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Show 2 i"aye - BYU's specialized classes make education weak POLICE BEAT - AUTO BURGLARY An Alpine steivo was taken from a locked vehicle, along with sev- eral 4 THH DAILY HI RAI D, Prove. Liah, Friday. August 20, music compact discs Tuesday night from the vicinity of 650 North and 100 West, Orem. The car stereo was valued at $500, and there was no evidence of forced entry. There About 30,000 people got smarter this week. I'm referring, of course, to all the BYU students who fled campus to avoid the onslaught of Education Weekers, none of whom know where they're going and all of whom walk slow. process. Education Week is a time Latter-daSaints to come together and find answers to such important spiritual questions as, "Could you tell me where the ballroom is?" and "Where the fetch am I supposed to park? Freakin' Timbuktu?" Dozens of classes are offered on a wide variety of subjects that relate to Mormonism and the Mormon experience. It's impossible to attend them all; here are a few from the catalog stereo was taken from a convertible Jeep sometime Tuesday night. The car was parked in the vicinity of 800 East and 400 South. FOSSILS another car entered at this same location on Tuesday night. That car was unlocked "'.fud a purse was taken containWas ing $500 cash. ' A $250 Pioneer stereo was stolen from a locked vehicle Wednesday afternoon while parked in a lot at Eagle Hardware in Orem. There were no signs of forced entry. There was also $150 damage done to the dash of the car in the for y that you might have missed. "Two Wrongs Make a Right: Using J. Golden Kimball as an Excuse to Swear." Elder Kimball, or "the Swearing Apostle," best known for his colorful language and for the hundreds of stories about him, approximately l80,000th of which are true, is also an example to all Latter-daSaints who desire justification for their own potty mouths. ("If a man who swears can be a general authority, then swearing must not be so bad ") The class also teaches of lesser-knowsinful figures in LDS history, such as Orson J. Jensen, "the Shoplifting Apostle;" and LaVerl Christensen, "the Seventy Who Always Broke the Speed Limit." Scout, he'll hire the The class teachScout." Eagle es that documentation is unnecessary, as long as you state your position authoritatnon-Eagl- ! S"'.DE REMARKS - ively. How to Write So That People Will Think You're a General The Authority." Focuses on using Eric D. Snider "I've Told You a Thousand Times: Exaggeration in Mormon Living." Learn classics like, "Movies that are being rated Team-taugh- 'G' today would have been rated 'R' 20 years ago" and "If an employer has to choose between an Eagle Scout and a A - VANDALISMTHEFT About $2,000 damage was caused to vending machines at the Rest Wash car wash located at 697 N. State St., Orem, Tuesday night. Car wash tokens, some food items and some air freshener were taken. Two women reported having their purses stolen after leaving them in the carts at Super Target in Orem around noon. ' ; The purses contained only Sinall amounts of money, but also contained credit cards, 'Orem Public Safety Department spokesman Doug Tldwards said. : AUTO THEFT A 1996 Toyota purple with a possible Utah Dealer license . plate of DL2019001, was reported stolen from 500 W. Village Lane in Orem. The theft occurred Sunday, but was not reported until Wednesday. Value on the car is $23,000. Soccer coach acquitted of rape charges SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A former soccer coach was acquitted Thursday of charges he raped a girl on his team. Michael Joseph Williams, a former assistant coach for the Utah Youth Soccer Association, e was charged with first-degre- Continued from A 1 million-year-ol- SALT LAKE CITY Two senior missionary couples who were teaching English at a military school in Istanbul are safe and accounted for, according to LDS church officials. Michael Purdy from the church's public affairs office said there are three, missionary couples in Turkey, two of S"" - d female saber-toothecat. Only recently, on closer inspection, was the skull found to be a vvhole new category the first of its kind. "Occasionally, someone will find a new species, but this is a new genus of cat that's never been found before," Martin said. "I'd been involved in fossil collecting for 15-2years and this was one of the highlights." Though known to be a saber-toothe- d cat, only recently did a "28, attacked her when she vis- ited him at his Salt Lake City home the night of July 23, 998. Williams was suspended from his paid position after his arrest. After the verdict, he said he hopes to eventually get his coaching credentials back. Win Styx tickets PR0V0 Answer ing question for your pair of prime tickets Styx concert at the the followshot at a the Aug. 26 McKay Events Center: 1991 hit, which eventuNo. reached 3 on the ally charts, put Styx into an elite group of acts that have secured a Top 10 hit under four consecutive U.S. presidents. Name the "This song." The Herald will ask one Styx trivia question in every day's edior fax us with tion. Simply the correct answer sometime today with the correct answer and you will qualify for the next step. Send your answer via to: dfoxheraldextra.com under the or fax it to 373-548of quiz." "Styx heading Please include your name, address and phone number. Winners will be notified starting Monday and printed next week in The Herald. 9 1 a Sunday School class like someone telling about a weird dream they had, especially if it contradicts existing doctrine. Are you a visionary, or just a wack-job- ? Leave that for the class to decide! Other Education Week classes being offered: "No Cheerios in the Chapel: The Lesser-KnowTeachings of the "Jello Salad: Prophets," Living How Much Fruit is Too Much?" "An Outcast in My Own Ward: What If I Don't Care About BYU Sports?" and "The Colon: Our Favorite Item of Punctuation." n Eric D. Snider can be reached via at ericericdsnider.com. OK which were near the earthquake. He did not have their identities, but said neither couple was from Utah County. As for relief efforts, the church has made no announcements. "We're still assessing the situation and trying to see what we can do," said Dan Rascon, also of the public affairs office. d 0 vft' Continued from A "xenos-milus.- " His name? Larry Martin. specialist discover the bones Larry D. Martin, senior curadid not fall into two known cattor of paleontology of the which University of Kansas most egories looked like a bear, and recently to avoid confusion. Scimitar-tooth- , which resemBoth Martins met briefly at bled a cheetah. a fossil show in Arizona a few Martin later unearthed a years ago, but no contact has larger, male skull in the same occurred over the new cat. And area and believes he stumbled all of the attention has shifted upon the ancient denning cave to D. Martin and his analysis of of the two animals, who preyed ;he skeleton and how it was found, with no credit given to upon the pigs. Martin donated the first the man who discovered the skull to a museum in Florida, bones in the first place. "Even though I don't own it, but the other skull he traded to a Californian collector "to pay I have a fondness for it," Martin said in a recent interview at nis the bills." This month, the traded skull Orem home. "I knew it was an National important cat, but didn't know in appeared how important." An academic paleGeographic. Martin has collected fossils ontologist, with a knowledge of cats, was the spe- for 30 years and established a cialist who discovered the reputable shark's tooth busibones were a new breed and ness. He would regularly dirk-toot- saber-toothe- d reach all of them." Some 35,000 people could be thread teeth into necklaces and supply them to souvenir shops. The necklaces are popular with tourists in Hawaii and Disney World. Aside from the saber-toothe- d cats, Martin's other highlight was discovering the most complete set of 77 teeth from a Carcharodon Megaladon, a prehistoric ancestor of the Great White Shark that grew up to 70 feet long. Present day sharks may grow up to 36 feet long and weigh more than 7,000 pounds. "It was another thing to find," he said. Shark's tooth collector Dr. Gordon Hubble arrived at Martin's home after hearing of the discovery and persisted until Martin traded the set, which he found along a near Orlando, Fla. The set was featured on the Discovery Channel's Shark Week, which ran Aug. Unfortunately, the program's river-ban- m The Daily Herald SALT LAKE CITY A Midwestern furniture company became the newest supplier of 2002 and the Olympic Paralympic Games Thursday. Mitt Romney, president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, announced that Herman Miller Inc., of Zeeland, Mich., will be the official supplier of office furniture for the Games. After about a year of discussion, Herman Miller decided to become the fifth company to sign an agreement with the Olympic Properties of the United States, also known as OPUS. OPUS was formed by SLOC U.S. and the Olympic Committee to run their joint marketing program. Four other companies have come forward to support the Olympics after the bribery bid scandal broke. The newest supporters include O.C. Tanner Co., Questar Corp., KSL media outlets and Marker Ltd. O.C Tanner Co. CRASH Continued from A 1 impact and turned to see the Cavalier pretty high in the air and instructed his friend to get his trauma kit from his car. "I automatically ran over. I knew it wasn't going to be good," Lund said. will provide medals, Questar Corp. will provide natural gas, KSL will be the state's official media outlet for the Games, and Marker will provide uni SALT LAKE forms. Herman will Miller work HenriksenButler with Design Group of Salt Lake City, the state's dealership for Herman Miller products, to provide office furniture and design services. The furniture will be used in SLOC and USOC offices, 2002 competition and venues, and US. Olympic training centers. Herman Miller, which had net sales of $1.77 billion in fiscal year 1999, will serve as the U.S. Olympic Team supplier through the 2004 Olympic Games. To be considered an official supporter of the Games, companies must contribute a minimum of $5 million or more, said Dick Schultz, the president of OPUS. Olympic organizers did Lund worked on the Blazer passengers with another witness, Deb Anderson, who had worked with the Heber Police Dept. previously, until the paramedics arrived. The impact pushed the Blazer driver into the back seat, pinning his body with the steering wheel and severely r u k m not release the exact amount of financial Herman assistance Miller is providing, but Schultz did say the company went "well over" the minimum 2002 contribution. "It's really nice to have a partner that gives you still buried under debris, U.N. deputy spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York. More than 70 U.S. experts were in the area Thursday and another U.S. team was expected shortly. Three U.S. Navy ships with 2,100 Marines and 1,000 sailors were ordered in to beef up rescue efforts. Adding to the crisis, residents of Istanbul panicked Thursday after seismology experts at the city's Kandilli 210 Observatory reported aftershocks in just two hours and warned of unusual seismic activity in the bay of Gemlik, south of the city. Heeding the warnings of other possible quakes, thousands of frightened residents were sleeping outside ' early Friday in Istanbul and elsequake-damage- d Furniture maker becomes latest Olympic sponsor By ANN POTEMPA 1 BRIAN FITZGERALD The Daily Herald Found: Orem resident Larry Miller located the first complete set of teeth belonging to Carcharodon Megaladon a prehistoric ancestor to the Great White shark that grew up to 80 feet long. has proposed to name it those QUAKE Xl ) rape. Williams thanked the jury which deliberated two hours for "listening to the truth." Witnesses on Thursday painted a picture of Williams' accuser as someone with a reputation for telling tales. The girl claimed Williams, Sound Like a Crackpot." Nothing spices up You Church says all missionaries digging in a primitive limestone quarry known as "Hog Heaven" in Florida back in 1982, where numerous ancient, wild pig bones were scattered. "Then I came across a bone way too big to be a peccary bone," Martin said. It was a Un-Callin- g: just the right terminology and line of thinking to get yourself quoted in sacrament meeting more often than the scriptures and to have people everywhere referring to you as "Elder" or "Sister," even though you're not a general authority and t never claimed to be. E. by Stephen Robinson and that "Work and the Glory" guy. "It Seemed So Real: Letting Your Dreams Help y n e that value-in-kin- d is completely Romney said. Romney said Herman Miller's products not only fill the entire furniture need for the Games, but they also will bring another monetary return once they are sold after the Olympics are budget-relieving,- " over. Additional sponsors are needed to help balance the Olympic budget,' which now stands at about $1.34 billion. Romney and other Olympic officials recommended cutting $113 million from the budget earlier this summer. Even with the smaller budget, Olympic officials still need to raise about $185 million to break even. . pinning his foot with the front of the car. Edwards said the man was critical, but Anderson and Lund said they were never able to get a pulse and unable to perform CPR due to the wreckage. Names of the other victims were not released pending notification of family. where. "Since aftershocks are continuing, we want our citizens to be vigilant a little longer," Istanbul Gov. Erol Cakir said. In Bursa, a major city 150 miles to the south, the governor's nffipp nonnlo fn aaj v,..v-- nrcrpH .B outside. People in at least half a dozen other towns and cities, including the capital, Ankara, were spending the night outAnatolia side, the semi-officinews agency reported. The death toll rose to 6.841 Thursday, with nearly 34,. 00 fpm the government injured, announced. It ordered 10,000 body bags to deal with the disAnatolia aster, the news agency reported. In western Turkey, the stench of decaying bodies filled the air. Ecevit said officials would accelerate burials to prevent the spread of disease. In Adapazari, one of the hardest-hi- t towns, government workers buried 963 people in a mass grave. They took pictures of each of the dead so they could later be identified by semi-offici- families. Relief teams from helping, complained Brig. Gen. Arieh Eldad, the chief medical officer of the Israeli Army. "(But) in such a catastrophe it is surprising that they are organized at all," he added. A feeling that time was running out prompted rescuers to work even more frantically Thursday. "It's very clear that the longer it goes, the less are the chances of finding survivors," said Helge Kvam, spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. He said 99 percent of the victims who survive such a disaster are rescued within the first 48 hours. In Golcuk, another hard-hi- t town, local rescuers dug with their hands and pulled out an boy named Goktug, Anatolia reported. THE DULY HERALD North Rental Boulevard Bex 7 17, Prow, Utah 84603-971- 7 1555 P.O. ; . Oreo Barm 1 74 Vfert Center Street Orem, Utah B4057 224-11- www.hcraldextrm.com Classified Adverting Retail Advertising Subscription! and delivery service Newsroom For Departments not listed above 0 3 0 0 FAX heraldeitn.com .Idean( USPS Published (ISSN: mornings, Sunday through Saturday, by Pulitzer Community Newspapers, Inc., 1565 North Freedom Boulevard, Provo, Utah 84604. Periodicals postage paid at Provo, Utah. POSTMASTER: Send address change to: The Dailv Herald. P.O. 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