LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 17, 1997 - 5 Money approved for Michigan roads WASHINGTON (AP) - Both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House versions of the transportation bill would mean much more federal money available for Michigan roads, but key legislative hur- dles remain before Michigan sees any extra funds. The state would get an average of $181 million a year more in federal money for basic transportation spending such as road maintenance under a new formula in a six-year Senate bill. The bill's funding formula would give Michigan an average of $696 mil- lion per year, according to Senate com- mittee records and the Northeast- Midwest Institute. The state received an average of $515 million for roads and highways over the last five years, state officials say. Under the House bill's funding for- mula, Michigan would get even more federal transportation money - an average of about $246 million more a year. But the Republican leadership has criticized that bill as busting the bal- anced budget agreement by spending the transportation funds allowed under the agreement in only three years instead of six. Michigan Reps. Peter Hoekstra (R- Holland) and Joe Knollenberg (R- Bloomfield) Hills also have said they are concerned about breaking the con- gressional deal with the president to balance the federal budget. Both the House and Senate bills are working their way through con- gressional committees today but it may be weeks or even months before the final outline of any compromise bill is clear. Neither bill yet includes how much states will get separately for special construction projects - a category due to be unveiled later this week. But one provision in the House bill would allow for federal funding of better road connections between the Ambassador Bridge and interstate highways, Michigan lawmakers and officials said. Michigan lawmakers have been fighting to get what they say is a more equitable return in federal transporta- tion spending for every tax dollar the state pays in federal gas tax. "The Senate has not attempted to achieve as much equity (for Michigan) as in the House - and that's been a problem in the Senate because of the dominance of the Northeast" states in past funding formulas, said Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Grand Rapids), a member of the House transportation committee. KEVIN KRUPITZER/Daity Werner Fornos, president of the Population institute, spoke yesterday as a guest lecturer in the Chemistry Building, jpopuation expert warns of growth By WaJahat Syed Fod the Daily The world is blowing up, and Mother Nature is too tired to help. this was the message of Werner Fornos, head of the Population titute, the world's largest, non-profit ,Uucation organization dedicated to creating an equilibrium of the world's population, environment and resources. when he addressed about 60 people at the Chemistry Building yesterday. .Fornos' address, "Gaining people, los- ing ground: Causes, effects, and solu- tions to Overpopulation," dealt with the urgent facets of what is sometimes referred to as the "People Bomb." Fornos o discussed how the planet's accelerat- population growth is at the heart of glgbal issues like economic develop- ment, maternal and infant mortality rates and environmental degradation. "While we are meeting here today, things are not very reassuring in the world around us," he said. "Our forests aredeclining, our topsoil is eroding, our deserts are expanding, the global climate is changing, and the ozone is depleted." A distinguished administrator, Fornos served as a Maryland state legislator. Hehas addressed all major international conferences on population dating back to 1,974, and is the only male in the world to have attended all four United Nations Conferences on Women. Fornos has been nominated four times for the UN Population Award, and has been a Humanist of the Year. The world is committing "the ultimate global blunder," Fornos said, by ignoring the harsh truth of rapid overpopulation. "Statistics show that the world grew last year by an estimated 90 million peo- ple," he said. "Ninety-eight percent of this increase was experienced in the poorest parts of the world - parts already torn terribly by civil strife and social unrest." Fornos said that while rich nations con- tinue to ride economic booms and expand construction efforts, the environment and world's population are the losers. "Industrialized nations are going on building K-marts and Walmarts and cutting ribbons every day making new communities on prime farmland, while 83 nations of the world are unable to feed their populations," Fornos said. He went on to say that the severe glob- al climate change is driven by our "fero- cious appetite for fossil fuels" and other forms of "human activity." Fornos said current and future genera- tions have a greater responsibility to their environment than their parents did. "The basic issue behind the confronta- tion of man and natural resources is the human numbers,' Fornos said. "It is not that we are sexier than the people before us. It is just the simple fact that we have conquered death through science" What a difference 8 makes. Mac OS 8, Apple's newest Macintosh operating system, is available to U-M students, faculty, and staff. Only $16 for a CD See ITweb to learn about Mac OS 8 features and to determine if you should upgrade: http://www.itd.umich.edu/hotncool/ Mac OS 8 is also available free to the U-M community through electronic distribution (no media included). This means you can install the software over Ethernet directly to your Mac hard disk by opening the Mac OS 8 file on the ITD Software Distribution Directory (-swdist). For information on this method, take a look at the Web reference above. If you have an upgradeable Mac, but have neither an Ethernet connection nor a CD-ROM drive (such as some PowerBooks), you can purchase the Mac OS 8 CD at the Showcase and then use an external drive to load the software with the help of a sales consultant. This service is available at the Showcase Septermber 10, 17, and 24 from 3 to 6pm. 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