The Aerie, Yearbook of the University of North Texas, 1989 Page: 35
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New law speeds
checks' clearing
The fine art of floating a check
became a little more difficult Sept.
1. Before the passing of that law,
checks cleared in 10 to 14 days.
The Expedited Funds Availability
Act, approved by Congress last
year, gave consumers access to
their funds more quickly. The bill
was approved after much urging
from consumer groups, which
complained of unfair float time
between the deposit of checks
drawn on other banks and
availability to the consumer.
Telescope col-
lapses at national
observatory
One of the world's biggest
radiotelescopes collapsed in what
an astronomer lamented as a "ma-
jor blow" to science. The 26-year-
old instrument, an antenna dish
the size of a football field in diam-
eter, gave way while a staff mem-
ber was using it. No one was hurt.
The 300-foot telescope, a metal
laticework bowl resembling a TV
satellite dish, was capable of inter-
cepting naturally emitted radio
signals from celestial bodies up to
10 billion light years away.Ellis County was picked to be
the site of the Super Conducting
Supercollider. The SCS, to be built
within five to six years, would be
a 53-mile long tunnel about 10
feet in diameter, buried20 to 60 feet underground. Inside
the tunnel streams of particles
would be accelerated to very high
speeds and collided with each
other.Pakistanis die in riot over religious
bookMoslem fundamentalists
around the world demanded that
Salman Rushdie's novel "The
Satanic Verses" be banned as
blasphemy against Islam. Several
people died and many were
injured when rioters tried to storm
the U.S. Information Center in
Islamabad. The protesters
demanded the book be banned inthe United States. Fundamental-
ists said the book did not recog-
nize Islam as the one true religion
and ridiculed most Moslem be-
liefs. The literary success of "The
Satanic Verses," a complex work
that focused on good and evil, had
been confined to a small intellec-
tual readership in Western na-
tions.EPR says U.S. homes have high radon levels
The Environmental Protection
Agency advised all homeowners
to get their homes tested for
deadly radon gas in light of new
findings that showed far more
contaminated homes than ex-pected in several states and newly
discovered radon-prone soil for-
mation in Minnesota and North
Dakota. The odorless, colorless
gas, radon, resulted from the ra-
dioactive decay of trace amountsof uranium found in all soil. The
gas became deadly when its own
radioactive decay products lodged
in the lung and irritated tissue.International/National News 35
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