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Show : tmw Monday FEBRUARY 4, 2u08 www iieraldextra.com YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR TOWN IN OUR TOWNS UVSC SHARES ITS LOVE FOR edition 50 CENTS YOUR NEWSPAPER sv (I BREAKDANCING Utah Valley Lawmakers want amputees covered Tanlcs, 3 Joe Pyrah X' DAILY V HP P. - When famed race horse Barbara broke his leg during the Rreakness Stakes in 2006, the world cheered as he attempted a , I HERALD comeback. But eight months later, unable to overcome complications of a bone infection, he had to be put down, Tami Stanley can relate. The Orem resident shattered her leg sliding into a base during a soft-ba- ll game three years ago. She came down with osteomyelitis, a bone infection, and lost the lower half of her right leg. "At least they didn't shoot me, they just took my leg off," Stanley said. But getting a carbon fiber leg put back on costs $18,000, and it's one of the least expensive prosthetics available. Prosthetic limbs cost anywhere from $5,000 to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and insurance companies' prosthetic policies leave something to be desired, say amputees. Most policies cover one limb per lifetime (limbs last 5 years) or $2,500 a year. That much money will get you about "half a foot," says Stanley, J ti. I 7 Sir : fighting roil Chad . il t. "mm . 0j ) : 'X' capital J Michelle Faul THE NAIROBI, Kenya ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald pretty fulfilling, said Tami Stanley of Orem. "There are some limitations but I can still do a lot of things." Stanley lost her leg three years ago after complications to a shattered bone from a Softball accident three years prior. She continues to lead an active lifestyle walking everyday, lifting weights, riding a bicycle and being a part of a paralympic bobsled team. Stanley is spearheading a bill on behalf of the Amputee Coalition of America to put insurance coverage for prosthetic care on par with other basic, medical services. See AMPUTEES, A2 Representative Duvid Litvack is the sponsor.of the bill. 3-- ASSOCIATED "Life has been V PRESS ; Tanks rolled through Chad's capital on Sunday, turning the streets into a battle zone between the government and rebels' lit-tered with bodies. Fighting also raged in an area where some 420,000 refugees live near the border with Darfur. Chad and its former colonizer, France, accused Sudan of masterminding the coup attempt in the Central African nation. Sudan has repeatedly denied any involvement in the , h V fighting! Hundreds of rebels penetrated the capital of Chd on Saturday. The violence has endangered a $300 million y global aid operation supporting millions of people in Chad, a country about three .times the size of California.-I-t also has delayed the deployment of a European Union peacekeeping mission to both Chad and neighboring Central African . AMERICAN PRESIDENCY: mbinatiGn of mlandr Republic. V" . 1'5 T 4- - France accused Sudan of wanting to crush President Idriss Deby's regime ahead of the arrival of the EU force, which is to operate along the volatile border with Darfur. The force was to be based in the area of the key eastern town of Adre, which rebels said they seized on Sunday. The government said it had repelled the attack. Adre, near the border with Darfur, is a humanitarian hub surrounded by camps with some 420,000 refugees from Darfur and Chadians displaced in the spillover from the violence. Chadian Gen. Mahamat Ali Abdallah Nassour alleged that Sudanese troops were involved and called it a "declaration of war" from Sudan. "Sudan does not want this force because it would open a window on the genocide in Darfur," Chad's Foreign Minister Amad Allam-M- i said on Radio France Internationale. In a statement Sunday, Sudan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ali See .' Ted Anthony and Ron Fournier THE - ASSOCIATED PRESS The president of the United States stands at the podium in the American Capitol, facing us all Congress, the Cabinet, a television audience of millions. He struggles for the right words to restore the public's faith in his office. A nation awaits. Will he resign? Will he im plicate others? Will he act as the leader of the planet's most powerful country should? "There are," he begins, "certain things you should expect from your president." Since the moment in 1789 when a Revolutionary War hero named George Washington recited a oath, Americans have expected certain things from their presidents. For good reason: In a society that has mythologized itself Associated Press from its earliest days, the president is the high . priest of the national identity. For 219 years, the institution has become burdened with legend, and the expectations exceed the grasp of any mortal. Americans' notions of "the presidency come from cultural cues we've from the traits of been conditioned to notice See PRESIDENCY, A3 McCain, Romney still in an Olympic straggle Bob Drogin ' LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON - On Sept. 19, 2000, John McCain rose in the Senate to rail against what he called the "staggering" sums that the federal government planned to spend to help Salt Lake City stage the 2002 Winter Olympics. "The American taxpayer is being shaken down to the tune of nearly a billion and a half dollars," McCain said. The Arizona Republican vowed to "do everything in my power" to delay or kill "this r spending" and to end the "fiscal abuse" related to the Olympics. This is preposterous and it must stop," he said. Mitt Romney, who headed the Olympics, counseled calm when reporters from Utah's Deseret Morning News reached him in Sydney, Australia. Romney challenged McCain's arithmetic, arguing that taxpayers would provide only $250 million. In any case, he asserted that he already had obtained backing in Congress. "I'm expecting the funding we need to host the Games," he said. pork-barr- CHAD, 0 PHOTOS 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. INSIDE "I'm quite confident." The clash over Olympics spending, which dragged on for two years, helps explain some of the acrimony that now charao terizes the race between the two for the Republican presidential nomination. The dispute provided an,early preview of the fissures Kat stUl divide McCain and Romney as they face what may be decisive con- 'front-runne- BRIEFING A4 EDITORIALS A5 WEATHER A6 OUR TOWNS B1 OBITUARIES B3 COMICS B5 t LIFE & STYLE B8 SPORTS D1 SCOREBOARD D6 tests Tuesday. "It m,ay be a source of the sniping between the two," said Quin Less snow HIGH 32 LOW 13 VOLUME 85 ISSUE 188 . See : OLYMPICS, y A2 ' 6 Associated Press Hl,61055 00050"" 8 A2 |