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That is the upshot of an analysis by a team of astronomers who worked with new, more precise measurements of the distance to a far-off galaxy. If their analysis is correct, the universe may be expanding faster and could be somewhat younger than currently thought, the re searchers report in today’s issue of the journal Nature. Ever since Edwin Hubble dis covered the universe was expanding in 1929, astronomers have sought to determine the rate of that expan sion, called the Hubble constant, and whether the universe will con tinue expanding or eventually col lapse in on itself. Over the past five years, astronomers have come up increasingly more accurate mea surements, and some believe their estimates are within 10 percent of the actual rate. U.S. pursuing tobacco suits WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department sued the na tion’s tobacco industry yester day seeking billions of dollars spent treating smoking-related illnesses, accusing cigarette- makers of a 45-year campaign of deceit "to preserve their enor mous profits whatever the cost in human lives.” “They placed profits above the public health,” Attorney General Janet Reno said as her department filed a civil suit in U.S. District Court against the major cigarette-makers and re search and public relations in stitutes they funded. "The ciga rette companies realized — at least since 1953 — that the truth poses a mortal threat to their businesses.” To reach these estimates, as tronomers measure and compare distances to certain flickering stars called Cepheid variables. As tronomers use the brightness of Cepheids observed in far-off galax ies and compare them with Cephei ds in a galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The problem, however, has been determining the distance to the LMC, which has been measured only to within 10 percent accuracy. NASA researcher Eyal Maoz and his colleagues tried to get around the problem by using new, more precise measurements to another galaxy al together, known as NGC4258. These measurements are believeti to be accurate to within 4 percent. These new findings indicate “something is probably wrong with the Cepheid calibration,” Maoz, who is at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., said. "If it is correct, it has significant im plications for our understanding of the universe.” Q If a Cepheid in a gala unknown distance (B ...is one- fourth as . bright as one in a galaxy of distance from earth Nature Second explosion rod Florida A&M Universf B TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A pipe bomb exploded yesterday in a building at Florida A&M Uni versity, the second blast at the his torically black school in less than a month. No injuries were reported. Damage was minor. Warning calls were received be fore both explosions, but investi gators would not provide any de tails about yesterday’s call. In the Aug. 31 blast, a caller said he wanted to “get rid of some of them n—-rs.” No one was hurt, and there was little damage from that blast. Authorities also received a call yesterday warning of a bomb in another campus building, hut a search turned up nothing. “There are obvious, common- sense connections you make,” Byron Price, FBI> sor in Tallahassee, said added that authoritiej concrete evidence linking explosions. Authorities have oi $10,000 reward for ink leading to an arrest andct in the first bombing. The bomb that wenioi day exploded in a fa-l stroom of Perry Paige has four floors of lata fices, classrooms aai ROTC office. 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