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Cloud of acid droplets found
hanging 100,000 feet over U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An invisible
cloud of sulfuric acid droplets has
been detected 100,000 feet above the
United States by scientists in
vestigating the atmosphere, according
to a National Science Foundation
report.
The source of the acid cloud is
believed to be the Mexican volcano El
Chichon, which spewed large amounts
of sulfur dioxide in the air when it
erupted last April.
Drs. David Hofmann and James
Rosen, scientists at the University of
Wyoming, detected the acid in studies
of the air above Wyoming. They said
the cloud is of “continental
proportions.”
Hofmann and Rosen said the cloud,
detected by instruments sent aloft in
balloons, contains more than 500 acid
droplets per cubic centimeter, com
pared to a normal concentration of one
or two droplets.
They predicted it will be a "semi
permanent feature of the 100,000-foot
region for years to come." “The
droplets are so small it will take gravity
many years to bring them to Earth,”
they said.
While these acid droplets are too
small to be seen, they could ac
cumulate into larger particles which
then would scatter light and reduce the
amount of sunlight reaching Earth,
possibly causing a drop in surface
temperatures. The scientists said they
could not estimate when this might
take place.
El Chichon's effect on the at
mosphere has been more than 40 times
greater than that of the eruption of
Mount St. Helens two years earlier.
University’s plan worries other schools
CORVALLIS (AP) — A proposal by
the University to start its own
management institute has some
other schools worried the state’s
largest university doesn’t want to
cooperate on management training.
But university officials say their
proposal to create the Northwest
Strategic Management Institute
doesn’t conflict with a recommen
dation by Higher Education
Chancellor Bud Davis for a three
school management training
program.
Davis’ suggestion, included in his
draft "Strategic Plan for Higher
Education,” is to form an advanced
program operated jointly by the
business schools at Portland State
University, Oregon State University
and the University. The program
would be directed primarily at peo
ple already employed in business.
Davis told the state Board of
Higher Education last week he was
concerned that the University was
trying to establish the same type of
program, but without the help of the
other two schools. The board
delayed consideration of the univer
sity’s proposal until February.
Davis’ worry was echoed by Earl
Goddard, dean of the School of
Business at Oregon State
University.
“I don’t think it’s fair to say they
(the University) were trying to end
run the chancellor’s plan," Goddard
said. “But people thought if they
had been in the spirit of that plan
they would have withdrawn their
proposal.
But Shirley Menaker, associate
dean of the University business
school, said the institute they have
in mind would be principally for
research, not for teaching.
The institute has been in the plan
ning stages for several months and
the fact that It surfaced at the same
time as the Davis proposal was “an
unfortunate coincidence,” she said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ron
Reagan says he quit ballet
because he wants to “make a
home with my wife and to one
day have a child” — goals that
he found only “distantly at
tainable" as an underpaid,
overworked dancer.
“I admit my mistake,” writes
the president’s son in this
week’s edition of Newsweek.
"Ballet is much more and
much less than I’d imagined
as an 18-year-old.”
Reagan says he also quit
the Joffrey Ballet because “I’d
had enough of hearing that I or
my colleagues were less than
sentient beings simply
because we jete on the wrong
foot."
Reagan, who dropped out of
Yale University several years
ago to become a dancer, says:
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most grossly underpaid pro
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not to that handful of
megastars who command
huge salaries, but to the
anonymous dancers who con
stitute the corps and soloist
ranks of our major com
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