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Working mothers
spend $11 billion
for child services
WASHINGTON (AP) — Families
in which the mother works away
f rom home spend more than $1 1 bil
lion every yeai on child care, the
Census Bureau estimated Thursday.
The avetage weekly expenditure
was $10.33 lor the 5,299,000 fami
lies with working mothers who paid
tor child-care services in the winter
of 11)84-85, according to a new Cen
sus study, “Who’s Minding the
Kids.”
Projecting that cost over a full
year would result in a total of $11.1
billion, the bureau said, although the
actual cost may differ because of
changing conditions at other times
of yeai.
Overall, some 7.7 million em
ployed mothers used child care part
ol the time during the the study, but
2.4 million families were not re
quired to pay cash for this service.
Usually they were able to leave the
child in the care of a relative.
The study looked at 8.2 million
children under age 5 and 18.3 mil
lion between ages 5 and 14 to deter
mine child care needs of working
mothers. It was the Census Bureau’s
First detailed examination in this
area, although previous surveys
have reported on child-care ar
rangements of pre-school children.
The new study found that for pre-
schoolers, the largest share —- 37
percent — were cared for in some
one’s home other than their own.
Some 22.3 percent were cared for by
a non-relative, 10.2 percent by a
grandparent and 4.5 percent by
some other relative.
In addition, 31 percent of pre
schoolers were cared for in their
own home while the mother worked
— nearly half were watched by the
father. Others were supervised by a
grandparent or other relative.
Organized day-care facilities
looked after 23.1 percent of pre
schoolers. About 8 percent were
cared for by the mother herself ei
ther while she worked at home or at
her job.
Among children ages 5 to 14, 75
percent were in school while their
mothers were at jobs. In addition,
I 1.8 percent were cared for at home,
4.3 percent in another home and the
rest were at day-care facilities, either
with their mother or caring for
themselves.
The major difference between
married and unmarried mothers
was in the share of offspring cared
for by their father, the study found.
For married women, 19 percent of
children were in the care of the fa
ther, while for unmarried women,
the father cared for the child in 2
percent of cases.
While 5.6 million unmarried
women are coping with work and
the demands of children, only about
900,000 unmarried men are in the
same category, the study found.
Unmarried fathers tended to be
guardians of older children more
than did unmarried mothers, the re
port noted. Thus, for men, school
accounted for the largest share of
child-care at rangements.
Researchers confirm
theory of extinction
concerning dinosaurs
WASHING ION (AP) — Bits ol
quartz found at several sites around
the wot Id appear to confirm a the-
oi y that the extinction of dinosaurs
and other forms of life 65 million
years ago resulted from the impact
of a large meteorite or comet, scien
tists said Thursday,
Researchers from the U.S. Geo
logical Survey office in Denver said
quartz grains taken from live sites in
Europe, as well as New Zealand, the
Pacific Basin and elsewhere, have
structural features associated with
the impact of a large body striking
the Eart h.
Detailed analysis of the mineral
debris shows that it comes from a
single massive event and not from a
series of volcanic eruptions, the re
searchers said in a new report.
The microscopic fracturing found
in the quartz is more like that asso
ciated with the pressures of a mas
sive impact than what would result
from volcanic activity, the scientists
said in a study to be published in the
May 8 issue of the journal Science.
Bruce Bohor, Peter Modreski and
Eugene Foord said the so-called
“shocked quai tz” is found in the
same sediment layers that contain
unusually high levels of iridium, a
metal common in asteroids, meteors
and comets.
The researchers said the latest
findings bolster the controversial,
10-year-old theory of Nobel Prize-
winning physicist Luis Alvarez and
his geologist son, Walter, that a sin
gle catastrophic event led to a great
extinction of life on Earth.
1 he Alvarez theory says that, im
pact of an extraterrestrial body 65
million years ago threw up a giant
cloud of debris that encircled the
globe and diminished sunlight for
months, if not years. The climate
cooling caused by the dust resulted
in (he death of dinosaurs and many
other types of animal and plant life,
it contends.
T he theory is based upon Finding
up to 600 times normal levels of iri
dium in clay deposits from the pe
riod, and Bohor said the same iri
dium concentrations have been
found at evety site of the telltale
quartz particles.
“The evidence from around the
world seems to show one event,” Bo
hor said in a telephone interview.
The consistent distribution of the
shock quartz and certain minerals
combined with it point to a big comet
or meteorite striking a continental
area in the Northrn Hemisphere be
tween 65 and 66 million years ago,
he said.
A body six miles wide hitting the
Earth at 45,000 miles per hour, as
calculated by the Alvarez theory,
could have blasted debris high
enough into the atmosphere to ac
count for the worldwide shock
quartz, distribution, Bohor added.
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LARGO, Fla. (AB) — Bahamian
police were put on alert to turn back
New York’s wandering garbage
barge Thursday, after a developer
said he wanted to unload it on a tiny
uninhabited island to help build a
ti opieal playground.
Tony Gallina of Largo said he
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fuse as fill on which to lay founda
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Salvador, a spit of land 250 miles
southeast of Miami, in the Bahamas’
Out Islands.
But Norman Gay, health minister
in the capital city of Nassau,
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“There will be no dumping of
waste in the Bahamas on land or
sea,” he said. “Nobody has any per
mission to dump anything. We in the
Bahamas have no interest in this sort
of thing. ... It can only be harmful.”
The Bahamas became the third
foreign country to reject the refuse
from Islip, N.Y., at sea for nearly
seven weeks on a 5,000-mile journey
in search of a dump site. It also has
been turned down by six states.
The Bahamian government said
the island is a nesting ground for sea
birds and a popular sport area for
Fishing. Defense, police, customs
and immigration forces were put on
alert n» p.^vciit the barge from un
loading its cargo.
Gallina had no immediate te-
sponse after being told of die gov
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Ik lore he asked.
Gallina acknowledged he had not
contacted government officials be
fore his plan was made public. He
said getting clearance or necessary
permits would be up to the Alabama
middleman, Lowell Harrelson, who
contracted with Islip to get rid of the
town’s commercial refuse after the
city’s own landfills ran out of room.
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To Gallina, the plan was an “ideal
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The 44-year-old Trenton, N.J.,
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stockholder of LSS International
Ltd., Inc., a Florida corporation
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mile long, 2.5-mile wide isle.
The island, which sits 13 miles
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euthera and Cat islands, has been
leased to cruise lines in the past as an
out-island stop, Gallina said.
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