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*. fe t tv t» • i . f * i ' * ^ • * '■ * .* * * ' 1 «' .* ..SA »• i • < ‘ i iMH’i'«! *. te'w'i* t»-i» #'* » Page 2 NEWS THE BATTALION PlPTM flPP5 Hey f/o^o, Vou He/ir THE HUMAAJ'5 Qow& To D/E (JajLEsS U)E 5£>UD H/M Back 7b H/s ou>aJ OH' Come off it/ You’ve Htted aie 5iajce the aIo/ieaIT X 6ot Here / X5 The Bi6, Bai> Ape THRE^TEAiED BY THE Little Homaaj;> You TH//UJ< You’re the superior Bei/u6 AJou) z^Alb X BEPRESEAiT EVERY- THIAJG You ToATHED about HuAfA/uiryj PM P.PELUnfl Bo^u? Uhl You Please Tell Him He's over REA6TIAJ6 Missile defense test successful WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s successful mis sile defense test bolsters Presi- . dent Bush’s hopes for building at least a rudimentary defense against ballistic missile attack on - the United States and its allies ; by 2004. The destruction of a mock warhead in space by a missile ’ interceptor launched from t Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands was an important step for the Pentagon’s missile de fense effort, but must be fol lowed by more successes in more frequent and more real istic tests, officials said. The success late Saturday night followed two dramatic test failures during the Clinton ad ministration. “This test is just one on a journey, one stop on a journey,” said Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, head of the Pentagon’s missile defense programs. He held a news conference at the Pentagon less than an hour after the collision of the interceptor and its target created a huge white flash in space. “We will press on to the next test,” he said. That test, scheduled for Oc tober, may include some addi tional complexities, such as ex tra decoys aboard the target missile. In Saturday’s test, just one decoy was used. A White House spokes woman said the president was pleased with the result. Russia, however, renewed its warning that Bush’s missile de fense plans will hurt global se curity rather than boosting it by threatening the structure of nu clear disarmament treaties. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss missile defense and ex isting arms control pacts when they meet this coming weekend in Italy at a gathering of leaders of the world’s industrial powers. The successful intercept pro vides a political boost for a proj ect that some congressional De mocrats believe risks upsetting relations with Russia and China, and has the potential to create a new arms race. “They hit a bullet with a bul let, and it does work. We can de velop that capability,” said Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., on “Fox News Sunday.” One skeptic, Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, congratulated the military while cautioning that “it’s not a real world test yet. And we have a long way to go, and we should continue to pursue it.” Bush has asked Congress for $8.3 billion to finance missile defense research and testing in 2002, a $3 billion increase over this year. Saturday’s test cost about $100 million, Kadish said. “We should put this right at the top of the agenda,” Lott said. Biden, D-Del., was more cautious. “We don’t know what his program is yet,” he said on Fox. Asked if the spending re quest was worthwhile, Biden responded: “It depends on what he’s going to use it for. The answer is maybe.” The intercept was the Bush administration’s first test of the “hit-to-kill” technology it hopes will become a key ele ment of a missile defense net work. Ot three previous tests in 1999 and 2000, two tailed and one succeeded. The administration also is exploring the feasibility of oth er missile defense weaponry including an airborne laser, ship-based missile interceptors and space-based weapons* The system tested Saturday, using a land-based interceptor to hit the target during the mid course of its flight, is the most technically advanced. Missile defense test hits target The Pentagon successfully conducted a missile defense test late Saturday in what is an important milestone in the Bush administration’s quest to build a system to defend the nation and its allies against ballistic missile attacks. More frequent and realistic tests will follow, officials said. • -T" sfeliST 5 ''''' RUSSIA TX"' T“" T - A, ' \ v I '7 . S /T’ 23 il ^ . .,7 ^' ? JAPAN The interceptor missile was launched 21 minutes after the missile. A Minuteman II missile equipped with a mock warhead launched. UNITED STATES Vandenberg A.F.B. ' 2 ^ "As Pacific Ocean Hawaii , P-14C Equator N wa/alein Atoll East 180° West 160° At 11:09 p.m. EOT Saturday, the interceptor and the warhead collided 144 miles above earth. 140° 120° SOURCE: Department of Defense Scientists discuss global warming AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Ever since global warming became an issue, scientists have been grappling with a bliz zard of new data, feeding them into com puter models, trying to frame the planet’s present course and to project its future. New facts — and new questions — will be at hand for politicians and policy-makers gathering Monday in Bonn, Germany, for a new round of negotiations on controlling the greenhouse gases blamed for the grad ual warming of the Earth. Among the research: Measurements collected since Cold War submarines prowled under the Arctic ice show the ice cap is getting thinner year by year. Is it global warming or a natural cycle — or both? In the Himalayas, the Andes and other middle latitude mountains, glaciers are re ceding, while others in high latitudes like Scandinavia are expanding. In the coming decades, parts of the Earth will get less rain, while some will get more. What does this mean for food production, fresh water supplies, population shifts? As temperatures climb, the earth’s cloud cover will grow and reflect more sunlight, cooling in some places but perhaps warm ing others. No one is sure what effect this will have on the ground. Last week, at a conference of 1,500 sci entists in Amsterdam, only a few basic as sumptions were universally accepted: The Earth is indeed getting warmer because of human activity; the warming already has begun to change our lives and the trend will increase; we ought to do something about it. “The problem of global change is real, and it is more serious than is currently per ceived politically,” said Berrien Moore III, a key member of the U.N. Intergovernmen tal Panel on Climate Change. The Amsterdam conference coincided with the publication of the panel’s full tt The problem of global change is real, and it is more serious than is cur rently perceived politically. ” — Berrien Moore III U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 3,000-page report documenting evidence that the Earth is warming faster now than at any time in the previous 1,000 years and that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is higher than it has been in the last 400,000 years. The primary manmade factor in global warming, scientists say, is greenhouse gases — especially carbon dioxide from cars, fac tories and power stations. That thick&hing blanket of heat-trapping gases has already raised ground temperatures by 1.1 degree over the last 100 years, they say, and in the next 100, the global thermometer could rise 6 more degrees. Four years ago at a U.N. conference in Japan, governments agreed on a document called the Kyoto Protocol outlining targets and timetables for industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions'. It re quired an average 5.2 percent reduction from 1990 levels, to be achieved over a five-year period ending in 2012. Further negotiations on how to reach those targets have become embroiled in contention, pitting the United States against its European allies, and poor na tions against the rich. Falks in The Hague, Netherlands, in November broke down over how to cred it countries for managing forests and farms that absorb carbon dioxide from the air, in so-called “sinks.” The U^S. delegation wanted broad leeway, while the Europeans saw sinks as ploy to avoid forcing Ameri can industry to clean up its act. Since then, the change of administra tions in Washington has made prospects for an agreement in Bonn even dimmer. In March, President Bush renounced the U.S. commitment to Kyoto Protocol, call ing it a flawed plan that would harm the U.S. economy. ■f^Aggieland Depot”^ Unique Aggie Gifts - Diploma Framing Culpepper Plaza (979) 695-1422 • Aggie Art • Picture Frames • Books • Corps Miniatures • Jewelry • Aggie Cross Stitch • Poems • Campus Landmarks www.aggieland-depot.com EPICURES CAEE I* 2319 Texas Ave. South * College Station ^ (979) 695-0985 * Fax (979) 696-3322 Private Banquet Room Available Lunch Buffet &7.95 Soup & Salad $5.95 Sandwich & Soup or Salad $7.25 Fresh Baked Bread Daily Delectable Desserts Espresso Mon-Fri: Lunch 11-2 Sat: Closed For Private Events Sun: Brunch 10-2 Zey Continued from Page 1 investigation committee] actual ly suggested firing her,” Boies said. “But in my opinion — and in the opinion of many others — there was no other conclusion that they could come to other than to see that she had com mitted plagiarism.” No announcement has yet Building Continued from Page 7 Mexicans Continued from Page 1 task force, which hopes to have recommendations for the two presidents by September, when Fox visits Bush in Washington. Ashcroft is meeting with Mex ican officials in California and Arizona later this month to dis cuss border issues. I le and Pow ell also will meet with their Mex ican counterparts in early August. The preliminary 7 report will be presented to Bush as Fox completes a five-day visit to the United States this week. On Monday, Fox planned to meet in Detroit with auto executives Allison Continued from Page 7 minutes after the deluge, hut all she could do was stand by, knowing the animals were drowning in water that rushed into the basement with enough force to tear metal doors from their hinges. “I thought 1 could just stop what I was doing,” she recalls. “If we have no monkeys and no lab to test them, we are out of business. 1 was just crying. I was’ in shock.” She may have given up her life’s work bad it not been for the three medical students and four technicians on her research team. She knew they depended on her for their degrees and their jobs, so instead she focused on finding more monkeys. This fall, she should get a few infants, and she now faces years rebuilding her $1.2 mil lion program. But the losses — particularly of 17-year-old Bambi, a female monkey she raised form infancy — strike deeper than dollars. “She was so special,” Bachevalicr says of Bambi. “She had all of her little tricks. But they all were special. They were all individuals, and you get used to monkey faces like child faces.” Some losses were so personal that the victims remain convinced most people will not understand. Robert Pastorek, who has played a double bass for the Houston Symphony for 37 years, lost his instrument when the flood destroyed symphony offices in Jones Hall in the downtown theater district. In dollars, the bass was worth $30,000. But a musician’s instru ment fits like the perfect pair of shoes, Pastorek says. Finding the perfect instrument takes time, intuition, and patience. “Each instrument has its own particular qualities that you can not duplicate. No two are the same,” he says. “When you find something that happens to fit been made as to w benefits or compensati will he given to Precht but Boies said he of response from the l: some time early this* Prechel declined ment, stating that he volved in a lawsuit wii gal proceedings that suit should also this week. Pavilion, but none have been found to be unstable so far. “There is no danger there as there was with the Special Ser vices building, but next week we will look into the possibili ty of putting measuring gages on several buildings, “Back when this bid put up, they didn’t the expansive nature of Sippial said. 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Many people grieve losses, maybe for the their lives.” Vosslers four-bedroom I n recent ye: American p have becorr paranoid, or a more skeptica what goes on them. Maybe be considered in East Houston isgutte: Files” sort ofi ity. People are she does not want it hopes it will be amongtk| killed by a go mated 2,000 homes inhei Aliens crashec expected to he bought their pre-flood value county. “If I did rebuild there,! just have a pit in mysti over the whole thing,” So Vossler and her old daughter, Crystal,art ing into a smaller, rented after sharing her sisters bedroom garage apartmer mont h. She hopes to finds er house by the time her children — 20-year-ol and 1 7-year-old Stella- from Greece at the end ■ 1947 and thei ea 5. Some andings were Many of th wait the Uni e United St ree calls a d ave expande e world of s sts have had laiming that summer. She says she refused t fers to come home earl) wanted at least one thir summer to continue aspf “My son said, ’1 feel need to come home. ‘Baby, you’ve got note here’ ” she explains. Y takes a lot of time andaloi perwork. Having them y their trip would have te added tragedy.” THE - Jeff Kempf, Editor in Chief The Battalion (ISSN #1055-4726) is published daily, Monday through Friday during the fall and spiv ters and Monday through Thursday during the summer session (except University holidays and examf Texas A&M University. Periodicals Postage Paid at College Station, TO 77840. POSTMASTER: Sent changes to The Battalion, Texas A&M University 1111TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-1111. News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University in the DiwsiotT Media, a unit of the Department of Journalism. 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