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Show he Salt LakeTribune PAGE2 gA2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY: Mark Hansen and Don Robinson TUESDAY, November 16, 1999 GRABBING THE HEADLINES EES The Parkinson’s-like illness that has attacked Dudiey Moore's ability to speak, ea! and walk has robbed the 64year-old actor and pianist of what he holds most dear: his music. in an interview with the New York Daily News, Moore described the degeneration he H has suffered since contracting the brain disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP. The problems began about five years ago, when Moore started spontaneously falling backwards, and of Commer¢e,a major trade agree- the disease was diagnosed in May. Moore, knownfor the “Arthur” movies and his longtime comedy work with Peter Cook, issued a brief ent was reacted between the United ites and China, offering the prospect billions of dollars in increased erseas salés for American manufacfarmers and high-tech announcementofhis iliness in September and describedits personaltoll in Monday's edition of the News. “It's agonizing,” he said. “I just can't Details: A-1 play the sounds that | hear in my head. It's Superfund Site; Reversingitself on * Monday, the Environmental Protec« tion Agencysaid it will recommend atall. It's a great emptiness.” Moore's financial somethingI've yen up.| thinkit's fair to say | have envisioned life without music. No music w roblems have forced him to sell his California ome and stay with friends in New Jersey who are helping to care for him. He will attend a charity eventin Philadelphia this week to launch the Dudley Moore Research Fund, created to that low-level radioactive wastes be removed from the Shattuck Chemical SuperfundSite. Details: A-4 find a cure for PSP. “I'm mego to give up,” Delay: A dispute over what lands Tsrael should transfer to the Palestin* jans delayed a West Bank troop pullback Monday as President Clinton's he said. “I oweit to other PSP peopie to go on. And maybe that's meant to be my purpose in life right now.” ‘Mideast envoy tried to push forward peacetalks. Details: A-6 Treasure of Knowledge and Adventure Barbra Streisand and Rosie O'Donnell are singing togetheratlast, but don’t expect a duets album anytime soon. Streisand, promoting her new album, “A Love Like Ours,” was scheduled to appear on O'Donnell's talk show today, and O'Donnell Suggested they sins together, the New York Daily News reported. Streisand declined, but O'Donnell insisted, and the two performed “People” from Streisand's housefor broadcast today. The thousands of caves beneath China’s surfaceoffer a rich résource for study and plunder MILESTONES s TATE OF UTAH, Strategy: Envision Utah is counting on city and county governments to do the right thing in dealing with urban » sprawl, providing them with a “toolbox” of zoning ordinances and design BY HENRY CHU standards meant to help build walkable, affordable communities. Details: A-1 No Right: Upholdinga decision of . the Department of Interior, a federal : Judge has ruledthat the public has no + right to know how much the Skull « Valley Bandof the Goshutetribeis beingpaidtouse its land in western Utah. Details: B-1 And Growing: Already hit on the Internet after just six months, the LDS Church's FamilySearch will add 240 million new nagesto its Website next week, an increaseof 40 percent sinceit launched last May. i Details: B-1 ' BUSINESS — 8.57, closing at 10,760.75. The Na inched down1.73 t 19.42. The 500 was down1.69, closing at 1,394.3" Stocks: C-7 New and Hot: One of this year’s hot products at Comdex, the annual gath ering of the information-technology industry in Las Vegas, is the i-PC, a small, simple computer that could become as common on your kitchen counter as the coffee maker and the toaster in the next decade Details: C-5 entrancetohell for claustrophobes and heaven for geologists starts here at the base of a brush-covered mountain where a chest-high stream of waterrunsrightinto the bowels of the Earth. Like a modern-day Orpheus, Guan horsepower. Details: C-1 » “1 Wantto Race": Oneof thefew vet Yerans onan inexperienced U.S. wom pn’s ski team, Sarah Schleper is work ang her wayback fromaspill in France last yearthat left her witha brokenleg of years to produce are coveted not just by cavers such as Eavis, who leave them in their natural setting, butalso byprofiteers out to earn a quick buck. In the past decade, a risingtraffic in stalactites and stalagmites —icicleshaped mineral deposits that hang Yuanxing wadesinto the brook, ducks from caveceilings and are built from the ground up — hasalarmed scientists and environmentalists working his head beneath a rocky overhang barelya foot above the water’s surface and gets swallowed up bythe hillside to emergein a world few people knowexists and fewer yet have ever seen, a massive subterraneanvault of wonders illuminated only by the miners lamppulled downJow onhisforehead. ' Hugestalactites hang from the ceiling, droplets of water dangling precariously fromtheirpointy tips. Delicate rock formations, shaped like tiny broccoli florets, hide in crevices along off ledges and gatherinto poolsofliguidglass. Silent passageways lead to even moredelights beyond, sealed awayin chambersthat probably slept undis: turbed, in darkness blacker than pitch, for countless millenniums until Guan AT'S fi ‘st stumbledon the cave four ABO, His discovery is just oneofthis country’s many underground treasure troves. Throughanaccidentofgeol- ogyand geography, Chinais hometo aves thanthe rest of the world turning the Middle Kingdom into a powerful draw for scien: tists and spelunkers or cavers,as many preferto be called from across the globe, eagerto chart the unknown. “China is to cavers what the Hima Jayas are to mountaineers,” declared : Thereare parts of the Pony Expresstrail in Utah that aren't buried under concrete and are still better suited to horses than all the caves in China have been properly mapped.” But the wondersthattook millions YANGSHUO,China — The the walls. Aquamarine waters tumble Slight Change: The Dow Jones in dustrial average on Monday off James Baer/TheLos Angeles Times Two spelunkers explore the “Water Caves,” a large, underground cave system in Yangshuo, China. Andy Eavis, who hasled caving expeditions to Chinafornearly 20 years. It’s the ultimate challenge.” The country travagance of riches below the surface stems from its huge deposits of limestone and water, the two key elements in form ing caves. Those ingredients combined over eons to turn China into a webof caves estimated to numberin thetens of thousands. “There's everythingth big ones, long ones, deepones,” Eavis said. "Probably less than 10 percent of to preserve China's geological patri- mony. Armed with hacksaws and chisels, poor Chinese farmersoften raid nearby caves and plunder their contents.Cratesfull of precious rock formations have been shipped both legallyandillegally out of the country to collectors and dealers worldwide, -natural displays as tacky. 2 Thevast majority of China's caves remain undeveloped. Mostof the cavesareclustered in the southern half of the nation, where someofthe country’s poorest peasant farmers live. Zhu Xuewen,a geologist in Guilin whois perhaps China’s foremost expert on caves, has entered and explored dozens of cavesin the area andinotherparts of China. In 1977, Zhu helped establish China’s Speleological Research Institute, an organization with more than 1,000 memberstoday. Like mostaficionados, Zhu waxes almost lyrical about thescientific value of the world beneath his feet. Besides their geological and mineralogicalinterest, caves can yield valuable informatio to biologists, anthropologists and scholars in particularly enthusiasts in eastern otherfields. decorating.Ii 1992 alone, more than light, similar to those found on the oceanfloor, have been discovered in caves. In mountain cavernson the island of New Guinea,north ofAus: Asia whousethem in landscaping and 32 tonsofstalactites crossed the border. Inadequate laws and even spottier enforcement have madeprotecting China's undergroundmarvels from pilferers all the moredifficult Many thieves don't understand the true valueoftheirloot. “Ifa tree is cut down, it can growback in 10 yea said Xiong Kangning, a speleolo; Guizhou Normal Universityin south. ern China. “Butstalagmites and stalactites can't grow back in even 100,000 yearsif they are damaged.” Commercialization too has taken its toll, leading to tussles between environmentalists and local authori ties hopingto turn their caves into tourist attractions to bring in revenue to their depressed towns. Such sites canbe lucrativeenter: prises. In the city of Guilin, a booming Organismsthat can live without tralia, explorers found small crusta: ceansand insects whoseonly known ancestorslie deepin the ocean, evi- dencethatthe island was created by uplift fromthe sea bottom Zhu’s hopeis that education about their preciousness might safeguard China's subterraneanwonders.In June, ChineseCentral Television, the official national TV network, show cased Zhu andhis exploration work in a half-hour programtitled “Love Our Stalactites.” But such education may have to begin closer to home. Membersof the speleology institute were shocked recently whentheydiscovered that their own museum gift shop, licensed tourist spotvisited last year byPresi out to an independent vendor, dent Clinton, the spacious Reed Flute Cave, used as a bomb shelter during. selling stalactites andstalagmites. lion annuallyfrom 1 million visitors twice as many as go through Mam. moth Cave in Kentucky, the longest mapped cave system (330 miles) in the ties on how to develop cave attrac: tions. Experts estimate that China has World War II, nets more than $3 mil world. Herein Yangshuo, near Guilin, buses convergedaily on Dragon Poad Cave, where mostly domestic tourists eat up thegarish neonlighting and extra toucheslike recordedanimal sounds to emphasize resemblances betweencertain rock formations and various animals additionsthat strike Westerners accustomedto more Togenerate income,theinstitute occasionally advises tourismauthori a few hundred caves openfor busi ness. While eager to spread awarenessof China’s treasures below ground, con servationists harbor mixedfeelings about openingthecavesforpublic consumption THE MILLENNIUM WELFARE: When mostpeoplelived in small villages, the needsof the poof, sick, ied or elderly could usually be met through family or charity. But as cities grew larger,;more industrialized and more impersonal, sociéty saw a need for government welfare programs. Some of the earliest were created under England's Poor Laws in 1597-98. People unable to work received relief through parish-run organizations, while the able-bodiednheor could find employment at workhouses. The program was liberalized in the 18th century, giving supplemental income to poverty level workers. But the large expenditures provoked a backlash. The Poor Lawof 1834 took a punitive turn underthe belief that poverty was a moralfailing. It banned most aid to able-bodied workers and made workhouse conditions harsh and degrading to motivate the poorto find work. ON THIS DATE In 1864, Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops begantheir “March to the Sea” during the Civil War In 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations. In 1973, SkylabIll, carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an 84-day mission. ge “Once a caveis explored, it is dam: aged,” said Xiong, thespeleologist at Guizhou Normal University. “Opening newcaves and protecting themis a contradiction. and torn kneeligaments. Details: C-1 Dropped: Incidents between bears and humans at Yosemite National Park by 60 percentlast spring and summerafter a yearlongblitz that included educational videos to bear-prooflockers. Todays Birthdays: Tennis player Zina Garrisonis 36. Baseball player Dwight Goodenis 35. Olympic gold medal figure skater Oksana Baiulis 22. NON SEQUITUR The Salt Lake Tribune is offering these quizes throughout the week. 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