European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 08, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Pay Scales a thing of monday november8,1993 Austin Texas up comedian Pilly Crystal s favorite line in his imitation of actor Fernando lamas was it snot How you feel it s How you  average looking and downright ugly americans might not find the joke so funny anymore. A new study by two University of Texas economists has found that Good looks translate into handsome economic rewards in the Job Market. Daniel Hamermesh co author of beautify and the labor Market says no matter what your Job Good looking peo pie Are doing better everywhere. A bad looking person is penalized whether he working in a factory or teaching in a uni  Hamermesh and co researcher Jeff Biddle said they found evidence that the earnings Gap is caused by certain occupations catering1 More to attractive employees than others. But it still appears that favouritism toward Good looks and prejudice against comeliness is pervasive in most jobs. According to the study attractive peo ple tend to earn about 5 percent More per hour than those with average  workers pull in about 5 percent to 10 percent less than average with allot her things being equal. Men with below average looks suffered a 9 percent earnings penalty compared with 5 per cent for women. Hamermesh and Biddle said the penalty and Premium May be higher for men but the gender differences Are not Large. They say there also is evidence that the labor Market sorts the Best looking peo ple into occupations where their looks Are productive. A. The researchers also found that women considered to be unattractive Are less Likely than other women to work out Side the Home and tend to marry men with lower Levels of education. They suggested three possible reason for a Premium of Beauty or a penalty for ugliness in the labor Market pure employer discrimination customer discrimination productivity and occupational overcrowding. Hamermesh said it might be that pm Richmond gets ready t. -. For phooey by the Washington Post Virginia has really returned to its roots. In electing George f. Allen governor it has returned snuff dipping to the highest reaches of the old Dominion. It has chosen a chief executive perpetually buzzed on nicotine and prone to randomly ooze Brown juice. Allen routinely reaches into his hip pocket for that Little can of Copenhagen tobacco. Plain he told a Richmon newspaper. The Sweet stuff gives you  he takes a Pinch plants it be tween the lower lip and the gum and awaits the Quick Buzz when the nicotine hits All those Little blood vessels. Then he spits into a 7 eleven cup. Talk about genteel. Spittoon of absolutely i m sure we be got them Over Here in storage somewhere said . Shropshire last week. Shropshire until recently chief of staff to gov. L. Douglas Wilder has been a fixture at the Richmond Capitol build ing since the 1960s. The Spittoon came out of the Capitol in the 70s, As the old line Byrd machine receded he recalled but William Faulkner must have Bee thinking about Virginia when he wrote the past is never dead. It s not  they were brass real Golden remembered Shropshire of the Cusp Dors. He also recalled that state prison inmate used to clean them. Polished of Al ways polished he declared. This is Vir Ginia even though tobacco assured the Suc Cess of the Virginia Colony snuff has not been a big item in the old Dominion since the 18th Century said Greg Kimball a curator for the Valentine museum i Richmond. Thomas Jefferson hated to Bacco the archivists at Monticello said. But then again Allen first got into Virginia governor elect George f. Allen shown with wife Susan enjoys dipping snuff. Snuff not in Virginia but in High school i los Angeles said his Mother Etty. He Learned it from the rams football players his father coached. They also taught him to Wear his signature Cowboy boots. Allemand his younger brother Bruce have a wordless ritual when they meet. The hold out their cans of snuff stiff armed so the freshness Date on the Bottom can be read. This shows which has been consumed faster. Because of George Allen snuff dipping and tobacco spitting and Cowboy Boot wearing and pickup truck driving and living in an upper Middle class five bedroom log Home Bruceallen Calls his brother  figures said Edward Ayers a univer sity of Virginia historian. The dominant image of the South after the civil Warwas people spitting. Visitors were always struck by the amount of saliva and Tobac co All Over the  dipping was considered a Little More genteel than its close Cousin plug tobacco chewing Ayers Sid. Plug tobacco causes those huge wads you see in the Cheeks of some Philadelphia Phillies baseball play ers. Snuff dipping just causes a Little Lin of Brown drool. Dipping says a lot said Ayers. It s away of declaring Independence from Blue suited republicans. Southerners Are constantly trying to have their roots and the modern world too. How much Allenis a Southern Man is not Clear at All but his snuff habit is a reassurance of Manli Ness and of unwillingness to be completely homogenized by the National  so forget those jokes about Mary sue Terry not coming within spitting distance of Allen in the election and not being unto snuff. Instead listen to Robert w. Cantrell chair of the otolaryngology department of the University of Virginia. Snuff dipping causes very Nasty cancers of the Gums Cheek and Tongue very malignant he said. We wish our new governor Well said Cantrell. Says plovers just prefer to have Good looking people working for them. Another possibility is that customers prefer to have at Tractive people serving them or Selling to them. And the third possibility is that Good looking people Are scarce and just get paid More because they Are  he said that regardless of the cause the study is the first to demonstrate that attractive people Are paid More and How much More than less attractive people. The study was based on three House hold and worker surveys that were con ducted in the United states and Canada in the 1970s and 1980s, in which respondents were rated on a five Point scale for physical appearance. Giant Mirror proposed to dust asteroids Tucson Ariz. A an asteroid on a collision course with Earth could be diverted from its doomsday path by concentrated Sunbeam researchers Sug Gest. Some researchers have proposed a orbiting nuclear bomb As the most practical Way to slap away a threatening Aster Oid. But two planetary scientists reported Friday in the British journal nature that a giant orbiting Mirror could focus a tight beam of sunlight on the asteroid vaporizing enough of it to move it slowly aside. . Melosh of the University of Arizona at Tucson said the idea he developed with . Nem chinos of the Institute for dynamics of Geosphere in Moscow is a safer alternative. The National aeronautics and space administration estimates an asteroid of 1.2 Miles in diameter will hit Earth once every 500,000 years killing More than 1 billion people. Bomb squad refuses itty bitty pumpkin Houston a the pumpkin contained nothing More dangerous than pulp and seeds. So do employees of nations Dank feel even a Little silly about calling the police bomb squad to defuse the Gourd a customer using the Bank s Cash machine left the 6-Inch pumpkin on a shelf near the Deposit drawer wednesday mom ing a Bank official said. A Teller at the drive through window asked the Man to remove the pumpkin he refused and drove away she said. So jittery Bank employees called the bomb squad. Police tracked Down the pumpkin depositor through his Bank account number and his License plate. He told police he left the pump Kin on a dare from his wife said officer Alvin Wright the Man won t be charged and apologized to the Bank Wright said. Of Udy says Moody people Likely to be smokers drinkers Washington a feel de pressed lonely restless bored upset you re not alone. Nearly 40 million american adult frequently fall into such negative moods government health researcher reported thursday. Those susceptible to foul moods were More Likely to be smokers and the Moo Diest men also tended to be heavy drinkers according to Charlotte a. Schoenborn and John Horro of the National Center for health statistics. These findings suggest that emotion Al Well being May play a role in Cigar Rette smoking Ana heavy drinking their study said. Some 43,782 adults were asked in a extensive 1991 health Survey if they had Felt such negative moods in the previous two weeks. Depression was More com Mon among women 11 percent than men 7 percent. Men were More rest less 11 percent than women 10 per cent. Eleven percent of women and 9 percent of men Felt bored. About 6 percent of women and 3 per cent of men often Felt lonely. Almost 5 percent of women and 3 percent of me said they often got upset. Overall the Survey indicated that22.5 million women and 17 million men often experienced at least one of these negative moods during the two weeks before being interviewed. More than 8 million had frequent outs of three or More of the bad feel Ings. Lonely adults were 60 percent to 70 percent More Likely to smoke the de pressed were 40 percent to so percent More Likely to Light  Woodiest men were three times As Likely to be heavy drinkers the Cente said. But the researchers found no relationship Between negative moods and heavy drinking for women. They defined heavy drinking As three or More drinks a Day for men and two or More for women. I