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Show e 2 - Tn Daily Utah Chronicle Friday, March 9, 1996 n Bennett Supports Dole Business Mirror - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) When looking for key players behind Bob Dole's Republican presidential campaign, die name of Utah Sen. Robert Bennett is among those first menbom-agai- n tioned. Bennett stood behind Dole as he gave his victory speech following "Yankee Tuesday" primaries and caucuses in 10 states that put the Kansas senator solidly in the GOP delegate lead. Bennett said it was not that difficult to help reverse Dole's fortunes after the three-tim- e presidential candidate staggered in earlier primaries. "We just got Bob Dole to be himself Bennett said. "Americans had not been seeing die real Bob Dole. We got him to relax, joke more and talk more about himself" In a copyright story Thursday, the Deseret News reported that Bennett was one of 10 Republican senators who stepped in to help after Dole stumbled in the Iowa, New Hampshire and Arizona primaries. They encouraged Dole to lighten up and talk more about himself, his humble childhood, his World War II service and wounds that left his right arm crippled and his years of rehabilitation. They also wanted him to have another senator constantly at his side as a respected sounding board someone who could also muster the resources of other GOP senators to help when neces- - sary. sec "Bennett on page - Would you be interested in a home you could own outright after four or five years and which might set you on a course to saving more than 5300,000? Except for a few details, the concept has been worked out and the design of the house has too. In fact, the first house has been partially built and is already being lived in. You must concede that such a deal beats 30 years of mortgage payments, the stress of which makes it almost impossible to set something aside for savings, retirement, or perhaps a few of life's luxuries. Architect Dennis Davey's concept confronts these two major social and financial problems while dealing effectively with a third, that being the challenge of putting an affordable roof over the heads of Americans. There are additional benefits to this house, such as three-mathree-da- y assembly of the original unit And there is a bit of a sacu rifice to be made early on: This is a build house, with units added and the first unit of the home is small It is nonetheless surprisingly commodious because of the ingenious ways in which space is utilized. The kitchen sink faucet, for examples, swings through the wall to serve the bathroom. A room divider serves as a closet Davey, who has also built standard or conventional houses in TOLLAND, Conn. (AP) three-bedroo- pay-as-yo- one-by-on- e, see "Business 5 Briefs U. of U. - BYU Ctr. Answers Years Clinton's Stance of Burning Questions No matter how much energy might be gleaned from wind, solar power resources, it's a fossil fuel world for now and will be for at least the next 50 years. That is the given," fuels combustion technology expert L Douglas Smoot said. The challenge is to burn them cleaner and more efficiently in the mean- Republican-dominate- d R-Pa-., chairman. see "Clinton" on page S 5 UK Scientist Speaks to U. Students time on earth," May initiated. According to. May, the correct response would be "How many species are there on this planet?" May explained that this is both a simple and a complex question. It is simple in regards to gaining a basic knowledge of the planet It is complex in that it describes what the extraordinary ecology, or the relationship of organisms and the environment of our planet is. So how many species are there presenuy on earth? According to May there is estimated to be as little as three million and as high as 10,000,000. DAVID JACKSON Chronicle Staff Writer Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK and Head of the Office of Science and Technology, Sir Robert M. May, was the feature lecturer at the Cedric I. Davem Laureate Program Lecture, Wednesday evening. May spoke of the diversity of life on earth in the past, the present and the likely future. "What would be the first question asked by aliens arriving for the first n time" Smoot made that assertion in an interview after delivering the opening speech at the 10th annual technical conference of the Advanced Combustion and Engineering Research Center held Wednesday. The center, which is headquartered at Brigham Young University and operates as a consortium of BYU and University of Utah engineers and scientists, provides research services for academic, industry and government energy experts world wide. With no breakthrough energy sources on the horizon and a fossil fuel supply reckoned to last roughly 300 years at current consumption rates, Smoot and his fellow engineers and scientists are developing methods to get more energy and less waste from fossil fuel, particularly coaL David Pershing, dean of the U. College of Engineering and associate director of the center, is heading a research team looking for ways to remove hydrocarbons and other contaminants from the he nation's soils caused by often carelessly dumped industrial waste products. ; America's economic future is tied largely to the ability of UJS. industry to stay in the forefront of world competition, Smoot said. "But since aO high-tec- h and basic industries are so dependent on an adequate and affordable supply of energy whose production relies ultimately on combustion technology our economic success is really determined by our ability to produce needed energy and develop new technology for producing it more efficiently.'' New discoveries in coal structure, coal reaction processes and rates, methods of acid rain control, fuel minerals behavior and waste conversion developed by members of the center's research team have given new insights into complex combustion processes, Smoot noted in his lecture For example, early coal-fire- d power plants had an efficiency rating of 5 percent, Smoot said. They are now at about 34 percent, and more than 55 percent efficiency has recently been demonstrated in laboratories, he added. The center is the only academic engineering research center in the country devoted to this field that is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Since it was started in May 1986, it has received $20 million in NSF grants and an additional $20 million in matching funds from private industry, other federal and state grants found from the participating universities. The center, which maintains extensive laboratory facilities on both campuses, has published five books and more than 700 journal and conference on page - GREENBELT, Md. (AP) In remarks that were part lecture and part emotional appeal, President Clinton urged young people nationwide on Thursday to avoid or abandon drugs. If you're in doubt, don't do it; if you're in trouble, get help," Clinton said. "We've got to make drug use the exception, not the rule. . Choose wise, and well be all right" Slapping the lectern in the auditorium of Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Clinton made die appeal personal and emotional, saying that drug abuse had nearly destroyed his generation and "nearly cost my brother his life." Addressing a politically popular theme in this year, the president announced that 15 pharmaceutical companies have amassed a $33 million pool to distribute material on drug use detection and treatment to millions of parents through the offices of 400,000 doctors coast to coast But while Clinton said that drug use is down among all Americans except those 18 and younger, a report by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee claimed drug use is up across the board and accused Clinton of neglecting the drug issue until now. "Drug use of all types and among all ages, including juveniles, has risen sharply and alarmingly every year during this adminisdie committee tration," said Rep. 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"Categorized by size and weight, the greatest number of species of teranimals are restrial, or ones about the size of an ant," May said. "There are approximately 1,000,000 different species of this size and weight" What about extinction and the future of life? , "Extinction has been the fate of most animals that have ever lived," May said. "The average life span of various species in the past, according to historical J fossil evidence, was land-livin- g, 4,000,000 years." "At the present time 'the average life span of a species is only 10,000 years," May continued. "In the last 100 years, a an average species rate of extinction has been accelerated by tl0,000 fold!" exist. y,----.;-.'Dr. May has made many contributions to a variety of sciences. He has Phutupaphers Dave Reardon, Heather Hackett, Cavm just 9,000 species. May said that presendy the rate of finding and naming new species each year is three to five for birds, 10 for mammals, and approximately one for have ever existed," May said. "One out of every. 10,000 existing species today will become extinct each year." May added that the number of certified extinct species has reached 485. More than 3,000 species are currently threatened. "Vc stand m the brtalung tip of the . sixth great mass extinction," May said. "The first five were caused by environmental factors; the last one will be . done by us!" May concluded by urging the human race to take care of and protect the many species that currently Eva Mkhcflc Hunter, Sandy Jensen, Kristen Kamerath, Kyle Knowles, Kali Korbis, Spencer Young Typesetter! It Production recognized "The number of spedes today may be only two perceflt of all those that Staff Writrrs. DavkiAiidenoii,SabraBcddesMatt( There are, in fact, approximately 1.8 million species that have already been systematically named and recorded This statistic is substantially larger than it was just 200 years ago. In 1758, Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, served Applied positions .1 in Mathematics r at Harvard, at the California Astrophysics Institute of Technology, Vice President for Research, Professor of Zoology at Princeton, and Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University and Imperial College. May's current post requires him to integrate successfully the interests of science, government, and industry. . " ' |