2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 12, 1999 NATION/WORLD BUDGET Continued from Page 1 committee's minority vice chair, told Lannoye after her presen- tation. Engler spokesperson John Truscott said past increases toward prison spending have been much larger and corrections are a necessary evil."As long as people commit crimes, we're going to lock them up,' Truscott said. Lannoye said prisons are so overcrowded that "we have no choice." The additional 1.5 percent increase the University could qual- ify for depends upon a requested repeal of the Tuition Tax Credit, which Lannoye said is currently "an empty promise anyway." The tax credit is offered to Michigan residents who attend a state college or university whose tuition increase stays below the rate of inflation. Lannoye said recent low rates of inflation mean universities can't easily keep tuition rates low enough for students to quali- fy for the tax credit. According to the proposal, universities would directly receive the funding otherwise used for the credit, provided they keep tuition increases below 3 percent. "There's no incentive now for schools to keep their tuition below the rate of inflation,"Truscott said. Regent David Brandon (R-Plymouth) said the plan sends a clear message to the regents. "We need to do everything we can do to hold down tuition increases;Brandon said. The final 1 percent of the higher education increase would go toward a four-tiered method of distributing funds. The formula groups the state's public universities into four tiers, based on cost per credit hour, and assigns each tier a per-student funding floor. Money would go only to those universities that receive less than their tier's floor level. The University is grouped in the top tier, along with Michigan State University, Wayne State University and Michigan Technological University. Because the University of Michigan already receives more than $8,500 per in-state student as required by the top tier, it would not receive any additional funding under the formula. MSU would get money because its per-student allocation falls below that number. "I am opposed to the four-tier program," Schwarz said. "My overall impression is that it's not as bad as I thought but certainly not as good as I had hoped." ;. . X @ALL FOR FRE rna aUn RIAntffE E THE MICHIGAN DAILY.* ORE THAN 40,000SERVED, DAILY. slur UAMDLInl NU AIDaiNiI IIIEsAU 888 686 8257DT WIN YOU DONT A J %4. nap~ik. Feling dull? Not quite as sharp as usual? Let's get right to the point: -You may be stressed!- Prolonged stress, even at a young age, can have serious long-term physical and emotional consequences like depression, premature senility, and killer diseases. Learn how to erase unnecessary stress and decrease the normal stresses in your daily life. 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The debate over this type of late- term abortion has "made even people who consider themselves pro-choice confront aspects of abortion they haven't before," said Susan Cohen, a legislative analyst at the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research center that supports legal abortion. The laws enacted in more than half the states are intended to prohibit a method of abortion in which part ofthe fetus is pulled from the womb and into the birth canal before it is killed. The laws' supporters, including the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, have promoted them as affect- ing only this type of abortion, which usually is performed after about 18 weeks of pregnancy. But both federal and state courts have found that the laws also might apply to other methods of abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy and even, according to some judges, to methods used in the first three months, when the majority of the 1.3 million abortions annually are performed. Moreover, the courts have held that the laws were too vaguely worded fr doctors to be clear on which abortion techniques were proscribed. Wisconsin's law, for example, threat- ened doctors with life in prison, and Chief Judge Richard Posner of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called it "a sweeping prohibition" that might make doctors afraid to perform any abortions. "Pregnant women in Wisconsin may find it impossible to obtain any type of abortion that might conceiv- ably, though mistakenly ... be held to be a partial-birth abortion," Posner said. \RIGIOU$ AVAVVAVA ASSEMBLY OF GOD Evangel Temple - 769-4157 2455 Washtenaw (at Stadium) Free van rides from campus Sunday Worship: 8am, 10:30am www.assemblies.org /mi/evangeltemple LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY Lord of Light Lutheran Church (ELCA) 801 S. 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It and a sister protein called angiostatin both work - at least in mice - by blocking tumors' ability to sprout new blood vessels. This makes cancer fall dormant or disappear altogether in lab animals. But no one knows if the same thing will hap- pen in people. The two proteins have been the sub- ject of a roller coaster of speculation ever since an enthusiastic front-page story in The New York Times last May on Judah Folkman and his experiments. But doubts grew last fall when it was reported that scientists from the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Md., had not been able to reproduce AROUND THE NATION Large anti-tobacco verdicts expected NEW YORK-A California jury's record-breaking award of$51.5 million to a for- mer three-pack-a-day smoker could herald a wave ofjaw-dropping verdicts againstthe tobacco industry. Only three other times have juries awarded smokers damages in health claims against tobacco companies - and all of them were overturned on appeal. Until Wednesday, the biggest verdict was $1 million, in Florida. Analysts suggested yesterday that cigarette makers' willingness to pay billions dollars to settle state lawsuits has made the industry an easier target. The settlements are perceived as a public admission of guilt and a sign that the industry has lots of money to spend, experts said. "When tobacco companies start offering billions of dollars of settlements, juries lose their sense of how much is a lot," said David Logan, a law professor at Wake Forest University who specializes in product liability. That seemed to be the case in the lawsuit brought by Patricia Henley, who has inop- erable lung cancer and accused Philip Morris of hooking her on cigarettes. It was the first case to go to trial since California repealed a ban on individuals' lawsuits against tobacco companies in 1997. On Wednesday, the jury awarded her $50 million in punitive damages - more than three times what her own lawyer asked for. A day earlier the jury awarded her $10 Folkman's results. This week,an NCI team said it had at last duplicated Folkman's work. The breakthrough using endostatin came only when the NCI scientists conducted the experiments at Folkman's laboratory at Children's Hospital in Boston. INS commissioner pressured by House WASHINGTON - Two House Republicans say they've run out patience with Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meisster and want her fired if she doesn't act quickly to improve detention and dep r- tation of illegal aliens. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Re ' Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.) sent a five- page letter to Attorney General Janet. Reno setting out their complaints ,and asking that Meissner be replaced "if she is unable to quickly address these enforcement problems.' 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The burials took place 26 days after the bodies of 43 ethnic Albanian villagers were found in a gully following a Serb police attack of this village southwest of Pristina. The Serbs subsequently recovered 40 of the bodies but delayed releasing them to relatives. "We wanted to take part in the funeral and to share the grief of fam- ilies who had their loved ones killed," said Beqir Rushti, who walked with four friends from a vi. lage six miles away. Russian mister desires new nukes MOSCOW - At the height of Russia's financial meltdown, the min- ister named to save the economy out- lined an overriding priority: build a new generation of nuclear missiles. The warning from First Deputy Prinn Minister Yuri Maslyukov, first made if October, that Russia could lose its nuclear capability, has produced rare unanimity among the country's bitterly divided political factions. 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