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Show TheSaltLake @ COMICS, B-4 ybreak @ TELEVISION, B-5 @ ANN LANDERS, B-5 @ MOVIES, B-7 «© MARCH 29, 2001 Touring Exhibit Looks Back At Those Who Looked Forward Thisillustration from a 1950 Popular Mechanics magazine carried the caption, “Because everything in her homeis waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do herdaily cleaning with a hose.” Filmmaker’s Fatherhood MakesArt and Life Collide BY JESUS LOPEZ JR. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Diaper changes, colic and 3 a.m. feedingsare the last thing any teen-age boy expects to deal with during high school. Nathan Meier's only dreams were of working behind a camera and dressinga canvas with paint, but one day in 1998 he becamea statistic. He was going to be- comean unwed teen-age father. In the swirl of emotions that followed, Meier didn’t forget his dreams. Instead, they led him to document every moment of his girlfriend Jennifer's pregnancyonfilm. “TJ just started shooting things,” he said. “It’s just an organic kindof process,It just fleshesitself out.” Ever since he was in eighth grade, Meiersaid, he wanted to attend the CaliforniaInstituteofthe Arts in Valencia, but he had to compete with about 300 people for about30 slots. “T didn’t have anything to submit,” Meiersaid, but he knew he needed to go to schoolto makea betterlife for his new family. When KUEDproducer Colleen Casto heard of Meier’s situation, she courted him for a documentary onthelife of the teen father. Thefilm, “Nathan’s Story,” airs tonight on KUEDat 9 p.m. The documentary mixes Meier’s own footage shot on a Super 8 camera with about a month’s worthof interviews and footage of the couple's life. KUED also worked with the Utah Education Networkand the Utah Office of Education with plans to show a condensed version through the high schools. This version would eliminate references to coridoms and otherreferences to sex education. “T wanted to see how a teen-age pregnancy impacted a regular Utah man,” said Casto. Moststories about teen-age pregnancies are told through the eyes of the mother, Casto wanted to show a man who took responsibility and stuck around, See FILMMAKER,Page B-6 : BY BRANDON GRIGGS ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Talking robots! Space travel! Utopian cities! Waterproofliving rooms cleaned with a garden hose! From Jules Verne to “The Jetsons,” Buck Rogers to “Battlestar Galactica,” we e: igs havelong beenintrigued by the future.It’s a big reason the sci-fi genre exists. It’s why Walt Disney Worldvisitors line up for Tomorrowland.It’s why we check horoscopes and open fortune cookies. Utahns can explore this fascination at a new Smithsonian Institution show that opened last week at the Brigham City Museum-Gallery, the first stop on a year-long tour of the state. “Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future” will visit Payson, Hyrum and Washington before coming in Novemberto Salt Usingtoys, gadgets, books, movie posters, au- tomobile designs, World’s Fair memorabilia and other materials from the past century, “Yesterday’s Tomorrows”tells.a 100-year history ofhow Americans imagined their future. Some past predictions, like hurricane-proof homes that pivot on their foundations like weather vanes, were downrightsilly. Others, like early notions of cloning, or of a network of superhighways, were eerily prescient. “Predicting the future is an impossible task, as weall know.Butit has a strong basis in human psychology. People want some control over how their lives are going to turn out,” says exhibit guest curator Brian Horrigan of the Minnesota See SMITHSONIAN,Page B-6 > SCIENCE THE FOOTANDMOUTH DISASTER A cargo of slaughtered sheepis unloaded into a trench at an old air field near Carlisle, Cumbria, En- gland, as part ofthe ex- panding campaign to con- trol foot-andmouth disease. The highly contagiouslive- The world watchesas stock disease has been confirmed at Europetries to control more than the viral infection 600sites in Britain since mid-February. John Giles/Associated Press BY LAURA BEIL KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSSERVICE he disease goes by different names in different places — foot-and-mouthdisease, hoof-and-mouth disease, even ayhthous fever. No matter where theylive, thougli, farmers and ranchersall call it terrifying. Foot-and-mouthdisease.is marching across Europe, condemning more than 200,000 animals to destruction in Britain alone. Livestock producers in the United States are watching anxiously, hoping that an ocean will protect their livelihood. Foot-and-mouth disease is so feared becauseit is caused by one of the most contagious viruses known. TwoEasily Confused Cow Diseases between two diseases that have spread in Europe and pcouetgcowani nota coun aneex COSC see OCS proteins —* Animal touches ane heat-resistant But u Vigilant Ig an oe BYVINCE HORIUCHI ‘THE SALT Animal much doomed to infection. Seven different strains of foot-and-mouthvirus can causethedi: . tion with onestrain doesn’t guarantee the next. The virus can live in the environment for weeks, hitchhiking from pasture to pasture on a person's shoesorclothes,or even a strong gust of wind. I'm aware of,” said Dr. Bob Smith of OklahomaState University. ‘It's quite contagious.” But only to animals with cloven hooves. Cows, sheep, pigs and even wild deer are easily infected, but not horses, Neither are people. In the rare instances when the virus has managed to infect a person, it hasn't caused seriousillness. “Weare concerned because the disease could pose a tremendousthreat to our livestock,” Smithsaid, “but we are relieved because it is not a human safety threat.” The vast majority of infected animals live through the illness, but their milk and meat yields don't make the samerecovery. The disease gets its namefrom the open blisters that well up on animals’ mouths, muzzles and above their hooves, Animals stop eating for a time, and are reluctantto walk becauseof the pain. Pregnant animals will usually abort their fetuses, Foot-and-mouth diseasearrivedin the United States morethan100 years ago,It last appearedin this country in 1929. During 2000 and 2001, only North America, Australia and Antarctica have remained free of the virus. Twoweeksago, the disease appeared in Argentina. Butit hasn't appeared onthis continent since the early 1950s, when Canada experienced an outbreak. “We were able to keep it out of the United States during that period,” Smith said, though the virus was next door, Back then, governmentofficials employed someof the strategies that theyare using today: quar antining infected animals, testing herds and restrict ing trade. Scientists have developed inoculations for a Utah Ranchers Confident or ingests _ Once the virus finds a herd, all animals are pretty LAKE TRIBUNE It may have been more than 70 ROOTS oie years since the United States has seen an outbreak of foot-andmouth disease, but that doesn’t meanUtah cattle producer Lorin “This virus is as easy to transmit as anyvirus that Young filmmaker Nathan Meier with his daughter, Dakota-Woll, LakeCity, whereit will remain through the 2002 Winter Olympics. oa eee ogo ae Wegees enna | | | MoenchJr.is free of worry. Like many of Utah's thousand or so cattle ranchers, he insists reads pe eee j Sensv' | ae son the agricultural industry would act quicklyif they ever got a whiff 4 ofthe virus. “The government ‘wt is taking proper measures,” he said. “And ifit ever did come, we would ad. s it immediately to eradicate t Inlight oftherecent outbreaks in Europe, state veterinarian Can kill livestock begin Peeticey seizures may begin montecee years altr infection Prevention: Destroy infected farm animais; don't use animal products: brain or central nervous system tissue as livestock feed “Sere sodaCouch Jacob dkvoase (VC. © 2001 KAT F seen Causes mild or severe iliness; animals that survive less meat, milk than usual Feneationseaspread of virus by isolie infected farm animals: faintectot objects that may be contaminated NOTE: Also called hool-and:mouth disease Ditferent from hand, foot and mouth disease, a mild viral infection common in children foot-and-mouth, but “the vaccines leavealot to be desired,” said Dr. Lisa Conti, the public health veter! narianfor thestateof Florida, To maintain immunity, animals need to be frequently revaccinated, shesaid, Also, the vaccines can interfere with diagnostic tests an animalwill test positive for infection after the immunization, making it difficult to tell which ani mals are infected and which were simply vaccinated. Livestock owners in the United States don't Michael R. Marshall requested earlier this month that Utah livestock owners take extra precau- tions to guard against the intro: ductionofthe disease. Heis asking that producers limit vehicle traffic and visitor access to the animals, thoroughly clean and disinfect employee Sce RANCHERS,Page B-6 routinely vaccinate for foot-and-mouth disease, she said, becau: his is considered a foreign animal dis. ease, andit's not recommended that you vaccinatefor something we don't havehere,” And they're hoping it st that way. Despite all of the protective measures, agr iculture officials know that thevirus could take advantage of the smallest slip. “We'recertainly vigilant,” Conti said. “We're not saying it could never happen here.” |