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Show Wednesday, December 29, 1939 GRABBING THE HEADLINES NRT A trimmed-down Monica be a spokeswoman for the struggling diet company Jenny Craig Inc. But don't ask what she weighs or what she's being paid. Lewinsky, the former White Houseintern at the center of the scandal that led to President Clinton's impeachmenttrial, claims to have lost 31 pounds so far on the Jenny Craig plan, which she began in the summer. cials at Jenny Craig were not concerned that Lewinsky, now 26, gained notoriety as the woman ‘o Preserving History: The Utah Su*‘preme Court ruled Tuesday that “American Indian remains and arti- **facts, no matter howold, are pro- “tected under law from desecration. : Details: A-1 * Shutting Down for Y2K:Calling it a who nearly brought down the presidency, com- *“last-minute precaution,” govern‘ment officials are shutting down ewinsky, like other Jenny Craig clients, is enrolled in a program in which she regularly visits with a diet consultant, Luscombsaid. He did not know how close Lewinsky wasto reaching her desired weight. any spokesman Brian Luscombsaid Tuesday. “someoftheir public Internetsites to “help keep them safe from computer hackersand viruses. Details: A-1 u % HI-Yo Silver: . . . and away. Clay- “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz, who wasrecently diagnosed with colon cancer, has turned down an invitation from President Clinton to welcome the new yearat the White House. “He won't be going. | called the White House and declined for him,” Schulz spokeswoman Edna Poehiner was quoted as sayingin yesterday's Santa Rosa, (Calif.) Press Democrat. Schulz, 77, announcedthis month that he wasretiring from daily cartooning to devote his energies to fighting his cancer, which wasdiscovered last month when he underwent surgery for a blocked aorta. ton Moore,best knownfor his “Lone Ranger” character, died Tuesday in isLos Angelesofa heartattack. Details: A-4 Celebrationless in Seattle: On the heels of the WTO protests and wary of terrorism, Seattle Mayor Paul «Schell canceled the New Year's Eve } bash underthe Space Needle. $ Details: A-8 “STATE OF UTAH. MILESTONES Caring for Elderly Animals: {Workers at Hogle Zoo struggle to care Upheld: By the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday as unconstitutional, a Louisiana law requiring random drug tests for electedofficials. Sued: By Minnesota's attorney general, Minnesota Public Radio on Tuesday forallegedly sharing its donorlists with the Democratic National Committee and others, saying MPR broke laws governing charities. Charged: Jere Wayne Haney, an American Airlines mechanic in Texas, on Tuesdaywith possessing bomb-making material, after explosives and assaultrifles allegedly were found at his home, along with white supremacist and anti-governmentliterature. Today’s Birthdays: ABC newscaster Tom Jarrielis 65. Actress Mary Tyler Moore is 62. Actor Jon Voightis 61. Actor Ted Dansonis 52. for aging animals. Zoo keepers and “veterinarians across the country are .experimenting with new treatments to extend andpreserve these animals’ “qualityoflife. Details: D-1 Is Stealing an Addiction? Tonight, 20/20 turns its nationwide spotlight ‘on a Salt Lake womanin a newsstory -on the psychology of kleptomania. Exsperts argue that stealing is an im- ‘pulse disorder, similar to binge eating. But investigators say the woman Was simplya skilled thief. “ Catch and Release A fisher pulls in his bait as a boat passes under the Bridge of the Americas at the entrance to the Pacific sideof the Panama Canalin Panama City on Tuesday. The United States is due to tum overthe canal and surroundingland to Panamain anofficial ceremony on New Year's Eveafter 85 years of U.S.control. Y2K Wages Hold Businesses Hostage World’s workers take opportunity to make big bucks New Year’s Eve Details: D-1 BY SHAWN POGATCHNIK ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GLENCULLEN,Ireland —It’sa ST typical Friday night. Taking Hold of Welfare: This Friday marks the last day of government assistance for roughly 227 families in *Utah. Despite the harsh-soundingcriJderia, many formerrecipients say it ' works. Editorial: A-10 aa C \ FEATURES REESE The Best Recipes of 1999: Food ex; perts pick and choose the year's trendiest, tastiest and classiest food dishes, narrowing the thousands of culinary contenders to a 100-recipe compilation of 1999's best food. Food: C-1 ~~ BUSINESS Stocks: The Dow Jonesindustrial average jumped to a record high Tuesday and bobbed above 11,500 for the first time, but profit-taking in technologystocks prevented the Nas- daq composite index from achieving its first close over4,000. Stocks: D-6 The American Store Closes: After suffering the effects of both its parent-company’s sale and light-rail construction, the upscale deli and They're three deepai the bar, the fiddlerin the corneris sawing away like a madmanandthetourist busloadsin the back room areontheir feet, swaying hand-in-handtoa local and. Withits turf-fired ambiance and superior stout and seafood, Johnny Fox's Pubisthesort of spot you would expectto find crammed with millennium multitudes this Friday, too. Butlike so many othersocial hubs the world ‘round,it is shutting down “Weput it to our staff what they wanted to do. Their preference was to take the nightoff. Their second choice wasto get a lot ofmoney.” Geraldine McMahon Managerof Johnny Fox's Pub Seated to $1,040. The biggest winners are those key technical support staff running the telephone network and bank ma- chines, “Weputit to our staff what they wanted to do. Their preference wasto In keeping with their slogan of “2K for Y2K,” top engineers at phone company Eircomandthe country’s big- take the nightoff. Their second choice was to get a lot of money,” said Geraldine McMahon, managerof Johnny Fox’s in the Wicklow Mountains south of Dublin. For many workersacross theglobe, gest bank,Allied Irish, are among those grossing $2,600 for a 12-hour shift. In Scandinavia, New Year’swill meanextra cash for everyone from rience — a chanceto hold their employershostage. trolley drivers in Oslo, Norway (a $750 bonusplus regular overtime pay and an extra day off) to telephone workers in Sweden, where Telia is giving employees a $600 bonus to workthe over- While some folks may fret about the Y2K computer problem, around Treiond the talk is of EMB, offering bonuses ofupto $1,000 for the impending millennium is indeed representing a once-in-a-lifetime expe- “exceptional millennium bonus.” After strike threats andarbitra- tion, manyjob sectors in Ireland have been awarded big payouts for the overnight shift when 1999 becomes 2000 and,in some minds, anarchywill beckon. So the cops and prison guards will be getting an extra $930, many nurses $700, power station workers up simply to sit at homeby the phone andstay sober. Asin other countries where the millennium has been marketed to death, several pricey New Year's bashesinIreland have been canceled. Unlike other countries,the Irish festivities have mostly collapsed becauseof union demandsforstratosphericsalaries for bar staff, often $130 an hour. The unionrepresenting bar staff last week rejected the publi- . on what might normally be the busi- est nightofthe year, some workersare getting bonuses nightshift. Swedish technology companies are people greeting the New Yearin the office to deal with possible problems arising from the Y2K bug, a computer programming flaw on which the world has spent abouta half-trillion dollars without being sure all the fixes will work. Lars Dahmen,editorin chiefof Computer Sweden magazine, says cans’last offer — an extra week’s wages, Dublin’s premier hub for pubs and clubs, Temple Barbeside the River Liffey, lookslikely to be a ghost town on thebig night, with virtually every nightspot shuttered and many restaurants closing by early afternoon. The governmenthas had mixed fortunes in trying to build up Times Square-style enthusiasm in central Dublin, where a round-the-clockfree outdoor concert and fireworks extrav- » which offers everything from cigars to fresh flowers, is another disapoint- APPLIANCES: The mpdem era has seen a revolution in appliances and labor-saving devices — inventions that set us free to go out and earn all the money for the gizmos we now need. Electric stoves appeared in the 1890s, and the electric toaster was first marketed in 1909. Refrigeration technology, around since the 1700s, was sufficiently improved by the 1930s so that home refrigerators could start replacing iceboxes. Early washing machines were boxes operated by hand cranks or other hard power. Steam power was added in the 1850s, and electric-powered machines debuted in the early 1900s, but some models shook so much they had to be bolted to the floor. G.T. Sampson, an African-American inventor, patented one of the earliest clothes dryers in 1892. ON THIS DATE aganza are planned. Its earliest project, an illuminated clock in the Liffey that was supposed to count downto the millennium, was soon dubbed “The Chimein the Slime” on the grounds the river was too polluted for the clock to be seen. It was removed for good last year. The brightest governmentidea, to send a millennium candleto every Trish household, has been dimmed by the discovery thatthe taxpayer- funded gift doesn’t fit through the In 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedralin England. In 1845, Texas was admitted as the 26th state. In 1890, about 300 Sioux Indians in South Dakota were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them in what is known as the W founded Knee massacre, In 1934, Japan renounced the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. mailslots ofmanyfront doors. These candles are supposed to be lit nationwideat sunset on Friday at 4:15 p.m. Bywhich timesocial hubs like Johnny Fox's will be long closed. , grocer will close in January. For } many workers in other buildings, the » loss of the convenient business, THE MILLENNIUM CATS WITH HANDS OnLi Today's Highlights at www.sltrib.com ment in downtown'shistory, Details: D-4 @ www.sltrib.com/jazz/mvp/ — A retrospective on Karl Malone's career, photos and stories on his second Most Valuable Player award. A must for Jazz fans. @ www.sitrib.com/y2k/ — All the latest on attempts to deal with the Year 2000 computer bug. 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