each letter.  Please select your keyword[s] carefully and include 
plural[s] like I just did.  Put an *OR* between each keyword or subject 
term.

The fee is likely to be free or only a few bucks.  You probably want to 
include a statement in the letter such as *I agree to pay reasonable 
fees associated with this request.  Please notify me if the cost will 
exceed $30.*,  so that they won't delay the processing of the request.  
Remember, they will try to dissuade you from asking for such a list.  If 
they send you a letter, and you donıt respond, they will withdraw your 
request and you wonıt get your information.  

To get your bibliography [list of technical reports],  send a letter of 
request as follows:

To:      Defense Technical Information Center
            Attn:  DTIC-RSM [Kelly D. Akers, FOIA Manager]
            8725 John J. Kingman Road, Suite 0944
            Fort Belvoir, VA  22060-6128  USA
Phone:  703-767-9194

Dear Ms. Akers:

I request the following records under the provisions of the Freedom of 
Information Act:

A computer generated technical report bibliography [for all computerized 
index years] of reports on the subject[s]/keyword[s] of:

hibernation   OR   dormancy    OR   winter sleep   OR 

 _______________   OR   _________________  OR   _______________

This is a request for DTIC records, please don't forward my request to 
NTIS.  Please include both classified and unclassified records in your 
search.  If any of the records are classified, please review them for 
release, or the release of nonsensitive portions.

I am an individual, noncommercial requester and this request is not 
being made for commercial purposes.  [OR YOU MIGHT INSTEAD INDICATE IF 
YOU ARE A COMMERCIAL REQUESTER, OR AN EDUCATIONAL OR SCIENTIFIC 
INSTITUTION, OR A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MEDIA]  I also agree to pay up 
to $35 for reasonable fees associated with this request.

Sincerely,        ______________


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