European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday apr it 2t, 1989 teacher raps ouf Bottom line on economics Atlanta map Ross Kapsol can has been teaching Long enough to know that kids arc l exactly wild about learning economics so tic decided to present the dismal science with rap. Kap Ilcin. A performer and manager in the music business during his 18 years As a Public school teacher wrote and recorded run  a rappin tribute to the Joys of economics. He also had some or his students at Manin Lush or King or. Middle school make a video version of the song. Kapcin uses Bolh As motivational Lewis to make economics less imposing Lohi students. Instead of using a textbook s Dull words. A Pulcin said teachers could belter introduce Young students to eco nomic concepts with such lines As try to maximize profits minimize costs that s what i m Irwin in do increase productivity improve the Quality so 1 can bring the Best product to  or this explanation of Supply and demand now when resources get scarce or demand increases the Price of goods Rise it rarely decreases. People s tastes change and so do i if i want 10 stay in business i d better  and you can dance to it. I thought it was a Good idea in this Day and age when kids can rap and memorize pages and pages of entertainment information Why not do something educational to go along Wilhit a Pulcin said Kapstein 40, recorded the song the title or which was inspired by rap stars run . With a Small group of professional musicians. He Hopes to release it for other inc hers to use. The video set in a City Park has the ragged feel of a Home movie but a Pulcin said he d like to make a More polished version if he can obtain Money to cover production costs Kapstein believes that if his musical Elt Orts succeed students will he More inclined to study economic when they reach High school. Kids in nigh school really put it off. It s something thai really has a Low priority Kapstein said. We try to dispel the myths so it s not a terrible .monster.". Kapstein said he started thinking Over the idea a couple of years ago when he enrolled in a program at Georgia stale University s Center for business and economic education thai stressed creative and unusual approaches to leaching. Stateside Houston becomes top port for handling foreign cargo Houston ut1 the port of Houston has re placed new York As the no. 1 handler of foreign cargo port officials say. According to figures by the . Commerce depart ment. Houston s Public and private docks handled 64.5 million tons of import and Export cargo Worth $22 billion in 1988. Thai was a 13.8 percent increase Over 1987 and inc second largest foreign tonnage in Houston s history. " i i port s role in International Trade is expanding and these figures Ore confirmation of that growth Pori executive director James Pugh said. The port of new York has been the acknowledged Leader in foreign Trade for several years but lost its top spot with on 61.7 million tons handled last year the t showed. Gigantic asteroid blazed past Earth at 50,000 Mph in cosmic close Call Washington Dpi a half mile wide Aster Oid zipping through space at nearly 50,000 Mph. Skirted past Earth last month in a cosmic close Call unrivalled in a half Century the National aeronautics and space administration said wednesday. The asteroid called 1989fc, passed within 500.000 Miles of Earth about twice the distance to the Moon on March 23, the space Agency said. On the cosmic scale of things that was a close Call said Henry Holt an Amateur astronomer from Flagstaff ariz., credited with discovering the asteroid while working on a project funded by Nasa. Bevan French a scientist with Nasa s solar system exploration division said if the asteroid had collided with Earth the Impact would have been equivalent to the explosion of 20,000 Hydrogen bombs creating a Crater five to 10 Mil across or Large enough to destroy a Good size  if it had hit an Ocean it would have created killer tidal Waves that would have swept Over coastal regions,1 French said. Hydrogen bomb inventor Edward Teller at it recent symposium at George Washington University pro posed using an atomic weapon to destroy asteroids found to be on a collision course with Earth. Nasa noted it is popularly believed that a six Milc diameter asteroid hit Earth about 65 million years ago that wiped out dinosaurs. Sex analyst gets 10 years for spying Capitol s Freedom statue due for costly restoration Washington api the giant Bronze statue of free Dom on lop of the Capitol dome is so badly deteriorated alter 125 years that it will be removed prob ably by helicopter and brought to the ground and restored. Architect George while made the disclosure tues Day at a ceremony launching a multimillion Dollar fund raising Effort id provide private sector dollars to finance a s6 million restoration project at the Capitol and to create a fund to buy artworks associated with its past. White said the first projects will be the restoration of the statue and the installation of Marble fountains on the Capitol s East Plaia ending ils use As a parking lot. Hie Idamc which weighs 14.985 pounds rises 19 feet inches from the lop of the dome. It was hoisted into position and bolted into place on oct. 2.1863. Undertaker fails to get tax break for receptions Washington a the tax court Lur cd thumbs Down tuesday on a Mann cola undertaker who look a business tax deduction for s11,000 of expenses of wedding receptions for two daughters. William l Mccravy of Minneapolis and his wife Kathleen claimed the receptions As an advertising entertainment expense contending that 82 percent of the people invited were clients or referral sources for his Washburn Mcrea a funeral chapels inc. The personal Clement of the expenses for the me reads daughters weddings was so prominent that we believe Hal Cen a person not versed in the tax Law would know Hal the corporation could not deduct  the court held. The court was so unimpressed b the argument that in allowed the internal Revenue service to add a negligence Panahy to the my Cavys Bill. Baltimore Cap a Man who admitted giving More than 200 documents to the South african government has been sentenced to 10 years in a Federal prison and fined $5,000. Communicating vital classified information to agents of a foreign Power is despicable , District court judge Herbert f. Murray Lod confessed spy. Joseph Dolce of Havre de Grace As he imposed the maximum sentence wednesday. Dolce a former weapons analyst at Aberdeen proving ground pleaded guilty oct. 11 to one count of espionage As part of a plea bargain with Federal prosecutors. " have failed my country my family and  Dolce said. The 215 pieces of information the civilian anal is relayed from 1979 to 1983 were Only moderately dam aging or of Little threat to National Security assistant . Attorney Gary Jordan said. Dolce 49, terminated his relationship with the South africans in 1983, apparently because of a personality clash with a new defense attache. Jordan said Dolce provided South africans Wilh Classi fied information about . And soviet conventional weapons systems their capabilities and their frailties. Harold i. Glaser Dolce s attorney said the civilian analyst did not intend to harm the United states but saw himself As helping inc United St trs by aiding an ally. Dolce said he did nol get any Money for the information which he passed on to South Africa. Dolce resigned sept. 30 from his $34,000-a-year Job As a research analyst for the army material systems analyst activity. He had a mid level Security clearance. Working up an appetite. A lunchtime pedestrian pics n or Acyl