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Check that gear
Stacy Smith, a freshman from Dallas, and Alan Snider,
sophomore from Huntington, make necessary adjustments on
their scuba gear during a check-out for beginning divers last
weekend at Lake Travis in Austin. Smith and Snider, mem
bers of the Texas A&M University advanced dive class, as
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THE BATTALION Page 5
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1978
Earth’s
life span
3 billion
years
United Press International
GATLINBURG, Tenn. —
New data indicates Earth won’t
become a “dead” planet for 3 bil
lion more years, unless man de
stroys it first, a leading scientist
says.
N. Mafi Toksoz, a geophysics
professor at Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, told a sci
ence writers’ meeting this week
his prediction on Earth’s life
span is based on discoveries
about the evolution and history
of planets made through space
exploration in the last decade.
Toksoz told the 16th annual
briefing of the Council for the
Advancement of Science Writing
Monday the most up-to-date data
shows Earth’s crust has changed
composition significantly from
when it was formed 4.6 billion
years ago.
Created from gaseous solar
masses. Earth was similar in
composition to the moon. Mars,
Mercury and Venus. But its
evolution as a planet that can sus
tain life is due to three factors,
Toksoz said.
He said Earth’s chemical com
position, its size and atmospheric
temperature have made it able to
support life.
Comparing Earth with Venus,
Toksoz said both planets are
about the same size and both
have similar iron cores. But
Venus, a hotter planet with more
carbon dioxide in its atmosphere,
has no water; and any trace of life
there has long since burned up
and vanished.
A simliar carbon dioxide prob
lem could affect Earth, due to
man’s heavy combustion of fossil
fuels such as coal and oil. But
Toksoz said he could not be sure
whether that would speed up the
rate of Earth’s decay.
Still, the professor warned,
the risk of a “runaway effect”
from carbon dioxide pollution
cannot be taken lightly.
Other scientists have pre
dicted increased carbon dioxide
in Earth’s atmosphere will make
polar ice fields melt quicker and
cause a rapid rise in ocean water
levels. But no firm time limit has
been placed on the predictions.
Toksoz ended his address by
predicting an increase in space
exploration by the ,end of this
century, adding that he thought
some of the American missions
again will be manned.
IRA bombs blitz
towns, injure 40
United Press International
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The Irish Republican Army has
unleashed its heaviest bombing campaign across Ulster in two years
in what police said was the IRA’s pre-Christmas offensive.
The IRA said that the blitz would “intensify in the coming
months.”
More than 40 people were injured in the bombings in Belfast and
seven other centers Tuesday. The bombings coincided with the arri
val of two American congressmen on a peace mission.
Police said it would take days to assess the damage to businesses
and homes.
The British army said it was the heaviest IRA offensive in two years
and apparently marked the beginning of an offensive timed to coin
cide with the holiday season. The blitz started with four bombs in
Londonderry, then spread to Omagh, Dungannon, Cookstown,
Enniskillen, Belfast, Newry and Castlederg.
The bombs included cars stuffed with hundreds of pounds of ex
plosives, firebombs and small devices.
Most of the injured were not seriously hurt because all the blasts
were preceded by warnings from the IRA.
Rep. Mario Biaggi, D-N.Y. and Benjamin Gilman, R.-N.Y., mem
bers of an ad hoc congressional committee on Irish affairs, arrived in
Belfast as the bombs went off across the province.
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How Government’s spending can price you out of work
Inflation’s danger is very real to you because it threatens
your chances of landing a job. We say our government, by
trying to give us everything we want right now, actually
causes inflation. Here’s why.
If government collects enough taxes to pay its extra bills
as it goes, those taxes raise everybody’s costs. You pay more
yourself in taxes on your income. And companies pay more
income tax and taxes on the materials and services they
have to buy. So everybody's tax bill goes up.
But as we all know, government is spending money even
faster than it can collect taxes. Everybody still pays, be
cause government handles the deficit either by borrowing
money or printing it. Borrowed money costs extra to pay
the interest—and our national debt is now more than
$550,000,000,000. Extra printed money simply dilutes the
value of all the money in circulation. Either way, costs go
up for everybody—and that’s inflation. You’ll pay
$2.25 today to buy what a dollar bought only
20 years ago.
It now costs business $45,300 to
create the average American job.
(Armco’s cost is $57,520.) Every
time the cost of a job goes up,
fewer jobs can be created with
the same amount of money. Some
companies can’t earn enough
extra money these days to
create so many new jobs.
This threatens your chance of
finding the job you want.
93,000,000 Americans now hold
jobs. But you’re among 17,000,000
more men and women who’ll be
looking for work in the next 10 years.
Plain talk about INFLATION
It’s often fashionable to blame business and
labor for higher prices. But that’s taking a
result and making it the cause. The more gov
ernment tacks on additional charges, the higher
costs have to go. And the more government spends
tomorrow’s money today, the more prices rise to cover
the cost. Most of all, the more causes and tasks we insist
our government take on, the more money government must
spend to carry out our will. Our federal deficit is running
at least $60,000,000,000 a year, now. That’s a million and
a third jobs we’re missing, right there.
What can we do? We all have favorite programs we’d
like our government to spend money on. But maybe spend
ing only what we’ve paid in taxes is the most important
service our government can provide us. If we could get
government to set priorities—with every worthwhile goal
in relation to all others—then maybe we could stop spend
ing money so fast we create inflation.
Next time somebody says government ought to do some
thing, think about the job you want when you finish school.
Then ask that person why you should give up your job
or buying power for somebody else’s pet idea.
Let us hear YOUR plain talk about jobs!
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