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Show 2 Monday, March 9,2009 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.com All stories and photos from The Associated Press Recession set to be longest since WWII WASHINGTON—Fac- ' tory jobs disappeared. Inflation soared. Unemployment climbed to alarming levels. The hungry lined up at soup kitchens. It wasn't the Great Depression. It was the 19811982 recession, widely considered America's worst since the depression. That painful time during Ronald Reagan's presidency is a grim marker of how bad things can get. Yet the current recession could slice deeper into the U.S. economy. If it lasts into April—as it almost surely will—this one will go on record as the longest in the postwar era. The 1981-1982 and 1973-1975 recessions each lasted 16 months. Unemployment hasn't reached 1982 levels and the gross domestic prod, uct hasa't fallen quite as far. But the hurt from this recession is spread more widely and uncertainty about the country's economic health is worse today than it was in 1982. Back then, if someone asked if the nation was about to experience something as bad as the Great Depression, the answer Rain/Snow Showers 38/25 • Annual Architecture + Planning Firm Fain f 1 a.m. to 2 p.m. @ Bailey Gallery • ASUU Presidential Debate: noon to 1 p.m. @ Hinckley Caucus Room, OSH Room 255 . ^ -'-'^W''* • Queer Student Union: The Legislative Session and Community Outreach: 730 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ Union Student Lounge •. Toadally Frogs" Exhibit: all day @ Utah Museum of Natural History , ^ >: Hundreds of people wait in line to get into a job fair presented by Jobs & Careers Newspaper and Job Fairs in San Mateo, Calif, on Feb. 25. The number of newly laid-off Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose far more than expected last week as employers cut thousands ofjobs amid a deepening recession. was, "Quite clearly, 'No,'" said Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Reagan White House. "You don't have that certainty today," he said. "It's not only that the downturn is sharp and widespread, but a lot of people worry that it's going to be a long-lasting, substantial downturn." For months, headlines have compared this recession with the one that began in July 1981 and ended in November 1982. —In January, reports showed 207,000 manufacturing jobs vanished in the largest one-month drop since October 1982. —Major automakers' U.S. sales extended their deep slump in February, putting the industry on track for its worst sales month in more than 27 years. —Struggling homebuilders have just completed the worst year for new home sales since 1982. —There are 12.5 million people out of work today, topping the number of jobless in 1982. "I think most people think it is worse than 1982," said John Steele Gordon, a financial historian. "I don't think many people think it will be 1932 again. Let us pray. But it's probably going to be the worst postwar recession, certainly." The 1982 downturn was driven primarily by the desire to rid the economy of inflation. Obama to reverse Bush admin stem cell policy WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's announcement Monday that he is overturning his predecessor's policies toward embryonic Astern cells also will include a broad declaration that science—not political ideology—would guide his administration. Obama planned to reverse President George W. Bush's limits on federI ally funded stem cell research through the National Institutes of Health and $o put in place safeguards through the ; Office of Science and Technology Pol; icy so that science is protected from : political interference. The moves would fulfill a campaign promise. "We've got eight years of science to make up for," said Curt Civin, whose research allowed scientists to isolate stem cells and who now serves as the founding director of the University of Maryland Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. "Now, the silly restrictions are lifted-" Bush limited taxpayer money for stem cell research to a small number of stem cell lines that were created before Aug. 9, 200;. Many of those faced drawbacks. Hundreds more of such lines—groups of cells that can continue to propagate in lab dishes—have been created since then. Scientists say those newer lines are healthier and better suited to creating treatments for diseases, but they were largely off-limits to researchers who took federal dollars. "We view what happened with stem cell research in the last administration is one manifestation of failure to think carefully about how federal support of science and the use of scientific advice occurs," said Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who is chairman of the White House's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. said John Daniel, another stu"This experience adds a depth to dent turned writer and friend of the poetry that I'm already familiar Stegner's, of a speech earlier in with," said Kristin Randak, a Salt • continued from Page 1 the symposium. "Wallace Stegner Lake City resident who attended |own work, that there's so much knew very well who he was, be- the conference. "His quirky little 'more that can be captured, and he cause he knew where he was from. details, that is what adds the social '• doesn't think that he alone could do He knew its beauty and its strict context and the humanity. Stegner's that," Taylor said. "That's sadly a limits." work also represents that humanfare thing in writers." The audience stood in applause ity." > | In addition to essay reading at to welcome Berry and to thank him i.bravo@ £he Masonic Temple in downtown for his address. chronicle.utah.edu Salt Xake City, Berry also provided Saturday's keynote address at the i4fh'Annual Wallace Stegner Sym- CROSSWORD SPONSOR posium. Frustrated with the BCS? "7 Stegner's son, Page, invited Berry to speak at the conference. Show it on your chest! ; "The invitation by Page Stegner Was not much of an invitation, because Page knew of my deep love and admiration for his father," Berry said. "There was not the least diplomatic suggestion in that letter of choice." ^ Berry attended Stanford University in 1958 and studied writing under Wallace Stegner. "The furthest west I had been CrOSSWOrd EditedbyWitlShortz was Columbia, Missouri," said Berry, who is from Kentucky. 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A volatile period begins Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of a failed revolt that sent the Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, into exile. A year ago, Tibetans erupted in protest—sometimes violently. Today, checkpoints and garrisons seem as numerous as the fortress-like Buddhist monasteries and white-domed shrines that dot the steep slopes and pastures of western China bordering Tibet. The result is a kind of martial law, with constant tension across a third of Beijing's territory. U.S. US announces 12,000 US troops to leave Iraq BAGHDAD—The U.S. military has announced that 12,000 American and 4,000 British troops will leave Iraq by September. Maj. Gen. David Perkins says that will reduce U.S. combat power from'14 brigades to 12 brigades. He also said Sunday that the United States is turning over more facilities to the Iraqi military as part of the drawdown. President Barack Obama has decided to remove all combat troops by the end of August 2010 with all troops gone by the end of 2011. The 4,000 British troops due to leave are the last British soldiers in Iraq. There are currently about 135,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. Democrats and their allies control 58 seats in the Senate, but 60 votes will be needed to close debate and free the measure so Obama can sign it. Utah fraud prosecutions hit n-year high PROVO—Fraud prosecutions in Utah reached an n-year-high in 2008. Last year, more than 3,300 frauds were prosecuted. In 1997, it was about 1400. A Federal TYade Commission survey in 2006 ranked Utah No, 1 in per capita fraud complaints. That ranking has dropped since but problems persist. FBI officials say that in Utah County alone, they're investigating mortgage fraud cases with losses exceeding $150 million. Because of the state's history of fraud, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission keeps an office in Salt Lake City. State and federal officials have also formed a mortgage-fraud task force. 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