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Store Locations: Common Market, by mail boxes in Commons Underground Market, tower level of Sbisa, ' Undet - by Underground Food Court Store Hours: 7:30 am to 11:00 pm Monday - Friday 11:00 am to 11:00 pm Saturday & Sunday Use Aggie Bucks, Bank Cards, Personal Checks * While supplies last Attention New Aggies!! Help the Faculty, Staff, and Student Leaders Help You! mnm EA.C.T. (First-time Aggie Contact Team) is a program where faculty, staff, & student leaders contact new Aggies. F.A.C.T. will welcome you to the University and check on how you are doing during your first semester at Texas A&M University. Remember to update your local phone number and address AT HEATON HALL SO THAT WE CAN GET YOU ON OUR V.I.P. LIST. J Aggie Orientation Leader Program Student Life Department of Student Life Student Life Orientation J’agiHOTuesda^^AugustSLlQPQ N ATION Dennis breezes through North Carol Residents prepared for major damage, surprised by mildness of hunk MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) — As her lit tle brother played “Go Fish” nearby with a pack of homemade cards, Cara Crowley pulled out her laptop to peck out the first lines of an es say about how she spent her summer vacation. “Today we’re stuck in an old high school,’’’ the 9-year-old Fredericksburg, Va., girl read aloud yesterday as she sat on the floor in the lobby of West Carteret High School. The storm forced her family to flee their rented condo at Atlantic Beach on Bogue Banks Island, about 25 miles from Morehead City. ‘“The hurricane came,” she wrote. “We couldn’t have picked a better target.” But compared to past North Carolina hur ricanes like Fran, Bonnie and Bertha, Hurri cane Dennis missed the mark. For all the in convenience he caused, Dennis was little more than a blowhard. “A mullet blow is what we call this,’’ Jeff Tbrnage, a line serviceperson for Carolina Power & Light Co., said as he surveyed downed power lines on Atlantic Beach. “Just a lot of wind and rain.” Although some residents of North Caroli na’s fragile Outer Banks were surprised by the high winds and rain, there was a sense things could have been a lot worse to the south along the Crystal Coast. In Morehead City, an empty tin grain silo on U.S. 70 blew down, and the Sanitary Fish Market lost its awning and some roof. Down the road at the ’60s and ’70s Museum, a ply wood cutout of late rocker Jim Morrison took a ride on the storm. TV Hood ventured out onto a pier at Nags Head and said it was a rough trip. “The wind’s blowing 50 mph and I weigh 220 and it was blowing me around,” Hood said as winds toppled a sign at a convenience store across the street. By midday yesterday in Morehead City, people were already venturing into the trash- and limb-strewn streets. On the waterfront. neither Jeremy Coy of Newportm 1 dren. Summer and Aaron, seemed! by Dennis. “This one right here has been slack, Cara’s father, Bob Cowley, fretteic just about every other island ontheii under a mandatory evacuation,buirj not. He wanted to get his moneybi condo they had to abandon twods;| five-day vacation. “Some of the condos out es that you get a refund ONLY mandatory evacuation,” he said.ll going to have a chat.” Cara just clutched her CuriousGecJ and said thanks for the one and surf-strolling they had. And she was thinking of ho would end. *TT1 probably end it that it’s back next summer than not go I she said. “Better safe than sorry, I knio Jn early loc hlf of scorin farther I led most. 1 (ringing nat ■ver the we ick of the net ■ersity and “These first :ad some of t Manufacturers increase cigarette prices as tax hike, new settlement looms RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The country’s leading cigarette man ufacturers have raised wholesale prices 18 cents a pack, anticipat ing a tax increase and the costs of a $206 billion settlement with the states over health care ex penses. The move is likely to increase retail prices by about 22 cents per pack, analysts said. Analysts said past data indi cates that the roughly 8-percent price increase will reduce de mand, but not so much to hurt profits. “It clearly shows that the in dustry has the ability to offset higher costs with higher prices,” Roy Bury, an analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman, said. Philip Morris USA, the world’s biggest tobacco maker, initiated the increase last Friday, It was matched by competitors. Cigarettes currently cost be tween $2.50 and $3.25 a pack, depending on the region of the country. Spokesperson at Philip Morris, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., and RJ. Reynolds Tobac co Holdings Inc. all confirmed the increase yesterday but re fused to comment. A spokesperson at Lorillard To bacco Co. did not return phone calls. The price increase is the sec ond largest in industry history, behind a 45-cent increase in No vember. That increase followed a $206 billion settlement with 46 states suing the industry to recover costs of treating ill smokers. The industry previously set tled for $40 million with the four other states. Now, the industry faces further cost increases, including a 10-cent increase in the federal excise tax set for Jan. 1, and an increase in settlement expenses from about 46 cents per pack to about 50 cents, Morgan Stanley Dean Wit ter analyst David Adelman said. buiiic u/i t ■for our levs ■r j . Bust for us Judge ente|» • ■17-year-oli innocent fcnsh", £* i 1. Ouerrieri sa tor s hooter i,iatedtea ' 1VJ1 ollv/Ulu[ sl L puts loo Man sentenced for posting fake news stories on Web LOS ANGELES (AP]-! 11 1998, Th entered an innocent plea F rt anc ^ WJS terday for the whitesuf: iiunarnent - who allegedly confessed:J l JJ | 8 an 1 ie ' vv ' ] 11 a Filipino-American pos er and shooting up a Je«' munity center full ofchil Buford O. Furrow Jr. st tween his lawyers, SeanS and Marilyn Bedmrski, stated they did not intend.] a plea. Magistrate judge Stepfc man then entered one for The family of slain let* er Joseph Ileto sat aaT C( , s [ ie j ped n courtroom. Ileto, 39, was«j never j-, lv death on Aug. 10. lityallsum Although the arraignir,: L much as , * Lrillinrr tha cmvc- L . • brasher als Ei State Uni' oints. leason after h will score }y time,” sh ball is in tl am a lot [of g In many cas lyer worked nd season LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who drove up the price of a computer company’s stock by posting a fake news story on the Internet was sentenced yesterday to five months of home detention and five years of probation. Gary Dale Hoke, 26, of Raleigh, N.C., also was or dered to pay $93,000 to investors who bought PairGain Technologies Inc. stock, then sold at a loss after the com pany denied the bogus report that it was about to be bought for $1.35 billion. Rejecting the prosecution’s request for a prison sen tence, the judge questioned whether part of the blame for the scam was the lack of Internet safeguards to pre vent posting of false messages. Hoke, a former PairGain employee who did not profit from the hoax, pleaded guilty to two counts of securities fraud. He faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and up to $1 million in fines per count. In a separate settlement with the Securities and Ex change Commission, Hoke admitted disseminating fraudulent information about Thstin-based PairGain and agreed to comply with federal antifraud regulations in the future. The April 7 hoax pushed up PairGain stock more than 30 percent. TVading on the stock that day amounted to 13.7 million shares, about seven times its average volume. The price of PairGain stock fell back to $9.38 per share when the company issued a statement denying such a deal was in the works. 'J; for that killing, thegove: ler into a tr could add hate-crimesallej fellow scorii that would encompaii mple Thrasl wounding of five people,: ing three children, the sat | at the Jewish Community' in suburban Granada Hills Furrow faces sepatat-; charges of attempted that shooting. The district attorney’: also filed a murder i Ileto killing and added half allegations against Furrow Both state and federal( carry a potential death pei Experts have suggested:! will have a defense basedo:| tal illness. 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