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Adoption: One option to consid,~r-\ ' 1Our focus is to help birth mothers

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According to the National Center for Health Statistics, approximately 1,293,000 children were born to unmarried women in the ~ _ United States in ...§ 1998. Ninety § percent of these ~ _______ babies were kept by single parents. Only I percent (13,000) were placed for adoption. In Box Elder County, there were 127 live births to single young women. In Cache County there were 144. " Some of these girls get married, most single parent," said Sandy Burborough, a clinical social worker at LDS Family Services in Logan. "I see approximately 40 to 50 women a year. Probably 18 to 20 choose adoption." LDS Family Services is one of many agencies in Utah that helps single birth mothers face the difficult decisions involved in an unplanned pregnancy.

Students at the Edith Bowen Elementary School got into the election spirit with a race for school president.

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>AGGIENEWS NUGGETS USU social scientists Susan 'bawson a'nd Gary Madsen have helped Navajo mining families in the Four Corners area gain compensation for past harm from radiation. Their personal involvement and gro ndbreaking research have helped "right" some profound wrongs for American lnqians.

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of LDS Family Services. "One of the biggest myths about us is that if you come to LDS Family Services you will be forced into placing your baby [for adoption]," Burborough said. "That's not the way it is. We talk reality here. We talk about placing the child, parenting the child and marriage. We weigh the pros and cons of each decision. [The birth mothers'] opinions are respected." LDS Family Services holds a support group every Wednesday for birth mothers trying to decide how to handle their unplanned pregnancies, birth mothers going through the grieving process after placing their child for adoption and birth mothers who decided to single parent. The meeting is held in its office at 95 W. 100 South, Suite 340 at 4 p.m . Burborough said they can get advice from the real experts, birth mothers who have been through each of the three options dis-

starting another support group here on campus. The group, when up and running, will also provide a place for birth mothers contemplating single parenting or adoption to weigh their options and learn from those who have been through the experience already. If the birth mother chooses marriage, LDS Family Services offers premarriage counseling. If they choose single parenting, it will connect them with community resources such as housirig and the WIC and Baby Your Baby programs. Adoption is also discussed as an option.

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Lada project at USU holds important key to space travel Staff Writer

George Washington, who was inaugurated as the first president of the United States in April 1789, returned to Washington at the end of his first presidential tour. In 1933, in Austin, Minn., striking workers at the packing plant of George A. Hormel and Company held the first sit-down strike in American labor history. In 1956, the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregation by race on public transportation is unconstitutional.

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Most people familiar with the word "Lada" would associate it with an economical Russian car, but few know Lada could fossibly be the next key to space trave . " Long-term flight will eventually have to reC)rcle much of its resources to be cost effective," said Gail Bingham, senior research scientist and program manager at Utah State's Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL). "Right now, it costs us about $10,000 per quart of water we send into space." Lada is a project that may soon provide scientists with information that could make the possibility of recycling water and oxygen for space

crews a realistic one, thus knocking down the cost of space travel significantly. Designed to specifically study the growth of plants in micro gravity as well as the physics of soil moisture and oxygen movement under those plants, Lada is a joint endeavor by SDL and the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems. The experiments, themselves, will be conducted aboard the new International Space Station (ISS). "The objective is to have plants become part of the food and recycling process required for long generation flights," Bingham stated. In l 992, the SDL received a contract to develop diagnostic equipment to be sent to the Mir Space Station to show plants could grow

from seed to seed for several generations in space. In the last six years, more than l O generations of plants have done this. The last plant experiment conducted on Mir/rovided the crew with fresh sala . It was the first time anyone had eaten rood grown in space . In !999, Bingham and Russian scientist Dr. V Sytehev met to decide how to keep their programs alive during the transfer from Mir to ISS. 'We decided that all of the federally funded opportunities were tied up and we needed to use our own resources to keep our programs alive throughout the transition," Bingham said. Unfortunately, all the United States' room aboard the ISS was

USUdisabledstudentscouldsoon be caughti~ the middleof budgetbattle Wt LL BETTMANN

Staff Writer

The Disability Resource Center (DRC) at Utah State University is facing the possibility oflosing its funding, despite the fact that the center serves the needs of almost 700 disabled students on campus. Not only do hundreds of students rely on DRC services, USU is mandated to provide services to disabled students or risk losing its federal funding. The state rehabilitation agency; the Utah State Office of Rehabilitation, has fully funded the DRC in the past. However, based on its interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA~ which requires universities to provide services for disabled students, the USOR now claims that USU is responsible for funding the center. The USOR will use the money to provide other services to disabled Utahns. Starting in 1998,the USOR began reducing the DRC budget by 25 percent a year. This year the DRC received 50 percent of its budget, and by the 2002-2003 year it will receive nothing. Lastyear, when the DRC received 7 5 percent of its budget, it requested the Utah legislature provide the remaining 2 5 percent. The legislature refused. 'We've been resisting this for years - it's happening all across the country, " said Diane Hardman, director of the DRC at USU "State rehabilitation agencies have started saying that universities are responsible for funding on-

campus programs." The Utah Council of Student Presidents has made funding for the DRC one of its top priorities, and is planning to lobby the legislature to fully fund the DRC. 'We have one of the best and oldest disability programs, but all these programs are underfunded across the state, " said Ben Riley, Associated Students of USU president. 'We could also lose all our federal funding if we don't comply with the ADA." Many USU students don 't realize how many of their fellow students use the DRC, Hardman said. At least half the students who use the DRC have disabilities that allow them to be indistinguishable from the rest of the student body, like learning or psychological disabilities. "People hear the word 'disability' and they assume that all our kids are in wheelchairs," Hardman said.

Both Hardman and Riley stressed the significance of volunteers to the DRC. Last year alone, volunteers logged 43,000 hours, which is especially crucial on a limited budget. Some of the services include interpreters for deaf students, tutors for learning disabled students and services for blind students . "A lot of disabled students take extra time to get through school because of the difficulty of it," Riley said. Sometimes sign language interpreters are not available, in which case deaf students simply must wait to take a class. Without the DRC, a number of students currently attending USU would be unable to continue their stud-

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The legal skirmishing quickened in the overtime race for the White House as Al Gore's lawyers argued Sunday night that painstaking election recounts have been allowed "since our nation's founding." Republicans said the practice exposes decisive Florida to political "mischief"' and human error in Democratic-controlled counties. Updated voting figures in Florida gave Republican George W Bush a 288-vote margin out of some 6 mirnon votes cast with recom;1tsunder way in four counties. The vice president leads in the nationwide popular vote but the Electoral College tally is so close that whoever takes Florida almost certainly will win the White House. Both parties previewed their legal strategies for a federal court hearing Monday on Bush's request to block manual recounts. Top Bush adviser James A. Baker III, who described the five-day Florida standoff as "a black mark on our democracy and on our process," said the GOP legal team will argue that manual recounts in only four of Florida's 67 counties would constitute unequal treatment under the 14th Amendment. Baker said Florida has no uniform standard for reviewing the ballots, and suggested that Democrats who control the contested counties would play favorites. "It's all subjective, and there. fore it presents terrible problems of , human error and potential for mischief," Baker said. A statewide machine-operated recount has already narrowed Bush's lead. Baker's rival, Gore consigliere

Warren Christopher, portrayed vote recounts as a routine necessity of democracy. "If at the end of the day, George Bush has more votes in Florida than' we do, certainly the vice president will concede," Christopher said, even while leaving open the prospect of court action if recounting ends with Bush still ahead. Democrats fi)J!dcourtfapers Sunday night on behalf o Gore arguing that Florida's manual ballot law is constitutional. Led by Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe, party lawyers also said Bush's complaints threaten Florida's right to run its own elections. The Democrats noted in their response that a manual recount in Seminole county in north central Florida already gave Bush votes and a Texas bill he signed into law favored manual recounts over machine recounts. The motion for an injunction should be denied because the Bush campaign has not been able to "justify the extraordinary interference with state electoral processes they seek," the Democrats' response said. Bush is arguing against a system that "reflects an electoral practice the handcounting of ballots - in effect throughout the country since the nation's founding, yet here alleged to be unconstitutional and indeed to be vulnerable to a form of judicial intervention extraordinary in our federalism," the Gore reply says. The marshaling of legal forces sets the stage for one of the most dramatic periods in American political history. A climax could come at the end of this

Warren Christopher, who is supervising the Florida voter recount for the Gore campaign, speaks to the media over the weekend, while campaign manager William Daley listens. Christopher said the campaign was stilln9t over despite an unofficial recount showing Bush had won and the vice president would not give up until the legal system had "run its course' Former Secretary of State. /Robert King/Newsmaker photo

week when final overseas mail-in ballots will be counted and the trailing · candidate would be forced to concede or push deeper into uncharted waters. "By next Friday," said Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-NJ., "the pressure on someone is going to be enormous to

• accept whatever results Florida has reached." Their public financing drying up, both camps are raising money to pay rafts of lawyers and political operatives sent to every comer of Florida to examine county voting records and

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Nature Center shoW"Sits stuff JESSICA WHATCOTT

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The Allen and Alice Stokes Nature Center hosted its third annual open house and a dinner auction Saturday. Young children and "grown up" children of all ages were invited to enjoy free activities and refreshments, and to meet the staff at the open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 'We have an open house each year in the fall to showcase our programs and to nk everyone who supports " explained Kim Kuta, one the center's four employ-

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The afternoon of children's ivities started with profes. al storyteller Ona Siporin, ·stant editor at the Utah ' e Western Historical ''arterly, presenting "The en of Home." Other activities included a f · "onstration by herpetolog • Paul Ustach with live tiles and amphibians, and a ds-on presentation by

entomologist Creed Clayton called, "Amazing Aquatic Invertebrates." Families could also make paper and pine cone bird feeders and look at interactive displays. The annual fund raiser, held at the Coppermill Restaurant, drew more than 200 Nature Center supporters. Tickets were regularly $20, $16 for students, but most money was raised through a live auction. Host Val Grant auctioned a raft trip down the Snake River and a dog sled trip, an East Indian meal and an Italian meal, plus hundreds of books, artw-ork, and lessons of all types. Auction goods and services were donated by the community so all proceeds go to the center. Last year the center raised $20,000 and uses this event as its main source of mcome. The Nature Center focuses on teaching children to "interpret what's in our own backyards," said Jen Levy, a

center employee. Staff members and volunteers work mostly with elementary school groups, although they have offered a limited number of adult programs. The center is open yearround to visitors Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays l 0 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursdays noon to 4 p.m. The second and fourth Saturday of each month, volunteers offer an on-going story program, animal demonstrations and presentations on topics like 'Winter Survival for Kids." The center is located half a mile up Logan Canyon on Hwy. 89. The building is onethird of a mile up the Riverside Nature Trail, with limited special needs parking near the building. Everyone else is asked to park on the north side of the road across from the trailhead and take the short walk up. For more information about the programs at the Nature Center, call 7 5S-3239

U.S.declares Int'l Ed.Week The United States Department of Education along with the Department of State has declared this week as International Education week. In order to raise awareness of the importance of international education such as study abroad, learning a foreign language or understanding global issues, the department of education and state hope to expand the week to all educational institutions.

WWn panelto be broadcastat USU LAURA BENNETT, an arachnologist, shows interested children but-

terfly cocoons at the Stokes Nature Ce,rter Saturday. The center hosted an open house Saturday to gain public interest./ April Wilkins photo

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COSMONAUT KALARI eats the first food grown in space in Apri_l1999./photo courtesy Gail Bingham

With the help of fellow USU faculty members Dani Or and Scott Jones and graduate student Julie Brown, Bingham will work with Russian scientists to look at the actual conditions that occur under plants in microgravity and how that differs from the processes down here on Earth. "Because gravity is so embedded in all that we do on Earth, we often overlook critical processes that result from gravity;" Bingham said. "When it is removed and we see what is happening, we say, Wow, how could I have missed · that?'"

Lada is being built by USU students in the SDL. "The students have made a big splash with the professional engineers here at SD L that have worked with them. They are truly getting a world class, hands-on experience," Bingham said. "Lada wouldn't exist without the dedicated support of the student team." One such student, John Muiholland, participates in creating the diagnostic software for Lada. His software will use sensors to measure and record oxygen and water levels. "If we can see how plants

grow in space, then we can help plants grow better in space," Mulholland said. Mulholland, Bingham and their colleagues should be able to view their project throughout its orbit in the ISS. Unlike the projects housed in the U.S. section of the station, which are kept out of sight in lockers, Lada will be a wall-mounted unit in the Russian service module, Zvezda. "It will be visible to the crew and video cameras the whole time that plants are growing in it. We should see it in the crew broadcasts," Bingham said .

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Burborough said. The birth mother, with permission, is also allowed to place the baby into the arms of the adoptive couple, Burborough said. "From the time the child is small, they are told they are adopted so it doesn't come as a surprise to them later," Burborough said. In a closed adoption, the birth mother works through an attorney to find an adoptive family. One or both groups may not want the other to know anything about them. "For some, it's hard to bring up memories," Brown said. "A closed situation can be healthy. We just hear more about the negative experiences." Burborough said a closed adoption can be very hard on the birth mother. "A closed adoption is a difficult way to heaL" she said. "The advantage of an agency is they are the advocate for the birth mother. They help to enforce privacy. Everybody works together." Regardless of which option is chosen, Burborough said birth mothers go through a healing process. "Every birth mother I've ever worked with dearly loves that child whether they choose adoption, marriage or single parenting," she said. "They have decided to put the child's needs first, and at great sacrifice to themselves. We do a lot of grief and healing work

An interactive video seminar entitled "The World War II Generation: A United Front," will be shown Tuesday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium. The broadcast is part of the university satellite seminar series presented by the Museum ofTelevison and Radio and USU's department of journalism and communication. The seminar will include panel members Walter Cronkite, Richard Hottelet, Williamson Murray and USU professor Michael Sweeney. This panel is the first of four devoted to the role of journalism in wartime. For more information, visit the Museum of Television and Radio's Web site at www.mtr .org

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>AooPI'ION Bu lx?TC?u.gh said there are three main types of adoption: open, privacy and closed. Each one also has different levels of openness and closure. "In a completely open adoption, the birth mother and adoptive parents choose each other," Burborough said. "They know each other's real names, addresses and may choose to have ongoing contact. A privacy adoption also has a great deal of openness. The birth mother and adoptive parents know each other's first names, but not addresses. The birth mother makes a wish list of qualities she would like in an adoptive family, and then the agency tries to find a family to match her criteria. LDS Family Services completely screens all potential adoptive couples. ey must be members of the Church o Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, be u ble t@have children, be married at l t two years and have a complete b kground check. · "They also go through a home st dy check to assess if the home is cl~an, safe and will be a nurturing experience for the child," Burborough said. "They also fill out myriads of p erwork. I'm sure they feel like they ar being inspected under a micro-

in group." Burborough said she has worked with birth mothers as young as 11, but the majority fall in the range of 15 to 17 years old. She also said the younger the birth mother, the more prone they are to choose single parenting. "They don't see the long picture," she said. "They don't know what a utility bill costs, or formula. They do it with the support of their parents. This affects the entire family, especially the young woman's relationship with her mother. She goes from being a child in her mother's house to being the mother of a child." Brown herself placed her daughter with an adoptive family. "I weighed all the options before making my decision," Brown said. "Abortion was not an option for me. I ruled out marriage because of the absence of the father. I wanted a home for her with two parents. I went back and forth between single parenting and adoption for awhile. I didn't know what was the best decision for my baby." Brown said the biggest factor that led her to place her baby was that she didn't have any strong identity or values for herself. "I couldn't teach a child about life at my age," she said. In Brown's case, she was able to choose the adoptive couple and write

letters to them before the baby was born to get to know the couple. "When I gave birth, I had her in the hospital with me for three days," Brown said. "After leaving the hospitaL I got to meet the parents. "I go and visit whenever I want," Brown said. "We talk on the phone, and my daughter calls me 'Roxanne, my birth mother.' This doesn't happen all the time." Brown and Burborough both agree that adoption can be a great choice, but it all depends on the birth mother and what they feel is best for the baby. "Adoption can be a very healthy choice," Brown said. "It's all about communicating the needs of all involved and trying to fulfill them. It's not necessarily negative." "I would hope people understand that adoption is a good, loving thing," Burborough said. "Birth mothers do go on and become happy. They grieve and go through counseling in the months after they place, but they do move on. Do they ever forget their baby? Never. Will they always love that baby? Yes, it has had a profound effect on their lives." This month is National Adoption Awareness month. LDS Family Services will have a booth set up near the Hub today and tomorrow to promote adoption awareness.

Amencaniamilieeare... hosting internatienal-stttdents for g;~ Sil~P · ner. Interested students should sign up at the International Student Services office, the LDS Institute office or the Engineering Dean's office in EC 110. For more information, email Dave Hoyal at sly9t@cc. usu. edu .

BookTableto hostbookreading Gina Wickwar will tell the story of how she came to write "The Hidden Prince of Oz," Tuesday at 7 p. m. at the Book Table, 29 S. Main. There will be a book signing immediately following her presentation.

Findoutabout Americorps, .VISTA Two local non-profit organizations, Bear River Conservation Corps and Common Ground, are currently recruiting for l 5 Americorps and two Americorps VISTA positions beginning in January 200 l . Members will serve full time (1,700 hours)until November 2001. Americorps members will address a variety of different and exciting issues such as environmental education, adaptive recreation, natural resource conservation, youth mentoring, community volumeerism and literacy. Americorps members receive a living allowance, a $4,725 educational stipend, health insurance, job training, child care, post service job referrals and student loan deferment. Quali.£.cationsinclude a high school diploma or GED, strong interpersonal skills, experience in volunteerism ancl good f,hysical health. To app y or receive more information, call Sean Damitz at 753-387l, ext . 33, or e-mail brcclogan@hotmail .com . Compiled by

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On Tuesday, election booths buzzed with the names Gore and Bush. But at Edith I Education: More computers in classBowen Elementary School, students rooms. involved in mock elections spoke of Shalise I Crime: More neighborhood watch Knight and Fyre Gardner, their own presiprograms. dential candidates. I Hunger: Give left-over lunches to the Each grade at Edith Bowen made up a poor. state. Their union included Aggies, · I Pollution: Have recycling be the law. Kyriopoulos, Lightning, Perkes Landia, Solar powered cars to be sold. River Falls and Dobson, said Vaughn I Space Program: Cut space program in Larson, Edith Bowen media specialist. half and use money for hunger educaThe states were split into two parties: tion and helping homeless. Bald Eagle and Liberty Bell, Larson said. I Animal Rights: No testing should be Based on real-world elections, stu<lents' done on animals. Limited testing may votes were weighed according to an elecbe allowed in medical research. toral college, Larson said. The number of I Drugs: Better education of the danstudents in a class determined the number gers of drug use. No crgarette of electoral fOtes they could have. machines. Candidates cliose to participate on their I Health Care: Health care is the right own, Larson said. Any student in third of every kid in America. through fifth grade was eligible. "They threw themselves in the ring," Bald Eagle Party Platform Larson said. I Television: No swearing or violence The students who won the primary elecon TV. More educational shows. tions moved on to the party convention, I Education: Smaller class sizes. Larson said. I Crime: Better home security systems. During party conventions, each candidate Hire more police. and running mate addressed fellow students. I Hunger: Give food in exchange for Candidate~ for the Bald Eagle party were community service. Shalise Knight with running mate Taylor I Pollution: Solar powered cars to be Peacock and Daniel Messina with running sold. mate Alex Hayes. I Space Program: Cut space program in In the Liberty Bell party, Fyre Gardner half and use money for hunger educawith running mate Ethan DeVilbiss ran tion and helping the homeless. against Pete Burgoson and running mate I Animal Rights: No te5ting should be John Smitten, Larson said. done on animals. Limited testing may Larson said at each convention students be allowed in medical research. sang state songs they had written. I Drugs: Better radar detectors to spot Shalise Knight was voted as Bald Eagle drug traffickers entering our country. candidate, and Fyre Gardner was voted I Health Care: Health care is the right Liberty Bell candidate. Both are fifth of every kid in America. graders. Knight said people should vote for her because she will be responsible and truthful. "And I think I can do a good job," Knight said. Knight said she chose to run because she thought it would be a good exferience "to see how it would be in the rea govern'"ment:'11 ~-,, •~ , - , , , · Gardner . said people should vote for her beca'use she Was having a good experience. "I'd be a good person to be president. I'm trustworthy," Gardner said. Gardner said she has learned "it doesn't matter who wins as long as you get as far as you do." Each candidate participated in a debate that lasted 15 minutes and consisted of 10 questions, Larson said. The candidate elected will have no FYRE GARDENER OVERT AKES PETER BERGESON as the v.otes of the individual states are tallied responsibility, Larson said. up. Gardener eventually won the committee's nom"It's just an activity, just to show how the intaion to run for school president./ Joe Rowley photo process works," Larson said. television.

MEMBiRS OF THE DOBSON STATE root for Fyre Gardener to be nominated to run for school president at Edith Bowen Elementary School. The school was divided up into two parties, each made up of several states, to nominate and vot_e for its new school president./ Joe Rowley photo

Larson said the mock elections were intended to help students understand the electoral college determines who wins in governmental elections , not the popular vote. Joan Kyriopoulos, a fifth grade teacher at Edith Bowen, feels the mock election is a great way for the students to see the election process in action. "The students are more aware of what's

going on," Kyriopoulos said. "They know more about the political process; they are ex~ited _about voting, they talk to their parents about voting. They are excited about watching television to see who wins." Larson said parents have been supportive of the mock ele_ctions. "Parents say this . is how elections should be taught - hands on," Kyriopoulos said of the school's activity. LEFT: MEMBERS OF THE LIGHTENING STA TE at Edith

Bowen Elementary get excited at the beginning of the J..,iberty Bell Party convention a couple of weeks ago. The committee met to pick its candidate to run for school president. RIGHT: ETHAN DE VILLDIS SPEAKS on issues that will

face the new student body president of Edith Bowen Elementary. De Villdis and others presented talks 0~1 being an American and on changes that the school president should make./ Joe Rowley photos

'Telebration' e~entcelebrates theartofstorytelling Are you sure you want to be remembered HEATHER

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Storytelling is deeply embedded in the heritage and traditions of many faiths and ethnic groups. Before the written word, stories were remembered and passed down through generations. "Since life is a story that · is constantly unfolding, telling our own stories reminds us of where we have been a~d where we may be going," wrote David Sidwell, professor of theater arts at Utah State University, in an essay called "Telling Stories from Our Lives." In this Information age with its many technological advances, it seems as though storytelling as well as the art of communication have become a diminishing art,

he said. ~The :National Association of Oral History Educators are helping teachers-to incorporate stories and oral history projects into their curriculum," said Ho Williams, a financial aid counselor at Utah State University and Coordinator ofTelebration at USU. "They understand the importance of linking students to their community." Understanding others' stories is an important part of human relations, Williams said. It is fairly easy to throw a rock through someone's window unless you know who lives inside, she said. Telebration is a worldwide event to celebrate the reemergence of storytelling. The Telebration event here at USU, spon-

sored by the Northern Utah Storytelling Guild, the Theater Arts department and the Multicultural Student Center, will take place Saturday evening at 7:30 in the Taggart Student Center Auditorium. Admission is $1. "For a date night, it's the best deal in town," Williams said. "We're adding new tellers everyday and trying to make it as diverse as possible." Some ot the tellers include Sidwell, Don Kennington, an old West storyteller and Ev Martinez, director of the Multicultural Student Center. Blue Sage will perform from 7 to 7:30 p.m. and during the program. "Their music is a cross between bluegrass and folk," Williams said.

with that look on your face? .What is it about a photograph life-altering event. Why? Simple. that captures everyone's eye and It's been caught on film. Five captivates the mind? Why is a years from now, you'll look good photo so impressive?What through your college photos with makes it that way? -----------~ sweet memories, After all, the and things you object in the photo is didn't really care usually_someoneor too much about something you see Casey will bring a tear on a regular basis to your eye unless you happened because they're to catch Mount St. captured on film. Helens on film when "Oh look, there's it erupted more than Susie coming out 20 years ago. of the bathroom But the stuff in - sniff - I can't photos is usually believe how things you see quite refreshed she regularly. For example: In the looks. I just love this picture. It just course of a year, you might see brings back the most vivid memoyour roommate walk in and out of ries. I must have seen her walk out the bathroom 846 times. of that bathroom more than 800 However, as soon as you take a times, but she never looked so ... picture of him or her leaving the satisfied as she does here." bathroom, it suddenly becomes a Had the moment never been

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caught on film, think of the memories that would have been lost, And that's why photos are so ca tivating. They're more than just images. And they're worth more than 1,000 words. A good photo will make }'.ou remember the smell of the!t dogs and beer at the bal lpa k. It will recall the sounds of la ghter at the carnival. Good pictures capture the chill int' brisk fall air, the joy of gra .uation and the fear of becom g a parent. So where am I going with all of this? Well, I went to the volleyball game Thursday night with m\ wife and a couple of friends. Utah State University squandered a first game ► SEE PHOTOS

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Culinary arts students cater for Edith Bowen students

HEIDI THUESON

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Unlike most grade school students, boys and girls at Utah State University's Edith Bowen Laboratory School leave the lunch room with a · ood taste in their mouths. USU's culinary arts students t direct experience in helpg to plan and prepare delious school lunches at Edith owen's dining room, called e Little Blue Line 'n Dine. The school lunch program was the 2000 Regional Best Practices award winner from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "The partnership is definitely a win-win situation, providing [USU] students with hands-on experience while providing children with delicious and attractive food eocounters of the best kind," said Darlene Sanchez, chief of school nutrition programs in the Denver USDA office. "I think [the USU students) rn responsibility. They know we have to serve 245 every day, so it's important y be here and be profess nal and learn how to interwith both adults and chi!," s.µd.Heather Stucki, service director at Edith n. "I think they really coming here." dietetic students also ith the Little Blue on program, which was ed by Principal Kaye ·n 1992. Each class has ortunity to dine prilVithRhees once a year, enj g fine cuisine served on !in t'ablecloths and crystal plates l> ious menus at the luncheo included fettuccine alfr , homemade breadgreen salad and sherbet okies and fruit. es enjoys seeing the chil n served food artistically arranged by the dietetic stu-

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EDITH BOWEN SECOND GRADE student Liz Colston checks out her pate encroute as Principal Jaye Rhees explains the new food to the students . Rhees eats a nice meal with students periodically and teaches them proper etiquette for dining./ Joe Rowley photo

dents. "They 'oo' and 'ah' when the covers are taken off," she said. Rhees started the program with the intention of teaching srndents good dining and conversation manners, and to show them they are valued . Many children choose to dress up . "It's been a wonderful union of departments and opportunities for the college kids to

come work in this environment," Rhees said. The school lunch program is effective in encouraging students to look forward to lunch time, Rhees said. "It's great to come in here every day and see the smiles on the little kids' faces," Stucki said. "It brightens my day." "[The children] are very gracious and say thank you. I get hugs," Rhees said. "I think they know I love them."

Students broadcast news on ATV network CASEY KIRKLAND

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Ever stopped to watch the ATV news? Ever wondered where it came from or who is involved? ATV :--lewsis broadcast on the Utah State University campus several times a week beginning Monday at 7:30 a.Jll.The program is a graded effort by the Newscasting I and Newscasting II classes. In addition to the newscast, a features show is shown on Thursdays . Only the Newscasting II stu-

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dents actually are involved in the anchoring. Kris Nielson, a senior broadcasting major, is heavily involved in every aspect of each newscast. "The class is like a full-time job where everyone plays a significant role," Nielson said. At least 13 jobs are associated with every newscast, ranging from produ cers to camera operators, '\Jielson said. Students rotate between the 13 jobs every week to provide experience in every aspect of the process. "It's a place where every role is important," he said.

Deadlines play a big part of the broadcast process. "Everyone has a deadline to meet as per their specific role in the program," Nielson said. "If one person misses a cue or misses a camera change we all suffer the consequences." The newscast is taped and designed to be perfected to the second, Nielson said. ''We run a 26-minute show with two breaks of about one minute or so apiece," he said. ► SEE NEWS

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Dread 'Planet' maroons viewers at theater . DESSON HOWE

The WashingtonPost "Red Planet" isn't meant to be funny. It's supposed to be a cool, nail-biting sci-fi thriller about the first manned expedition to Mars. So please quit your yukking at the bad dialogue and ~----------get into the (1..) mission. • I know O it'~hard. ~ Right at the ~ -------beginning, it doesn't help matters when Lt. Cmdr. Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss from "The Matrix") introduces us to her five crew members, reducing everyone to the space-movie cliches they are. . "Santen," she says, referring to her buff, second-in-command Air Force Capt. Ted Santen ("Law and Order's" Benjamin Bratt). "A hothead but a fine co-pilot." Then there's the general chatter on board - not too · stellar. "I realized science couldn't answer the really interesting questions," drones Chief Science Officer Bud Chantilas (Terence Stamp). "So I turned to philosophy. I've been searching for God ever since." Excellent mental evolution, dude. The _year is 2050 and the spaceship Mars-1 has just made thesix-month voyage to Planet Red.Earth's atmosphere is

going kaput, so colonization is vital. The crew - including medical systems engineer wllagher (Val Kilmer), Dr. Quinn Burchenal (Tom Sizemore) and Dr. Chip Pettengill (Simon Baker) - is trying to investigate what went wrong with the failed Mars - Terraforming Project. Also on board: a transformer-type mapping and exploration robot known as AMEE (her full name: Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion) that switches from nice mode to "military" when activated. As Mars-1 prepares to land, a gamma burst flat-lines the ship, null-and-voiding most engine functions. The crew can't even eject by shuttle to the planet, unless someone remains on board to manually operate the launch. Bowman does the honors. She stays aboard, while the guys get ready for a rough ride. After a bouncy landing on the mountainous terrain, the five men emerge with no radio contact and just enough oxygen to hoof it to the Mars habitat (HAB), a living center with 26 months of air, food and water. But they have to find it first. Plus, they've got to deal with the lethal fury of the malfunctioning AMEE, who doesn't take well to anyone trying to shut down her system for good.

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there in 'Red Planet.' / movieweb.com photo Preclictably, the best thing about "Red Planet" is the visual scheme. First-time director Antony Hoffman and production designer Owen Paterson (who also created the fabulo_us world of"The Matrix") have built one of the coolest spaceships since the one in "Alien." Cinematographer Peter

Suschitzky,visual-effects supervisor Jeffrey A Okun, soundeffects supervisor Dane Davis and many others deserve mention for the masterful atmospherics, from the scary sounds of AMEEs airborne, helicopter-like tracking device, to the stunning Martian footage. Speaking of giving credit, a huge hand to the

Supreme B~ing fur creating the remote terrains of Wadi Rum, Jordan (also used for "Lawrence of Arabia''), and Coober Pedy, Australia, which double as the Martian landscape. Unfortunately, Chuck ("Hard Target") Pfarrer's screenplay feels older than the Martian hills. As for those bad

lines, it's too bad those space helmets wer~n't soundproofeijl, so we wouldn't chuckle our way through the suspense. And this movie would have fared better if the crew members had takenc note of those words from c;~t. Santen when they land on Jrb Mars: "All this talk is burijjngJ out oxygen. Let's move on.Jrl

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►PHOTOS From Page 4 lead and lost in three straight to Pacific, the No. 12 team in the nation. I don't remember too much about the game, except that Amy Crosbie really hits the ball hard. Halfway through the second game, my wife fet my buddy, Nate, take her camera down onto the court and snap some game photos. Watching

him was like watching a 6year-old experiencing his first swing set. "Tnis is the coolest!" he said. "I don't know if I got anything good, but it was fun. It's kincf of hard to explain. It's just like it's an opportunity to catch action as it's happening and to be able to keep a piece of that action by taking the picture. It's

cool." It wasn't USU's first home loss of the season we were talking about as we left the Spectrum Thursday night. We didn't talk about their gritty performance or how hard Crosbie hit the ball. We were just excited to get back to the newsroom and develop the pictures.

Some of Nate's photos turned out fairly decent. He had a few that weren't so hot, but there's always a couple that would have been Pulitzer winners had the referee not stepped in the way. But as I took a second and third glance at Nate's negatives, the pictures got better and better. It wasn't so much

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the action he captured, but the excitement of freezing a part of that game forever. And it wasn't just a losing night for the Aggies. It was a night when four friends shared an evening on the town, capped off by a Big Bacon Classic hamburger from Wendy's and some chocolate Aggie Ice Cream.

Like any good photo, Nate's pictures captured those memo11 ries. Yeah, looking back at tbem now, I think Nate had some 1 '.l damn good shots. 2'

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Sixteen years after graduating college, Deborah Ascione, a professor in the family and human development department, decided to go back to school. "I decided to go to graduate school because I wanted to work in a child/family field, and knew I would need additional credentials to do that," Ascione said. "I also had the great fortune to take a class from Dr. Glen Maw here at USU called Career Explorations. He convinced me that I could handle graduate classes. He was a great support." Being married with three children, this was no small feat; at the time of the decision her children were 6, 9 and 11. Ascione decided she wanted to get a master of arts in Family and Human evelopment. Deborah said her family was very supportive of her decision. "My children didn't react •negatively to my going to {fschool because they were in . 7 ~chool, and they liked it, so 1 they understood why I might also like it," Ascione said. "I 1 i5ok classes in the evening at th~ beginning, and my huslaill\Jdwas always home with them. He was an excellent role model, especially for our

sons, of supporting your spouse's goals and 'job sharing' things like laundry, meal preparation, homework, etc." Ascione's family is Catholic. She said it was not hard raising her children in a predominantly Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints society. "I have found most of the time my experience has been that people are very respectful of what you are," Ascione said. "My children didn't have any difficulty making friends." Some of Ascione's interests include cross-country skiing in the sinks around Beaver Mountain, a little cross-stitching and a passion for travel. She and her husband Frank have been to ·Europe three times in the past fiveJears for business trips, an last year they went to Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Ascione said now that her children are grown she and her husband would like to do more traveling. She is excited to see more of Ireland and Italy. Ascione and her husband have collaborated on research for their Abuse and Neglect class. They cake turns teaching the class every other semester. Their research involves "a survey of students who take the FHD/PSY 3120 class on abuse and neglect across the

iife span," Ascione said. They are researching how many students may have had prior experience with issues addressed in class. "We are currently preparing the results of the study to present at a professional conference," Ascione said. Ascione is a senior lecturer in the family and human development department. She came to Utah State University with her husband in 1973. "He had just finished his doctoral degree and this is where he got a job," she said. They wanted to raise their children in a smaller town. "It has really grown since then," Ascione said. She said her children have reacted well to her wanting to return to school and work. "After I finished my degree, I worked part time so I could still be home in the late afternoon when the kids came home from school," Ascione said. "Now they are all in their 20s, and they say they appreciate the fact that I work because they see that my husband and I enjoy having so much in common in our professional lives as well as in our personal life. "It also has allowed them more _options for college ... they were able to go out of state if they wanted to because we had more resources for that."

ATV increases viewer options Staff Writer ~gie Television (ATV) has increased the number of channels available to students from 49..u\o84 to give students more OJ:\ifmsfor their leisure time entertainment this semester. Andy Hofmeister, assistant director of facilities, initiated the increase. "This is in response to feedback we got primarily from families," Hofmeister said. "They wanted to eliminate all the PG-13 and R-rated movies. The single students wanted to eliminate the G movies. It was easier to provide two channels." ATV now offers two movie channels: Aggie Cinema on Channel 23 and Family Cinema on Cpannel 24. Hofmeister said student response has been "overwhehningly positive." "We want to provide a wide variety of channels to give students more leisure time possibilities," said John Ringle, assistant director of Housing and Resident Life. "College students will always watch TV We want to provide decent and "l,Jiable options for their leisure

hime." · I One of the unique features of ATV is the connection with the distance learning program, Hofmeister said. They now have a "for credit channel" that offers courses on the TV network. Hofineister said more an 60 courses were offered ver the channel this year. "We've found that tliis is pecially beneficial with family ~l:udents," Hofmeister said.

"Even if they are staying at home to take care of their kids, they can keep their education going." Hofmeister also said ATV is working with the language department to broadcast an allFrench network on Channel 5 for use in the classroom and in the lab. Ringle said a student committee picks 14 of the 16 movies shown on the movie channels. These students were selected through an application process. "Their appEcation is based on what they can bring into the committee. We look for a knowledge of film and an appreciation of diversity of film," Ringle said. 'We don't take anyone who is interested in being the moral conscience or censor." The other four movies are chosen for dealing with timely social issues, corresponding with Aids Awareness Week and Black History Month, Ringle said. "With the educational movies, we want to expose people to social issues and viewpoints they might not get if they chose for themselves," Ringle said. The cost per movie is $90 to $125, Ringle said. They have a rating quota that works out to about two G movies, six PG movies, three PG-13 movies and three R movies. According to Ringle, one very nice feature about ATV is the viewer's ability to have channels blocked. "The interesting thing is

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Statesman contained a wellwritten article by Doug Smeath about student life in other countries. I must congratulate Mr. Smeath on a job well done. The article does, however, leave me with some concerns, not on the part of Mr. Smeath's reporting, but on the part on some of my statements. . After reading my statements, some people commented to me that it seemed as though I did not enjoy my time in Spain. This could not be farther from the truth. Given the opportunity, I would return in

.a heartbeat. When I said that to the Spanish, alcohol is a way of life, I did not wish to say that the Spanish think of nothing more than drinking alcohol. What I meant to communicate is that in Spain, drinking alcohol is a culturally accepted norm. Those who choose to drink on a regular basis are not looked down upon as they sometimes are here in Utah. Another item that I wish to clarify is the attitudes of Spanish students concerning their studies. I hope that my statements will not be interpreted as meaning that Spanish students are lazy. Spanish students work as

hard as American students; they simply have a different way of going about it. In addition, the explanation of study methods I gave applies solely to the humanities department and cannot be accurately applied to other departments such as mathematics, engineering and education. Again, I would like to state that my exferience in Spain was one o the best experiences of my life. What surprised me was how easy it was to adjust to life in Spain and how difficult it has been to readjust to life in the United States. I'm constantly looking for opportunities to return to live in Spain.

Unless one has been living under a rock or teaching political science here at USU, it should be obvious that something very momentous has developed within the spectrum of American politics since Tuesday. The eventual outcome of the presidential election could possibly result in a national fallout of voter angst and frustration with the current setup of the electorate system. Walking the halls these past few days, I have heard countless arguments over why America should do away with the Electoral College. The majority of these arguments strike me as the typical inane blather of cafeteriagathering groupies. Even Michael Lyons, a political sci-

ence professor here at USU, offered nothing more than a vague argument in Thursday's Statesman against the electorate method. The fact of the matter is, the government did not impose the Electoral College upon us as some sort of checks and balances between Congress and the citizens, as Lyons implies. No. It is very doubtful the American people would have stood for such a despotic rationale, especially considering it was at the beginning of the greatest pofitical experiment in human history: the founding of this country . The Electoral College was designed and supported by anti-federalists in an attempt to hinder urban dominance of voter o•Jtcome. If anyone has not noticed, Vice President Al Gore received the majority of

the popular vote with many thanks to New York, Illinois and California. George W. Bush won more than 30 states, yet lost the majority vote. I'll admit the Electoral College is in many ways a shoddy method of crowning our king, but it is not atavistic in its rationale. And it is far better for us rural folk than is the method of the popular vote. Living in Utah, I am glad to know that my vote for president is not wasted necessarily because so many California urbanites form a majority over the rest of the Western states. This would not be the case if we did away with the Electoral College. Viva La electoral college! Dylan Avenbury

Natural resources battle -nothing new, won't change with Bush in office Dear Editor, Wei I, it appears that, despite some last-minute scrambling by the Democrats, George W. Bush has been elected the next president of the United States, and all I hear from my friends in the College of Natural Resources is whining . "He's going to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! He's going to relax pollution standards! It's all going to cause global warming and ozone holes!" . Do my friends really

believe that people don't understand this? Of course we do! THEY are the ones who are missing the point. Let me give them a quick lesson about "natural" resources, one that everyone kn_owsbut their professors must have missed. Look, for 20,000 years man has battled against the forces of nature. And in the end, we whipped the environment like a circus pig. And we didn't start at the top of the food chain. We fought our way up. Nobody gave us anything. We worked our butts off subju-

gating nature, and now, suddenly, when the Earth heats up by one degree, we're all supposed to feel guilty about it? Please. Ever hear of Legionnaire's Disease? Or kudzu? Or African killer bees? · You turn your back on nature for one minute, and you're back on the menu. I say never again. Never again can we permit environmental forces to get the upper hand . I say, let's suck it up, slap on the sunscreen. and finish the job. Matt Townsend

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Thomas More, chancellor of England from 1529-1532, was a statesman who stood for what he believed. As a government official , he was in the unique predicament of being asked to consent to King Henry Vlll ' s misdeeds. Henry chose to divorce Catherine of Aragon because she did not produce him a son. The Catholic church would not accept Henry's divorce and so Henry made himself the head of the Church of England. Sir Thomas could neither consent to Henry's divorce nor to the King's self appointment as the country's spiritual leader. Because of this refusal, Sir Thomas More was beheaded. More 's col leagues all over Europe mourned his loss; and although the King labeled · him a traitor, no one accepted the accusation and the Catholic church eventually made him a saint. I was listening to National Public Radio the other day and they mentioned the contrast between today ' s politicians and Thomas More. Where More was wi 11i ng to suffer death for what he believed , America's contemporary two-party politicians aren't willing to make a strong stand on any issues. At best they can be described as wishy-washy and at worst

I I Ii "yes" man. So, if all this 11 m really is a problem and we 1 want people in office who · are a lot more like Sir Thomas More and a lot less like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, what should we do? I've always been an advocate for the idea that voting doesn't change society nearly as much as being an active participant in the local community does. If you watch the government and point out tne bad things it's doing in newspapers, on TV, etc., you can bring about a lot of change without casting a single vote. As far as voting itself is concerned, I think you have to consider the personal ethics involved in casting a vote for "a lesser evil" rather than a truly good person. People say that if you don't vote for one of the major political parties you're " throwing away your vote." I really don't think so. You may only be doing the ethical thing if you are 't voting for that le~ser evil. Also, the more.people who spread the mentality that y u must vote for one of the tw major candidates to make voting worthwhile , the mor common it will be for peodle to vote that way and there' I will be no method for socia l progress to take place. If you want to learn more about Sir Thomas More , a real politician, check out www.britannica.com and s e what it has to say about hi ; he was an amazing man an I haven't done him justice here. Sources: www.britannica.com, www.issu es2000.org

Dead Man 's Polemic runs every other Monday in The Utah Statesman. 1\1ike Howsden is in his fast semester as a philosophy major at USU. Send comments to mike .howsden @usu.edu

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bold-faced liars. As an example , let' s look at Al Gore and George Bush on the issue of abortion. While reading www.issues2000.org, I came across a few statements both candidates have made concerning the issue. According to the Web site, ,in 1984 Gore wrote, "abortion is arguably taking a life," and he's also stated that he now supports Medicare-funded abortions although he previously voted against them. George W. Bush, on the same issue, says, "good peopie can disagree; but let's value life." What do these statements mean? What sort of content do they have? It sounds like they're both against abortion, but neither of them are willing to do anything about it, maybe because they want votes. Either that or they change their minds on issues so often thJ.t they can 't remember what they believe anymore. If it takes sacrificing that many values to be in political office, is it really worth it? Are those the types of people we want in office? It used to be that the term "bleeding-heart liberal" meant something. It was usually used in a derogatory way to say that those people with bleeding hearts can't think strait. Today there isn't even a bleeding heart on the liberal mentality; they're too concerned about getting elected to think about issues like poverty, humanity and the environment. On the other side we had Republicans who , although they didn ' t come across as really nice guys, you knew stood for something because they said it outright. I guess I have to agree with current criticism of the two-party system. Bush or Gore, we end up with basically the same president ~ a

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Since we are still waiting for the outcome of our election efforts, I've decided to do us all a favor and not talk about it. Instead, let' s ta I k about a subject that really needs to be discussed. To start off, can we please get over this gay thing , today? Gay men and women have been around si nee the beginning of this world 's history, creation , evolution , whatever. The fact is that as much as religious activists refuse to accept it, they are here to stay. . One of the basic things that people need to realize is that gay men and women are

people too, just like anyone. They have the exact same feelings you do when it comes to other people and relationships. Why is this so frightening to the masses? Why are these people considered freaks of n1tL:re? They are a part of nature. And let's not try to go off on all the petty biblical reference about homosexuality , because those who are Christian believe in the same god that you do (those of you who are Christian , anyway). And beyond whatever scriptural reference can be pull out of the Old Testament, let's not forget about the newer part of that collection of books where this redeemer character talked about loving or at least being tolerant and accepting of everyone. If two guys or two girls are in love and want to tie the knot and they can find a church to perform the task, then more power to them and good luck . It's none of our business who wants to marry whom. Everyone should have the opportunity

to try this thing called marriage if they so choose. Gay people don't make a big stink when straight people get married. Just like heterosexuals, homosexuals should have the right to express their decision of lifelong commitment to each other by getting married. Why should we deny them the same benefits as married couples? Give them the tax breaks they deserve. Let them become part of that 50 percent that might make it; who knows, they might even increase the rate of relations that survive divorce . I' m happy for the gay movement and the progress homosexuals are making. They have come a long way and I say, good for you, keep it up. I'm looking forward to the time when they will final ly be accepted instead of ostracized for who they are.

Rich Timothy 's column appears every Monday in the Statesman . Comments may be e-mailed to rtimothy1 @hotmail.com

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Asteroids may be just for the movies, not a real threat ~

comets is more the stuff of movies than real life. In fact, dozens of space objects enter Earth's atmosphere every day. Most streak harmlessly across the sky as "shooting stars," more wonderful than frightening. However, objects 50 meters in diameter, like one that flattened 1,200 square miles of forest in Siberia in 1908, strike the Earth every 100 years on average. The Tunguska asteroid exploded

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above the Siberian forest in a brilliant blue fireball. Had it arrived five hours later, St. Petersburg might have been destroyed, along with its hundreds of thousands of people. In 1995 NASA promised Congress that it would have all potentially dangerous objects in space identified by 2005. But a report released in September by a British task force discloses that the space agency is years behind

schedule, largely because it has spent only $2 million a year on the project. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the European Space Agency are now considering funding the task force's key recommendation: building the world's first telescope dedicated to finding threatening comets and asteroids. Astronomers in the United States say they have had trouble overcoming what they call "the giggle factor 11

- the tendency to snicker at asteroid warnings, viewing them as Chicken Little scenarios. The British report, however, offers a rational reason for the sort of increased spending that astronomers at NASA have been unable to obtain. It points to a growing body of astronomical research showing that asteroid impacts are statistically more likely to harm humans

than some other, more commonly recognized perils. As the lead author of the British report, former European Space Agency Chairman Harry Atkinson , explains, "The risk of cataclysmic asteroid impacts is very small. A one-kilometer asteroid arrives on average every 100,000 years. But if that was the risk of an accident in a nuclear power station, we would spend a lot of money to reduce the risk. 11

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what remained of Clinton's hopes for a settlement before his term ends in January. Arafat, who held discussions Thursday with the president, indicated afterward that he would consider another Middle East summit, with Clinton as host, provided it was well-prepared "to ensure its success." And that, the Palestinian leader said, meant on accord on both Jerusalem and refugees. Barak has refused to turn over East Jerusalem to the Palestinians, but offered them a larger role in running their daily affairs in Israel's declared capital. He has called a time-

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'¥ rest. 4 Dodik's par.ty would not confirm tjie figures. However, Dod.ik aide Sla.yk1o " , Mitrovic said µe was "nont, alLs~tis~'i with the results. The figure does not include an undetermined number of Muslims and Croats who live outside the Serb republic but are authorized to vote there by absentee ballot: · The Serb Democratic Party claimed it was leading in nearly all other races in the mini-state. Meanwhile, the hard-line Croatian Democratic Union claimed it was leading in five of the 10 federation cantons. The party also organized an unauthorized referendum asking Croats if they back its campaign for an internationally recognized Croat mini-state, and claimed 70 percent ij support among Croats. Party leader AnteJelavic, who is also the Croat representative on the three -member collective national presidency, said thau1s far as Croats are concerned, key U.N. and -~ other international officials here "are finished for the Croat people." In Muslim areas, the picture appeared different. Preliminary, unofficial,returns pointed to gains by two parties promoting ethnic tolerance - the Social Democratic Party of Zlatko Lagumdzija and the Party for Bosnia-Herzegovina of former wartime · Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic.

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Real men never misstheir afternoon naps Today we present: Masculine Medical News For Men. Our first item concerns what could be the most significant medical discovery for men since the invention of the By electric nosehair trimmer. Dave According to an Associated Press article sent in by alert reader S rhirley Damiano, researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered that ( and here, to indicate the importance of this breakthrough, we will activate our keyboard's "Caps Lock" feature): MEN NEED SLEEP. The reason for this is hormones, which are chemicals that our bodies produce so they can take control away from our brains. For example, men produce a hormone that compels them to watch instant replays on TV. If a man is watching a football game, a moose could walk into the room wearing a tutu, and the man will not notice, because his hormones are forcing him to watch, possibly for the sixth time, a football player fall down in slow motion. Women do hot produce this hormone but they do produce one that compels them to rearrange furniture, and another one that causes them to believe they can improve their appearance by using a tiny pencil to draw dark lines around their eyeballs. So anyway, according to the University of Chicago researchers, men produce a hormone that causes them to develop muscle mass, which they need to perform masculine tasks that are biologically necessary for human survival, such as operating the remote control. The thing is, men produce this particular

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per clipping. Before you know it, your muscles are going to be so massive that you may have to move up to a larger potato-chip-bag size ("Small Village") to provide your new physique with adequate nutrition. But even the manliest man can become sick or injured. The question is: What should you do if you need medical treatment? The masculine answer is: Try to fix the problem yourself. Real men know that many so-called "serious" health problems, such as a sucking chest wound, that the so-called "medical profession" will charge you an arm and a leg to correct, can be easily treated via simple home remedies such as duct tape. For a good example of a man treati.,g himself in a manly medical manner, let · us consider a newspaper clipping sent in by alert reader Joel Prange from the Redding (Calif.) Record Searchlight, concerning a man in Tehama County who had a painful corn on his toe. Now if this man had gone to see a doctor, who knows what he would have been charged? So, according to the article, which I am not making up, the man "decided to shoot it with his 22-caliber rifle." And guess what? It worked out FINE, except that he injured his foot and had to be taken to the hospital for treatment and may face legal charges. This is why the American Medical Association states: "For foot problems, it's a lot easier to aim a pistol." Although of course nobody is suggesting that you should attempt this without ANY preparation. First, you should sleep. Dave Barry is a humor columnist for the Miami Herald. Write to him do The Miami Herald , One Herald Plaza, Miami , FL 33132.

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BOISE, Idaho - These are the numbe~s sophomore quarterbackJose Fuentes tallied against Boise State University Saturday: 509 yards passing with two touchdowns and no interceptions, and 184 passes without an interception spanning several games - a new USU record against the Big West Conference's top defense. However, in the same competitive spirit of many athletes, Fuentes said disappointment from the loss takes precedence over his individual performance. "It doesn't mean anything if you don't win," he said. Perhaps, but given the fact the loss was against the defend.:. ing Big West Conference and Humanitarian Bowl champs and the Aggies surpassed everybody's expectations but their own, the Aggies have accomplished a lot. And Fuentes has been an integral part of the team's recent B PUTZIER tries to cut past USU's Jamar Glasper during USU's 66-38 loss to the Broncos on the Blue AstroTurf of Bronco Stadium. Zak Larsen photo success. "I think Jose has come a million miles," said USU coach Mick Dennehy. "For the most part, Jose's come a long, long REUBEN WADSWORTH way." possession, USU never led again. Fuentes certainly didn't waste Assista1t Sports Editor any time catching the Broncos' BSU was forced to punt BOI$E, Idaho attention. only twice during the entire Where Was the defense? game and the 66 points were On the first play of the ~~U66 Utah State and Boise the most USU has allowed Aggies' opening drive, Fuentes ~U38 State University racked up since losing to the found wide receiver Aaron Jones a whoppip~·.f(f for a 47 yard gain on a fade patUi:i..i.vJ:;1;s,i lY of J?ou th!;!rn offense ~ l pomts Calrtorni~, 66-10, in 1989. ..tern. Ornhe Aggies' second between them~ "I trope we never, ever· _poss.ession, Fuent.es again fo1,1nd Broncos came out on top KeyStats:The two teams combined for 104 give up 60 points again," Jones on the drives first play, points and 1,236 yards. with a score of 66- 3 8 said Aggie cornerback this time on a 72-yard bomb Saturday in Boise, Idaho. AdebolahJimoh. "If our that set up an Aggie field goal. Betcha' didn't know: Facing a depleted The loss-halted the offense puts up 38 points, we When the smoke cleared, defensive line, USU used backup offensive Aggies' undefeated confershould be able to win." Fuentes' 509 yards passing was guard Eric Gwilliam at defensive tackle. ence record and put them "Obviously, defensively the second highest single game out of contention for the Next game: Saturday vs. Idaho State, 3 p.m. we made it a little too easy total in USU history. Tony Big West Conference title. on them," Dennehy said. Adams threw for 561 yards Even if the Broncos (4-0 in "Mistake~ on special teams against the University of Utah Fuentes hit wideout Aaron Jones conference play) are defeated by put us in a hole." in 1972. Also, with 184 passes for two straight receptions of 47 the University of Idaho next One such hole Dennehy without an interception, and 27 yards before running weekend, USU won't win any talked about was when a Steve Fuentes destroyed the old mark backJohn Roberts crossed the tie-breakers for lack of Division Mullins punt was blocked by of 150 held by former Aggie goal line on a 9-yard run to put 1-Awins. BSU's LaGary Mitchell with just and current CFL mainstay the Aggies up 7-0 early. USU picked to finish near 23 seconds remaining in the secAnthony Calvillo. The Broncos didn't take long the bot'm of the tonference in ond quarter and returned five "He has stepped it up a lot," to counter. They were on the several polls, surprised many yards by Mitchell for a touchJones said. "He knows what he board after a 76-yard drive with its success this season. down to make the score 37-17 at has to do and he has really capped off by a 59-yard touch"We'ftlearn from it and get the half. That blocked punt was stepped it up." down reception to tailback Brock better," said head coach Mick the point in the game where According to Dennehy, gainForsey from quarterback Bart Denneh. linebacker Brent Passey said he ing experience and poise Hendricks. The ame-long offensive throughout the season has really felt like the Aggies had lost it. The Aggies regained the lead, showcase took only 52 seconds It seemed Hendricks took helped Fuentes improve the way 10-7, after a Brad Bohn field to get going on the Bronco he has. goal on their next drive, but Stadium's blue turf- and the "I think he is very bright, ► SEE OFFENSE when the Broncos reached the Aggies struck first. AGGIE JAMES NEWTON contemplates as Boise State dismanvery poised and very patient," end zone again after regaining tles USU in the second half./Zak Larsen photo USU quarterbackJose Page 16 he said.

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They do things a little differently in Boise, Idaho. Not only is the Boise State University football stadium's field made of "Smurf Turf," but there are other o dities that, if all listed, would be too merous to count. One ch abnormality in Boise annoye me the whole game even as I sat in e press box where the sound muffled. That ritual is what s go through when their

team a f°'i'l~t c!Qwn.· As 11,tiQJrag,l'f;he llroocos gain enough, ya'raat for •a first down the PA armpunceipelts: "~rd that'5 another Bronro: .. " after which all BSU faithful in the stands finish the sentence, yelling, "first down!" Hearing those six words once was fine. I thought to myseff, "Wow! These fans are reaily into it." Unfortunately, I had to hear it 27 more times as the Broncos thrashed the Aggie defense for 641 total yards. Had the USU "D" held, I would have been much less vexed. However, on one occasion the PA announcer called for a first down when the Broncos' special teams players were coming out on the field to try a field goal. It was a good laugh for everyone - fans and press box alike. Another peculiar ritual was undergone whenever BSU scored. Each romp into the end zone or kick through the uprights signaled a miniparade. First a woman riding a horse

trotted out on the track wrapping , pers.9,nthat put the guy up to it and around the field, followed by an old . reprimand him or her. The 5i1vertank Volkswagen Beetle deckecJout in lhe top was bad enough, but the guy also BSU logo and colors. Those two ·' had to put on a veil-looking piece of cloth with gold trim and it • entries in the parade made sense. 'The third entry I'm still wondering about around like it was a set of wings for a - it was another VW Beetle, but this "Phantom of the Opera" number. time painted to look like a sheriff's As much as I think the Broncos' car. Huh? What does a law enforcetraditions are weird, I do have to ment official have to do with scoring compliment - their fans are awea touchdown? I guess I should have some. There were 27,206 of them as loud as ever - in a stadium that asked. The half-time show was equally seats approximately 30,000 for a rousing. Spectators were entreated to game that did not feature in-state a few numbers from "The Pride of rivals. In-state rivalry games are the Idaho," er, I mean, the Boise State only occasions that even come close Marching Band. In addition to the to filling 30,257-seat Romney Stadium. BSU band was the dance team - a staple at halftime shows. But this BSU fans are some of the most show was just a little different than dedicated I've seen. Never have I you'd see here at Utah State. This one viewed as much tailgating before a was complete with a guy dressed up game as I did in Boise; nor have I in a shiny silver tank top and black seen so many people wearing blue pants romping around with the dance and orange simultaneously. A van we team. Not only did I feel sorry for him parked close to was one of the optibecause of the frigid temperatures, mal examples of BSU fan dedication. but I also almost wanted to find the It was a '70s Chevy van all decked

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out in BSU colors with a football field ,painted on the roof and an authentic ' Br0nco football helmet attached to tne hood. The license plate read: 'WAC U" - a tribute to how far the program has come in such a little time. Only six years ago BSU was a Division I-AA school competing in the Big Sky. The school is already moving to the Western Athletic Conference, which is considered to be a higher-tier league than the Big West. Even USU head coach Mick Dennehy was complimentary of the BSU program and its supporters by saying they are a "super crowd" and "unbelievable fans." The Aggies and their fans can learn from the Broncos. Dedicated fans lead to a better program - but a set chant after every first down doesn't have to be part of it. Reuben Wadsworth is the assistant sports editor of the Statesman.

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USU's waterpoloclublosesthreetoU.ofUtah to 12-4. · USU remained scorel~ss in the In literally the final seconds first quarter. The Aggies scored first at the of the game, the Aggies scored one last goal. However, the Utah State University's co-ed beginning of the second quarter point came too late. but the Utes put in an additionwater polo club was defeated by the University of Utah Saturday al goal to bring the score to 5-1. . The water polo clubs then put in their B teams. Once afternoon, 12-5. This was USU responded quickly, postagain, the Aggies could not USU's first home game of the ing two consecutive points. season. At 7-4, the Utes began to tame the Utes, falling 1-3-4. When the A teams werg put The Utes came out to an dominate the game, both offenback in action, U of U easily sively and defensively. early lead, scoring four unanU of U embarked on a fivedefeated the Aggies in~e third swered points. Despite several point streak to bring the score game, 16-7. Jt. attempts made by the Aggies, ii:J SHEREEN SA.UREY

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Lance Schulters knocked down the Kansas City Chiefs, and Charlie Garner ran over them. Garner rushed for 102 yards and a touchdown, and Schulters led an inspired defensive effort as the San Francisco 49ers snapped their five-game losing stteak with a 21- 7 win over

Kansas City on Sunday. The Chiefs (5-5) gained just 107 yards in the first half and needed Donnell Bennett's 1yard TD run with 6:27 left to avoid being shut out. The 49ers (3-8) moved the ball well on several clock-consuming drives. Jeff Garcia had another outstanding gam~,

completing 20 of 2 5 passes for 244 yards a]J.dcapping rwo second-quarter drives withi?'hort TD runs. Garner also md five catches for 39 yards receiving. Efvis Grbac was wilH!J inaccurate and indecisive, ~shing 22-of-40 for 271 yards .ffter completing just six pa~ in the first half for Kansas Ciij

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SportsEditor Utah State proved it could ·_play defense as it snapped out · of an early funk to route the California West All-Stars 8255 in the Spectrum Friday night. The game changed from a nail biter into a dunk-fest in the second half, the Aggies revealing glimpses of last year's form and California West (011) showing some wear in their 11th game in 11 days. "I thought we played a lot better during the second half and I thought they ran out of -· gas," said USU Head Coach 1 Stew Morrill. The Aggies, who start their season Friday at the Top of the World Classic in Fairbanks, [ ' Alaska, shot 63 percent from · the field in the second half while holding the California West to only 2 7 percent on the r. game. Morrill was much hap" o, pier with his team's effort ~ defensively after last week's poor showing vs. Global 1 rl Sports. 5'. "We played better ,or [defense]," Morrill said. "We .f-( were bound and determined to uq ::t.taywith our man-to-man." •?&5 Senior point guard Bernard 5.rfRbcksaid these exhibition teams are good defensive practice because of their one-on.l.m ne nature. Rock was also glad the team played better d_efense Saturday. i?., L "Coach was harping on us week about defense," said "s ior point guard Bernard b ck. f!J'.) Rock was one of four ~gies in double figures with points. Senior Curtis Bobb, ·m:arting in place of departed '1roy Rolle for the second ~me, led USU with 18 points

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Rock scored 10 points while dishing out three assists./Heather Collier photo - nine of which came during the Aggies' 15-6 run early in the second half. That run broke open a tight first half that saw nine lead changes; USU only led by two at the break. "We Jnst played awful in the first hal ," Morrill said. "I thought we were really spurty." But in the second half, it was all USU. "Coach gave us a little leeture," Rock said. The Aggies wowed the crowd of 5,152 with about a dozen dunks, even 6-foot-3 Tony Brown (13 points on 5of-8 shooting) got into the act, throwing down one after dribblinf coast-to-coast. " was telling Tony that it's a good thing he had a halfcourt run," Morrill said. Senior Shawn Daniels had a normal day at the office, scoring 10 points with 11 re ounds. The 6-foot-6, 260 pound forward also led the

team's fast break twice, induding one where he dribbled the length of the floor to put in a fast-break layup in traffic. He, like most of the Aggies, shot poorly from the line. USU went 9-of-16 from the stripe. Morrill said this team practices more free throws than any other team he's coached. "We're working our tails off on it," Morrill said. Newcomers Jeremy Vague (center) and Thomas Vmcent (point guard) looked strong Friday. Vague had six points and five rebounds including a follow-up dunk of a Rock miss. Vincent looked to be a very capable back up to Rock, scoring four points and handing out two assists with only one turnover in 17 minutes. The Aggies now tum their attention to Santa Clara, USU's first opponent in Fairbanks. Morrill said he likes having the team challenged by three tough teams in three

days, it's a good preview for the Big West Tournament.

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Athletic Media Relations The Utah State men's and women's cross country teams placed ninth and eighth at the NCAA Regional Championships in Ogden at the Riverside Golf Course. The men ran a lOK race at noon, and the women ran a 6K race at 11 a.m. The men were led to a ninth place finish by junior Mitch Zundel, who placed 14th with a time of3 l: 39 .8, respectively. The other top-50 finisher for the Aggies was sophomore Steve Prescott with a 38thplace finish. On the womens side senior Rebekah Thomley led the Aggies to a eighth place finish by finishing 17th with a time of 22:09.4, reshectively. The other top-50 finis er for the Aggies was senior Beka Leffler who had an 18th-place finish. The Aggies will find out on November 13 if anyone advances to the NCAA Championships that will be held on Nov . 20 in Ames, Iowa. Men's team results 1. Colorado

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BOISE, Idaho - It's a good thing the Aggies didn't play Long Beach State University, said USU head coach Tom GET READY FOR Peterson. Nevertheless, despite :ahorTHE BACK COUNTRY rific third game, the No. 18 •cl/a.bing skins USU volleyball team beat a •avalanch beacons, scrappy Boise State University prot,,es, shovels team 15-7, 15-6, 7-15, 15-9 • ,., .ces Saturday night at the BSU Pavilion. With the victory, USU improved to 21-8 (10-5 117 N. MAIN in the Big West Conference) LOGAN MON.·SAT 10•6 and moved one step closer to 753-1541 earning a berth in the NCAA Tournament. "It is surprising that we played that poorly," Peterson said. "At times we put too much pressure on ourselves." Mon.-Sat. ~~ Despite playing out of sync 10 am-9 pm after easily dispatching the walk-In's welcome Broncos in the first two games, USU responded when it needOffering New TechnlQues From Hollywood ed to. • _Fast and good quality • Clinging to a 9-7 lead in the fourth game, the Aggies were trench manicure with any services able to take control of the (Exp. l/02/0l) match in large part by slowing down red-hot Bronco outside We Specialize in Airbrush Art! hitter Tara Brinkerhoff. •In The cacheVallev Mall Behind Mr. Mac• 755-7192 Brinkerhoff, a four-year starter for the Broncos, finished with a match-high 26 kills and posted a .321 hitting percentage. Leading the way for the Aggies in the fourth game were Denae Mahlman and Hailey 1 Dozen Roses MacKay. With Brinkerhoff Arranged Only finding her groove for the majority of the match, the tandem of Mahlman and MacKay stuffed her on a couple of occa41 North Main, Logan -~ sions. With the score 14-7 USU, Mahlman and Chelsi , w•' ~752-6242<£> -Neves teamed up to block 0 Brinkerhoff, and later in the point, Mohlman again blocked Brinkerhoff to set up her match-ending kill. Sum.m.er in THE AMERICAN ''We wait until the end to Paris 2001 UNIVERSITY step it up instead of playing consistently the whole way OF PARIS through," Mahlman said. Two 5-week Games one and two Summer Sessions belonged to the Aggies. Usin,g a I. June 3-July S balanced team effort - six II. July 9-Aug. 10 players finished with seven or more kills - the Aggies Over 100 Courses "e,. ~ pounded the ball, finishing the ~ first game with a .306 hitting French Immersion percentage and the second ·Other Special game with a whopping .545 hitTel: (33 / 1) 40 62 06 14 Programs ting percentage. Fax: (33/1) 40 62 07 17 Senior Melissa Schoepf led or in NY (212) 983 -1414 the way in the second game, sununer @aup.fr dominating the Broncos for www.aup.edu seven kills in nine attack attempts. •RaRaRaRaRaRaRaRaRaRaRaRamaRaRamama~ However, USU was unable

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hitting percentage of .031. "Mentality-wise, you have to make yourself believe you can do it," Mahlman said when asked about closing a match out. "We didn't play together as a team," MacKay said. "That was our main problem." Peterson said the fact that the Aggies struggled, coupled with the improved play of the Broncos (now 7-17 on the year, 3-12 in BWC) since the teams' first encounter, made for a much closer match than antici-

pated. "To their credit, they hung mthere, they played well and they came back," Peterson said. "They're going to get better and better." He said Utah State needs to develop a "sense of urgency to get better." USU will finish its regular season Thursday night in Moscow, Idaho, against the University of Idaho. The Aggies defeated the Vandals in three games earlier this season in the Spectrum.

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going into the BSU match, MacKay had only 89 total kills, an average of 1.29 a game, and a hitting percentage of .143. Head coach Tom Peterson said MacKay is in an interesting situation. She is the tallest player on the team and it has been difficult to find a spot for her, he said. "They don't quite know where to put me yet," MacKay said. MacKay said it has been fun but tough learning all the positions. In the match against the Broncos, MacKay was called to be a blocker on the right side, which Peterson said has been difficult for her. MacKay said she has struggled in practice lately, but is happy wjth her last two game performances.

"Maybe I've found my game a little more," she said. Teammate Denae Mohlman was complimentary of how she is fitting with the team and her performance in the win over1 the Broncos. "She did a really good job on that right side," Mahlman said. Mohlman also said MacKay was excellent in blocking the Broncos' Tara Brinkerhoff, who was BSU's 111ainweapon with 26 kills. Mohlman said she thinks it may be easier for Peterson to find a place for MacKay once she and senior outside hitters Melissa Schoepf and Amy Crosbie leave next year. "She'.5gojng to get better and better," Peterson said.

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else," Passey said. "To have to rely on the passing After an NCAA all-purpose game is just not us." yard record outing a week earThe passing game was the lier against New lone bright spot Mexico State for ,?1e Aggies that included on -,aturday. 322 yards rushFuentes made ing, Aggie run·•· the Boise State ning back defense look bad Every time we Emmett White as well as he thought we had an was held to only threw for the answerto one 76 yards on the second most ground·vs. BSU. yards in USU thing, they brought The USU out somethingerse," history with 509. offensive line Fuentes also set - Brent Passey, wasn't able to the USU record USU linebacker make as many for most pass holes for White attempts without to run through. an interception, "Their surpassing the defensive line penetrated well," old mark of 150 set by White said. "They did what we Anthony Calvillo in 1993. expe;:ctedthem to do. We just Jones' 297 yards receiving set didn't show up." the USU single game mark. "It didn't look like we were Jones also scored two touchdowns. knocking people off the ball like we had," Dennehy said. USU will finish out its sea-

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Cable car£'ire in Austria, kills about 170 people more than a day by toxic fumes inside the GEIR MOULSON tunnel. It was finally free of smoke Sunday AssociatedPress afternoon, allowing the task to begin KAPRUN, Austria - Relatives and with emergency workers entering the tunfriends who had waited through the night nel from the upper end because of fears the charred car could slide downhill. in this Alpine village began to get word Sunday on whether their loved ones were Recovery teams were working through among the dead in a cable car fire that the night into Monday, entering the tunnel in shifts and emerging with grim killed about 170 people in a mountain news. Itunnel. "It must be said that the salvage operaWith the village hall draped in black tion is extremely difficult," Salzburg govand candles burning on shop steps, shattered townsfolk gathered in the Kaprun ernor Franz Schausberger said. "It also church for Sunday Mass. As they must be said that it won't be possible to mourned, emergency crews tried to reach identify the victims by traditional means." Once the remains of the victims are the spot where scores of people, many children and teen-agers, were killed brought into town, authorities plan to set up a large tent in the town center where Saturday by smoke and flames. "We understand Christ's wail on the relatives and friends can say final farewells. From cross: 'My God, why have you forsaken me?"' there, authorities planned to take the priest Peter Hofer said in his sermon. bodies to Salzburg for forensic examiOthers gave thanks after realizing their nation. Authorities said loved ones were safe. "My son is, thank Sunday they had identified 155 of God, all right," said the victims with Gottfried Nindl. His near certainty. boy had planned to go Among them were on the cable car with 52 Austrians, 42 his friends, but didn't - Gottfried Nindl ! because they had slept Germans, 10 father JapaneseJ eight too late, he said. Americans, two The car, pulled on Slovenes and a rails underground for Croat. most of the 3,200 yards The victims up the Kitzsteinhorn .. mountain to a lacier ·,..,....,.....,...,.,. .,.·..,,..· were identified by region, stoppe£ blazing, about 600 yards eliminating those who had returned alive from a list of 2,500 people who had taken inside a mountain tunnel Saturday morning.The cause of the fire has not been the cable car up the slope before the fire. detennined. Three U.S. army personnel were conI Rescuers could not reach the victims as firmed among the dead. The Americans the fire raged on. Passengers tried to flee were part of a group of mostly military through the deep tunnel, but most were personnel from Wuerzburg, Germany, and their families, said Maj. Drew Stathis, felled by the thick smoke and flames. Eighteen people survived, mainly by fleea member of the group. ing downwards in the tunnel where the Stathis said missing Americans from the group included a family of four with smoke was thinner, authorities said. It was still unclear how many people two children, an engaged couple and a wi::rein the cable car, but it was believed man and his son. that it had a capacity of 180 people and As evening fell, the village of 3,100 was unusually quiet, with little of the usual skiwasfull. season bustle. The few locals on the street Retrieval of the bodies was delayed

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were outnumbered by the hundreds of police and rescue officials. Survivors described the horror of the tragedy. Psychiatrist Thomas Kamolz, who talked to survivors, said they told him of someone inside the car breaking a window with his ski pole and a survivor who "saw a father throwing out his child" in order to save the baby. Running on rails, the cable car enters the mountainside after being hoisted up a steep ramp over a valley, supported by metal struts. Erik Buxbaum, Austria's public security chief, said Saturday's fire may have started before the cable car disappeared into the mountainside. "We have received information that the light of a fire was already visible to outside witnesses as the train was entering the tunnel," he said. Buxbaum said that when the car operator noticed the blaze, it was already too late. Other officials later said it appeared the fire broke out at the rear end of the cable car. Most of the victims apparently managed to escape the car but were killed by fumes while trying to run up narrow stairs leading out of the tunnel, said Manfred Mueller, the cable car's head technician. Those who survived apparently ran the opposite way, avoiding most of the smoke being blown upward through the tunnel by strong drafts. Bodies of victims were found as far as 60 yards upward from the charred car, investigating officials said. Schausberger said the bodies were found "next to, in and under the train." Authorities said fresh air sucked into the tunnel fed the flames. The 18 survivors apparently included 12 who escaped from the car and six who had been waiting at the top of the tunnel. The Austrian government declared Saturday and Sunday national days of mourning. The Austria Press Agency said the disaster was the worst of any involving skiers being transported by cable-pulled cars to skiing slopes. At the Italian ski resort of Cavalese in 1976, when 42 people died after a cable carrying suspended cable cars snapped.

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UVDA, Israel (AP)-Two planes took off from this air force base late Sunday, ending a bizarre hijacking that started when an apparently deranged man commandeered a plane in Dagestan, taking 57 passengers and crew to Israel's barren southern desert. The hijacker, identified by Israeli officials as a Chechen but by Dagestani officials as a fellow Dagestan resident, had commandeered the Vnukovo Airlines plane on a domestic flight from Dagestan to Moscow late Saturday night. Carrying a fake bomb that turned out to be a bloodpressure gauge, he forced the plane to refuel in Baku, Azerbaijan, and diverted it toward Israel. • The hijacker brought two letters from his father and demanded to hold a news conference, the Israelis said, but they refused to allow it. He gave Israeli military officers the letters and a cassette tape. Israeli army Maj. Gen. Yomtov Samia said the hijacker told

officers he was sent by his father to send a message to "the emperor of Japan and the world" about "the yellow race taking over the white race." After Israeli authorities refused to let the plane land at the country's main inter national facility, Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv,it headed toward the Uvda airfield in the southern desert. The sleek, white Russian airliner landed at this desert airfield just after sunrise. First off the plane was the <.:aptain,who turned over some weapons to Israeli officials. Soon the hijacker walked down the aircraft stairs, shirtless, and handed himself over to Israeli authorities. The passengers filed off the plane shortly after the hijacker surrendered, and spent the day in barracks at the air base. Many of those on board were soccer fans flying to Moscow to root for a Dagestani team in a game there, Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency said. Apki Bakayev, 11, from Chechnya, who suffers from leukemia, was flying to . Moscow for chemotherapy. His mother, Tamara, wrote a thank -you note to the Israelis, saying "we will never forget

Israel." Israeli officials identified the hijacker as Amarchenov Avmerchan, in his late 20s and a resident of Chechnya Suppressing a smile, Samia said the man was "not all there." A Dagestani official, Imam Yaraliyev, gave a different name, identifying the man as Ahmed Amirkhanov, who lives in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. Chechnya and Dagestan are neighboring Russian republics. It was unclear which official gave the correct identification. The hijacker was returning to Russia late Sunday on the plane he diverted, the Israeli military said. Another plane, which carried a crack Russian anti-terror team that landed after the drama was over, was taking the passengers to Moscow, their original destination. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, on a stopover in London _onhis way to Washington to meet President Clinton, had ordered his plane to return to Israel after hearing of the hijacking. The plane turned around again to resume its journey to the United States when the hijacking ended.

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From Page 2 asking supporters for up to $5,000 to help finance the recount campaign. Democrats are hoping to raise $3 million, with top Gore aides moving from his headquarters in Tennessee to Democratic offices in Washington. Among the weekend developments: - Palm Beach County, Fla., election officials added three dozen additional votes to Gore early Sunday in a mechanical recount. Leaders of the Democratic stronghold then decided to manually check each of the 425,000 votes cast. One top county official said he will try to block the move. Officials said their manual recount of precincts representing 1 percent of the vote turned up 19 votes for Gore beyond a machine count. Carol Roberts, a county commissioner and a member of the Palm Beach County canvassing commission, argued that a manual recount of 100 percent of the precincts could potentially change as many as 1,900 additional votes -far more than the existing statewide margin between the two candidates. :- In Deland, Fla., Volusia County officials bc;;gana marathon manual recount of all 184,018 ballots, despite Bush's pending request to stop it. With Democratic-laden Daytona Beach included, Gore's team hoped to pick up more votes. Gore had picked up 20 votes with a little under half the precincts recounted. "- Polk County, Fla., officials, rescanning ballots by machine for a third ~ay, found an additipnal 104 votes for Bush and seven for Gore. Home to Lakeland, the county went for Bush.

- Democrats added Osceola County to their list of hand recount requests. The Osceola canvassing board meets Monday to weigh it. Gore had a small lead over Bush in the 54,000-plus votes cast in the county just south of Orlando . Hispanic voters alleged they were required to produce two forms of identification when only one was required. - Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris , a Republican who has campaigned for Bush, scheduled a meeting Monday with Christopher and Gore campaign chairman William Daley as Democrats expressed concern that she might refuse to certify ballots uncovered in the manual count. - Bush had a 17-vote lead in New Mexico, where state police have begun impounding ballots from Tuesday's election. Republican lawyers asked the courts to order protection for early voting and absentee ballots cast statewide. A Gore -requested manual recount in Broward County, Fla., another Demo cratic bastion with Fort Lauderdale as its hub, was to begin Monday. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in Miami-Dade County, site of what Gore hopes will be a fourth manual recount. Bush and Gore were in seclusion with top aides Sunday - Bush at his Texas ranch, Gore at his Washington, D.C. , residence . Bush has made several public appearances since Tuesday, casting himself as a man preparing for the transition to power. Gore has laid low, wary that voters might interpret his legal challenge as a grab for power.

Nearly 200 people, most of them Palestinians but also Israeli soldiers and civilians, have died in six wee ks of violence on the W est Bank, in Gaza and Israel. Arafat blamed Barak directly, saying Thursday night after meeting with Clinton that the prime minister had rene ged on a promise to withdraw Israeli forces from Palestinian areas. The violence continued on Sunday. One Palestinian was killed in a stone-throwing clash near the Erez checkpoint between Israel and Gaza, officials at a hospital said. They said the Israeli army had fired live ammu nition. In Hebron, a gunshot was fired at the con voy of U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson as she toured a Jewish enclave. One bullet hit a car. No on e was hurt, and there was no indication of who fired the shot.

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JGLANCE Police reopen old murdercase SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) - Dawn Davis was killed more than two decades ago, but police have reopened her case, saying new technology could help them solve it. Davis, 31, had been dead for at least two weeks when she was found dead on the floor of her apartment on Oct. 2 3, 1979. The Utah medical examiner at first ruled the cause of her death by asphyxiation "undetermined," but authorities from New York and Los Angeles who re-examined the case ruled it a homicide. About a month ago, South Salt Lake investigator Brian Stahle reopened the case. He said he wanted to let Utah's Crime Lab to run fingerprints gathered 21 years ago through computer systems that weren't around then. The case has been reopened and closed before over the years. But with all the advances in technology, Stahle believes this investigation is better than just a shot in the dark. "I'm optimistic about being able to continue with the case," Stahle said. Fingerprints taken at the scene will be compared with fingerprints taken from a suspect who was questioned but never arrested, Stahle said. • Then they will be entered into the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), a national database of fingerprints of convicted felons that did not exist in 1979. Stahle said he is currently looking at one or two people as suspects and he hopes AFIS will help him further pursue those leads. If that fails, Stahle said, the next step would be to check the national sex offender database, another program not in existence 21 years ago. It may also be possible to lift DNA off evidence that has been preserved and see if it matches any in the database, Stahl~ said. Since the late 1990s, DNA data from anyone convicted of a rape or sex crime is entered into the system. Stahle said exhuming Davis' body to gather more forensic evidence isn't outside the realm of possibility, although it's unlikely.

Kuwaititerroristsuspectsin custody;thirdsuspectarrested KUWAIT -Authorities have arrested two more Kuwaitis suspected of belonging to a terror group that was planning attacks on American forces in Kuwait, and a third has been detained in Qatar, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. The arrests raise the number of suspects in custody to at least six, five of them Kuwaitis. The nationality of the man nabbed in Qatar was not immediately available. An Interior Ministry official told The Associated Press that state security police detained the two Kuwaiti men Saturday night at a OHL international express mail office minutes after they took delivery of forged passports. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man caught in Qatar was expected to be extradited to Kuwait later Sunday. Qatari officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Kuwait announced last week it had arrested three Kuwaitis who planned to sabotage targets inside and outside Kuwait using 293 pounds of high explosives. The targets in Kuwait were identified as Camp Doha, which houses U.S. weapons and hundreds of military personnel, as well as Western military personnel who were to be attacked at their residences and in their vehicles. Targets outside Kuwait have not been specified. Authorities had said a fourth suspect, a national of a n(i)rth African country, was at large. It was not clear if he was the man detained by Qatar. Some 5,000 U.S. troops are in Kuwait, plus several hundred British airmen and women using Kuwait's air bases to patrol "no-fly" zones imposed on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War that liberated Kuwait from a seven-month Iraqi occupation. The presence of the Western militaries is part of IO-year defense pacts Kuwait signed with its allies after the war. U.S. forces in Kuwait and elsewhere in the Gulf were placed on the highest state of alert last month after the Oct. 12 bombing of the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen. The attack killed 17 U.S. sailors and injured 39. The Interior Ministry official said the group had been under surveillance for two months, but the explosives were not found until Thursday. They were buried in the desert and included 1,450 detonators.

U.S.militaryjet collided over waters off northernJapan TOKYO (AP) - Two U.S. military jets collided over waters off northern Japan early Monday, the Japanese Coast Guard said. One pilot was rescued but the other was missing. The F-16s collided off Oshima Island, 410 miles north of Tokyo, said Toshifumi Nishikawa, spokesman for the Coast Guard based in Otaru, on nearby Hokkaido Island. Both the pilots apparently ejected from their planes and one of them was rescued from the water by the Japanese Air Self-Defense · Force, said Toshimi Okimoto, aJASDF spokesman. There were no other people aboard. The survivor's name and condition were not immediately known, Okimoto said. The other pilot was still missing, and a search - including U.S. forces and Japanese Coast Guard helicopters and ships - was under way. The two jets, based at Misawa U .S. Air Base, were participating in a joint U.S.-Japan military exercise, the U.S. military said in a statement. The U.S. statement said the condition of the pilots was unknown, and provided no further details.

Head-oncrash betweentrailers spills pies, alcohol on road MONTICELLO, Utah (AP) - A head-on collision between two tractor-trailers scattered frozen pies and liquor along U.S. · 191, shutting the road down for more than an hour Saturday. The two trucks crashed at 8:15 a.m. less than a mile north of Monticello when the driver of a southbound semi leaned down to get a cassette tape at a bend in the road, according to Utah Highway Patrol spokesman Verdi White. That truck drifted into · the oncoming lane and hit a northbound truck. The accident left cargo from both trucks - frozen pies and alcohol - scattered across the highway. A fire also damaged parts of the cab and trailer in the southbound semi, White said. Traffic was shut down in both directions for an hour and a half while crews cleaned up the pie, liquor and trucks. The driver of the semi traveling south was taken to San Juan Hospital, treated and released. The other semi's driver was not injured in the accident .

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SAN FRANCISCO California, which jails more drug users per capita than any other state, now must quickly change course and implement the most ambitious drug treatment program in U.S. history. Last week's passage of Proposition 36, a sweeping initiative requiring treatment instead of imprisonment for an estimated 36,000 drug users each year, thrusts California into mostly uncharted territory. But as counties rush to make the change. by July 1, they can learn from San Francisco, which has bucked the state for years by diverting nonviolent drug offenders into treatment, and Arizona, where voters approved a similar initiative four years ago. Arizona hands out movie and sporting event tickets and holds picnics for drug offenders who complete treatment programs - any:thing to reward them for staying clean with the thr-eat of jail no longer hanging over their heads. "It's changed the whole way in which we kind of play the game," said Barbara Broderick, Arizona's state director of adult probation. "Now that you have this law, you really have to embrace it and figure out how to make an incentive-based program work without the hammer." California's program likely will cost much more than the $120 million a year allocated by Proposition 36. But projections say much of the cost will be offset because treatment is cheaper than building and operating prisons. "\1/hileArizona can serve as an example, California's statewide change in direction is of much greater magnitude. Arizona had to find just 4,000 new treatment slots to handle about 6,000 offenders each year. California will have six times as many offenders, and its existing community treatment pro-

grams already have long waiting lists. San Francisco still can't find enough treatment slots five years after District Attorney Terence Hallinan made it his policy to funnel many drug offenders into treatment programs . His office handles 8,000 felony drug arrests each year, 60 percent of its caseload. Proposition 36 devotes $60 million for a crash effort to create, expand and license enough treatment providers to handle the flood that will start July 1. Mimi Silbert, president and CEO of the Delancey Street Foundation, San Francisco's largest treatment provider and the nation's largest privately funded treatment program, worries that California mistakenly will turn to quick-fix treatment programs. "It's a complex issue and it requires a complex solution," Silbert said. "The danger is to jump in quickly, to make the assump tion that because they're not going to jail their problem is solved." Treatment programs and probation departments will have to deal with the sort of incorrigible drug addicts who until now have been sent to prison, warned K. Jack Riley, director of the Rand Corp. criminal justice department that has studied both Proposition 36 and Arizona's experience. "We're finding that 25 percent of people sentenced to probation are thumbing their nose at the system," said Special Assistant District Attorney Barnett Lotstein in Arizona's Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix. , "People a_!ewalking away from treatment." 1 Without the threat of ja'il, Arizona has tried punishing offenders with more frequent court appearances, treatment sessions, community service. "We'll even have them read books and give book reports in open court," said J Broderick. "We've tried to b'e v_erycreative wjt}?,our sanc_1, nons." :l