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ContinentaLWeatheCtServices Tuition Lanes Continued from Page Continued from Page 1 1 The outcome could be a tuition hike for medical or law students based on the market and demand for some occupations Johnson said but the increases would go toward improving the program Tuition in other programs could decrease to stimulate enrollmenL they even removed several of them Terry said there’s still quite a bit of opposition to medians within UDOT but he thinks they can be beneficial — especially in Logan where “yellow lines are not enough” But raised medians aren't cheap A simple median with concrete curbs would cost in the neighborhood of $12 per fooL And that doesn't Another regents' task force reported that more campuses will likely be needed to accommodate Utah's future growth Kerry Romesburg president of Utah include maintenance costs if Valley State College and a member of the task force said he had to turn away 2300 students last year because he had nowhere to put them “We're either going to have to cap enrollment or lode at this in another way” said Romesburg But such talk seems to contradict Gov Mike Leavitt’s push for the Western Governor's University which seeks to replace trad- itional campuses AP photo On Thursday Leavitt urged higher education officials to move forward with another online institution the Utah Elec- I JUSl P r tronic Community College and to take devise ways to take advan- i IIK6 ampiOlTa tage of the WGU when it becomes available Fires Continued from Page 7 pose health hazards to nearby Runners stay Just ahead of a stampede of bufts during tha Americanized version of Tha running of the buss’ on dusty ranch track Saturday In Mesquite Nov Participants paid $50 apiece for the opportunity to dodge horns Meanwhile In Pamplona 8pobi too original running of toe bulls event was in ful swing Saturday Sea story on Page 6 stubble until the 1940s Since then paper conglomerates have planted miles of genetically engineered pine trees to provide pulp for cardboard and tissue paper Drought here has already ruined 374000 acres of pine seedlings Now wildfires have claimed another 123000 acres of 1 tomers they losL Smithfield City Manager Jim Gras said a median was recently incotponted into his city's master plan He said the median would help beautify downtown cussions have taken place with architect Tom Jensen about the design of a raised median in Logan Bnt there are several Smithfield and tie together busi- other projects including the extension of 400 North to the west and work on 1000 West around Woodruff School that must be completed first According to the city's master nesses from the east and west sides of Main Street The unusually wide street — 82 feet from cuib to curb — is a barrier to pedestrian shoppers Few if any will visit businesses on both sides of the street during the same trip Crossing the street is a hazard plan “The public has expressed interest in developing a pedestrian-frie- downtown specifically id the heart of downtown along Main Street from Center Street to 200 North A pedestrian-friendl- y downtown is a downtown whin encourages people to walk from place to place Currently one of the biggest factors discouraging ndly walking in downtown Logan is the width of Main Street and the high volume of traffic it carries” The plan goes on to explain that “a center divider could be developed within Main Street between 200 Sooth and 300 North in order to provide a safe island for pedestrians choosing to cross to this other side as well an attractive addition to downtown Logan” y that got away” Amid the controversy Florida cannot escape comparisons with Yellowstone where very very important part” But most members of die organization still see a median as simply “an obstacle in the middle of the road” he said Logan Community Development Director Eric Toll said dis- grass and other vegetation are for pedestrians hfc iaid “Up planted in the middle In fact here it's almost like taking your maintenance of medians and life into your own hands at ceradjacent streets including snow tain times of the day" removal is a headache many A median would provide a transportation officials would just “sanctuary” of safety for pedesas soon do without trians who are trying to cross the Hudson said business owners street tend to have a perception that a Gass also serves m director of raised median will affect their the Cache Metropolitan Planning patrons who might go elsewhere Organization which coordinates if they can't readily turn off the transportation planning for Cache highway into their business urban area from Nibley But he said many businesses Valley's to Smithfield are destinations as opposed to He said the CMPO hasn't taken “pass-bcapture” whne patrons a position on raised medians stop in because they see a sign Members have recently started while driving by And the busidiscussing access management cus-nesses that rely cm pass-b- y “of which raised medians are a with computerized courses tomers like gas stations will likely receive customers that were headed to competing businesses to make up for the cus- million h acres — of the national park — were scorched into a desolate moonscape one-tent- Nuclear Continued from Page 1 u Shipment expected later in month v A shipment of spent nuclear - fuel la still scheduled to go 1 through Cache Valley but offi- cials ara maintaining secrecy about tot exact Urns and data projected journey of the containers is along the narrow canyons - sia too But chril unrest there prompted Ira DOE to postpone j toat portion of the sNpmenL 1 ’ The nudear material was origt- nelly provided by the United States to 41 countries for mad- - j leal Industrial and agricultural t research In return for not attempting to build nuclear ij weapons It was part of a pro- - 1 gram In tho 1950a under tho J Elsenhower administration caled ‘Atoms for Peace" The spent fuel could atHI be used to craata nuclear weapons The ahlpmant expected toj pass through Utah later this I Last weak a federal Deportment of Energy news release noted that the shipment from South Kona to sta scheduled to of the Feather River which is 1 especially prone to mud slides The initial blaze was out of and rock slides because of the control within 20 minutes fire- wet El Nino weather arrive at the Concord Naval commercial timber “It is reasonable to expect that recall Flames torched Station in California I: Weapons Fanners and ranchers report fighters landmark buildings and roasted there will be more landslides in lr this month Once there’ tho losses of $600 million die near future" said Jacqueline nuclear material wil be shipped postcard-qualit- y forests of everYet unlike managers of national aged with Cabasso die executive director of and meadows by train to the Idaho National of greens alpine weather advice on local winds forests who torch approximately the Western States Legal Fund wildflowers Engineering and Environmental " dryness and temperatures 23 million federal acres across who has criticized the testing In southeastern Laboratory The were infernos so intense “A lot of homeowners have a the country each year most manand Idaho The ralaase noted that process campaigned against hard time accepting that even if upwards of 4000 degrees the nuclear not I advance details of the shipment “It agers of plantations resist conis shipments Fahrenheit in that glass we didn't have people tossing trolled burns for fear that month la tho first of five ship- - J they soft drink bottlesspots likely I hope but it is certainly i would not be provided melted in camp' their cigarettes from the cars or out resource Or Tho manta before the program Is was Include to might wipe feasible” shipment playing with matches the resulting soot will mar the ground trash cans spent nuclear fuel from Indone Government officials say the completed In 2009 Yellowstone was also the first we would still have fires here" pulp Or ultimately the spotless fiiki ' battery of tests which include of the TelecommuTall Timbers researcher Hermann appearance of disposable diapers Fuel the for did not depict the type of containdiffercontainer the Departat Management dropping nications Age live says "A lot of plants have rad other products ent angles and exposing it to ment of Energy er to be ured this time evolved with fire and actually images created a macabre severe heat have proven that the “I don't know that you will Department of Energy officials “The fact that the Department need it to regenerate What would ever get a law that says timber melodrama that kept channel-surfealso confirmed that a video tape container can withstand anything of be black on their property could companies or landowners that Energy has been less than from New York City to “It is supposed to envelop ray showing a container surviving a be green again in weeks” you must controUed-bum-” says Los Angeles on the edge of their kind of scenario that would be collision with a train that had forthcoming and even manipulaGov Lawton Chiles “I'm not rediners Industry is just as skeptical envisioned in the transportation been shown to journalists and tive makes us wonder what else In Florida ranchers and farmsure the state would want to Would the flames reach Old erf these casks” said Ken Chasey local government officials was they have been leu than forthers routinely burned off crop assume the liability for every fire Faithful? 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