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Show UTES, JAZZ WIN — THE ‘STARZZ’ COMEOUT /E-1 heSalt Lake Tribune Number123 http://www.sltrib.com READERSHIP: RoadListIs ne Will Funds Be oe VALENTINE DAZE Isn’t It Romantic? That Depends on BY BRANDON GRIGGS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Roses. Tender cards. Sexylingerie. For couples, Valen- tine’s Day is a blissfully romantic event right? Not always The approach of Feb. 14 fills many people with angst and apprehension. Pressureto buy lavishgifts, expectations of marriage proposals and the desireto be successfully coupled can strain rela- tionships, experts say This officials state wide andwith legislators Mike And that § 3 billion still is higherthan wt Leavitt recommended before the legis SU) n be ganlast month He asked lawmakers to find a wa ay to BY JOHN KEAHEY Signals You Send Candlelight dinners. h Mam Stre » SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 The Salt Lake ‘Tribune THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE It is a wishlist of gigantic proportions Onit are 109 major road projé statewide Ifmoney were no object, those projects would cost taxpayers more than $5billion to complete during the ne: t 10 decade oe plan, jects. a funding plan — which ine ment of Transportation (UDOT) cut that list to 47 pro- “We are not committin 7. and what ipaviwilcot “heb hi ite ch to higherred A:22 in 4, ighway-priority 7 oa list, Valentine said, “the [Republican] ‘aucuses are committed to working in that direction Legislative leaders support the governor's figure The Legislature is ,pmmitted to a full $2.6 billion worth of projects Sep. John Valentine, an ( drem Republic rand an in fitect of the highway-funding But like Christmas morning, what the kids want and what they get often are degrees apart So, at the request of the Legislature, the Utah Depart The 47 projects r ige from ¢ hanges to building ating fre tate roads and wid ing ones A big chunk of the multibillion-dollar total is non egotiable. Some $1.36 billion is earmarked for the 17 to $3 billion Henoted that majority Republicans have agreed upon nile reconstruction of Interstate 15 through the Salt es money from the ge I ake V. and that 44-year project gets under wa al fund, trimming more than $20 million a year from ext month ‘Thepricetag still is staggering: nearly $3billion for the higher-priority projects spread over 20 of Utah's 29 future budgets and tapping revenue from other sources counties Thelist was culled froma variety of discussions UDOT executives had with one another, smMplete list of road projects @ Page of legislative news f billion in projects during the next fundatotal of$ And funding such as vehicle-safety-inspection fees and underground tank funds with city and county Although minor is assured for other high-priority im See ROAD LIST, Page A-6 adjustments can be expected in the is a holiday ofillusions,’ Salt LakeCity marriage counsel Burgess, whohasnoticed anincrease of couples seeking therapy this timeof year Heradvice: Don’t expect anything Goodbye, Welfare It's true. People have expectations about what their partner or spouse — Hello, Work should do on Valentine's Da says Cottonwood Heights relationship counselor Richard Nielsen. “If it doesn’t happen, MoreAreSaying That in Utah, Other States as Caseloads Fall they feel betrayedandit can cause prob- lems, As a gift-giving holiday, Valentine's Day is fraught with pitfalls, experts Some people in new relationships buy Valentine's gifts that are inappropriately TRIBUNE STAFF ANE ERVICE REPOR WASHINGTON The number of families on welfare rolls is dropping in virtually every state, and hould continue to do so for at least the next couple expensiveor intimate. Others don’t give gifts at all, breeding resentment. Andto many recipients, evenalavish Feb. 14 gift of cannot beat a spontaneous romanticgesture or replace genuine intim: It's a total corporate holiday. ears It is an excuse for people who aren't in touch with their romanticside,” says Salt Lake years, congressional research indica And Utak among the states leading the wa he number of Utahns on welfare in the past four has dropped from 18.300 to 12,800. selves emotionally to each other don't need Valentine's Day.” hop attributed much of the program’s sucec to Utah's ability to get jobs for welfare recipient The state's robust economy hasn't hurt When you {a3 percent unemployment rat Money Can't Buy You Love: Experts say retailers and the media have hyped the holiday as chance for men to show their loved ones — through flowers, dia monds or expensive dinners —- how much the t people in,” he said 1c they care. The underlying message: De state {eral money wil eu c f the familie 3. most of whom probe mployed and therefore most in need of in They make it soundlikenothing: ‘Step in here andget a little diamond brooch for your sweetheart,’” says Salt Lake City divorce lawyer Larry Larsen, “And tance, job training and other government assi said Rep. E. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., an architect of t year Ifare-reform bill Welfare caseloads dropped in all but two state Delaware and Alaska — in the year ending this past September to information compiled t the Congre earch Service and the staff of haw’s human-resources subcommittec you're thinking, ‘Man, I didn't spend this much for Christmas. I'm lucky, I don't have a wife who ex: pects anything,” trend in Utah and other m liverthe goods or go to the doghouse. For some men, this creates a sense of obligation that kills the romance says David Buckner emerging from Victoria's Secret in said Dé partment of Workforce Services spokesman Masor B Vhursday, The state began implementing welfare reforms in 199 We've removed a third of the people from wel fare, and the rity of them are getting jobs,” he City environmental activist Michael Heald. “People who can express them. Salt Lake City’s Crossroads Mall with a bag full of purchases. “But I have friends who think it’s a big pain. They know they bet- A TRE Welfare rolls are not only in “substantial decline but n ‘free fall” Shaw said GLOWSINUT. M. Sumida prunes the branchesof a 5-year-old peachtree Thursday in his family orchard in Perry near BrighamCity. He says it is a few weeks early to be pruning trees but, given the warm weather he is taking this window of opportunity. The weather is expected to bea tad sunnier today. § 3 ter make dinner reservations, drop 100 bucks and get a hotel room. For them valentine is a four-letter word See WELFARE ROLLS, Page A-8 | WSome states may get funds {or legal immigrant A8 Hold the Flowers: Women seem to enjoy the holiday more. Not all women however. Whenever she is dating some. one at Valentine's Day, Arie Fennelly of Salt e City will ask her boyfriend not to buy her anything | just say, right from thebeginning, ‘I don't really like this holiday says Fen. nelly, who believes Valentine's Day is too commercialized. Sometimes her friends are relieved. One, showed up with flowers anyway. “He The holiday poses most problems for new couples who have not built a solid experts say. Valentine's gifts can reflect an imbalance. If you pen your girlfriend aheartfelt love poem and you get back a noncommittal greeting card, it probably means trouble ahead There's always the question [in new relationship] of whether the other person feels as strongly about you,” says Russell Belk, a University of Utah marketing professor who has conducted studies on romantic gift-giving. ‘The of its cost or its intimacy, gift, by virtue can send the wrong message It is not unusual for couplesto split up over Valentine's-relat issues, Belk says. The holiday is especially stressful for men who cannot express their emo tions to their wives or girlfriends Men are typically not comfortable showing their feelings, and Valentine's Day is the one holiday in our culture when they're encouragedto do just that Belk says. So what do men do’ “They have a card say it for them. A card” For many people, it's better than nothing How to bring passion to your love lite D4 INDEX Movies Obituare Personals Puzzles Rolly and Wells, Sports Editonals Home & family, A36 D4 Iwlevisic Ulah News 04 Siar Gazer WEATHER: Mop jy sunny ' W Ganeat. The House sent a mixed messa; tion Thursday by releasing funds for overseas family-plan ning programs without provi sions restricting abortion, then passingabill that would reim pose Reagan-era restrictions on future international family planning aid In the first abortion tests of the 105th Congress, the House voted 220-209 to release $385 million March 1 that the last Congress had frozen. Utah Reps Chris Cannon, Merrill Cook and Jim Hansen, all Republicans voted against the Hours later Detalles B2 C5 68 28 C4 " measure lawmaker passed a bill, 231-194, that would bar U.S. fundingo| wer seas family-planning groups that perform or advocate abor tions even if they use their own money. All three Utahn voted for therestrictions doth ‘measures are bound for the Senate, where the non-re strictive proposal requires a vote by month's end and is ex pected to pass. The fate of the restrictive measure is uncertain Abortion foes argued that the family-planning money would be used to fund abortions support insisted none of the mone would be spent on the procedure and that family planning is | Tre BY ROBERT $, BOYD GHT-RIDDER But abortion-righta D3 D7 A27 67 84 %2 AS the World Turns, It Changes | Nagano Puts In House Vote ers Ann Landers Asimov Quiz births Business Calendar Classifieds mies Win 1,Lose1 boy undeterred tried to convert me. It didn't work relationship, Roots vs. Rooter Abortion Foes the best way to reduce abortion To delay the release of fund will result in increased abortions, unintended pregnan £30 cies, the further spread of AID: 7 and the death of thousands of C1 women,” said Rep, Susan Molin C3 par RNY NEWS SEI 2 Aided by deep-sea laborate ries, space satellites and other new technologies, scientists continents have 2.5 billion nmental issue |. 2 billion “We years ago 1 billion years % 2 be again,” Tarling write torical Atlas of the Barth For example will H man word for also the name ‘origina of Abraham's WY years ago BSome geologists trace our modern continents back billion year single ancestral land miss eal Us the Ger Rodinia @italf ‘ hange Pangea 48 a 4 rguing the too short 1 t could high a for race an course Ilympic no be levation done wa i” y I | never The e The 10¢ pect totally th ment, the local co bil the that we ron and the goin to force vething on Nagan that 1OC Dire Genera vis Carrard said at a new nee here M irgument lo Seo THE DRIFTERS, A-7 10¢ Nagano Olympic Organizing mittee (NAOC) off had refused just as steadfastly. sa 50 million years from now the North America used to rest side ways down near the South Pole I drifted north we the equa tor $00 million years ago and Internati with Olympic posed to moving the sta ate 400 feet higher uy mour FIS had insisted on th supercontinent Rodinia, fe the Committee and and may do so The apparently wa bit BPwice in Barth the continents har next to each other in ¢normon alc style-moguls course pectators can wateh the by never and they never cut down trees | been arranged in their present form before Before Fans BY JENNIFER SKORDAS are putting together a fresh biogra phy of Earth, uncovering the se cre of its violent history and ing into its murky future _ While astronomers seour the s for new planets around distant stars, earthbound t archers are learnir how ar plit cient continents ar merged and will split agair | The familiar map of, the world is merely @ snapshot in ime,” says Donald ini professor of geophysics at the University of Plymouth in Eng land The | some reational seemed d merver sk flier use the OG NAGANO, Page A-3 |