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Classifieds
FOR RENT
SERVICES
Cotton Village Apt*.
Snook, TX.
1 Bdrm. $200., 2 Bdrm. $248.
Rental assistance available!
Call 846-8878 or 774-0773
EARN $500. TO $1,000
Or MORE WEEKLY STUFFING ENVE
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48184. 11ttfn
ROOMMATE WANTED
ROOMMATE NEEDED to share 2 bedroom - 1 bath
apartment for spring semester rent $ 175. Close to cam
pus, on shuttle. Call 696-0508. 51tl 1/16
Roommate needed: Country estate $200 per month
plus 1/4 of utilities 845-8667 day or night. 54tl 1/21
HELP WANTED
The Houston
Chronicle
is currently taking applications
for route carrier positions.
Gas allowance provided with
routes earning $400.-$700.
per month.
If interested, call James at
693-7815 or Julian at 693-
2323. 09t09/29
ute BRAZOS
JM BEVERAGES
Now Accepting applications for student
helpers:
1 .Morning/weekend Stockers
2.Afternoon warehouse helper
3.Campus Representative
All jobs partime. Apply in Person only
M-F 9a.m.-5p.m.
505 Hwy 2818 Bryan
Part Time Software Support Position.
Requires experience with MS DOS
systems. Hardware
experience helpful. Ability to program
a plus.
ACSI, P.O. Box 3889,
LITTLE CAESAR S PIZZA
Now accepting applications
for all positions,all stores,
competative wages,
apply in person. 3 3ttfn
ACT IN TV COMMERCIALS. HIGH PAY, NO EX
PERIENCE ALL AGES ,KIDS, TEENS, YOUNG
ADULTS. FAMILIES, MATURE PEOPLE, ANI
MALS, ETC. CALL NOW! CHARM STUDIOS 1-800-
837-1700 ext 81 17. 55tll/16
Parttime help wanted at the Grapevine Restaurant.
Call 696-3411, Ask for Patsy for more details. 55t 11/17
Fulltime bridal consultant. Bride -N- Formal has an im
mediate need for a fulltime bridal consultant. Ideal
candidate will be customer service oriented, prior retail
experience a must, schedule of 30-37 hours per week
and does included Saturdays, hourly plus commision,
good company benefits. For more information call
Tami. 693-6900. 52tll/17
EXPERIENCED SEAMSTRESS. Position available for
seamstress who wants to work in home or in store. Will
pay percentage of alterations cost. Must work af
ternoons and Thursday evenings each week for fit
tings. We pay top dollar for alteration on bridal and
evening wear. Call Tami 693-6900 for more informa
tion. 52tl 1/17
Campus Reps position — sell well known spring break
packages. Earn high $$$ plus trips. 1-800-H1-PADRE.
54tll/17
SERVICES
TYPING/RESEARCH
You have many things beg
ging for your time.
Let us help you.
Typing: $1. per page; $1.75
next day
Access to multiple data bases
$5./hour
CALL IDIC, INC
693-9864
‘STREP THROAT
STUDY*
Volunteers needed for streptococcal
tonsillitis/pharyngitis study
★Fever (100.4 or more)
★Pharyngeal pain (Sore Throat)
★Difficulty swallowing
Rapid strep test will be done to con
firm.
Volunteers will be cojrhpensated.
G & S STUDIES, INC.
(clos^ to campus)
846-5933 12^
ALLERGY STUDIES
DO YOU HAVE???
ALLERGIC RHINITIS
Patients needed with runny nose, na
sal congestion, sneezing, itch nose,
itchy and watery eyes to participate in
a seven day research study evaluating
an over-the-counterantihistimine.
NO BLOOD DRAWN
Eligible volunteers will be compen
sated
G & S Studies, Inc.
(close to campus)
846-5933
PATELLAR TENDONITIS
(JUNIPER’S KNEE)
Patients needed with patellar ten
donitis (pain at base of knee cap)
to participate in a research study
to evaluate a new topical (rub on)
anti-inflammatory gel.
Previous diagnoses welcome.
Eligible volunteers will be com
pensated.
G & S Studies, Inc.
(close to campus)
846-5933 169ttfn
2B-1.5B duplex and fourplex units. Options: fenced,
FP, big closets, low utilities, one semester leases avail
able. Wyndham 846-4384. 52ttfn
4-plex nice 2B-lBth 5 min. from campus, $275 plus
electric 846-3864. 54tll/20
2BR, 1 1/2 BA, washer/dryer in apt for sublease. $415
month. 764-1848. 54tll/21
ROOMMATE NEEDED SPRING 1990, $150
MONTH, DU PLEX. Call Dawn 693-6943. 55t 11 /17
SKIN INFECTION STUDY
G & S Studies, Inc. is participating in a
study on acute skin infection. If you
have one of the following conditions
call G & S Studies. Eligible volunteers
will be compensated.
* infected blisters * infected cuts
* infected boils * infected scrapes
* infected insect bites (“road rash”)
G & S Studies, Inc.
(close to campus)
846-5933 76
ALTERATIONS
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Ladies & Men’s clothing
Off Southwest Parkway
300 Amherst
764-9603
ON THE DOUBLE
Professional word processing laser
jet printing.
Papers, resumes, merge letters.
Rush services
846-3755 1 /o
TYPING 7 DAYS PER WEEK. WORD PROCESSOR.
FAST/ACCURATE. 776-4013. 07U2/01
WORD PROCESSING: PROFESSIONAL, PRECISE,
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8130. 49t 11/21
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0305. 48t 11/06
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Best Fundraisers On campus!
Is your fraternity, sorority or club inter
ested in earning $1,000.00plus for a
one week, on- campus marketing pro
ject? You must be well organized and
hard working. Call Lisanne or Ken at
(800)592-2121. 55111/17
PERSONALS
Adoption: Happily married couple wishes to share
love, warmth, security and close family life with white
newborn. Expenses paid, legal. Call collect (212) 977-
4221. 50tl 1/10
ADOPTION - Give your newborn the best start in life.
A secure home filled with love, happiness, & warmth.
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55111/17
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and grey collar. Please call 693-9986 day or 825-3397
night. 53tl 1/20
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computer systems
We have everthing from Turbo XT’s
to super fast 386-25 machines.
Mono thru super VGA, CAD, printers
‘We specialize in complete systems’
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696-9270.
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Thursday, November 16,19
Birthmarks can disappear
with new laser treatment
Experienced librarian will do library research for you.
Call 272-3348. 30t 11/12
IBM Compatible PC-XT. Dual Drives 640K, Color
Monitor, Panasonic KX- 1091i Printer, Many Pro
grams, $900 obo 823-3940. 55U/22
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leave message 846-7056. 55tl 1/22
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1984 Honda Magna 750, Mint condition. Low mileage,
$1600 764-9081. 52tll/17
Round trip ticket from Houston to Indianapolis for
Thanksgiving, cheap. 52tll/17
Honda CX 500 custom low mileage good condition ,
with helmet $950 847-7878 or 847-0601. 52tl 1/17
NOTICE
WORD PROCESSING — Reasonable rates - thesis pa
pers, resumes, rush services 764-2931. 37t 12/6
THE BATT
DOES IT
DAILY
Monday
through Friday
Of The Battalion Staff
A breakthrough in laser treatment has proven effec
tive in removing dark purple or dark maroon birth
marks called port wine stains.
“Before this type of laser was developed, there was
no acceptable treatment for port wine stains,” said Dr.
Lynne Roberts, an assistant professor at the the Univer
sity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
In addition to the medical implications, which in
clude soft tissue deformity and vascular tumors, port
wine stains are unsightly and often cause psychological
problems, he said.
Because the dye laser affects only the stained area,
the risk of scarring, formerly between 50 to 60 percent
with other types of laser treatments, is virtually remote,
Roberts said.
Light energy is absorbed by the red color of the stain
and the energy from this absorption is converted to
heat.
He said they are among the first five health-care in
stitutions in the United States to experiment with a tu
nable dye argon laser to remove the birthmark.
The heat seals the inflamed blood vessels of the
birthmark, said Amy Dick, a writer for the office of
medical information at the University of Texas South
western Medical Center at Dallas.
Dick also said 3 out of 10,000 infants are born with
port wine stains.
Though the operation can be performed on children
of any age, anesthesiologists prefer not to let children
under three have the operation.
The treatment takes four to eight treatments with a
two-month wait in between, she said.
Refugee advocates predict wave
of Central Americans into U.S.
HARLINGEPsf (AP) — Refugee
advocates are predicting a new wave
of Central Americans crossing into
South Texas from Mexico, fleeing
war and political uncertainty in El
Salvador and Nicaragua.
Officials with the U.S. Immigra
tion and Naturalization Service,
however, said Wednesday they have
no evidence of a mass exodus from
Central America.
Intensified fighting in El Salva
dor, combined with the end of a
cease fire in Nicaragua and uncer
tainty over an upcoming election
there will send thousands to seek
safety in the United States, refugee
advocates said.
More than 500 have died and
1,000 have been wounded in El Sal
vador since leftist anti-government
guerrillas launched an offensive
over the weekend. Thousands dis
placed from the intensified Salvado
ran fighting will head to the United
States, said Mark Schneider, an at
torney with the Proyecto Libertad le
gal aid office for Central Americans
in Harlingen.
ther intimidated and try to leave,”
Schneider said. “The war has come
out from underground. This is full-
fledged war.”
Jose Rafael Romero, a Salvadoran
seeking political asylum in Har
lingen, agreed.
“I spoke with my family Saturday
on the telephone and the borders
were full of people leaving, trying to
said. “There’s a lot of uncertainty. I
think there’s a feeling that they need
to get out before the election.”
Fighting since a cease fire ended
Nov. 1 between the Nicaraguan gov
ernment and Contra rebels also
could drive people out of that coun
try, she said.
INS and Border Patrol officials,
however, said they have not received
any intelligence reports of large
Fhe people who are in the middle at this point are
going to be further intimidated and try to leave.”
— Mark Schneider,
Attorney
“The people who are in the mid
dle at this point are going to be fur-
come here and ask for political asy
lum,” Romero said.
Immigration attorney Linda Ya-
nez, in the border city of
Brownsville, said Nicaraguans wary
of political violence and uncertainty
surrounding the national elections
set for February also are leaving
again.
“A lot of them have been telling
me that their families are packing up
and getting ready to leave,” Yanez
numbers of Central Americans
headed their way.
“We don’t see any build-up as
such into Mexico or along the Mexi
can border,” said David Trevino, the
Border Patrol’s supervisory intelli
gence agent for the sector covering
the southernmost tip of Texas.
Duke Austin, INS spokesman,
said, “No matter what happens in
Central America, the advocates pre
dict an increase in immigrants.”
Boy recants
confession of
murder
Youngster says police
forced his admission
FORT WORTH (AP)-Al:
year-old lx>y charged with rait
dering an elementary school!
cher testified Wednesday thai
police investigator pressuredki
to say he committed the slaying
The seventh-grader testing
outside the jury’s presence doi |
ing his trial in the Aug. 28 s
bing death of 24-year-old Jt
Simpson. Her body was fou*
outside her Glen Park Eleir
tary School classroom. She k
been stabl>ed 17 times.
After the boy’s testimony,Sit
District Judge Scott Moore rule
that his statements to police
killed the teacher. I killedtheita
cher,” were admissible. Polices
the boy made the stateme:!
shortly after his arrest.
The judge had ruled be(cj
the trial that most otht
statements the boy madetopoLj
could not be admitted becati
they were improperly obtained
The boy’s attorney Earl 'lj
nie” Bates had asked Moore |
suppress all the boy’s stater.:
to rxilice about Simpson’s killir;|;
including the “I killed the (
cher” remark.
The Ixiy testified that on Se:Bi
6 jxdice picked him up at sckg
without nis parents’ knowlec!
and questioned him forabouinf
hours alxmt the killing.
He said Detective J.D. Roberit
told him witnesses saw the I
near the schcxil before Simpd
was found and that if polices
covered his fingerprints nearC
portable classrooms he would !
“in trouble.”
“He told me that if I didntf
and tell the truth and theyfonj
out that I had done anything
I would never see my pare:!:
again,” the boy testified.
The boy said he thought R«
erts “was trying to put itoniHl
trying to accuse me of the killir;
. . He just started going oven
again and again.”
Rocket aborts shortly after takeoff
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE (AP) — A
guidance system malfunction forced a commer
cial rocket to abort its flight 30 seconds after it
lifted off Wednesday with 12 scientific experi
ments packed into its payload.
The Consort 2 lifted off from White Sands
Missile Range in New Mexico at 8:42 a.m., but
mission safety officials terminated thrusts 30 sec
onds later, Debbie Bingham, a spokeswoman at
White Sands said.
Officials were trying to determine whether the
abortive action or the malfunction caused the
payload to separate from the rocket.
“There was a malfunction in the guidance sys
tem of the rocket, the F-19, which is the booster
phase guidance system,” spokeswoman Monty
Marlin said.
The two-stage rocket’s suborbital flight was
supposed to last 15 minutes, reach 200 miles
above Earth and lodge the 1,004-pound payload
into seven minutes of very low gravity called mi-
crogravity.
“Obviously there’s no scientific data that will
come out of there because we never reached mi
crogravity, but we may be able to see if the (ex
periment) hardware works,” said Rick Mould,
spokesman for the University of Alabama in
Huntsville’s Consortium for Materials Devel
opment in Space.
Many of the experiments aboard the rocket
were contained in apparatus specially designed
for the trip.
The payload, which was supposed to return to
Earth about 60 miles downrange, was retrieved
intact about four miles from the launch site.
Mould said.
Officials were trying to determine if the sec
ond stage of the Starfire 1 rocket suffered any
damage. It was retrieved from a highway near
the launch site.
The F-19 guidance system, built by SAAB
Space of Sweden, cleared the routine preflight
checks, Deke Slayton, president of Space Services
Inc., said.
A problem with a cable connector that caused
problems in the rocket Tuesday was not asso
ciated with Wednesday’s malfunction, he said.
Houston-based Space Services built the rocket
and provided launch services in a $1 million con
tract with the University of Alabama.
The Consort 2 was the second rocket Space
Services to fly for the university consortium.
The launch of Consort 1 on March 29 was suc
cessful.
Walt Pennine, spokesmari$br SSI, saidhei
not expect the failure to slow commercial rod
launches.
“I imagine there will be the usual doulc.
Thomases, but you have to remember we've
ready had two successes,’ Pennine said. “WI
already established that private industry can
it. We established that in 1982.”
SSI launched the Conestoga 1 in 1982 wii
mock payload, becoming the first private 1
company to launch a commercial rocket with;
vate funding.
Mould said the University of Alabama also!
eager to begin work on another launch.
“I think the sounding rocket industry, iiii
proven industry,” Mould said. “I think it’s OK*
the rare times that you have a problem wiiffl
sounding rocket. We have flown successful!'
fore and I’m sure we’ll be able to fly again ass
as possible.”
Among the experiments launched with
Consort 2 rocket was a Penn State study us
chameleon skins. Biochemist Roy Hammersf
believed the study could assist research on h
loss and muscle degeneration diseases.
‘It’s lit up!’
Pinball attracting new crowd with flashy machines
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DALLAS (AP) — Bright red and
yellow lights flash as Beth Hanna’s
fingers tense, then rapidly push flip
per buttons.
“Got a million points!” she cries
after flipping the ball into a lighted
target. The machine emits a lion’s
roar. The electronic scoreboard
flashes 1,648,500 points.
“See that!” Hanna says excitedly.
“It’s lit up!”
The silver metal ball rolls down
and Hanna again, quickly, hits the
buttons.
But it’s too late.
The ball silently glides between
the machine’s two flippers. The
nemesis of all pinball players — the
dreaded drain hole — once again
has claimed a ball, abruptly bringing
Hanna’s game to an end.
“Shoot!” she says.
Another day. Another quarter.
Actually, Hanna comes to Alad
din’s Castle at Red Bird Mall once a
week. She’s no pinball wizard; she
just plays for fun. She played a lot
more often when her husband
brought home an old pinball ma
chine six years ago. But, she laughs
and says, “I burned it up.”
Not as in points, she explains, but
as in fire.
“It just started smoking and
stuff,” says Hanna, a cashier at a
men’s clothing store. “I had to un
plug it.”
Hanna is among the thousands of
fans across the country fueling a re
naissance in the classic arcade game
of pinball. It’s a comeback that ar
rives 60 years after the modern pin
ball game was invented in the base
ment of a Chicago apartment
building. Until the late 1970s, the
ball-and-plunger was king of the hill
in the coin-operated arcade market.
Then came video. Industry offi
cials and arcade owners agree pin-
balls were zapped — almost fatally
— by the explosion of visually stun-
and synthesizer chips, above board
ramps and dancing finger puppets.
“We have pinball machines that
shake, that have belligerent, omi
nous voices and musical accompani
ment,” Sharpe says. “It’s much more
of a total experience.”
Among the latest models:
— Earthshaker! is the first pinball
machine that actually shakes and rat
tles when players flip the ball into
daredevil motocross race to be;
No. 1.” Special feature: a ramp
carries the ball up the backboard
vertical playing surface.
— Taxi has “true-to-charaf
electronic reproductions of !
voices of Soviet chief Mikhail&■
chev, Santa Claus and Dracula
object: “picking up” famous pa
gers.
it
Before the ’90s are over, you’ll see some amazing
creations. But the guiding principle will always be a ball
and flippers.”
— Roger Sharpe,
Marketing director
ning video games in the early 1980s.
“Pinballs almost disappeared in
1982,” says Roger Sharpe, market
ing director at the Chicago-based
Williams Electronics Games Inc., the
world’s largest pinball manufac
turer.
Williams was forced to take pin
ball back to the drawing board. Its
mission? To make the games more
competitive with video. In 1984, the
company introduced the first of a
new generation of razzle-dazzle pin
ball games designed to be a feast for
the fingers, eyes and ears. Today,
wildly colorful and noisy pinball
games are loaded with computer
earthquake zones. With the right
combination, a small board piece
shaped like California splits from
Nevada and a built-in sound system
registers the ensuing rumble. It was
designed before the recent Bay Area
earthquake.
— Elvira and the Party Monsters
showcases the buxom and campy
television horror queen as players try
to spell out E-L-V-I-R-A and light a
skull cave for 3 million points. “Boo
gie Men” monsters pop up from the
playing surface and dance a jig when
enough points are scored.
— Banzai Run challenges players
to defeat the “King of the Hill in a
Sounds great, you may say.
Only problem is you’ve
been good with a spring-lo;
plunger and ball. Never fear. N'" I
pinball models automatically m
themselves to a player’s skills
better you are, the harder it gels
And as if they weren’t f*
enough, holographic images,
and extensive multi level
fields on pinball machines are
around the corner. “Before the
are over, you’ll see some a#
creations,” Sharpe says. “Bui
guiding principle will always ^
ball, or multiple balls, and flippe'
At the height of the video c ri
pinball’s share of the arcade w.
fell to a tiny 5 percent. Today
ball machines have wrestled -
nearly 35 percent of the $
coin-operated amusement indu i
Sharpe says. Video games still h f
commanding 45 percent share
the 1.5 million pinball games u
cades, theaters and restau 1
worldwide “are coming on sttf
Sharpe says.