| Show - '- r-71 I I I 1 t - Li U 1 1 S7) i 0 6 eli ( '' Lo 4 L i i It 1 I 1 ' i --- 21 1 I II l '1? 40:'n Olt 0 ( " (:b Icg 1:3 tI 1 '''''' I 1 tr:"00) - i L110 vb: DESERET NEWSTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 11:FS By Jody Meacham Krutht-Rtdde- r Newspapers ALBERTVILLE France — It not her finest performance but it was Kristi Yamaguchi's finest hour The Olympic gold medal that hung around her neck in Albertiville capped a remarkable 11 months in her fia re skating career in which she has also won both the world and US championships Even though she is yet to feel the full impact of her achievement "I've been told things are going to change quite a bit" Yamaguchi said The issue she now faces is whether she should capitalize on the unprecedented break before the next Winter Olympics in Lillehammer Norway and go for two in a row "Oh sure" answered her predecessor as champion Katarina Witt who along with Sonja Henie is the only woman to win more than one Olympic gold in the sport For now Yamaguchi would rather savor the gleam of the gold she's got "I still think it's a little early to decide" she said at the medalists' press conference "Everything's was two-ye- ar happened so fast I think I need to take things slowly and decide over the next two years" It took her only an instant to decide what to do earlier in the evening Her long program had gone flawlessly for 2 and a half minutes when she came up to what has been her strongest jump a triple loop This time for reasons she couldn't explain she lost her balance on the landing and put her right hand to the ice to stop a fall Her next planned jump the triple salchow that plagued her all season before she finally landed it last month at nationals was coming up almost immediately High in the stands opposite the end of the arena from which her daughter had entered the rink Carole Yamaguchi thought to herself behind eyes that suddenly had slammed shut: "Do a double sal- chow" Which is exactly what Yamaguchi did "She did that on her own" said her coach Christy Kjarsgaard Ness "I thought that was a smart move because it seemed to me she looked a little fatigued at that point" US Skier Inspires Youth to Believe The Associated Press WEST MILFORD NJ— Riding atop a red Mercedes convertible her gold Olympic medal strung around her neck skier Donna Weinbrecht inspired youth in her hometown into believing they could do anything "She set her mind to it and she did it" said Stephanie Piquet 14 of West Milford one of thousands who lined the route of the parade Friday that honored Weinbrecht "Anything's possible" Weinbrecht 28 became the winner of the Olympic Games' first freestyle or mogul event on Feb 13 "I'm a swimmer I have an Olympic dream too" said Mike Ives 13 of West Milford "It makes me believe we can do it" But as Weinbrecht waved to the crowd in this sprawling northern New Jersey community she was having a hard time believing she was living her dream "You never picture this happening I can't believe this is just for me" she told the cheering crowd estimated to be between 5000 and 8000 And then she insisted it really wasn't "The gold medal is for everybody" she said blinking back tears She objected to claims by residents and politicians that she had put the community of 25000 on the map "West Milford has always been on the map" she said But Alison Kramer 13 of West Milford said: "Our town was boring She spazzed it up a little" The Olympic champion's parents Jim and Caroline Weinbrecht rode behind her in a black limousine followed by fire and I - - mail trucks troops floats and antique cars The crowd waved American I - marching scout life-givin- g s her" The nine judges awarded her technical marks of 57 and 58 and praised her artistry with eight 59s and a 58 After sweeping the judges' rankings in Wednesday's short program Yamaguchi got seven first places in the long The judges from Japan and Czechoslovakia ranked Midori Ito best in the long performance and that helped pull her from fourth place to the silver medal Nancy Kerrigan of Stoneham Mass dropped a position from her short program standing but held onto the bronze Yamaguchi the first of the medal contenders to skate tried to watch Kerrigan her roommate in the athletes' village from rinkside but was shooed backstage by officials There she watched her competitors on television and began to cry as she realized she would not be first-plac- e sa"t4 ow 44w 0fr ' V - t 1 Donna Welnbrecht flags and chanted "We love you " Donna" and The Passaic County Board of Freeholders proclaimed March 4 "Donna Weinbrecht Day" and the town dedicated its municipal drive to her Hidden Valley in nearby Vernon Township where Weinbrecht learned to ski announced plans for an annual ski race in her honor "The most important thing is for all the kids in town to know you can come from anywhere and make something out of your life" said Jane Sajban 31 of West Mi"U-S-A- lford The town's Chamber of Commerce president Charlie Presor wants Weinbrecht to continue to be an inspiration "Bring home the gold in 94" he shouted one-tent- h eg p- - 3-- 3 1992 4 4 ' 4 - 11 1 1 '' : 1 1-- I ' A1--- 44'''' S tb ' ' 4t 4 4 ' ri t l '' 1 Z ' i it '' - -- — : ir"-- ''''''"' 11 '' p 11' '- k) p0 I t ' 1 0 i 7 ' '''' lit' 1 ' 0 it - SA t NI Off i 1 !! - ' s '40' '4 I lit t t 1 1 0 V '‘ ' ' - I d - t - ---- 5-- y :-: - Or I i c 4-- 2 coming dance and senior ball and we still go to football games and hang out with our friends" Mrs Orchard said "We never have a problem getting a babysitter Our friends are dying to do IDAHO FALLS — Brady Orchard married his high school sweetheart when he was still in high school Now a senior at Bonneville High School Orchard celebrated his first anniversary in December with his wife Camille also a senior But the Orchards aren't the stereotypical teen couple With teen divorce rates on the rise in the United States young couples today have to work harder to make their marriages successful Brady Orchard has a perfect 40 grade point average is class valedictorian works 40 hours a week at ShopKo and plans to go to Utah State University on a scholarship to study engineering His wife is bright energetic and making good grades too but says her days of extra curricular activities are behind her "When I was younger I was isvolved — drama club French club you know" she said "MI things have changed and my priorities are different I don't miss the things I used to do" Although their priorities have changed and their daughter Skye takes a lot of time and attention they still find s time to be "We just went to the home full-tuitio- hours and the platelets in a day Within three to four weeks the body regenerates the red cells While donors give of their blood on average when they donate "there really is no loss of performance" Popovsky said "You have so much redundancy in your body there is no impairment of your ability to clot or fight off infections" How can you breed seedless fruit? Is it still a fruit because fruit is supposed to have seeds by definition? — By definition a fruit is an enlarged area of tissue around the seed and most fr:its do have seeds However some etre seedless because their seeds or ovules have died says Miklos Faust a researcher at the USDA Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville Md For instance the small black dots you see when you cut into a banana are dead seeds The growth hormones that a fruit needs to grow are usually produced by the seed but in some seedless fruits the tissue can produce its own growth hormones and grow without seeds Scientists don't know why some fruit tissues are able to produce the hormones Seedless oranges and grapefruits are Ciamples of this phenomenon ' MARCH 1 States-Unifie- d Poet Register CliTulation The Gift Of Life Boston Globe beaten Yamaguchi had spent the afternoon at the apartment her parents rented on Rue Commandant de Bois in downtown Albertville She napped for awhile after her 11:15 am practice but she got up to watch the cUnited Team hockey game with her older sister Lori "It helped keep my mind off the performance" Yamaguchi said Lori Yamaguchi avoided talking about the upcoming competition for the same reason But when the score got to (the United States eventually lost she showered and put on the new black and gold costume designed by Lauren Sheehan of Enid SVtla "SJt came to the rink 45 minutes before she was to skate" said "She was in Kjarsgaard-Nes- s a good mood I didn't talk much Her face was looking good when she walked into the building" Sandra Bezic the choreographer who put together Yamaguchi's programs was impressed less by her pupil's artistry or quick thinking than the way she handled the pressure that cooked her opposition By Lisa Miller ' 0 How many pints of blood are there in the human body? The average adult has 10 pints of blood depending on weight Men average 10 to 11 pints and women nine to 10 says Dr Mark Popovsky medical director of the New England region of the American Red Cross The wonder of the circulation system is blood's ability Pnd the body's capacity to regenerate the components of blood within hours days or weeks depending on the component Popovsky says "When people talk about the gift of life it's not just a trite phrase" Popovsky says With 9ne donation that an be split into its major components a blood donor "can have an impact on three lives" with red cells going to one person plasma to another and platelets to a third Popovsky says In a given volume of blood about half is red cells nearly half is plasma (a clear liquid in which the red cells and platelets float) and the rest is platelets and white cells The Food and Drug Administration requires that blood donors wait eight weeks between donations although the body can replace the lost plasma in Her program thus reduced from seven triple jumps to five Yamaguchi regained control and fiLished perfectly "I didn't say said of gold" Kjarsgaard-Nesher greeting when Yamaguchi left the ice "but I told her the mistake didn't matter that I was proud of PMWED A3L - :k t ' 411 rt -- -ii' i b 4 4? —Asoociated Press US Figure Skater Kristi Yamaguchi proudly displays her gold medal she won at the XVI Winter Olympics in Albertville France 1 For One High School Couple Marriage Works By Shiela McNulty - el ) fil I 17 Olympic Gold 'Ices' A Remarkable 11 Months For American Skating Ace Kristi Yamaguchi - -- --- T I tr7 I t I "'" it" Although she always has been a solid student she never had a 40 GPA until she was married "I'll say one thing for marriage it has sure helped my grades" she said Between working and keeping topnotch grades the Orchards take time every night to bathe Skye "That's our family time gether" Mrs Orchard said to- But not every teen marriage runs so smoothly Mary Dirge 19 of Idaho Falls is separated from her husband whom she married two years n ago "Right now it looks like vorce" she said "I guess I dial- ways knew it would come to this We married because I was pregnant and we wanted to do the right thing But now I wonder if it was" Dirge got married in a wedding dress "with an extremely stretchable middle" "I was eight months' pregnant I couldn't even see my shoes" she said After the baby was born Dirge stayed in school for about six teen-ager- months and then dropped out "It was too hard coming home trying to take care of the baby and my husband and get my homework done" she said "My grades were slipping I thought it would be better to drop out instead of flunk out" The divorce rate among teenage couples is steadily climbing in the United States In the 1980s about 59 percent of such marriages ended in divorce according to the Marital Statistics Bureau In 1991 the rate leveled off at about 64 percent Doug Knapp a guidance counselor at Bonneville High School said students today are more aware of their options and are taking advantage of them "The better students who get married are the ones who try to hang in there and make it work and get their education at the same time" he said "Before kids would come in and want me to help them find a job or a place to live Now they want scholarship or financial aid informa- tion" Connie Taylor and Tania Crill both 18 and married are two who have made it work They will graduate with honors in June from Bonneville High School "It's hard trying to keep up with homework and a husband but I'm doing it" said Taylor who has been married since she was 16 "I know education is important It's easier because we don't have kids" At one point Taylor held two jobs but she eventually quit both to have more time for her husband Even without a job that's all she has time for "Marriage is a big thing" she said "You have to spend a lot of time at it to make it work" Crill said her friends treat her differently now that she's married "I'm not sure if they feel left out or what" she said "But it's just not the same anymore" Knapp said many married teens lose sight of being teen- agers and their marriages don't work out "I've seen a lot of kids get married but none of them are as together as Brady and Cami" he said "I think those kids will make it" The Orchards do too They both admit they would have waited until they were old-:- er to get married if it hadn't been for their baby but they are hap- py with their lives because they know the secret to a good mar- riage "It's a lot of hard work and that's all there is to it" Mrs Orchard said ' Harlem's Youth Learn Values One Note at a Time By Sally Williams-Coo- k The Associated Press NEW YORK — They've per- formed twice for President George Bush Their voices can be heard on the score for the movie "Glory" and they've toured Europe Japan and the United States They are the 250 boys and girls of the Boys Choir of Harlem most homes coming from single-parecentral Harlem In a from mainly neighborhood where 72 percent of young people never finish high school 98 percent of the choir members go to college This year's tour schedule includes performances in Greece Italy Turkey and Israel Carnegie Hall in New York City the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Kentucky Center for the I I Arts in Louisville Every year 1500 children in the third and fourth grades audition for the choir One hundred are chosen to replace the graduating class "not because they are special but because they and their families show a desire to work hard" says Walter J Turnbull choir director Turnbull founded the choir 24 years ago in the basement of a Harlem church Originally the choir consisted only of boys but girls were admitted in 1979 and have performed separately as a girls' chorus over the years "The choir is not only about singing it's also about learning to become a good citizen and instilling values"Turnbull said Turnbull came to New York City to become an opera singer but soon found that "be was chosen" to lead a choir of young boys A graduate of Manhattan School of Music Turnbull made his debut at Alice Tully Hall in 1978 but now devotes his time to the 8- - to 18- who make up the choir "The choir is my purpose" he says "The black child has to work twice as hard as the white child to make his mark What could be more important than enabling a child to feel good about himself?" In 1987 Turnbull created the Boys Choir of Harlem Academy The school is for the 127 choir members who are in fourth through eighth grades "The idea behind the academy was to have better control of the kids academically" he says "We found that year-old- s there was no real expectations - : the public schools" The academy is a satellite school of the New York Board of Educe::: tion It is housed on a floor and a half of a former public school A e staff of 44 includes teachers instructors and counselors The academy requires its stu- dents to uphold high standar0s not only in academics and musicbut also in attendance dress con- duct and grooming There is no academy uniformz however certain styles are not allowed such as cutoff jeans and In and out of the academy choir members are expected to treat others with politeness and respect And the performing chorus is expected to maintain a B average - part-tim- - T-shi- Kids Ask: plow King Of The Lizards Got Name By Linda K Harris Tribune Wire Service How did dinosaurs get their Judith Snook's Kindernames? garten Class King of Prussia Pa Scientists who have discovered the remains of dinosaurs named them The names usually have Greek or Latin roots For example "Tyrannosaurus rex" was named by Henry Fairfield Osborn' in 1905 "Saurus" means lizard "Tyrannos" means tyrant and "rex" is king — king of the tyrant lizards Triceratops means face" Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania named : Avaceratops in 1986 Who was the Democratic can- didate for president against AbraMalinda ham Lincoln in 1864? Schuck "three-horne- d His name was George Brinton McClellan and he was a general in the Union Army McClellan was born in Philadelphia and went to the University of Pennsylvania at age 13! He didn't graduate but went to West Point where he finished second in his class Later he served as president of a railroad And much later as governor of New Jersey His presidential running mate was George Pendleton McClellan got 18 million votes to Lincoln's 22 million Is the American flag still on the moon? — Thomas Costello Yes in fact there are six American flags on the moon! They are 3 foot by 5 foot nylon flags and ha ig from staffs made of aluminum The first ted ted ted 4T in 1969 and the last in December 1972 The moon doesn't have much weather so the flags have held up pretty well Do parrots really talk? If they can how? — Marcus Wright Yes parrots can really talk There's a parrot named Alex that has been part of a long-terstudy at Purdue University Experts have discovered that Alex can learn to say a lot of words and can even put words together in his own sentences! Birds don't have vocal cords as m:mmals do however They make sounds with their syrinxes They have two and can rake two pitches of sound Air is forced through the syrinxes and that's bow they talk tonsils made of and What m 0- -e what do they do? — Heather vens Lansdale Ste- : When most people think of ton- pair in the back of the throat But there are two other sets too The ones in the back of the throat are called the palatine tonsils They are made of a body tissue called lymphoid tissue The surface has lots of tiny little cavities which make good sils they think of that homes for bacteria Nobody knows exactly what the tonsils are good for It is thought they are im- portant for making antibodies that fight disease coinnzents sent to KIDSTALK the Philadel- phia Inquirer Box 8380 9delphia 4 - : : : |
