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AP — The celestial yardstick
most commonly used for mea
suring the universe may have to
be recalibrated.
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.”
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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
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