2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 1, 1995 1Nrano/Wio Statistical Abstract published WASHINGTON (AP) - Homes without cable TV are a definite minor- ity. One in three Americans is still exer- cising after 75. Rock music sales are twice those of country and 10 times those of jazz. - Here is America in bare statistics, devoid ofinterpretation. Stacks of stats. From labor force to labor rooms. The kind of stuff important to public offi- cials, business analysts, educators, li- brarians, research workers, students and the merely curious. Thirty-four percent of Americans, 26 and over, have smoked marijuana at some time in their lives, but only 3 percent are current users. Eight percent of households have herb gardens. A family of four pays more state and local taxes in Newark, N.J., than in other big cities. Lotteries racked up more than $25 billion in sales. Such minutiae abound in the new Statistical Abstract ofthe United States, published yesterday. It is a book of more than 1,000 pages, some with enough facts for a game of "Jeopardy!" or "Trivial Pursuit." You learn that lottery ticket sales totaled $2.3 billion in 1980 but $28.5 billion last year. That of 187.7 million adults in the 1993-94 period, 69 million had no cable television. That in 1992, there were 6.4 million pregnancies, 4 million births and 1.5 million abortions. The rest were mis- carriages. Seventeen percent of women of childbearing age used contraceptive pills; 10.5 percent relied on condoms. Thirty percent were surgically sterile. GEO Continued from Page 1. eat" while they marched across State Street. Six GEO members delivered the post- cards to Duderstadt's office. When Dexter returned, he said that while Duderstadt was not available, Nona Hardy, a secretary in the president's office, had left the postcards on his desk. "The message has been delivered," Dexter said. John Ramsburgh, an English gradu- ate student, called the rally "a tremen- dous success." Paul Roberts, a GEO steward for the English department, agreed: "I was in- credibly impressed. It was universally positive." CANS Continued from Page 1 impact on the community," Chen said. Homeowners were open and recep- tive to the idea, participants said. "They were kind of amused, and some gave us candy, which was aniceperk," Vidwans said. Organizers said they will be glad if they have sparked an annual event. "I hope it goes on to be a yearly thing, so that every year homeowners will expect to see someone in a white coat showing up at their door and asking for canned goods," Chen said. After hours of walking, participants were invited to a Halloween party held at the Phi Chi Medical Society club- house. The admission "fee" was two cans of food, which gave students who did not go door-to-door a chance to contribute. The Michigan State Medical Society sponsored the bash, which was orga- nized by the American Medical Asso- ciation. Space shuffle to focus on planets' biths CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An experiment flying on space shuttle Columbi could provide clues to what happens to dust clouds in the atmosphere and the process by which planets and stars begin forming. Astronaut Fred Leslie shook small containers of dust samples so scientists coul( better understand how dust clouds form and dissipate. Geologist John Marshall said yesterday from NASA's Marshall Space Fligh Center in Huntsville, Ala., that his experiment demonstrated that tiny dus particles behave the same way in space as they do closer to Earth. He said the particles clump together because of static electricity and form chains In an atmosphere like the Earth's, these chains and bigger clumps fall to the ground NASA said this could affect how long clouds of dust would linger in the atmosphere after a major volcanic eruption or a catastrophic meteor strike, like th< one theorized to have been involved in the extinction of dinosaurs. "The more we know about the behavior of these clouds, the better prepared we might be to deal with them," Marshall said. NASA said the same process could be involved when dust particles begii clumping together in space to begin the process of forming stars and planets. Columbia's astronauts spent their 11th day in space completing Marshall': experiment and conducting more fluid and crystal studies. great scores... Law School Business School Denta School Graduate Schoo Medical School great teachers... Kaplan helps you focus your test prep study where you need it most. 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Based on these and other findings, a team from the Lahey Hitchcock Medi- cal Center in Burlington, Mass., has already successfully transplanted fetal pig cells into four human patients with results that so far appear encouraging. Early next year, the group plans to be gin using the cells in victims o Huntington's disease as well. Researchers from at least three othe medical centers who have been trans planting human fetal cells also are closi to switching over to the new source o tissue. Ito delays release of Simpson's property LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpsoi will have to wait at least two weeks t get back his fake mustache, Frani Sinatra tape, Blockbuster member ship card and other property seize from him in the days just before an after he was arrested on charges o murdering his ex-wife and Ronali Goldman. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito rule4 yesterday that the eclectic assortmen of personal property should remain ii custody until Nov. 15. A civil judg handling two wrongful-death lawsuit against Simpson has scheduled a hear ing for that date to decide how to dis pose of the items. nks. All Beer. All Shots u U OP, AOUNI THE ORLD iis --- - -- RECORDS " - phone: 663.5800 1140 south university (above goodtime chadeys), AA I mon.-thurs.: 9:00-10:OOp sundays Sfri. & sat.: 9:00a-11:00p 11:008-8:00P Clues show Shiqaqi assassins prepared JERUSALEM - The assassins who laid in wait for Fathi Shiqaqi last Thurs- day came prepared, to judge from the little evidence they left behind. They knew the Islamic Jihad leader had shaved his beard and donned a wig. They knew he carried a Libyan passport in an assumed name. They knew his usual hotel in Malta, the Diplomat, and the hours of his brief layover en route to Damascus. The hollow-point ammunition they used, to maximize the damage of his wounds, was hardly needed: According to police reports made available by tele- phone from Malta, at least three shots from asilenced9mmpistol struck Shiqaqi in the head. The assassins, or a clean-up crew that followed them, left no spent cartridges behind and no fingerprints on the motorcycle with stolen plates that sped them to a seaborne getaway. The political fingerprints, even so, were plain to nearly everyone who expressed an opinion. Shiqaqi was near the top of Israel's most wanted list, and Israel's government, though formally declining to confirm or deny its involvement, did everything but wink to imply as much, The killing scarcely disturbed this week's Amman economic conference, a kind of regional coming-out party for I q[ M 11 Israel, and.Hamas spokesmen said would not impede their reconciliatioi talks with PLO leader Yasser Arafai Egyptian Foreign Minister Am Moussa, queried by reporters as he stoop next to his Israeli counterpart, Shimoi Peres, merely smiled and asked, "Wha assassination?" China's intellectuals die earlier, study says BEIJING - According to a recet study of 12,450 "intellectuals," a nani given to people with a higher educa tion who work as researchers, it Beijing, the average life expectancy i 53.3 years. That's not only lower by 20 year than the average Beijinger's life ex pectancy and 16 years below the aver age Chinese person's, it is a decline c five years over the past decade. At a time when most Chinese ar getting healthier and living longer China's best and brightest are dying i their prime. As reflected in the health statistics China's intellectuals constitute on of the country's most neglecte groups. Housing is shabby, health car substandard, salaries low and profes sional and political pressures ex tremely high. - From Daily wire service -- c 880 -i ,1 .................. -1 : -- -..: . corn s pric The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students et the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, year4ong (September through April) is $165. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated Collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327. 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