European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday september 5, 1991 Rice tops Survey of colleges offering most for your Money new York apr Rice University a Century old Texas school known for top night engineering and science programs Heads a list of the nations 100 Best College buys in a Magazine Survey. Money Magazine s second annual Money guide which goes on Sale for $3.95 at Newsstands monday called the Houston University the nations Best Overall tuition value after analysing ij0i1 colleges and universities. The top i tuft list had 56 private schools including the Massachusetts Institute of technology Yale Stanford and the University of Chicago which charge More than $16,000 in tuition but were nonetheless judged As excellent values. Rice with a $1 billion endowment charges its 3,900 students $7,700 in tuition plus $4,900 in room and Board roughly half the expenses most Ivy league students pay. Until 1965, it charged no. Tuition at All. Rice was founded in 1k91 by Cotton Baron William Marsh Rice whose dream was to establish a first rate College open to All regardless of Means. Rice s engineering business and science programs rank among the nation s Best. On the Cost Side the Survey rated schools based on Washington apr homeowners who Spray with Weed killing herbicides May get Good looking lawns but they could give their dogs cancer a Federal study says. National cancer Institute researchers reported tuesday that dogs whose owners use a herbicide containing 2,4-d have up to twice the risk of developing Lymphatic cancer. And the study said research is needed to determine whether household use of the Plant killing chemical could also pose a risk to humans. The study published in the journal of the National cancer Institute said that when homeowners sprinkled or sprayed their lawns with 2,4-d herbicide four or More times a year dogs that played on the lawns were twice As Likely to develop a cancer called malignant Lymphoma. If the chemical was used less frequently the Lymphoma risk dropped but even with just one herbicide application a season the cancer risk was one third higher than among dogs whose owners did not use the chemical. Earlier studies on farms in Nebraska showed that agricultural workers who mixed and sprayed the herbicide More than 2 1 Days per year were up to three times More Likely to develop Lymphoma. Or. Robert Hoover of Sci said such farm studies have led researchers to become concerned about the risk of cancer among the general population from widespread use of the Hurh Icide on lawns Parkland and los Angeles apr a comic claiming he lost Money in a collapsed savings and loan Hank swatted Charles h. Keating jr., its owner with a powdered wig tuesday during a break in Keating s trial. Keating was hit with the wig outside the Courtr Hun where he s on trial Oil 20 counts of duping Lincoln savings investors into believing High yield High risk Bonds were Safe. Lincoln s $2.6 billion failure was the biggest Ever. Many elderly investors a including at least one who committed suicide a lost their life savings on Keating s junk Bonds and the Case has become a Symbol of the nation s a amp a disasters. A this is for America Quot yelled comedian skip l. Lowe pulling a powdered blonde wig from a tote bag and swinging it at Keating s head. A a the Jerk he killed people Quot said Lowe a Short 62-year-old. Lowe was unable to Raeh the head of the 6i�?Toot-5 Keating with his wild swings. Tuition. It used out of state charges for Public schools to make them More comparable to private institutions. In measuring educational Quality the Survey used such indicators As student to faculty ratio average Scholastic aptitude test scores Library Quality graduation rates percentage of graduates who earn doctorates and the number of graduates who make Standard amp poor a Survey of 70,0011 top corporate executives. Cooper Union which topped last years Survey dropped out of the top 100 this year. The new York City school remains an a unbeatable bargain at $300 a year the Magazine said hut offers degrees Only in Art architecture and engineering. Harvard which has a policy of not publicizing sat scores and other data used in calculating the Money standings did not make this year s list. The other schools in this years top 10 Best buys were new College of the University of South Florida Sarasota Trenton state College . University of Virginia Charlottesville University of Illinois at or Hana Champaign California Institute of technology Pasadena state University of new York at Binghamton University of Washington Seattle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Texas at Austin. Human effects of herbicide use around non farm Homes Hoover said a there May be in fact a risk related to the Levels of  a he advised homeowners using the herbicide to Wear protective clothes while mixing and applying the chemical. Quot staying off the treated surface for a Day or two would also he prudent Quot he said. Malignant Lymphoma in dogs is similar to non Hodgkin a Lymphoma in humans. It is a cancer that strikes the Lymphatic or immune system and can involve Lymph nodes and spleen. The incidence of Lymphoma among americans has increased by about 50 percent since 1973 a one of the largest increases of any cancer. The Sci estimates that about 37,0 k new cases will be diagnosed in the United states this year. While malignant Lymphoma is common in dogs striking about one in seven the study said exposure to the 2,4-d herbicide was a much More serious risk Factor for the disease than other chemicals commonly encountered by the pets. The conclusion was based on a study of the chemical exposures of 491 dogs with Lymphoma compared with 466 dogs of similar age and background that did not have Lymphoma. The chemical 2,4-d is included in scores of Home Garden products used to control Broadleaf weeds such As dandelions. Professional Lawn service companies commonly use the herbicide and it is included in some Lawn fertilizers. But he connected twice with Keatings shoulder sending showers of powder into the air. In an interview. Lowe said he lost a Large amount of Money he made entertaining troops in Vietnam. A Friend who said she toured with him Margee Mcglory said she lost $50, and Lowe lost $100,000 on Bonds sold by american Continental corp., Lincoln a Parent company. It was the second physical confrontation with Keating during his month old trial. At the end of the trial s first Day a 72-year-old woman who lost $5,000 on Lincoln hands pushed her Way to the from of the court and grabbed Keating by the lapels shouting a you took All my Money away Quot like Lowe the woman was led away by bailiffs but not arrested. 1 Keating cringed briefly at the attack tuesday but quickly ducked Back into court and regained his composure. A  in three states picket first Day of school from wire reports teachers in Pennsylvania Rhode Island and Michigan spent the first Day of school on the picket lines tuesday and More than 35,000 students stayed Home. In Dallas meanwhile More than 2,000 High school students and supporters marched on school District Headquarters tuesday in a Daylong protest of teacher layoffs. Some 225 teachers were Laid off last week due to budget cuts from reduced state Aid and 100 More Are facing Pink slips this week a school spokesman said. But a strike was averted in Seattle when teachers voted overwhelmingly tuesday to accept a contract offer one Day before classes were to open in the states largest school  killed in shootout new York a two Staten Island neighbors were in custody wednesday after a shooting spree that ended in the death of one Man during a dispute Between the families Over a pet dog. Police  Collins. 34, was charged with second degree murder and weapons Possession in the death of neighbor Christopher Merola 21, said police spokeswoman sgt. Mary  dead Many a brother Ralph Merola 29, also was arrested on a weapons charge As Well As reckless endangerment for shooting at the alleged killer a but instead hitting an innocent bystander. Police said that the violent clash entered on the Collinss pet dog and his urinating on some backyard Bushes,3 deputies charged los Angeles a three los Angeles county sheriff s deputies and a computer technician have been charged with systematically stealing credit cards from motorists. District attorney Ira Reiner said tuesday. A working in teams Over a three month period these deputies used their badges to systematically steal More than $55, k 0 from unsuspecting citizens Quot Reiner said. Computer technician Mario Rendon 35, of Alhambra and the deputies a Steven Switzer. 31, of Glendale Brent Mosley 27, of Rancho Cucamonga and Edward Perez 35, of Rialto a Are charged with a total of 56  impaled worker rolling Hills estates. Calif. A construction worker plunged More than hallway Down a 46-foot excavation pit tuesday before being impaled on a steel reinforcing bar. The incident occurred about 12 45 . At a construction site where a drilling company was excavating holes for the foundation of an apartment building. The worker whose name was not immediately released was taken by helicopter to county har Bor Urcla medical Center with the steel bar still embedded in his shoulder. He was reported in Stahle condition Dahmer Back in prison Madison wis. A Jeffrey l. Dahmer who admitted killing and dismembering 17 men and boys was transferred tuesday from Milwaukee county jail to a state prison when his probation in a molestation Case was revoked. Dahmer must serve the rest of a five year sentence for child molestation at the Columbia county prison in Portage 40 Miles North of Madison said Michael Sullivan Deputy Secretary of the stale department of corrections. Dahmer 31, a former factory worker was arrested alter police found the remains of 11 dismembered bodies in his Milwaukee apartment july 22. He has since been charged with 15 counts of first degree intentional homicide. An arraignment was set for next tuesday in Milwaukee county court. Dahmer served 10 months of his sentence before his release. Weed killing herbicides linked to higher cancer rate with dogs Goll courses. Although no studies have yet been conducted on the Keating swatted with powdered wig