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It’s all here in this report from the independent management consulting firm, Booz Allen & Hamilton. In a world focused on downsizing, researchers asked more than 100 professionals to compare the object-oriented NeXTSTEP™ development environment to other leading platforms, particularly Sun™ They asked about the quality of applications. User satisfaction. Development speed. Ease of maintenance. And application integration. We think the results will 01992 NeXT Computer, Inc. AH rights reserved. NeXT, the NeXT logo, NeXTSTEP and The Object is the Advantage are surprise you. Mainly because they surprised even us. At the risk of spoiling the ending, over 82% of those surveyed rated NeXTSTEP higher than any other environment. Not just in one or two areas, but in every major aspect. Call us at 1-800-TRY-NeXT and we’ll send you a copy. You’ll get a better idea of the advantages of NeXTSTEP-standard on all NeXT™ workstations and looming soon to the world of Intel® 486™ based machines. In the meantime, you might | make an environmental | study of your own. Spend some time in the NeXT world. | And avoid prolonged I exposure to the Sun. .. THE OBJECT IS THE ADVANTAGE: trademarhs of NeXT Computer, Inc Sun is a trodemarh of Sun ;*g : . Microsystems, Inc. Intel and 486 are trademarhs of Intel, Inc. M icroComputerCenter Computer Sales and Serum Located in the Memorial Student Center Open Monday - Friday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. Phone 845-4081 Page 6 The Battalion Thursday, July 23, Kids influence economy Youths spend over $1 billion for back-to-school, author says By Chris Carroll The Battalion Schoolchildren from the ages of four to 12 will spend more than $1 billion of their own money as they prepare to go back to school in August and influence how their parents spend another $14 billion. Dr. James McNeal, author of "Kids as Customers," said. Kids will place a high impor tance on conspicuous items, such as clothes, shoes and backpacks, because from store visits. But most prod uct information comes from other kids. Movies are also becoming important sources of product in formation, McNeal said. "I don't see anything unusual about this year, except there will be a lot more 'Batman' products and more '90210' products. Kids will be doing what's cool and wearing what's cool. There's some kind of code that kids use to com municate what's cool, and mar keters have yet to crack that code." these items help deter mine kids' identities and peer Mart store, says the back-to-scl season has already started. "We're starting early this) We've just started setting up back-to-school stuff, but kids haw already started coming in. looks like stuff from 'Batman'a '90210' will be pretty popular." Cuccaro expects business pick up when kids head back to school. "Our business usually picks up about 25 percent. It's really ti though, because there's onlyso many dollars in town and compe tition is pret- "When kids start participating with other kids as part of a group, having the right things becomes more important... - Dr. James McNeal of "Kids as Customers' group memberships, McNeal said. Products bearing images from the movie "Batman" and the TV series "Beverly Hills 90210" are expected to be big sellers when kids start their back-to-school shopping. The decisions on what items are popular are made by kids, but they receive information about different products from a variety of sources. Twenty-five percent of kids' in formation about products comes from television and 25 percent McNeal said having the right stuff to head back to school be comes important to kids at an ear ly age. "When kids start participating with other kids as part of a group, having the right things becomes more important. This is usually about the first grade," McNeal said. "By the time kids are 10 or 11, they are taking almost all of their buying cues from other kids." Gigi Cuccaro, a merchandising assistant at the College Station K- ty fierce,' she said. Wal-Mail in Collegt Station ex pects a 30 to 40 percent increase!’ the first week of August, the peal of the back-to-school season,, store assistant manager said. Wal Mart has been preparing forfe back-to-school rush for aboul month. McNeal said kids across country will spend $300 millionol their own money and $8 billion of their parents' on snack items, million of their own and $3.9 bil lion of their parents' on clothes, including $600 million for shoes. Drug cartel members escape Leader overpowers guards during attempt at prisoner transfer BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and his lieutenants overpowered guards seeking to transfer them to a military jail and es caped Wednesday after a gunbat- tle that left at least two dead, offi cials said. The escape of Escobar, one of the world's richest and most no torious businessmen, with hun dreds of murders to his name, was a major blow to the govern ment, which has been unable to counter the strength of the co caine cartels. It was in response to reports that Escobar was operating his Gaviria drug business from the luxurious ranch house prison that officials entered the jail Tuesday night to trans fer Escobar and his 14 lieutenants. The cartel leader instead seized three of the offi cials — the head of the jail, the national prison direc tor, and an assistant justice minister. About 400 army commandos raided the prison at dawn Wednesday, freed the captives and captured five cartel members. Escobar fled with nine other,car tel members, said President Cesar Gaviria. Gaviria, in a nationally broadcast speech Wednesday, appealed to Escobar to surrender ana said there was an outside chance that soldiers comb ing the property for hidden passages might find him At 10:40 a.m, Escobar had phoned reporters, sa; ing he was in a prison tunnel and would fight torn death. That call appears to have been a bluff. When the army regained control over the priso: 200 miles northwest of the capital, Escobar was; according to the Senate president, Joe Blackburn Gaviria said at a news conference that the arm; found no tunnel under the jail. He offered no expla nation for how Escobar could have escaped whet surrounded by 400 soldiers. Repeal of legislation may effect local liquor prices By Robin Goodpaster The Battalion The Texas Legislature's pro posed repeal of the requirement that liquor stores must be 51 percent owned by Texas resi dents may reduce the price of retail liquor for consumers, but it could also drive small liquor stores out of business, said a lo cal liquor store owner. "Competition is good, and I welcome it," said J.J. Ruffino, owner of JJ.'s liquor store in College Station. "But, if a huge retailer comes in, they may drive the small mom and pop establishments out of business." The current law of 51 percent ownership of any liquor estab lishment by Texas residents en courages local liquor sales, Ruffino said. The Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission is going through changes due to Sunset Law leg islation. The Sunset Laws are de signed to make necessary revi sions in state agencies. For ex ample, at sunset on September 1, the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission will cease to exist unless new bills are passed. However, the TABC will probably not go through the Sunset process and will contin ue to exist, Rob Giesecke, an ad ministrative assistant in Repre sentative Steve Ogden's office, said. There have been 15 recom mendations made to the Sunset Advisory Commission for changes in the TABC. These recommendations were made by the Sunset staff, TABC staff and members of the public. Some of them are: •clarification of statutory prohibitions on sales to minors •elimination of the two per cent alcohol excise tax discount and provision of authority to impose penalties for late pay ment / •removal of certain prohibi tions on charitable contribu tions and sponsorship by wine and spirits industries. Representative Steve Ogden expects the liquor legislation to be a big issue in the next session of the Texas legislature. Study shows cost of AIDS treatmenl soaring in U.S. Vo l. 91 No. Rub Roommate and Jake . Re By Jasi Ju Th The Texas gents apprc budget for th on Friday, oi University w $550 million. The budge cal year was ously with a after little op Board's meeti AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The price of caring for one person with AIDS in the United States has soared to $38, year, while developing countries harder hit by the disease struggle to spend a few hundred dollars per patient. Researchers said costs have risen substantially in the last year alone, in part because of the high price of drugs. The figures were disclosed in studies presented this week at the eighth International Conference on AIDS. While the week-long meeting has focused largely on the medical and personal tragedy of the disease, the latest research shows that AIDS is a financial disaster well. "Other types of costs can't expressed in dollars — the cost of fear, the cost of grief, the cost in inequity and discrimination and the long-term cost of a pandemi that does not receive the attentio: it deserves," said Dr. Daniel Tarantola of the Harvard School of Public Health. His research showed the financial inequities in pandemic —. or worldwide epidemic — of AIDS between wealthy nations and poor ones. Uni A A N D S A E M TH E AMERI C, A N WILD ERNE ss JU LY 23 - SE PTEM BER 3 u N 1 V E R S 1 T Y c E N T E R G A L L E R 1 E S GALLERY HOURS: TUES-FRI 9-8. SAT-SUN 12-6, CLOSED MONDAYS. LOCATED NEXT TO THE MSC FLAGROOM. Effective teaching sala cent. Acting or higher educ education, tl ommendatio tionate to the Texas A& priation sim lately 33,00 uates a year. Accordir Im int Pro: Please call the Office of University Art Collections and Exhibitions at (409) 845-8501 for more information. Ansel Adams: "Sanuaro Cactus, Sunrise, Arizona, 1942''. 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