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News Monday • August 11, El Nino Continued from Page 1 “Every year farmers worry about the weather,” Kent said. “But this year is different, because what me teorologists have predicted so far has been wrong for the most part.” Although hurricane season does not end until November, Kim said the Gulf Coast may not see a tropi cal system this year because of the strong El Nino. ProfessorWilliam Gray, a national hurricane expert from Colorado State University, predicted in June that El Nino would not have a strong effect on the hurricane season. Now Gray has announced that he may have incorrectly guessed the effect of El Nino. His prediction now calls for 11 named storms, five hur- Halls Continued from Page 1 If the apartment-style residence is successful, Mizer said, more rooms will be converted into the apartment-style rooms. The four residents will be surveyed periodi cally during the year, and a group discussion will be held at the end of the Fall semester. ricanes and one intense hurt This is one less hurricane an: less intense hurricane thanks dictions in June. An intense!; cane has winds exceedinglll The Gulf of Mexico has or! perienced Hurricane Danny Category 1 hurricane which about 1H hours and broughie : I rain and little damage. Kim said Texans are gei comfortable with theweatk wood is selling cheaperthan hurricane seasons, and )c<huls a. at a minimum,hest 11 Wards said farmers needt®un riodically to keep plants from; If Texas experiences a drought this year, farmersra again turn to thegovernmem lief as they did twoyearsagoi El Nino’s strong presencewas Texas weather. Ron Sasse, director dence Life, said residencehd ovations for the next tenyt; in the planningstage.Theih lion project involves mode tion of residence halls,repc upgrades of fire alarmsi conditioning systems Mizer said the bah® dorms will receive the most; because the buildings are in; a complete restoration. 'in !. Pack Rat Photograph: Brandon Bollom K.J. Green, a freshman education major, packs her belongings for the end-of-the-summer move home. Envoy Clinton expected to use line-item veto WASHINGTON (AP) — President Clinton, the first chief executive with the power to do so, will delete individual items from the care fully constructed budget and tax-cut plans en acted barely a week ago, aides said Sunday. Clinton skipped church services Sunday to ponder his pending vetoes, which he ex pects to be immediately challenged in court. White House spokeswoman Anne Luzzatto would not say whether Clinton spent his time consulting with aides or reviewing his options in private. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said on tele vision Clinton will strike items “on both the spending and the tax sides of the budget.” He would not say what would be vetoed, de ferring to a presidential announcement. Under provisions of the line-item veto legis lation, Clinton has until midnight Monday to strike provisions from the budget bill. By using the line-item veto in this way, Clin ton not only becomes the first U.S. president to exercise it but also sends notice to Congress that he will do it again if amendments that dis please him are tacked onto spending bills. Presidents have sought line-item veto authority since Ulysses S. Grant in the 1870s. Clinton is the first to get it, un der a law passed by the Re- publican-controlled Con gress that took effect Jan. 1. “He will use (the veto) with the view that by doing so, he can create a useful and, I think, potentially very strong deterrent to people,” Rubin said on ABC- TV’s “This Week.” “He has thought this through Clinton with enormous care.” There are precious few places in the bud get and tax plans where Clinton can flex his newfound power. Only a handful of 79 special-interest tax breaks in the $152 billion tax-cut bill are eligi ble. Some have been ruled out as necessary or previously agreed in budget negotiations. Among spending items, a small policy as pect of the Medicaid program has been identi fied as veto-eligible. White House aides say such a provision would be vetoed only if it is inconsistent with administration policy, is flawed and was not negotiated. On Friday, an administration official added the stipulation that the president must consid er the provision “problematic enough” to war rant a veto. Continued from Page 1 The emphasis on security initial ly prompted protest from the Pales tinians, who feared their issues would be ignored. But Ross appeared to mollify Arafat by telling him that restored se curity cooperation would be fol lowed by a far-reaching political ini tiative by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. "The political issues that divide the parties are going to have to be addressed and resolved,” Ross reas sured Arafat. Arafat rejected Israeli charges that his police force wasn’t helping search for those responsible for a double suicide bombing July 30 that killed 15 people in an open-air mar ket in Jerusalem. He also complained to Ross about the tough Israeli travel ban on Palestinians imposed after the attack, which preventsthe:i going to jobs in Israel, tn abroad or, in some casfiJM leaving their towns. “We explained thesu the Palestinian people, made it clear that we are to the peace process in pects,” Arafat told reporter. Arafat suggested the States sit in on securitycooi :en: tion meetings to assess the of cooperation. Palestinian Information^ T Yasser Abed Rabbo saidbefoi a gr| meeting that if Ross camel about security issuesonly 'ii we are not going to discussaK 'he at all.” M But after the meeting there; much more upbeat spin. “We want an effective sec coordination with thelsraeiis is the door to the visit of Aibrj fra; which would translateiMO/ffit measures,” said Palestinian tiator Nabil Amr. an 'u the UNT professors display 'car of the future' Weather Outlook DENTON (AP) — It has some drawbacks, this “car of the future” that’s on display at the University of North Texas. It has a 9 horsepower motor; its maximum speed is 25 mph; and it can go only 15 miles before it needs more fuel. On the other hand, the vehicle created by three UNT professors has an engine that will never overheat and will start in the coldest of weath er. Their car, named CooLN2Car, runs solely on liquified nitrogen at minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit. The vehicle consists of a large nitrogen tank and several new mechanical parts attached to the frame of a 1973 Volkswagen Beetle. The surrounding air temperature heats the liquid nitrogen, converting it to nitrogen gas. There is no need for any added heat, and no combustion occurs. Simply exposing the liquified nitro gen to the temperature of the air, which is significantly warmer, is enough to force a physical change and create an energy transfer. The difference between the tem perature of the liquified nitrogen and the nitrogen gas creates energy in much the same way that combusted gasoline powers today’s cars, the sci entists said. “Even if you’re at the coldest place on earth, the temperature of the liq uid will always be much colder,” said Carlos Ordonez, an assistant profes sor of physics who helped design the roadster. “It will always combust. You will always have transportation.” The engine remains cool to the touch, although the idea is to warm up the gas as much as possible, Or donez said. The vehicle can utilize its own exhaust as air conditioning for the interior, he noted. Although the car is not legal for street use, the researchers hope to de velop it further and eventually make practical models. “We have proof that the concept works, but not proof that it could be commercialized,” Ordonez said. “That would be the next stage of the research.” The UNT team — whose leaders also include Mitty Plummer, associ ate professor of engineering technol ogy, and Richard Reidy, assistant pro fessor of materials science — received a two-year, $98,000 grant from the Texas Advanced Technolo gy Program in December 1995 to de velop a working model of what had been theorized on paper. They hope to receive another grant or enter into a partnership with a company that will fund more re search and development. Since nitrogen accounts for about 78 percent of Earth’s atmosphere, a car - powered entirely by liquified air is a feasible next step, the three said. 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