Thursday, October 5,2| A ntinued from Pagein » said the additii 11 come from the incres ney. indicated that financii "e often some of the m factors when individml aduate school, sometimes come down lumbers,” he said. “Inc® ergrads, graduate stud® orted by parents. So® ave an individual that Ins :ssional for 10 years, hat o kids and is going.bad work.” /ilkins said hisdecisiont I was almost, swayedbyi ;ems. few universities that wet tuition waivers,” Wilkin that he did not receive /er from A&M becaus prohibits the Univeri g them, but that A&W id the restriction byiit- ends. issue in future years isle 's,” he said. “Mosttof /ersities offer tuitk ufsday, October 5, 2000 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Page 7 A THE BATTALION News in Brief — ^Pentagon expert disagrees with Anthrax opponents WASHINGTON (AP) — A top entagon expert on chemical md biological warfare says the ileas of service members claim- ng harm from the anthrax vac- ine fail to prove the shots are ei- :her unsafe or ineffective. After a string of military and civil ian witnesses called for an end to be Pentagon’s mandatory vacci- lation program aimed at protect- ng against use of anthrax spores as weapons, Marine Gen. Randall .. West said he regretted their ill nesses and the deaths of relatives. But West, senior Pentagon ad viser on chemical and biological protection, said the military also does not want to have to explain thousands of deaths in any fu ture use of anthrax spores in an enemy or terrorist attack. Power plants plan to increase general capacity of electricity (Genetically engineered foods lawsuit dismissed aid that in the meantk other changes are attract- lumber of top-notch grad- to A&M. e student representate ision-making committee: :mendously,” he said. | WASHINGTON (AP) — A fed- ersity has also created&| ra jj U( jg e i ias dismissed a lawsuit by nbudsman to ensurefai-| r j t j cs 0 j- a g r j cu ] tura i biotechnology aduate pif graduate students an; l landing of the Universi- y rence, on Thursday 1 Arena, will allow grad-] students to meet wit companies in a round i order to allow the sh irk and learn as much t the companies, rage graduate students ft they are not pursuing a r, so that the company iber of students that' ,” Yates said, id the University’s! i improve the gradual ersity is making sow :re is still more works HOUSTON (AP) — Amid state deregulation of electrical utilities, a power plant construction boom is un derway across Texas. The 24 plants now under con struction will boost Texas’ total gen erating capacity by by 13,817 megawatts, enough extra electricity to power Houston and Austin, ac cording to the Texas Journal of The Wall Street Journal. Most new plants will be fueled by natural gas and financed by indepen dent power producers competing to be the first into a deregulated Texas marketplace. The boom follows a decade with virtually no construction of new elec tric generation capacity. The new. plants represent a $10 billion investment, said Sen. David Sibley, an architect of the 1999 deregulation bill. “It is unbelievable,” Sibley said in the newspaper on Wednesday. “It exceeded my expectations.” Other companies have also an nounced plans for plants providing another 17,129 megawatts, but in- Texas is the only state with its own power grid. — proponents of power plant boom dustry observers believe only half of that will be built in the next five years. State officials and corporate ex ecutives contend that Texas will not experience problems from deregu lation suffered by California, where residents have endured shortages and skyrocketing prices. Texas is the only state with its own power grid, proponents say, and also has created better regulations and more competition than other states. But Texas’ grid will need upgrad ing to distribute all the new power. The Texas Public Utility Commission fore casts construction of $700 million in new transmission lines, which might not be enough to handle the load. Addition of so much capacity “will put strains on the transmission grid,” Robert W. Harvey, vice chairman of Reliant Energy Inc., Houston said. Besides transmission challenges, some legislators, consumer advocates and energy-industry officials question the wisdom of becoming so reliant on natural-gas plants, with such fuel prices having doubled so far this year. subject to the same regulatory con trols as food additives. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kol- lar-Kotelly, in a ruling Sept. 29, said the biotech critics failed to prove that FDA violated procedural and envi ronmental laws in establishing the policy or that the agency should man date labeling of the foods. Unless the agency decides biotech ingredients are materially different from conventional products, it “lacks a basis upon which it can legally mandate labeling, regardless of con sumer demand,” she wrote. Genetically engineered crops, herbicide-resistant soybeans in par ticular, became popular with farmers in the late 1990s and are found in products throughout supermarkets. The FDA policy was established in 1992 in the last year of the Bush administration and has been de fended vigorously by the Clinton administration. FDA officials an nounced this spring that they would propose mandatory safety reviews of new gene-altered products, but they insist they still believe the foods are safe. Such reviews are now on a voluntary basis. The lawsuit was filed in 1998 by several anti-biotech organizations, including The Center for Food Safe ty, and a group of scientists and reli gious leaders. nued from Page li n and fees for cours- mts must take a set )urses depending ic encourages studenB : studying abroad be' nefits outweigh tbi do it, because mes to take time offto ; amount of money it ver is very minimal the experiences yoil e of Engineering has ummer 2001, one le to Germany. Ths hitecture has trips ft ^all 2001 to Mexico t, France, Greece and also a number of ill' el opportunities that irough scholarships ge and students are aeir own travel pro- ivian Paul, associate national Programs, we sent one to Japan, ming to go to Honjj >t we’ve had students’ e, Spain and 1 , said the by allow- credit and aat relates the pro-; e operate in today’s 'essional discipline dge of another cul- “The disciplines of ege of Architecture) :rnational. 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