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Show Thursday February 1,2007 Utah Valley Edition in .www heraldextra.com YOUR TOWN vrT 50 CENTS UGHBORS YOUR NEWSPAPER IN UV TODAY r f ! i ! f m S r , ! MiP ' t I fJ j iff "s DIANE KEATON MOTHERS TOO MUCH IN 'BECAUSE - i .. I ; SAID SO' 1 '""wwi , JJWm UTAH LEGISLATURE Senate i-R-ise weighs ban on abortion Alan Choate DAILY HERALD A proposed ban on almost all abortions in Utah would probably fare well in the Senate, according to Senate Republican leaders and they support setting aside at least $1 million to defend the ban in court. "We definitely will have to fund the defense of the bill because on 'til r il - - 2J G Code Ventures A rough preliminary model o the convention center to be built in Lehi, designed by Frank Gehry. Frank Gehry's Grace Leong tion. hotel will be tallest in Utah 450-fo- ot Salt Lake, which stands at 435 feet, and the second-tallebuilding, the Wells Fargo Center, at 422 feet. mixed-us- e Details of the which Point near the of the Mountain, project d architect is being designed by Frank Gehry, were unveiled Wednesday afternoon Provo entrepreby Brandt Andersen, a neur and majority owner of the NBA Development League for Utah. Inspired by the natural architecture found in st DAILY HERALD 85-ac- Move over Salt Lake City. Lehi is about to get hotel with the state's tallest building a 450-fothe Frank Gehry touch. Comprising up to 300 rooms, the hotel and convention center in Lehi will supplant the state's tallest building to date the LDS Church Office Building in downtown 220,000-square-foo- t, world-renowne- I UilUUUil Utah's slot canyons such as The Narrows at Zion National Park, the Lehi project will include a sig- nature 500,000-sq- u are-foo- t, 10,000-sea- t arena, an amphitheater, 3.6 million square feet of residential residential space or 2,500 condo and multi-floo- r units, and 1.12 million square feet of retail space. The project also includes a boating lake, a wake-boar- d cable water park and 61 acres of open space. See GEHRY, to increase risk of heart disease The bill is now pending in the starsJJouse of Representatives. If it becomes law, a court challenge is considered inevitable. Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has said that it would cost about $1 million for his office to defend the ban and as much as $3 million if the state contracts with an outside law firm. Sen. Lyle Hillyard, said that there conceivably could be a price tag that's too high for See A2 reports terror plot foiled Rob Harris Jeff Donn THE ASSOCIATED THE PRESS for sale See a photo you would like to have in your home or office? Daily Herald photos now are available online at heraldextra.comgallery. whether U.S. environmental standards are strict enough. The Environmental Protection Agency tightened its daily limit for these tiny specks, known as fine particulates, in September. But it left the average annual limit untouched, allowing a concentration of 15 millionths of a gram for every cubic meter of air. In this study of 65,893 women, the average exposure was 13 units, of the subjects fallwith ing under the national standard. But every increase of 10 units, starting at 0, lifted the risk of fatal cardiovascular disease by about 75 percent. That is several times higher than in study by the American Cancer Society. There was a lot of evidence previously suggesting that the long-terstandard should be lower, and this is adding one more study to that evidence," said Douglas Dockery, a pollution specialist at the Harvard School of Public Health. He wrote an accompanying editorial for the study, which was 4 BRIEFING AS EDTTORIAl At yam n 5C0Rt BOARD M M SWATHE R PUR TOWNS CI pWTUARIES Q 6USINBS C4 urusnu uv Possible flurries HIGH 32 LOW 10 VOUMEM ISSUE IJjilLLdcL 6 185 See POLLUTION, A3 PRESS pre-daw- two-thir- INSIDE ASSOCIATED Police BIRMINGHAM, England foiled a major kidnapping plot, the first of its kind in Britain, with the arrests Wednesday of nine terror suspects who reportedly planned to torture and behead a British Muslim soldier and broadcast the killing on the Internet. The alleged plot, said by British media to mirror trie brutal executions of foreign hostages in Iraq, was in its final stages and uncovered during a surveillance operation by anti4error officers in this city of more than 1 million in the heart of England raid on The arrests came in a homes and businesses in several Birmingham neighborhoods, which were mostly Pakistani The fine grit in polBOSTON luted air boosts the risk of heart disease in older women much more powerfully than scientists realized, a federally funded study has found, raising questions of Photos ABORTION, A4 BBC Suspicious Items IUU11U its face it is unconstitutional," said Senate President John Valentine, "But there are a lot of issues ripe for decision by the Supreme Court. "It goes to the straightforward issue of state's rights to be able to define health issues, safety issues for its own citizens." The abortion measure was plopped before lawmakers Tuesday in the House Health and Human Services Committee. It would make abortion illegal in the state except in cases of rape or incest that are reported to police before the fetus can survive outside the womb, or when the mother is at risk of "dying or sustaining permanent, significant s damage to a major bodily func- Aafci'5" fc aV T v4 t X S1tYEN SCNftlAMooatrt Ptm glowing electronic dvk it shown at Bo Ion Police headquarters in Boston on Wednesday. Officials said the device was one oj those planted at various spots In Boston (nvohwf a hoax that threw a scare into the city JtVedneaday. The planting of the blinking devices turned out to he a caWe cartoon. See pagt A3. puWiriry campaign for a late-nigA t n The threat from terrorism remains very reat," said Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw, who would not confirm reports from the British Broadcasting Corp. and other media outlets that the intended victim was an army exsoldier to be killed in an 'Iraqi-style- " ecution and broadcast on the Internet. Britain has been at the heart of several thwarted alleged terror plots, including a scheme by a British Muslim to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and other landmarks, and a plan by Muslim extremists to use liquid explosives to blow up as many as 10 flights between the United States and Britain, But the Birmingham kidiinpping plot raised fears that a new type of teror- !SeePt0T,A2 3 |