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Show :a Cougars headto HuntsmanCentertotake on Utes| seoms = DoiluxHerald= YOUR TOWN ° YOUR NEIGHBORS * YOUR NEWSPAPER ‘A global crisis’: Violence... spreads inAfghanistan I 4 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS franian newSpaper la h unc es Holocaust (6artOoon og? compe tl tion a suspending all trade and economicties interpreted to forbid anyillustrations with Denmark, where the drawings of Muhammad for fear they could lead International peacekeepers clashed _werefirst published-The Danish prime Tuesday with:Afghans protesting minister called the protests a global drawingsof the Prophet Muhammad, crisis and appealed for calm. leaving three demonstrators dead and In a new turn, aprominent Iranian prompting NATOto sendreinforcenewspaper, Hamshahri,invited artists mentsto a remote northerncity. to enter a Holocaust cartoon competiSenior Afghan officials said al-Qaida tion, saying it wanted tosee if freeand the Taliban could be exploiting dom of expression — the banner unanger overthe cartoons to incite vioder which many Western Paes lence, which spreadtoat least six citreprinted the prophet drawings — ies in a second day of bloody unrest in applied to Holocaust images. Afghanistan. The drawings — including one de- Demonstrations rumbled on around the Muslim world, and the political Teensset toidolatry. Violence has escalated sharply in Afghanistan this week, and seven people havedied in demonstrations during the past two days.Protests, sometimes involving armed men, have beendirected at foreign and Afghan government targets — fueling suspicions there’s more behind the unrest than religious sensitivities. “It's an incredibly emotiveissue. | | _This is something that really upset __picting the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb — havetouched a See CARTOONS, A3 Alan Choate Election workers and the League of Womenvoters oppose the measure, but legislation that would require proofofcitizenshipto register to vote moved out of a Senate committee Tuesday. A LOST WORLD The bill by state Sen. Mark Madsen, R- Eagle Mountain, says people would haveto provetheir U.S. citizenship whenregistering to vote and out to oust a Inside | show identifica- tion whenvoting } Senators approve ata polling place. a bill making seat belt | In presenting éson violations a primary | offense | pointed to are thebill, Madsen PThe Housetinkers | ‘Slative study last with animal cruelty bill anisal : Anna Chang-Yen DAILY HERALD = > Even thoughthey aren'told enoughto rock the vote, a group bf teenagersin the Highland area gilh to make waves in ria | D Read a roundup of other events, plus | what's happening today at the Capitol. See A4 residents were registered to vote in Utah. That study — part of Sen. Curt Bramble’s push for a separate driving card for undocumentedresidents — found that 14 noncitizens hadvoted in a | state election “People need to have confidencein the | system,” Madsensaid. “Whetherit's one personor 1,000 people,the integrityof the system mustbe intact.” Elections officials from Salt Lake and goal: unseat a U.S. peice The Lone Peak Teenage Republicans organized after visiting the Legislatureon itsfirst day of work on Jan. 16, where they met state lawmakers. Now they hope to take advantageof the election year andsee that Rep. Jim Matheson, Summit counties said, however, that the pusis replaced with a Repub- | systemis intact — and that Madsen’slegislation would place a substantial burden on county elections offices across Utah RozanMitchell of the Salt Lake County | elections office said, for example,a similar law passed in Arizonahasresulted in backlogs and procedural problemsthat have interfered with elections. |. The bill would also treat voters who went to the polls differently than those whovote absentee, who wouldn't have to showidentification to vote. And she said no one had received any information documenting the ie think it's doable and very necessary,” said Treasurer Sam Brady, 15, a 10th grader at Lone Peak Highin Highland.“If we can get a thousandteenagers campaigning for a good Republican candidate, I don't think Matheson has a chance.” Club secretary Wilson Hansen, 16, a 10th grader at Lone Peak High, said Matheson doesn't accurately representthe state. “The large,large majority of Utahns believe in our Republican values. Jim Matheson doesn’t share most of our values.” Matheson's spokeswoman,Alyson Heyrend, said Matheson reaches out to Utahns."“It's the American wayfor people to express their political beliefs. It’s that people are engaged in politics. As far as ‘Congressman Matheson’s congres‘sional candidacy, he doesn’t run people. He runsfor the See VOTERS, A4 Too much homework? Parents and teachers } ‘ How do the teens plan to effect don t think so ‘such a changewith no pull at the polls? “If I can influence those who :cani,it will probably be a lot more Conservation International This is believed to be a new species a,ets aaovered ona —_ [Assessment Program (RAP) ‘influential than my one vote,if I ition to the Foya See REPUBLICANS, A4 BenFeller Papua province in December 2005. ® Too much homework?Sorry, kids, the ® adults aren't buying it 9 = a OURTOWNS D1 BUSINESS De ————_ _ HOROSCOPE BS OBITUARIES D4 goss AS Ellen Nakashima THEWASHINGTONPOST Some sun JAKARTA,Indonesia — A team of scientists has discovered a lost world of rare plants,giant flowers and bizarre animals — including a new species of honeyeater bird, atree kangaroo rpan egg-laying mammal—on HIGH 46 LOW 21 aH beybd Cee science. They also spotted legendary six-wired bird ae paradise, a species with distinctive wiry head plumes that was first described in 1897 but that has proved elusive ever since. Team leaders on Tuesday described how they spent two weeks in December,butterfly nets and binoculars at the ready, mist-shrouded mountaintop ina traversing the foggy slopes of remote province of Indonesia on the Foja Mountains in Papua 8 : iowa bytetenpiee toa mountain preservevirtually untouched by humans,the scientists found more than 40 species new to province. Among trees encrusted shaharedyronteoy with oe ferns, they marveled as birds and animals approached withno fear: “Tt has a fairy land quality,” . said Bruce Beehler, an ornithologist with Conservation International in Washington and the expedition’s co-leader.“It's a spectacularly beautiful Garden of Eden.” Beehler spent more than 20 years nyefo put the trip together, working with Conservation Internationalfor the past | decade and facing political and logistical hurdles. Finally the team of13 scientists,including three Americans, reached the Foja Mountains, See SPECIES, Ad Most parents say their childrenget the right amount of homework, and most teachersagree, according to an AP-AOL Learning Services Poll Even amongthe parents and teachers whosay the load assigned these daysis out of whack, moresayit’s toolight — not too heavy, In Palmdale,Calif., Dwight Daugherty, 52, says his twosons barely take home any homework from high school. “Kids,” he says,“aren't being as well educated as I was.” Parents seem rather content, though, with the demands that homeworkplaces on their own time. | | | | In the poll, 64 percent of parents said they havelittle trouble finding timeto help with homework, and 57 percent said they spend the right amountof time helping out See HOMEWORK, A3 = CAMIIBSIORSuRSCHME rsmarit ETT} ine] ONE PRICE. SMART PRICE. : Lit Over 200 Vehicles lo Choose From On) ae ee Open 10am © 4266700 pm + Mon- Sat |