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TheSaltLakeTribune A2 PERSPECTIVE ° LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-; No twodays are the same. That's one lure of journalism. And, for many, a big part ofits staying power. Getting out the newspaper every dayis an intense, often stressful business. But ee its many rewards, it is rarely borthree interns are joining our staff this summer, testing the waters of a world notsuited for everyone. For some, an internship is a requirement for graduation. Others use the realjob experience to decideif this is the right career. And then there are always the clips from a Top 100 newspaperto use wheninterviewing for a full-timejob. Scott Noland is deciding between newspapers and magazines. I've asked her to shift gears every two weeks, to get as full a run ofthe newsroom as possible in 10 weel She initially worked on the Business Desk, followed by the Faith and Learning Desk, which covers religion, education and social services. Currently, she is in the middle of two weeks on the Commu- nities desk, covering topics such as South “home” to Idaho when first started working at United Press International in wantto keepit all — at least the es- talking about The Tribune's coverage sence,” she says. “I need to pick up mypace. I’m upto five stories a night I take lot of time.” ‘That was very exciting.” Noland will round out herinternship on Sports and the Futures Desk, which covers science and medicine, record for brevity of employmentat The Tribune. A desk editor hired in the 1980s didn’t even makeit halfway through his first shift. He declines antin- writing doesn’t come easily for everyone, although on a busy night some of the mosttalented copy editors will vitation to join colleagues in getting takecaaed saying he had something ne write 20 headlines. i left and never came back. A coins of years later, he sent a cryptic e-mail to “Writing headlines is so hard sometimes,” Hiatt says. “I struggle to in the country publish. Oncethat is the editor that didn’t really explain his make them creative. . . . It's hard to completed, Noland will have finished her master’s in mass communications at Louisiana State University. “This job is more interesting than any job I've had,” says Noland, a native of Baton Rouge. “Newspaper work is the perfect job because you get to move around lot.” Before starting graduate work, she worked as a subsidiary-rights assistant at fore that, Noland did internships at The story was picked up byradio and TV Washington and Laurie International, a Simon & Shuster in New York. And beInternational Center for Journalists in managementconsulting firm in London. | any the World Deskforall of three days. Wristen said she liked the work, butdisliked being so far from her Kansas home. I can identify, to a degree. Manyyoung journalists have to leave homefor their first job. I frequently Acting Executive NewsEditor CLidscenio haeby A Tenyea ae en \ “Me eT a [* 2vbr they didn’t appear in the pa- tions at the University of Kansas, joined 5 ra LENS So Pacific Regional Environment Pro- day's Calendar. While the v's appeared rails for hours. Liz Wristen, a senior in communica- “T've always wanted to be an editor, so I wasthrilled to get this job,” says the intern from Sandy. “I’m the type that always participated in school spelling bees. I'm perfectionist and I love words.” Hiatt, who plans to attend law school and then specialize in child advocacy, says she has gained someinsights about copy editing, including “how much we Global warming is being one. “Gremlins” is the official response for the missing v’s on the cover of Fri- wire story about a man who died on a New York subwayandhis body rode the nications and history, is working on the DisappearingIslands a a It begs an explanation, if only we had Subway” — which ran this month on a Kimberlee Hiatt, a senior at the University of Utah in news editorial commuWorld andState desks. on State Street and the Sunday closure of the Farmington swimming So far, says Noland, the Farmington pool story has been the most exhilarating absence — butsaid he had decided his future wasn't in jo ‘ makethem fit and be exciting.” She is most proud of this headline — “Dead Men May Tell No Tales, But Sometimes They Do Ride the Scott Noland, left, and Kimberlee Hiatt are Tribuneinterns.Is there ink in their veins? I'm fairly confident she’s notjust kiss- anceof two South Pacific islands, and is wreaking havoc on two others. experts at the South Utah is home and Idaho is where I grew up and now vacation. Wristen,it turns out, didn't break any She has also learned great headline the Olympics, transportation and Salt Lake Organizing Committee. In herfree time, Noland is working on herthesis on free-standing bookreview sections that eight newspapers ASM blamedforthe disappear. Salt Lake City. Fourteen years later, “T get attached to thestories and passioned,”she says. “They were all ing up. “It was a neat opportunityto see this made the roughly 800-mile round trip chop out of the news”to makeitfit. small Utah town and democracy in action. These people really were im- Salt Lake's decision not to ban cruising to cover. She filed on deadline and her SUNDAY,June 20, 1999 5 oS gram reported. The small uninhab- ited islands of Tebua Tarawa and | Abanuea recently disappeared due to rising sea levels caused by the Compiled by TOM HARVEY ® Brazil: Consumer prices in Sao Paulo. Brazil's largest city, tumbledin the past 30 days as a recessionstifled consumer demand. The continuing fall in consumer prices will likely prompt the central bank to cut rates. Still, inflation could return in the weeks ahead, as a series of price in@ Venezuela: The nations economy shrank nearly 10 percent in the first quar- ter of this year El Universal reported Monday. Thecontraction was due mostly to a precipitousdropin thepriceofoil, Vene- zuela’s main export product. The recession has caused hundreds of companiesto de- clare bankruptcy. Unemploymentis estimated at between 15 percent and 20 per- cent @Chile: The publishers of a book that strongly criticizes Chile's judges and courts werearrested andindicted Wednesday on charges of breaking the statesecurity law Bartolo Ortiz and Carlos Orellana published The Black Book of Chilean Justice. which alleged abuseof power. corruption influencepeddling and nepotism by a num: ber of judges @ Mexico: Top financial officials unveiled a package of nearly $24 billion in loans and guarantees Tuesday in an attempt to end the financial crises that have accompanied greenhouseeffect. according to the researchers. Officials are now concerned that the nearby isiands of Kiribati and Tuvalu could disappear beneaththerising waters Tuvaluis only one yardabovesealevel, and almost. 80 percentof itis less than United States and Canada — is a center- pieceof Zedillo’s effort to leave a healthy @ Guyana: Rioters damaged store witha hand grenade. smashed windows and over- turned cars to protest the shooting of a boy in Guyana, a nation shaken by strike-related violence Witnesses said the not began when the owner of a footwear storeshot at a man whothrew a rock through the win- dow, but the bullets struck a boy at a departmentstoreacross thestreet ®@ Angola: Opposition parties are pressing two yards above normal waves. Dis: aster planners have begunto relo. cate coastal residents to other higher and safer islands in the fegion. The encroaching sea has also destroyed ancestral _bunal grounds and sugmerged valuable cropland om both siands | For the week enaing 2° June 18,1999 | KE mat earth @ sipnet to connect the West Bank andGaza Stripto ease travel for Palestinians, his spokes womansaid. Sucha link. to span 25 miles. wouldboost Palestinian hopes of creating a state in the two territories that lie to the east and west of Israel Travel and trade private cars Islam and Christianity — the Western “Human beings should consider other human beings as fel. Extablesbed April 15 1871 Published daily and Sunday by the Kearns Tribune Corporation |43 South Maw Si Sah Lake City Utah 04111 Periodicals Portage Pad of Sah Lake City Utsb POSTMASTER Send atren 7 following heavy rains stream Nineteen thousand re: dents were forced to evacuate inthe rain-forest region of Para as homes ately cease military operations allow[humanitarian] assistance for the dis placed population.” Since fighting re- sumed in December, the numberof dis- placed people in the Southwest African country has soared to 1.7 million, out of a population of 11 million. @ Poland: The country’s upper chamber of parliament defied the wishes of Pope John Paul II on Friday byrejecting amendments that would restrict prenatal testing. TheSolidarity-controlied Senate voted 801, ale the animals, and waited out the with four abstentions, against the amendments to a health law. The amend- ments would prohibit prenatal testing such cleared the area and returned to them habitat. The ballot boxes were reported to have been delivered as amniocentesis, which can detect some genetic problems in a fetus. salely to the election center one day were torn from their foundationsby te @ Uganda:At least 14 people have died the force of the floodwaters. Health authorities now fear the outbreak of and more than 100 more have been hospitalized in the past two weeks after an out- waterbome diseases such as malaria yellow fever and typhus across the disaster area breakofcholera in refugee camps in western Uganda. State-owned and private eae have reported 30 deaths in Bundiburenee havefled in the past three years to escape attacks byrebels fighting to oust President Yoweri Museveni. But health officials with Doctors Without Borders- through the air — Taiwanese lawmakers a controversial measure to give the governmentthe exclusive right to run lot- teries. The government suspended official lotteries a decade agoto try to stop illegal bets being placed on the side, but bookmakers soon turned to taking illegal wa. out intimidation. Fighting in the former Portuguese colony, which was invaded by Indonesia in 1975, has increased with the approach of the Aug. 8 ballot that will let East Timorese choose between indepen dence and autonomywithin Indonesia. and nationality are pendence referendum, the territory's bitlerly opposed factions Friday to lay down their weapons. peace deal fol- ceutical firms may begin to manufacture. import and market the birth control pill Sales of the oral contraceptive will begin in September. The decision came in the wake of an uproar over thelightning-quick processing of applications to sell the male im- tions and the international communitythat in Januaryafter a record-short six months’ ers. “The differences of ideology. systems @ East Timor: in a bid to salvage an inde- continuing violence could stymie the vote. There has been speculation that the U.N. sponsored ballot could be delayed to en sure that people can vote safely and with: the government Wednesdaysaid pharma potencedrug Viagra, which was permitted review @ Taiwan:Following a fistfight in the leg- islature — with shoes and documents flying SUBSCRIPTIONRATES 400 W960 Carrier Delivery (d-week period) Daly nm Daily and Sanday wu Sanday Only (U'tab $1200 Sundays Only & Thankagiving Daily & Sunday Ouuade of Regen) 625 60 tacked police in central London on Friday with bottles, bricks and cement blocks and damaged a McDonald's restaurant during a protest against capitalism. About 4,000 demonstrators targeted financial institutions throughout London as part of the gers on the winning numbers of Hong ‘Carnival Against Capitalism.” The protest Kong's lottery. Straining under a record timed to coincide with the meeting of $15.6 billion in government deficit, the was the Group of Eight nations in Germany. Cabinet proposed in Marchto reinstatelotteries underits supervision @ Australia: A McDonald's subsidiaryhas South Africa: President Thabo Mbeki met with leaders of countries involved in decided to stopsellinggrilled chicken bur- Congo's war Thursdayin an effort to make sumer group challenged the way they were being cooked. McDonald's Australia Ltd work toward resolving thecrisis at upcoming meetings in the Zambian capital, Lusaka. The leaders met a dayafter attending Mbeki’s inauguration. gers at hundreds of restaurants after a con- said Thursdayit would stop advertising the burgers as “grilled” after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found that grilling was not involved. The companyalso said it would withdraw the burger from the menus of its more than 640 fast-food restaurants. But it said that had nothing to do with the complaint but peace. Mbeki said the leaders agreed to @ Russia: Thenation will begin an experiment within days simulating long-term space missions on the international space station, a news agency reported Thursday A basic crew of four will enter a groundbased complex on Friday and stay inside with weaksales. for 240 days, the director of Russia's Institute of Medico-Biological Sciences, Anato- Desk editor Jennifer Skordas worked as an editor for an English-language newspaper in Tokyo. She welcomes ¢ mail at jskordas@slirib.com. This col. umn is based on Tribune wire-service re ports. ly Grigorev, said. Brian Mac Intyre is a Tribune World Desk editor and worked as a reporter in his native Dublin. He welcomes e-mail at bm: ltrib.com. re Member Audit Barras of (irruiatens | Vor sameday maimed delivery replacement on wretdayy sod Saturdays all before 10 a.m. Sundays call before 1 pum. Fer carrier and home an. Saterday, 4 me to 10 a.m. Seonday 4 a.m. te | pa Salt Lar sowth Dave counties All other areas ¥ @ Britain: Thousands of demonstrators at- CIRCULATION NUMBERS By Mail (4 week period Daily ‘Sunday (Utah ida Wy Daily Only (Uta changes to The Sal! Lake Tribune at tbe aborr address 7 banks @ Japan:After nine years of deliberation The alt Lake Tribune <-> of its Jow brothers and sisters,” he told report lows stern warnings from the United Na- ISSN 0746-3502) night in silence. The beasts finally causedwhenthe Amazon and many Compiled by JENNIFER SKORDAS Meanwhile, the Dalai of the Holy Sepulcher. Tom Harvey, a former correspondent in Latin America, compiledthis column fromwire service reports. He welcomes ¢ mail af tharvey@sltrib.com Brazil Lama last week took his message of peace third consecutive term in office next year oners tnbutanes overflowed their have been left isolated by betweenthe two territories is difficult. Pal- estinians require special permits to pass through Israel and are not allowed to use Wall, the Al Aqsa Mosaue and the Church expression andthe release of political pris. recent floods in northeast The inundations were pachyderms allegedly emerged from the jungle and formed a road block around the convoy. The officials said they wereafraid to aggra Morethan a million peopie © plans tobuild a four-laneelevated highway day but did say a girlfriend was in his plans When asked if he would run for a protest is being held to demand freedom of dent Jose Eduardo dos Santos to _ame: recently declared a state of emer- Elephant Excuse 3 gencyin both states dueto drought of wild elephants conditions. The neighboring state of fe} Awasherdblamed for delaying Sonora continued to swelter under the delivery of Indonesian temperaturesofup to 111 degrees Fahrenheit with no relief in sight. election ballots from remote comFarmers in the affected areas can- munities in Sumatra, according to celed spring planting this year due the Jakarta Post. Twenty election lolack of water and ranchers have officials collected the ballot boxes reportedlosing thousandsofcattle from remote areas on theisland and were transporting them to election headquarters when the herd of Amazon Floods France estimated that 14 people had died. israel: PrimeMinister-elect Ehud Barak bid during a populartelevision show Tues: nents was in its second weeklast week. The -103 ® Vostok (Russia,) 7 Antarctica region where 100,000 er of hundreds of thousands of Tibetan Buddhists visited the shrines of Judaism. @ Cuba:A bold fast by government oppo: Angola's president to declare a cease-fire in the protracted civil war against UNITA rebels and to negotiate an end to the conflict. In an openletter to the president, an umbrella group called the Parties of Civilian Democratic Opposition urged Presi- PACIFIC / FAR EAST/ MIDDLE EAST @ Peru: President Alberto Fujimori side —asubject of muchspeculationin Peru — hesaid: “I havent decided. I'mwaiting for Cupid's arrow” for both decisions. = | ‘tino population im Kenya andtoleranceto Jerusalem, a city thatis to manya symbol ofreligious strife. The lead stepped questions on a possible re-election 1 — first named storm. Ariane was broReturning Rhino ken apart by a strong area of high The once dwindling black barometric pressure to the north of Bermuda is now making a comeback, with the number of endan- Earthquakes gered animals almost doubling dur A magnitude 6.7 temblor ing the past 15 years The Kenya Eq killed at least 28 people Wildlife Society (KWS) reportedthat injured approximately 400 the rhinos had increased their ranks others and wrecked hundreds of from 280 in 1984 to 470 dunng the buildings in Mexico's Puebla State latest census According to the Earth movements werealsofelt KWS, the black rhino had a popula northernJapan, Alaska’s Kodiak tion of 20.000 less than thirty years Island. southeastem Spain and ago belore the animals were southern Greece. brought to near extinction by poach: ing. Theywere primanily huntedfor Floods and Drought the material in their horns. which is Heavy rains and hail believed to have aphrodisiac prop: brought drought reliet to erties severalstates in northerr Mexico. while other parts of the Tropical Storm fegion continued to suffer through Tropical storm the prolonged dry conditions The he sland of delugetriggered flash flooding in the a with gale-force border states of Coahutla and Chi pounding surf but the huahua and forced the evacuation Ded signiticant damage 1 residents in several low-lying antic humcane season's towns Goverment officials had presidential elections since 1976. President Emesto Zedillo has pledged to squash the end-of-termcurse Tuesday's loan package — sponsored by international lenders. the economy whenheexits office next year Compiled by BRIAN Mac INTYRE ‘ Cal 1-800-662-9076 ¥ ‘ a 4 |
