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Show J L ;..n.T .... FOE? J T ; Online: ?.H3fkTheHefald.cora THE NEWSPAPER OF CENTRAL UTAH 50 CENTS V U Countdown , - MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2001 VOLUME 78, ISSUE 266 Health concerns prompt campaign to encourage turning off TV to Winter Games Associated Press Writer 291 days WASHINGTON Attention kids: Drop that remote control, put down those fattening snacks munched while watching television, and go outside to Today's Weather Play- Higher - That s the message in a a public health crisis, Satcher said. As adults, today's young couch potatoes will have heart disease, diabetes and other ailments, he said. "If children are spending a thousand hours in front of the TV, they're not doing much else," says Jennifer community. "But we have to set an example for our children." Studies show U.S. children are watching, on average, 1,000 hours of television each year, or about three hours every day. At the same time, about one in children js 15 school-ag- e overweight. Those numbers add up to One parent whose family campaign beginning today that encourages youngsters is taking the and their families to turn pledge said his children, off their sets and exercise ages 5 and 10, will skip the few hours of public televimore. This is the most over- sion they usually are weight, obese generation of allowed. "It's just such a fixture in children in our history," Surgeon General David our lives," said Tom Cara, Satcher said in an interan advertising businessview. "The message this man from Niles, 111., who is week is about saving lives." leading the campaign in his By ANJETTA McQUEEN . See TV, A5 Low 41 1 Salt IMd Rocket Fans Sports eateries filling up And finally ... SOT . tight end is Mr. Irrelevant, the last player chosen in the NFL draft. But Tevita Ofahengaue is just happy he was drafted. A BYU tf ' r- - for (Barnes - By C.G.WALLACE Associated Press Writer 7 SALT LAKE CITY welcome the world for Bl Winter Olympics, but if spectators want to have a good meal they may need an invitation. Many of the area's best restaurants are being snatched up by corporate sponsors and other groups for the duration of the games. With Olympic rents averaging into the tens of thousands of dollars, Restaurants are closing their doors W those without the proper connections. Local Runners needed Had visions of running like the wind with the Olympic torch? You'll get your chance sooner than you may think. A3 "Unfor- tunately the World Olympics aren't for the people, Different stories A plane carrying American missionaries that was shot down over the Amazon had received clearance to land and moments later Peru's air force fired on it, relatives said. A4 The Daily Herald rocket for launch at the Right plans: John Borget, right, of Springville, and his son Chris prepare their a recent Utah Rocket attend Conover Landon Trail south of Tooele. Below, from left, Marcia, Craig and Pony Express Club event. "We've always launched small rockets," Marcia said. For years, members of the family have launched smaller rockets from fields near their Springville home. But UROC is a whole different By HAVALAH GHOLDSTON . The Daily Herald Last year, TOOELE COUNTY Craig and Marcia Conover, a brothersister team from Springville, dis- story. covered the best family activity "I had no idea we could shoot off they could ever dream of: launching these monsters," Craig said. rockets out iA the UROC has monthly meetings '.; desert. and workshops, as well as the The Conovers found the Utah monthly launches March through Rocket Club of the National Associ- - November. ation of Rocketry, Section 523, It also hosts an annual event on Tripoli Utah Prefecture. the Bonneville Salt Flats the memMarch through November, out on bers like to call "Hellfire." the old Pony Express Trail south of UROC has more than 100 memTooele, hundreds of UROC members who launch everything from bers, as well as some national model rockets to extremely guests, can be found trucking their units propelled by solid scratch-buiand kit rockets out to See ROCKET, A5 a remote launchpad for lift-o- Training Disaster hit Mountain View High School last Tuesday, and the students All DAILY HERALD I r ) l' ' It SALT LAKE 2002 999 ," said Karen Olson, owner of the swanky Metropolitan in Salt Lake City. Her restaurant was rented out more than a year ago. With the Olympics coming to their doorsteps, restaurant owners are making a tough decision customers and between long-tercashing in. "Many of these businesses will do half a year's business in 17 days," said Larry Mankin, president of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. The chamber hasn't surveyed Salt Lake's restaurants to see how many will be rented, but it's thought that most of the eateries near the downtown medals plaza have been reserved, Mankin said. d restauIn Park City, the e stretch of rants on the Main Street are in demand for private venues. A former president of the Park City Restaurant Association said he would be surprised if 20 of those 50-od- half-mil- I I I ". ,( '.... '. ' ; See EATERIES, A8 Courtesy photo ff PROVO, UTAH "" nnir ed lt THE h, . high-power- M m high-power- v they're for the fairly well-to-do- Hobby has family fired up Inside Schools were prepared. Utah will the 2002 NEWSPAPER Aoisneirs to SIPS Index CI Classified A14 Comics Inside Schools Horoscope Movies ... All A9 . A16 Obituaries A7 Opinions A6 Sports Weather fill 6 y61055 Bl B6 TO"a By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer The leading killer CHICAGO of American babies is a medical mystery, but its victims die with heartbreaking familiarity: An apparently healthy infant is put to bed and slumbers peacefully. In the morning, he is dead. Despite decades of research, scientists remain confounded. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome steals more small lives each year than cancer, pneumonia, heart disease and AIDS combined. It has a name, but no one knows how it works. "The story is now 40 years old and we're still trying to figure out let alone how to treat what it is remmaimi elaosive "The story is now 40 years old and we're still trying to figure out what it is." Dr. Henry Krous, SIDS expert at Children's Hospital .stjrr. ir of San Diego it and how to prevent it," said Dr. favor a theory that brain stem somehow affect arousal Henry Krous; a SIDS expert at defects reflexes, leaving babies especially of San Diego. Children's Hospital when sleeping on their vulnerable Coined at a medical conference in the late 1960s, SIDS described unexpected deaths that even autopsies couldn't explain. It kills nearly 3,000 infants yearly, a disproportionate number of whom are black. It also is mistakenly blamed in a small number cases where parents have killed their children. Some think SIDS has several causes, but many researchers now c.'iL37::i03TDu::cn::s 1 stomachs. In the 1990s, a nationwide public health initiative instructed parents to place sleeping infants on their backs, thereby reducing the chance of smothering. The number of SIDS deaths declined significantly in that decade. See SIDS, A8 MARK A. STAHLThc Associated Press Few answers: Kathleen Miller and her husband, Marc, hold a photo of their son, Dominic, who died of Sudden infant Death Syndrome. -- .ft ? |