Carbon dioxide w will affect weather, food WASHINGTON (AP) - A sooner than expected buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing major changes that will start to eventually disrupt food production and melt polar ice caps, government scientists said yesterday. Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency pictured a world in the next century in which New York City could have a climate like Daytona Beach, Fla., and today's Midwestern wheat belt could shift significantly nor- thward into Canada. "WE ARE trying to get people to realize that changes are coming sooner than they expected," said John Hof- fman, EPA director of strategic studies. "Major changes will be here by the years 1990 to 2000 and we have to learn how to live with them." The EPA report, titled "Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming?" con- cluded that no matter what restrictions are placed on the burning of fossil fuels, the warming of the earth's atmosphere is inevitable. The "greenhouse" effect is the name given to the buildup in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide gases, which act like the glass in a greenhouse by allowing the sun's rays to warm the earth and then trapping the heat. , Carbon dioxide is produced primarily by the burning of fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas. "Our findings support the conclusion that a global greenhouse warming is nether trivial nor just a long-term problem," the report concluded. "Changes by the end of the 21st century could be catastropic taken in the con- text of today's world. A soberness and sense of urgency should underlie our response to a greenhouse warming." Party .ExprTess arranges bashes (Continued from Page 3) Since beginning the phone campaign two weeks ago, Kuczer says he has gained four new clients and still has not finished reviewing all the responses. One of Kuczer's clients, Sigma Phi fraternity, recently threw a party using the system. Sigma Phi social director John Casey said the service made par- tying much easier. "It was incredibly easy, with none of your normal party hassles. It's a lot easier giving someone a shopping list and letting them do your chores for you," he said. But food and drinks make up only part of the service, Kuczer says. He said bands like SLK or Astralight, locations such as the Ann Arbor Court Club, photographers, disc jockeys, balloons, and strip-o-grams are all within reach through the Party Express System. Kuczer said "The Express" grew out of his experience selling pretzels in the Diag. "I catered for people on the streets," he said. So why can't I cater parties?" The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 19, 1983 - Page 7 Vaccine discovery could prevent herpes NEW YORK (AP) - Vaccines to prevent herpes, hepatitis and influenza have been made by inserting genes from those viruses into smallpox vac- cines, opening the way to cheaper, safer and simpler methods of im- munization, researchers said yester- day. The technique could conceivably be used against any infectious disease, whether it is caused by a virus, bac- terium or parasite, said Enzo Paoletti, a virologist with the New York State Health Department and the developer of the new vaccines. AT A NEWS conference in the New York City offices of the state Health Department, Paoletti said it would probably be at least two years before the vaccines are ready for human trials. Paoletti said it should be possible to use the technique to construct a single vaccine that could protect against as many as a dozen diseases. David Axelrod, the New York State Health Commissioner, suggested, for example, that the research might lead to a single vaccine to protect children against all of the common childhood diseases, such as measles, mumps and chicken pox. It is not yet known whether the body's immune system is capable of developing immunity to several diseases at once, Axelrod said. AS FOR HEPATITIS, for example, the current vaccine costs about $100 per administration, must be given in three doses, and must be kept refrigerated. For those reasons, the vaccine is dif- ficult to use in undeveloped nations, where the incidence of hepatitis is greatest. A hepatitis vaccine based on Paolet- ti's technique, on the other hand, would not need to be refrigerated, could be given with a single skin prick, and would probably cost something like 30 cents per administration, Paoletti said. In the case of herpes and other diseases for which there is no existing vaccine, the technique could lead to rapid development of vaccines. IN ONE TEST, 40 mice given the her- pes vaccine were exposed to active herpes infection. Every one of the mice survived. In contrast, nearly all mice who did not receive the herpes vaccine died of encephalitis, a brain infection. That vaccine was for herpes simplex Type I, which causes fever blisters on the lips. The researchere are now developing a vaccine against herpes simplex Type II, the cause of genital herpes. It is not known whether such a vac- cine, intended to provide protection against herpes, would cure people who already have the disease, Paoleti said in answer to a question. "What we're doing currently is to spend some time developing the op- timally engineered vaccine so we can increase the potency," Paoletti said. Cashing in AP Phoo' Governor James Blanchard makes change at Stacey's restaurant in Traverse City. Blanchard, who was in town for a press conference joined a group of business people at this local restaurant where it's a tradition to ring up your own bill and make your own change. Sp dniedr From AP and UPI SAN FRANCISCO - A Justice Department official said yesterday the government two years ago turned down an offer by accused spy James Harper to halt his espionage activities for the Soviet Union in return for immunity prosecution., "In a nutshell, we wouldn't buy it," said John Martin, the department's chief of internal security in Washington D.C. At the time, the government did not know the identity of Harper, only that his lawyer said he wanted to "come in from the cold." THE FBI accuses Harper, arraigned on spy charges Monday, of feeding sen- immunity two years ago sitive missile secrets for eight years in- to a spy network that was so successful it won the praise of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. The FBI said Harper, 49, a high technology consultant in California's "Silicon Valley," passed along "ex- tremely sensitive" secrets to Moscow which he got for a period of eight years from his wife. The woman, Ruby Schuler, died last June at the age of 39. She worked at Systems Control Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., from 1972 until August 1982 and had access to virtually all of the firm's top secret documents. The documents, according to FBI af- fidavits, are vital to the United States' survival in a nuclear war. They are believed to contain U.S. defense infor- mation possibly relating to nuclear ex- changes involving lasers, satellites and other types of high-technology weaponry. Justice Department officials in Washington, who declined to be named, said yesterday that Harper requested and received $1 million from Soviet- bloc intelligence agents. They said the FBI was searching for the money. t l MATH (MAJORS/MINORS! LSA questions CCS (Continued from Page 1) minus in prerequisite courses. If the department can prove that C students cannot handle the upper-level CCS courses, Longone said, it would then be justified in enforcing a stricter requirement to protect students from ''academic disaster."~ ASSISTANT LSA Dean for Long Range Planning and Curriculum Jack Meiland said yesterday that the com- mittee is working with the department, but would not speculate on the future of the requirements. Galler said the department must limit the number of students entering the major not only because of the dif- ficulty of . the coursework, but also because the department cannot handle the large number of students who want a computer science degree. He said a nationwide shortage of, faculty makes it hard to find qualified instructors. The department was able to fill only one of the two open faculty positions this year. 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