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2 A Thinly, Ottobf 27 1994 THE TEHNESSEAN 1 WORLD IN 5 MINUTES COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY DOLPH HONICKER Lao Taneyhill awaits Vol youth South Carolina's Steve Taneyhill is a maturing quarterback whoU be throwing against an immature secondary when Tennessee plays in Columbia Saturday. "Anytime you have a team that's going to get back in the gun and throw it every time, they're going to get some yards," says Vol secondary coach Lovie Smith. "They like a lot of underneath passes On 4C. NO ROUNDBALL? Shall we make it near unanimous? NBA could join baseball and hockey players on the sidelines if agreement on a salary cap isn't reached and owners vote a lockout Monday. Season's slated start Nov.

4. On 1C. 7 $... U.N. watchdog hinhappy' over N.

Korea nuke accord North Korea is still in violation of a U.N. demand to inspect two suspected nuclear sites despite the accord it signed last week with the United States, says the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. "It's obliged to accept the special inspections," says Hans Blix, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. "Now they say in 5 years they'll comply.

It's somewhat better than 'never, never, But we're not very happy." KILLERS ESCAPE DEATH The three killers of American student Amy Biehl get 18 years in prison instead of the death penalty. The judge says they still can become useful citizens despite a lack of remorse. Mongezi Manqina, 22, Mzikhona Nofemela, 19, and Vusumzi Ntamo, can appeal. The judge says Biehl was killed only "because she had white skin." On 5A. HAITIAN PRIORITY Helping Haiti recover from 3 years of military rule and devastating trade embargoes must be the new government's top priority, says Prime Minister-designate Smarck Michel.

Michel, 57, a wealthy businessman and close associate of President Jean-Ber-trand Aristide, says his first priority will be to "put the country on the road to development." Ryan 'songwriting machine' How can he be, in the words of studio guru Craig Kramph, "a songwriting machine" at age 22? Singerguitarist Matthew Ryan, in Music City since late 1992, says it may be genetic. "My biological father is a country writer I tend to dwell on things, and I need a way to get it out. We all deal with problems every day, and we all need a way to deal with them." On 3D. SCENE HEARD Stuffed with pillows to portray the expectant mama who had to cancel her baby shower at the last moment, "Maybe I Should Have Kept My Fat Suit On" has a tale of woe. She tells Catherine Darnell she got a speeding ticket after the shower.

On ID. AP He FEMALE PILOT DOWN Lt. Kara S. Hultgreen of San Antonio, Texas, is believed killed when her jet crashed into the Pacific Tuesday on a training exercise off the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. She was the Navy's first female F-14 fighter pilot.

-LJESLJ- Where're all the daddies? "Fourteen-year-old boys with guns and 14-year-old girls with babies where did these problems come from?" asks David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values. "The principal engine is the spread of fatherlessness." He tells Vice President Al Gore and ex-HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan that 37 of America's kids sleep in homes where the natural father doesnt live. This, he notes, leads to a host of woes, from dropouts to drug abuse. On 11 A. FBI probes killing by cop Hospital studies debated Popping bubble on tennis Tennis anyone? In the winter under the bubble? How about 5 months instead of 6 months? Such things are the delight of lawyers.

Wildwood Swimming and Tennis Club is suing the city of Brentwood and its planning commission because the latter voted to restrict the time a bubble could be placed over four of the club's tennis courts, says an attorney. On 4B. 4 11 24 37 41 46 JACKPOT Saturday's drawing will be for $3.9 million. TENNESSEE: 1-800 LOTTO KY. KENTUCKY: 1-800 477-7700.

Health care for the poor declines when not-for-profit hospitals are sold to for-profit giant ColumbiaHCA Health Care warns a lobbying group for 44 not-for-profit hospitals. A Hospital Alliance of Tennessee study purports to show that former not-for-profit hospitals provide less charity care after a ColumbiaHCA takeover. It challenges a year-old Colum- biaHCA study saying Florida's not-for-profit hospitals dont do enough charity work to deserve tax-exempt status. On IE. BIAS LIVES Black applicants for mortgages are turned down twice as often as whites with similar incomes, says a federal report, despite an anti-discrimination crackdown by the Clinton administration.

Rejection data for 1993: blacks 34; Indians 27.8; Hispanics 25.1; whites' 15.3; Asians 14.6. On IE. The police slaying of a young black man that sparked a rampage by some 200 blacks in Lexington, will be probed by the FBI. Residents complain to police officials that less experienced officers are too quick to show force. Sgt.

Phil Vogel, the white officer who shot Antonio Sullivan, 18, says his gun went off accidentally after he and four other officers tried to arrest Sullivan emerging from a closet. Vogel's a 22-year veteran of the force. On 8A. CULLING JURY Several of O.J. Simpson's potential jurors are ousted for violating Judge Lance Ito's TV ban including one who admitted tuning in a cartoon show with his grandson.

A man who says he awoke to a radio report on the case is gone. Also out of the jury pool: one who admitted watching a football game and another who tuned in a financial report On 8A. The Tennessean Nasfivile Banner Present Call the Lottery Line to find out if you've won! Lottery Lin Category Code 521 Pet store owner threatened A death threat, possible loss of business as well as lawsuits are the price Concord, N.H., pet store owner Tim Jandebeur is paying for selling a kitten that died of rabies. Hundreds who played with kittens in his store may have to get shots, though no cases of human rabies have been reported. "My wife and I are scared," says Jandebeur.

'H. Dial 511. then enter Bfl MWawilWWUIJWllMlilw catetMrvC0 informer, pnone DM. ror more IlliUmiailUn Complete details available call 242-551 1 evBrv in A s10" easurement may help determine age of universe We "live in a time of crisis, for we may be forced to accept something new about the ages of the stars or the nature of the universe." GEORGE H. JACOBY Astrophysicist writing in journal Nature New York Times News Service The most accurate measurement yet of the distance to a remote galaxy has yielded a refined estimate of the rate at which the universe is expanding, bringing scientists much closer to determining one of the most fundamental and elusive numbers in cosmic theory: the age of the universe.

Astronomers who made the measurement, announced yesterday, called it a critical milestone in establishing a scale for calculating cosmic distances. While they cautioned that it would take more observations to be sure, their findings provided persuasive support for earlier stud ably observed before. This measure enabled astronomers to calculate that the universe is expanding at the rate of 80 kilometers a second per mega-parsec. One megaparsec is 3.26 million light-years. So for every megaparsec, every 3.26 million light-years, that a galaxy is from Earth, it will be seen to recede by 80 kilometers per second, or about 60,000 mph.

If the galaxy is twice that distance, it will be seen to be moving at twice the speed, and so on. In their report, Freedman's team said the new Cepheid observations, combined with other recent measurements by other techniques, "lead us to concluded that the evidence at this time favors a value" for the Hubble constant of 80 kilometers plus or minus 17. This calculation was made by dividing the receding velocity of the galaxy by its distance from Earth. The velocity was already well established by measuring the wavelengths of the galaxy's emitted Jight The redder, or longer the wavelengths of that light the greater the so-called red shift and the faster the velocity. It was the growing awareness that the universe is expanding that inspired scientists to conceive of the big-bang theory, which holds that the universe began in a single explosive moment, followed by a steady expansion to its present size.

The findings are based on photographs taken by the orbiting telescope's main camera of a certain class of bright massive stars in the M100 galaxy of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. These stars, called Cepheids, have luminosities times brighter than the sun. Early in this century, astronomers learned that the intrinsic brightness of these stars is related to rhythmic changes in their observed luminosity. By knowing their intrinsic brightness, astronomers could use the Cepheids as "standard candles" to measure distances by noting how dim they appear compared with their true brightness. From an analysis of 20 Cepheids observed in June, the astronomers determined that the M100 galaxy is 56 million light-years from Earth, several times farther out than any Cepheids had been reli old, the new calculations mean that the universe appears to be younger than some of its components.

This "age crisis," as cosmologists call it, could lead to revolutionary revisions in theories of stellar and cosmic evolution. Either accepted stellar ages are too high or some aspects of the big-bang theory are incorrect Or it may be that something about the fundamental nature of the universe remains undiscovered. Or possibly, all three are true. In commenting on the new cosmic measurement in today's issue of the journal Nature, where the team's findings are also described in detail, George H. Jacoby, an astrophysicist at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, wrote: "We live in a special time after millennia of not knowing the size and age of our universe, we soon will.

We also live in a time of crisis, for we may be forced to accept something new about the ages of the stars or the nature of the universe." A team of astronomers led by Dr. Wendy L. Freedman of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, made the mea- ies that, taken together, suggest that the answer may already be at hand. The universe, they estimate, is 8 billion-12 billion years old. That may seem like an infinity, but it is on the young side of many previous estimates, which usually ranged from 10 billion to 20 billion years.

If confirmed by subsequent research, the low age estimate confronts astrophysicists with a troubling paradox. Since some stars in the universe are reliably thought to be 16 billion years surements with observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed to answer just such cosmic questions. It was fitting that the telescope named for Edwin P. Hubble, an American astronomer, should have an important role in solving the rate of cosmic expansion. That rate, called the Hubble constant has been a goal of scientists since 1929, when Hubble established that the universe is expanding and that the more distant a galaxy is the faster it will be receding.

Bicentennial Mall project revised What may stay, what may go in project Gubernatorial campaign gets down to 'thumps' and lies' 3 state senator in Columbia, and prominent Democrat She was campaign treasurer for Gov. Ned Mc-Wherter, and he appointed her to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. She told the Memphis Commercial Appeal that the touch-or-no-touch question is not the issue. "That's an incredibly small point "What he said clearly was 'you. Peaches Simpkins, are a woman and you don't have a right to make a choice in the campaign.

Project architects have recommended that some features of the Bicentennial Mall be eliminated to keep the project within budget. No decision has been made on whether to make the proposed cuts. What would go The Tennessee Waterway, an artificial stream representing Tennessee's rivers, would be eliminated for a savings of $1.8 million. Three granite stars, representing the state flag, would be embedded in the pavement rather than raised to seating level. Fountains would be eliminated from the centers of the stars, which measure 27 feet from point to point.

This would save $1 million. A history wall connecting a row of 18-foot-tall posts may be eliminated. Instead, moments in state history may be recorded on the free-standing posts. This would save $1 million. Pedestals holding up topographical maps of Tennessee's 95 counties would be eliminated.

Instead, the county maps will be embedded in the sidewalk for a savings of $500,000. What would stay The largest carillon in the United States a set of 95, chromatically tuned chimes atop 95 columns, representing the state's 95 counties. A 25-foot granite map of the state, showing the counties, major rivers and highways. A amphitheater for bands, symphonic orchestras, fireworks and other public gatherings. A new Farmers Market with vendors, including Tennessee farmers and artisans, plus more than 300 parking spaces for shoppers along the southwest side of the mall.

A Walk of Volunteers, with 150,000 bricks, which Tennesseans will be able to purchase with donations. The brick owners' names will be engraved on the walkway. The mall will be landscaped primarily with tulip poplar trees, the state tree. pany he started and sold. After responding to reporters' Questions about the charge, Bredesen turned to Simpkins and said: "You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

You're a better woman than this." Bredesen called the incident "a brief verbal exchange with a good friend of mine." Simpkins' ties with Democratic politics run deep. She was married to the late Ed Blank, a longtime Officials want it to stand as the focal point of the Jefferson Street end of the project "We'll do our best to maintain if Manning said. The mall's previous budget called for spending $4.1 million on land and $28.6 million on construction, Manning said. The state has revised that to add $2 million in 1993 bond funds earmarked for Capitol Hill improvements and $6.5 million in federal money. The state already has spent $24 million on infrastructure and other related costs and has yet to award a contract for the bulk of the job building the actual park space.

Early estimates put the cost of that job at $13.4 million. The state will let contractors bid on that part of the job in mid November. The Metro Council agreed last week to cover a $1.2 million overrun in the cost of relocating the Farmers Market which is being displaced by the mall. Metro and the state had planned to split the $5 million relocation down the middle before high Sonstruction bids raised the price. Garbage protesters confront Bredesen Costs so far Diane Dorn told WSMV that they were angry that Davidson County's garbage is being dumped in Rutherford County at the Browning-Ferris Industries landfill.

Bredesen, Nashville mayor, said a Supreme Court decision took away Nashville's ability to keep private trash haulers inside Davidson County. "So they're bringing it where they want to, and BFI has a large landfill in RutherfoJ County," Bredesen saicLB MURFREESBORO (AP) Ten people angry over the disposal of Nashville's garbage in Rutherford County met up with Democrat gubernatorial candidate Phil Bredesen yesterday. The protesters found Bredesen on the campaign trail and called themselves concerned citizens. But WSMV-Channel 4 reported that their literature had been paid for by the campaign ofiBredesen's opponent Republican Don Sundquist Here are the construction costs for the areas of the Bicentennial Mall project already under contract: Railroad trestle Early cost estimate Actual contract price (includes cushion for overruns) $5 million $9 million Roads and utilities Early cost estimate Actual contract price $2.65 million $5.62 million Capitol Hill grounds Early cost estimate Actual contract price $1.63 million $2.83 million Amphitheater Early cost estimate Actual contract price $641,925 $2.59 million Parking lots Early cost estimate Actual contract price $1.64 million $1.86 million Project Manager Edward Belbusti said the early estimates do noaccount for some work included in the construction contracts..