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The Battalion Monday, Nov. 14, 1988 Page 3
Super collider
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DALLAS (AP) — Scientists be
lieve many technologies will spin off
from the multibillion dollar super
conducting “super collider,” includ
ing benefits in medical diagnosis and
in the battle against fruit flies.
“We have to know how matter
works in order to make progress in
understanding how everything else
works,” Austin Gleeson, chairman of
the physics department at the Uni
versity of Texas, said. “If we don’t
keep making progress on those fron
tiers, knowledge stops.”
If the super collider receives fed
eral funding and is built in Ellis
County some 30 miles south of Dal
las, thousands of jobs will be created.
But the project already has
yielded several benefits, including
better ways to kill fruit flies and to
detect human illnesses. Scientists in
volved in the groundwork for the
project say they expect the super col
lider will pave the way for unheard-
of marvels.
“Roll your thoughts back about
100 years,” Texas A&M physicist
Peter McIntyre said. “The progress
of science and technology that has
arris County jail consultant, investor linked
HOUSTON (AP) — A consultant
was hired to evaluate muldmil-
lion-dollar proposals for a new Har
iris County jail had business connec
tions with a wealthy backer of the
||irm that eventually won the jail con-
gract.
I The connections between the con
sultant Fayez Sarofim, a Houston
noney manager, and the contracted
irm, Facilities Development Group,
eemed to be a surprise to the people
ho made the final contract deci-
Two commissioners, the county
attorney and county treasurer all
kaid the connection between the con-
Isultant Brown & Root USA Inc. and
Sarofim, a key investor in FDG,
should have been discussed publicly
beforehand.
Three Harris County commis
sioners, however, told the Houston
Post they were not aware of those
business ties before awarding the jail
bid to Facilities Development Group.
County Attorney Mike Driscoll
said, “If there’s no direct conflict,
there’s the appearance of conflict.
When we’re relying on a company to
evaluate, I think an involvement of
this sort is close enough that it needs
to be disclosed.”
Two other commissioners said the
connection between Sarofim and
Brown & Root was too distant to be a
conflict of interest, even though Sa-
rofim’s investment firm handles mil
lions of dollars in pension invest
ments for Brown & Root and its
parent company, the Halliburton
Co.
Managers for FDG also bristled at
any suggestion of conflict of interest
in the jail selection process. Com
pany officials say Sarofim is a passive
investor and that they, too, never
knew of any connection with Brown
& Root.
Richard Knight, FDG’s chairman,
said, “You’re telling me something
— I never knew that.”
Polarized reaction to questions
about Sarofim’s firm and Brown &
Root may reflect the lengthy, bitter
controversy that has accompanied
FDG’s proposal to convert a 60-year-
old warehouse on the banks of Buf
falo Bayou into a 4,200-inmate jail.
Deadlocked early this year in at
tempts to choose among the FDG
proposal and two others, the Com
missioners Court hired Brown &
Root to provide an outside view of
the jail bids.
Brown & Root reported that a $76
million proposal submitted by FDG
was, among other things, the most
cost-effective of the three.
In May, the commissioners gave
FDG the jail project.
Sarofim’s investment firm, Fayez
Sarofim & Co., is a limited partner in
the City Partnership, which owns
FDG.
Sarofim’s firm is one of several
money managers that each handle
tens of millions of dollars in pension
funds for Brown & Root and its par
ent firm, the Halliburton Co.
Sarofim also is married to Louisa
Stude Sarofim, an adopted daughter
of Herman Brown, one of the leg
endary founders of Brown & Root.
Brown & Root was purchased by
Halliburton shortly after Herman
Brown died in 1962.
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defined the fabric of our civilization
has been paced by a quest for under
standing the basic building blocks of
matter.
“The casual sequence of events
that leads from a high-brow theorist
through the point of an inventor
who makes a better mousetrap is
driven on the front end by the un
derstanding of the fundamental
things,” he said.
The construction alone will re
quire development of hundreds of
technologies that can be applied to
other fields, K.W. Chen, director for
accelerator science and technology
at the University of Texas at Arling
ton, said.
Just as the moon missions brought
such seemingly unrelated scientific
discoveries as non-stick cooking sur
faces and heart pacemakers, McIn
tyre said the first work on the super
conductor at the Texas Accelerator
Center near Houston already has
yielded technologies that seem to
have little connection to quarks and
protons.
McIntyre .suggests that by the time
the super collider is operating, per
haps 16 years from now, the annual
sales from spinoff technology ought
to be in the billions of dollars.
Scientists at the center, a collabo
rative effort of nine universities, al
ready have:
• Developed supermagnets used
in a medical technique called magne
tic resonance imaging, which gives
physicians “a 3-D road map of your
insides,” McIntyre said.
• Fabricated a small X-ray device
that will quickly and safely kill fruit
flies. The device could end quaran
tines that have cost growers millions
of dollars and could be used to kill
bacteria on chickens, oysters and
shrimp.
The super collider itself will be a
major invention: a super-powerful
microscope through which some of
the universe’s smallest elements can
be seen.
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