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NATIONJIAORLD
Plutonium disposal
plan faces criticism
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - Energy
Department plans to destroy 50 tons of
surplus Cold War plutonium by encas-
ing it in glass or burning it in nuclear
reactors drew sharp reaction yesterday
from critics who fear that the solution is
a sop to the nuclear power industry.
Energy officials argue that the plan
represents the most prudent way to dis-
pose of plutonium. But they acknowl-
edge that important issues involving the
cost, environmental safety and technol-
logy remain unanswered.
The Energy Department plan does
not indicate where the plutonium will
be burned or, if encased in glass, where
it will be buried. At best, the process
would take 20 to 30 years to complete
- and would result in waste products
that remain radioactive for thousands of
years.
Plutonium, created during World War
II, is a component of nuclear bombs
that is used to start an atomic fission
reaction to trigger the powerful fusion
blast. Plutonium also can be converted
to a fuel and burned in some nuclear
reactors to produce energy.
The plan announced yesterday to
burn or glassify plutonium is certain to
lead to extended lawsuits, fights over
environmental impact statements and
disputes over nuclear licensing, as well
as the enactment of new laws by
Congress.
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a stable volume of applications." This
fall's incoming class was 1,200 students
larger than in 1986.
Although tuition costs have
increased since 1986 and remain the
highest among
public univer-
sities in the cII4
state, Baker DDE
said tuition lowering t
does not deter
applicants. standards
"The overall
picture at the-
University is Nursing firs
that the quality
of the student
body is high and that Michigan is very
competitively priced with its peer insti-
tutions," Baker said.
Spencer said a survey of students
selected for admission found that the
University is not losing applicants to
"big-name" schools.
"Of the students that get admitted to
comparable prestigious institutions, the
majority of in-state students will turn
down a Harvard or a Yale for
Michigan," Spencer said.
Robert Johnson, associate vice presi-
dent for enrollment management at
Oakland University, said the nearly 20-
percent increase of the university's
acceptance rate does not mean Oakland
-
it-
has lowered its standards.
"We have the capacity to accept more
students because we have quality pro-
grams," Johnson said. "Over the past
three to five years, the university has
made a conscious effort to grow and
has tried to make that happen by
accepting more students."
Nancy Rehling,
director of admis-
ges are sions for
Michigan Tech
ieir University, said
the university's
acceptance rate
has been extreme-
Lacy Hillman ly high for a long
year student period of time.
"It's something
you have when
you have a highly qualified body of stu-
dent applicants," Rehling said. "I think
people believe that it is harder to get
into Michigan schools than it really is.
A student that has worked hard and is
well prepared should have no problem
getting into a state school."
Lacy Hillman, a Nursing first-year
student at the University said it was
very easy for her to get in, despite her
decision to apply shortly before the
deadline.
"I'd say its easier than before, but you
have to be a real good student," Hillman
said. "I think high school is getting
harder and colleges are lowering their
standards."
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Archaeologist Leakey dies at 83
NAIROBI, Kenya -Archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey, whose dri-
ving curiosity about prehistoric humans.led her and her hus-
band to momentous discoveries about man's origins, died
yesterday. She was 83.
Louis and Mary Leakey found fossils in Tanzania and
Kenya that indicated man's evolution began in East Africa 2
million years ago, far earlier than was believed at the time
of the discovery.
Three months before her death, Mary Leakey agreed it
was impossible for scientists ever to pinpoint exactly when
prehistoric man became fully human. But then, the precise
relationship between man and his ancestors was not her pas-
sion; instead, she was fascinated by early man's behavior.
"We shall probably never know where humans began and Leakey
where hominids left off," she said in an interview with The
Associated Press at her home near the easternmost edge of the Great Rift Valley.
Since scientists can never prove a particular scenario of human evolution,
Leakey said, "All these trees of life with their branches of our ancestors, that's a lot.
of nonsense."
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"I definitely stay up late, but I don't
normally study," said LSA junior John
Pak. "I deal with my stress by socializ-
ing with friends at the UGLI."
There are some rare students who
strive to get a good night's sleep every
night.
"I can safely say that I haven't pulled
an all-nighter yet," said Engineering
sophomore John Whitehead.
Some students said they do not need to
pull all-nighters during final exam season
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times of the year," said Engineering
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Undergraduate students are not the
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finals. Graduate, Medicine and Law
students also spend a great deal of time
studying, in addition to teaching under-
graduate sections and conducting
research.
"I'm driving myself to meet the
requirements by thinking of the holi-
days," said Law first-year student
Makiko Murai. "I just have to get
through it."
Graduate student instructors face
double pressure during finals. They
have to grade papers and tests while
they prepare for their own finals.
Art history GSI Doug Hildebrecht
said GSIs "face the stress all semester
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of stress, but he simply deals with it and
has no specific strategy.
"You just have so much to do, you
just do it," Arabadis said. "You kind of
turn your brain off and do what you
need to do."
Various University groups have pro-
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Outdated computer
systems give IRS
big headaches
COVINGTON, Ky. - Along a drea-
ry row of metal tables, Internal
Revenue Service clerks perform what
for ages has been the quintessential
government job - stamping forms.
The clerks use stampers, like the
ones at grocery stores in the 1950s, to
imprint a serial number on every tax
return. During the spring rush, a few
dozen clerks work around the clock
here and at each of nine other regional
tax centers - nearly 700 clerks pound-
ing away day and night.
This bizarre scene in suburban
Cincinnati that might have been pulled
out of a Dickens novel of a century ago
is instead today's reality at an agency
badly in need of modernization.
Virtually every federal government
agency is struggling with outdated
technology, but nowhere are the stakes
higher or the problems more apparent
than at the IRS. The agency is a clear
example of just how far the govern-
Britain, Ireland
report no prowess
after peace tals
LONDON - On a joyful, crystal
clear night one year ago, President
Clinton lit a Christmas tree in down-
town Belfast that symbolized glowing
hopes for peace in tormented Northern
Ireland. This Christmas, those dreams
are as tarnished as old tinsel.
In a meeting delayed by fog, the
British and Irish government architects
of peace conferred here yesterday with-
out markedly bridging the differences
between them or mollifying Catholic
and Protestant adversaries in the British
province.
Irish Prime Minister John Bruton and
Britain's John Major had little progress
to report after lunching at Downing
Street over the Northern Ireland ques-
tion in quicksilver search for a new
cease-fire and meaningful peace talks.
Meanwhile, British intelligence
sources warn of likely terrorist attacks
by the Irish Republican Army. And
ment has fallen behind and how seri-
ous the ramifications are for the
American public.
Town may rename
itself Sleepy Hollow
NORTH TARRYTOWN, N.Y. --
Washington Irving is buried in a
churchyard here. A few blocks to the
south is the Horseman Diner, where the
horseman is pictured headless. Not far
away are the Sleepy Hollow Animal
Hospital, the Sleepy Hollow Bicycle
Shop and Sleepy Hollow High School.
This is Sleepy Hollow country.
But it isn't called Sleepy Hollow -
not yet, at least.
The 8,000 people of North Tarrytown,
in need of some revenue now that a
General Motors plant has closed, will
decide today whether to change their vil-
lage's name to the more evocative and
perhaps more lucrative Sleepy Hollow
North Tarrytown is the setting for
Irving's 1819 tale "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow," in which teacher Ichabod Crane
is terrorized by a headless horseman,
Republican sources fuel the gloom by
ruling out a Christmas truce, which the
IRA has traditionally declared during
its struggle to overthrow British control
of the northern six counties of Ireland.
Russian voters reject
nuclear plant
MOSCOW - In the first referendum
of its kind in Russia, voters handily
turned down the government's bid to fin-
ish a partially constructed nuclear power
plant in their impoverished rural region.
Results of the referendum, mea
Russia's Atomic Energy Ministry wi
not be allowed to complete the project,
which was halted after the 1986 nuclear
catastrophe at Chernobyl in Ukraine.
Residents in Kostroma, 250 miles
northeast of Moscow, had feared a
nuclear plant would drive away the
tourists who steadily stream in to enjoy
the region's clean lakes said Karen
Richardson of Greenpeace International.
- Compiled from Daily wire reports
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