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/ j The Battalion Et Cetera Wednesday •January21, Signal placement to cause delays Motorists traveling through the in tersection at Texas Avenue and George Bush Drive can expect delays early Thursday morning because of construction. Beginning midnight Thursday, the permanent signal-mast arms at the intersection will be placed in their fi nal positions. A College Station po lice officer will help direct traffic while the mast arms are being placed. The work should be completed by 6 a.m. Thursday. “This work is being performed in off- hours because of the severe disruption it would cause during normal work hours,” said Pat Williams, Texas De partment of Transportation’s area en gineer in Bryan. “Duringthe operation, the contractor will be in the middle of the intersection and affecting traffic movement in all directions.” Seats open for senator positions The University Student Senate has five open seats and is taking ap plications for the seats. There are three off-campus sena tor seats, one business senator seat and one liberal arts seat open. Applications are due on Jan. 30 and can be picked up in the Student Government office by room 109 in the Koldus building. Oprah cracks up Texas courtroom AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Oprah Winfrey, facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by Texas cattlemen, broke up the courtroom Tuesday by jokingly glaring at a potential juror who said she didn’t always enjoy her talk show. U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson excused nine people during the morning session of jury selection, seven because of their connections to the cattle industry and two be cause they said they like Winfrey. Winfrey was greeted with cheers when she left the courthouse on a lunch break. Industry giants click to offer faster Internet servit Cooperation quenches consumers’ continual need for speed with asymmetrical digital subscriber!: NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the biggest players in the computer and telephone in dustries are teaming up to offer Internet ac cess so blindingly fast that clicking through Web pages could be as easy as flipping through a book. Some of the phone companies hope to of fer the service, which would work over ordi nary home telephone lines, early this year. Computer users would have to get new modems—for about $200 — but not new PCs. Microsoft Corp., Compaq Computer and Intel Corp., along with the nation’s five re gional telephone companies, are developing a single national standard for the service, which is known as asymmetrical digital sub scriber line, or ADSL. ADSL currently is available in a few loca tions around the country, but the equipment used in one place is not necessarily compat ible with the hardware used elsewhere. ADSL would be cheaper and easier to in stall than the two best-known means of get ting high-speed data into the home — spe cialized telephone lines and cable modems, which use the heavy coaxial cable that con nects to your TV set. Also, ADSL would allow people to talk on the phone while their computer is connected to the Internet via the same line — something that can’t be done now. The agreement on technical standards is to be announced next week at the ComNet trade show in Washington. With the use of these new modems, the World Wide Wait would evaporate. ADSL modems would let consumers browse the Web at 1.5 million bits per second, or bps. That’s 30 times faster than the fastest modems now commonly available. ADSL is also a continuous connection: Your computer would be in constant touch with the Internet. You wouldn’t have to use your computer’s dialer program to call Amer ica Online or some other Internet service. The new standard is an “exciting develop ment” for home Internet access, said Ann Jansen, spokesperson for ADSL Forum, a group of companies that make products for the vari ous ADSL standards now in limited use. “I’m the perfect person as to who they’re after,” she said. She has a home business and wanted faster access. Installing a specialized high-speed line was too complicated, so she decided to wait for ADSL. “Now we’re seeing the demand for people like me — small office, home office — who need bandwidth. The cry for bandwidth is huge,” she said. Bandwidth is a measure of how much data can be stuffed through the wires and cables of the country’s telecommunications networks. ADSL has a theoretical upper limit of 8 million bps. enough to transmit the complete works of Shakespeare in five seconds. Users could use the ADSL connection to link to any Internet service provider they choose. Currently, most charge about $20 a month for unlimited access. ADSlI would entail an additional charge® phone bill: U SWest, for example, ck.: a month for its ADSL service availablt| in Phoenix. ADSL looks like a ver\'strong cor to cable modems because it doesncf any complicated setup and onlyail investment is needed by the telec.\ cations companies. ()able systems, in contrast, nee. vestments for upgrades beforeb are capable of carrying two-wayac cations. So far, Internet accessvi; available in only about 10 percei country. In addition, cable moden to $500. Ameritech and GTE Comma Corp. plan to offer the new stand limited basis early this year, peels to do so during the second and SBC<'.ommunicationsisain middle of the year. Tomb of the Unknowns DNA tests may solve 26-year-old question ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The Viet nam veteran in the Tomb of the Un knowns may be known after all. Evidence that the Pentagon says it is carefully examining suggests the scant remains buried beneath a mar ble slab at Arlington National Ceme tery may belong to Air Force 1st Lt. Michael J. Blassie of St. Louis, whose A-37 attack plane was shot down over South Vietnam in May 1972. The military is faced with the un pleasant prospect of digging up the remains to conduct DNA testing — and explaining why officials discard ed records that may have linked the remains to the downed pilot. “The gravesite would have to be disrupted if there were any action tak en regarding this set of remains,” Navy Capt. Michael Doubleday, a Pentagon spokesperson, said Tues day. “We certainly have an obligation to family members of those individu- presents The 1998 Bridal Show & Benefit Qunday, January 25th 12-5 pm & Brazoq Center Proceeds will be donated to Hospice Brazos Valley. 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Science - Jill Reed. Sports - Assistant Editor: Jeff Webb; Michael Ferguson, Chris Ferrell, Travis Harsch, Robert Hollier, Al Lazarus, Colby Martin, Aaron Meier, Katie Mish, Philip Peter, Jeff Schmidt & Michael Taglienti. Aggielife - Marium Mohiuddin, Rhonda Reinhart, Chris Martin, Leah Templeton, Travis Hopper, April Towery, Brandi Ballard, Travis Irby & Stephen Wells. Opinion - Len Calloway, Adam Collette, Jesse Czelusta, Donny Ferguson, Kendall Kelly, Caleb McDaniel, Beverly Mireles, Manisha Parekh, Stewart Patton, Mickey Saloma, Joe Schumacher, News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M Univeisity in the Division of Student Publications, a unit of the Department of Journalism. News offices are in 013 Reed McDonald Building. Newsroom phone: 845-3313; Fax: 845-2647; E-mail: batt@unlx.tamu.edu; Website: http://battalion.tamu.edu Advertising Publication of advertising does not imply sponsorship or endorsement by The Battalion. 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Night News - Joyce Bauer, Jaclynn Barker, Ali Belin, Shane Elkins & Aaron Meier. Photo - Assistant Epitor: Brandon Bollom; Robert McKay, Greg McReynolds, Mike Fuentes, James Francis & Jake Schrickling. Graphics - James Palmer, Chad Mallam, Jared Faulkner & J.P. Beato. Cartoonists - Ed Goodwin, John Lemons, Dave Hoffman, Gabriel Ruenes, Victor Vanscoit, Michael Nordfelt and Quatro Oakley. Copy Editors - Leslie Stebbins, Jennifer Jones, David Johnston, Martha Gidney, Patrick Pavlik & Veronica Serrano. Radio - Andrew Bailey, Jodie Rae Sartin, Laura Stuart & Karina Trevino. Web - Anita Tong & Jeremy Brown als who are still missing. ... We also have an obligation to all of those who have served in wars in the past and who view this site as very hallowed ground.” “We certainly have an oblige ation to family members of those individuals who are still missing. ,, NAVY CAPT. MICHAEL DOUBLEDAY PENTAGON SPOKESPERSON Blassie’s family, including his mother, three sisters and a younger brother, say the available evidence points to Arlington National Ceme tery and the Tomb of the Unknowns as their loved-one’s resting place. But they said Tuesday they are willing to wait while the government inquires further. “They are having to backtrack on the document trail,” said Pat Blassie, younger sister of the Air Force pilot. “We don’t want them to do a quick job. We trust that they are really being serious about this issue.” As far back as the original selection of the remains to be buried with un known veterans ofWorld War I, World War II and the Korean War, some have suspected that the Vietnam remains belonged to Blassie. A South Viet namese recovery team found the re mains in late 1972 near a crash site out side An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon. The problem now facing the Pen tagon results in part from the increas ing ability of forensic scientists to identify remains from bare fragments of bone. Guatemala safe foj tourists, official sai f r ST. MARY S Cl 1 Y. Md. (AP) — - Guatemala’s ambassadcl l Jnited States visited St. Mary's College on Tuesday loop country’s concern over the rape of five students who we; study tour of the Central American nation. “This is just one of those unfortunate happenings • Lamport said. A band of gunmen forced a tour bus into sugar canefe tlay, robbing 16 St. Mary’s College students and tead® raping five. Four suspects have been arrested. Farlier Tuesday, Lamport told the NBC "Today"si: tourists need not fear traveling to his country'. “Guatemala is a safe country to go to,” he said. The newspaper Prensa Libre reported Tuesday, howe,: authorities don’t even learn about most attacks agair eigners. 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