2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 29, 1999 NATION/WORLD HALLOWEEN Continued from Page 1 want her last name used. Customer at the Main Street costume shop could barely squeeze by each other in the crowded aisles yesterday. "The most popular trend this year is angels, princesses, and fembots, whatever the hell those are," Erin- Elvis said. "For the men, a lot of them are being Zorro or Austin Powers." She added, "I helped someone become Mork and Mindy today ... that was probably the funniest and most original thing all week." Erin-Elvis said she plans to dress up as a member of Twisted Sister or Kiss. Safe Sex Store employee Ian Pomerville said "a lot of people are coming in to get whips and rubber- wear and wigs to dress as a domina- trix." Rebecca Valentino, the costume stock manager for the University's theater department, said a creative costume is always the best kind. "I think people with a little cre- ativity can find great stuff at the Kiwanis Sale or at Value Village in Ypsilanti," she said. "Unfortunately, not much stuff is left around this time of year, because everyone wants costumes." She "suggested, "Buy a trashy old prom dress, dump red paint on it and go as Carrie. Or take a sheet and make a cape or a toga. A little fabric goes a long way." But not everyone is looking for- ward to Halloween, Erin-Elvis said she will work long hours this week- end to accommodate last-minute shoppers. After selling hundreds of costumes this weekend, she said she doesn't know if she will celebrate Halloween at all. "After Saturday I might not want to," she laughed. What careers can you pursue at Northwestern Health Sciences University? Chiropractic Integrative health and wellness * Acupuncture - Oriental medicine * Therapeutic massage Northwestern Health Sciences University provides the widest range of choices in natural health care in the United States. 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Pixie Anne Pennwright Spokescritic - The "Crazy" Aunt - Vegas Showgirl Officials work to prevent Y2K cis WASHINGTON -- When mid- night strikes on Dec. 31, U S. and Russian military officers will be sit- ting side-by-side at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, trying to ensure that the gremlins of Y2K don't spur an accidental launch of nuclear weapons. The officers hope to dispel fears that an end-of-the-millennium computer glitch will blind Russia's early-warning system or create a false impression that Washington has launched a missile, leading to the ultimate nightmare: a move by Russian leaders to counterat- tack. Indeed, experts for both nations say they are confident that there is no seri- ous threat of a Y2K-related missile launch. But to guard against even the remote possibility, the Center for Year 2000 Strategic Stability at Peterson, created last year by President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, will use information from U.S. satellites and ground-based sensors fed through computers that are clear of any Y2K bugs. Any uncertainties or misunderstand- ings detected in Moscow would be resolved by the Russians hunched over computer terminals in a windowless second-floor room in Colorado Springs. "If something pops up on a Russian screen in Moscow, that could be vali- dated at Peterson," said Maj. Perry Nouis, a spokesperson for the Air Force Space Command, which is running the center. But some members of Congress and nuclear weapons experts say they want U.S. and Russian officers to go further, with one critic calling the much-vaunted center a "Band- Aid" approach. These critics con- tend that the only sure way to pre- vent a mistaken nuclear exchange is to "de-alert" thousands of nuclear missiles - which can now be'fired in minutes -- by removing warheads or the keys used by officers to initi- ate a launch. "Maintaining hair-trigger readiness for nuclear confrontation is unjustifi- able in today's world," Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said. "The poten- tial for a missile launch due to misin- terpretation of warning systems may well be higher on Jan. 1, 2000 than at any other time since the start of the Cold War." SQUARES Continued from Page 1 demeanor was wonderful." The one chosen from a pool of more than 50 University students, Aylesworth was notified one week later that he was to appear on the television show. "I had to move two of my midterms in order to go. Luckily my professors were really nice about it, Aylesworth said. Although Aylesworth was the only student chosen to represent the University, Hollywood Squares offi- cials chose LSA first-year student Jessica 01llendorff as his alternate. "The try-out was exciting and fun. I didn't expect to get on but I thought that it would be a neat experience to see what the try-out would be like,' Ollendorff said. When Aylesworth arrived in Hollywood on Oct. 21, he began three days of intensive training. The first day consisted of an introduction to the game, trial games and information on building the contestants' 10 to 15 sec- ond personal introductions. They played and taped the televised games on the second and third days. "I played the first game of the sec- ond day. I had a lot of nervous energy before that but once I knew I was going to play, I was focused. It's a lot of money at stake so I wanted to make sure that I was ready, Aylesworth said. In his first game against a contestant from Northwestern University, Aylesworth won $3,000. In a bonus round in the first game, Aylesworth won another $10,000 when he and Whoopi Goldberg knew that the song - "American Pie" was more than eight minutes long. In the second game, against a con- testant from the University of California at Los Angeles, Aylesworth won $8,000 and an Alaskan vacation in the bonus round. Ex-commerce official granted immunity WASH INGTON -- A House commit- tee voted unanimously yesterday to grant former Commerce official John Huang immunity to testify publicly about the 1996 campaign finance scandals. Huang, who helped raise $2 million for the Democratic National Committee during President Clinton's 1996 re-elec- tion effort, has long been considered a key witness who some believed could map an illicit fundraising connection from Beijing to the Oval Office. But if f louse Government Reform Committee Chair Dan Burton's pre- view of Huang's extensive statements to the FBI is any guide, the most seri- ous allegations against the White lHouse may not be borne out by Huang's long-awaited testimony. The two allegations from Huang that Burton (R-Ind.) highlighted involved a 1995 congressional race, not the presi- dential campaign, and new details about fundraising efforts by Indonesian businessperson James Riady that had Survey: global warming takes only decades WASH INGTON -- An ice age that gripped the Earth for thousands of years ended abruptly when temperatures soared, according to new findings that suggest the world's climate can change in just a few decades. The study prompts fresh concerns that climate change from global warming could happen suddenly, experts say. Jeffrey Sevcringhaus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said that a ne, method of analyzing gases trapped in Greenland ice shows that the air temperatur warmed rapidly at the end of the last ice age about 15,000 years ago. "There was a 16 degree abrupt warming at the end of the last ice age," said Severinghaus, lead author of a study to be published today in the journal Science. "it happened within just a couple of decades. The old idea was that the tempera- ture would change over a thousand years. But we found it was much faster" Severinghaus said the rapid temperature increase may have been touched off by a surge in warm currents in the Atlantic Ocean that brought a melting trend to the vast ice sheet covering the Northern Hemisphere. It still took hundreds of years for the ice to recede, but the start of the great thaw was much more sudden than sci- entists had once thought. This suggests, Severinghaus said, that the Earth's climate is "tippy" - prone to b stable for long periods, but subject to sudden change under the right conditions. AROUND THE NATION A already been publically known. Democrats on the committee sup- ported the grant of immunity, but rank- ing minority member Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), criticized Burton for not admitting that the FBI reports on Huang contain "significant exculpa- tory materials." Justice Dept. files suit against Compuware WASHINGTON - The Justice Department wants to block Compuware Corp.'s acquisition of Viasoft Inc. on grounds the deal could result in higher prices-for certain mission-critical main- frame computer software. The department said yesterday it intends to file a lawsuit soon to stop th* transaction, which was announced last July. Compuware agreed to pay $9 a share to acquire the Phoenix-based provider of information technology manage- ment. Compuware, based in Farmington Hills, Mich., provides management and development soft- ware. ROUND 7 "- 0 Armenian 'ltary to dismiss top officials MOSCOW - The Armenian mil- itary yesterday demanded the dis- missal of top security officials for failing to prevent the assassination of the country's prime minister, parlia- ment speaker and six others in a shooting spree inside the legislature. The attackers surrendered earlier this morning and released hostages they were holding. The killing of Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian, Speaker Karen Demirchian and six others, including two vice-speakers, led to an overnight standoff. After 16 hours of talks, the attackers gave in when President Robert Kocharian promised they would get a fair trial and that force would not be used against them. The gunmen put down their assault rifles and were taken away in buses, the blinds drawn over the windows, accompanied by armored personnel carriers. They were later charged with terrorism. But before they left, a recorded statement from them was broadcast on national tele- vision. The statement complained that "our fair country had been going to pieces recent years" and "Today we are dray ging out a wretched and half-starving existence in it.' Russians military to occupy Chechnya MOSCOW - Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev said yesterday that Russian military forces will occupy Chechn* "for a long time and seriously" as the army launched a second phase of its month-long offensive to drive separatist guerrillas out of major cities and into the rebellious republic's southern mountains. Sergeyev indicated that the troops were digging in and would essentially become an occupation force in the breakaway southern republic. - Compiled fmm Daily wire reports. songs and strings dance fanCy and fetching upon the tawny tip of the guilt-edged sword... 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