Show y i in ' i more BbIv Wahl conduslona to be gathemdoutofa multitude of tonaues than thmuohanv kind of r- - ' LJm uauJ MMiuniinM AawtsM ImM t s' ‘VV Thursday March 30 2000 The Herald Journal Logan Utah (1B7S-1M1- l i j ) ': J Page 10 l ' iVkr t National viow 1 ' NASA problejns show there’s no Scripps Howard News Sendee A ny student of management could have told NASA what happens when die slogan “faster cheaper better” is pushed too far You get faster cheaper better duds Within four months the space agency lost two important Mars probes because of small avoidable errors due to haste and inadequate testing The $123 million Mars Climate Orbiter disappeared last Sept 3 because of a coding discrepancy Some instructions used metric distances others English measurements The $163 million Man Polar Lander crashed into the Martian surface Dec 3 because of faulty readings that could have been corrected by a single lineofeode To the credit of NASA management it commissioned outside independent reviews and took the rap for die findings: inadequate testing man- agement financing and staffing compounded by unrealistic deadlines The fate of the Polar Lander was in the hands of rally 10 engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working weeks The engineers were asked to do die impossible conceded NASA’s associate science director Ed Weiler “We pushed them too far and I will not condemn them because they failed” There’s still that matter of $290 million in lost spacecraft Someone at NASA should have had die guts to stand up and say “faster cheaper better” has become corner-cuttin- g and enforced carelessness It sounds like there’s a management culture there of “to get along go along” that needs to be changed The idea of “faster etc” was that billion dollar instead of a or so NASA decade 'project every would go for cheaper hundred million dollar projects every few years Its record of 146 payloads with only 10 failures since 1992 seemed to vindicate that policy culminating with the dazzling success of the Mars Pathfinder Lander in 1997 But those successes masked deeper problems The outside commission found that the Man project was at least 30 percent underfunded and NASA administrator Daniel Golden conceded a 23 percent cut in NASA’s workforce was too deep In die future NASA might want to motto: adapt an old 80-ho- gold-plat- ed saloon-keeper- ’s There is no such thing as a free launch ' Your viow TY Jan Dagget the on western livestock grazauthority ing and a seemingly guy lost his cord and fairly screamed at me: “Why don’t all of you go back mild-manner- from and give us back our West!” I didn’t know what to say and Pm not often speechless Pm not from a city anyway and Pm sure as heck not from anybody’s jdea of Back East sin was to f the intellectuals hold- experience a yawner To the editor : A year ago: I wrote a letter to County School Board President Brent ing yet another many of whom have their own cars conference are more capable of handling a 7:30 start time the pastoral Write or Don’t let this issue drop call Superintendent of Schools Mr Steve Norton and voice your concern This issue can be changed to benefit our children Parker opposing the 7:30 starting times for middle schools I have taught 7:30 classes at USU and it is 'AnnelL Stark attention at difficult to keepstudents’ that hour While it is appropriate to expect college students to crane to a 7:30 class it is a bad idea for 6th and 7th graders In ERIC government documents which cover research in education several studies show a positive affect on learning when schools started later than die traditional time of 8:00 am According to the studies many students do not retain information presented in the earliest part of the day In addition many children will be skipping breakfast to make those early bus times We all know the affect of nagging stomachs on our who concentration A callfd in to “Sound Off” admitted she was tempted to fake being sick in order to get more sleep at foe end of the week Another said he had fallen asleep three times during class Because of the early start times children in the farreaches of die valley are getting on buses at or around 6:30 am This is not only unhealthy but dangerous The National School Bus Safety Report fra 1993 showed that 33 percent of all deaths involved individuals NOT rid-ing the buses The largest number of these deaths occurred before 8:00 am In Cache Valley where the winter days are short and often snowy children will be waiting in complete darkness for much of foe year Why must we take this risk? We in Utah pride ourselves in the accomplishments of our children We er bus-relat- ed have budding athletes scholars musicians and humanitarians in the valley But we cannot expect our children to excel in their talents when they are too tired to do anything else but nap at the end of the day Transportation Director Wayne Reese informed me that these early start times are essential to save money on busing I cannot believe however that there aren’t better solutions such as later start times fra all grades or a switch of starting times between the high school and foe mid- dle school High school students Paradise " '"r 7 '' Cails of ’37 must respectfully decline To the editor We are delighted to note that Coach Bennett is conducting a Logan High alumni basketball tournament In as much as our “class reunion” coincides with foe tournament dates it wfil be our great pleasure to compete with the younger lads and we promise not to embarrass them by "escalating" the score In “our time” foe ball was jumped at center after each basket so now we look forward to the “accelerated pace” of the modern game It will also be exciting to tally “three” fra those long shots from foe circle however we would certainly prefer to be shooting from foe “pros” three-poicircle Now we don’t expect to utilize nt all our “timeouts” In fact the younger lads are welcome to utilize our unused ones — as an equalizer We were a “tall team” for our peri- on toe Range ed to the cities Back East you came northern Rockies as a model tage was always cheap land and Writers well-kno- IjM Don’t make school sixth-grad- anachronism istorically this country’s advan- 1 cheap labor Since World War D land hasn’t been inexpensive mid while more than 3 million of the state’s 45 million people and that doesn't even include the corridor effect' to flagstaff and the autonomous Navajo reservation one of the last daces in the entire West with a large diffuse rural population The question the rural West can’t answer is: Why should the rest of us hiIiw subsidize their and custom arguments? The rural West sure doesn’t pay the bills — look at tax revenues in any state and you’ll see that dearly enough It uses nearly all the water and generates nowhere near the revenue from it that cities do with a lot less And its fra the rest of American labor remains thejnost valuable in the world it’s also far - ’ mote expensive than in many ofoer countries In this new world trees have more value as scenery than as timber and a mountain will likely generate more revenue from the skiers who whiz down it than from any animal grazing its slopes’ j I There’s a solution and I’m only Go to foe ranchers and fanners and tell diem that we’ll give them their best year plus annual cost of living raises to match inflation and in return they’ll give us their : water They can pretend to ranch and form to lay out center pivot irrigation " half-kiddin- : systems that'll spin around and around but no water will crane ps : ever-growi- - Other views wW- - Women must never again be spoils of war 5’1(T) We realize foe “taller" however mat fact is “offset” by our “quickness and jumping atnli- ty "our “fire and drive” While it’s true that we haven’t played together for 63 years we see no need of a practice prior to the tournament — we are ready to play We have just been informed that our Logan High gym has been St Petersburg Times women who had been neighbors with “little Serbs” so as to repopulate Bosnia with their own kind w raped by a Montenegrin “Christian’1 soldier who threatened to cut off her arms and legs and drag her to a church to baptize her Along with destroyed This building was created half a dozen other women and gjWs in our year 1937 and we feel a spe- Witness 186 was held captive in a cial “affinity” to it In view of this village hall and repeatedly raped for shocking news we hereby “rescind" our application and decline to compete You young “Grizzlies" have avoided a “humiliating" experience inasmuch as we older descendants of “Old Ephraim” still have our teeth and daws six months Lon Griffin Nibley inevitable But in this war rape was These are just two examples of the thousands of Muslim women who were kidnapped tortured and raped by Bosnian Serb soldiers during Bosnia’s civil war Rape used to be considered an unpleasant fact of armed conflict regrettable but used as an instrument of ethnic cleansing Serbian soldiers boasted of Many Bosnian Muslim women were victims of a war crime Finally that is being recognized by foe International War Crimes Tribunal in the BosnHague Three middle-renking ian Serb soldiers are on trial for allowing ordering and sometimes participating in sexual assaulti on girls as young as 12 in the Muslim majority town of Foca Dragrejub Kunarac Zoran 1 and Radomir Kovac the accused weren’t particularly it tant or powerful they didn’t comV unanested perpetrators like President ' Slobodan Milosevic But their very ordinariness underscores the horror j‘ erf the Bosnian war They were from 7 Foca themselves so they must have known some of their victims Yet they ran "ope houses” sold teenage girls to passing soldiers and threat-ene- d their victims with mutilation and murder This trial which began last week in foe Hague may not have foe high profile of die genocide proceedings against Kirstic But given the terrible suffering of women in Bosnia it is 7 important that the United States sup : ? - portit and encourage the United mand legions of murderers like Nations to vigorously prosecute rape at a crime against humanity Wbmen Radislav Kirsticthe Serbian die' must never again be seen as spoils of eral now on trial fra genocide in ex-gen- -1 1993 Srebrenica massacre as yet Editotfanfoii $L The Opinion page la Intended to aoquato readers wlto a variety of vlewpointe on nuflsis d pubMo Importance and prestos nwnbsn ol W19 OQnWuUraiy Wil lOfum KJf piWr WWV hmft PiiEonii QOMivU) crtoon ind iteam ttfcfwe oew fmyz litOBVV I9M0I Vi9 OpWOnt Ol INV ill Mill ff&mc m creators EdHorWsundsrffishosdtng'Our Vtssr represent too vlaws of Nta HeiJd Journal MboanL Memljere of tie octtortal board: ' " NICOLE FARRELLfctyodtor A— 14 4 MU V19 JOUmflwPDOrntV 19008910 fan or ollsnsivs Mere Potential faatous ‘ CtNOYYURTHtsaturesodaor BRUCE SMTHfruMsher CHARLES MoCOUJUMbnutaging adtor j ’ Herald Journal uwim&w intn9fw t ‘ ng od all “six hoofers" (Now only tm CHCRseft ' iNAOWiaU - out industries yanching agriculture tim- They can pitchfork invisible bay ber miniqc and foe like are tossed from the back of pick-uq invisible ' on the scran heap in our transfer-pay- animals and they won’t even have to federal tourist-base- d regioud wgrty about inevif fhictuatmo in economy ’'I crop and animal prices 'lv The truth is hard but dear The In the meantime that roughly 80 rural West has become a playground percent of the water in every western a colony the rest of us visit when we state can go for job creation jobs that want to relax or indulge our fantasies pay taxes that don’t require federal ' We camp hike swim boat bike ski subsidies that have futures fra the number of young and are the exception Montana and hunt fish and ATV throughout the West and our our turd making living flood the region who immigrant Wyoming don’t lead and at this lives in its stretched out increasingly the' middle class of the the to much teach have don’t They're stage rest of us They’re foe ones without a and stunningly dense cities We may future the ones whose wages will real city Oh sure Cheyenne Boze- dream of a home onthe range but fund the Social Security of today’s workers 7 man and Missoula might claim city that dream is usually just a way to middle-age- d on traffic a the with sooner freeway we propel them cope The status but by the standards of e foe better off Phoenix Las Vegas Albuquerque or headed to or from the office upward region-widThe importance of the old rural we’ll all be ' even Boise and Santa Fe they’re just We’ll give up jomethiitg sure But towns They don’t have the sprawling West has ended and it's never coming Revolution back The Microchip discarding a myth that has deceived freeways or the concentrations of which has made transfer infqrmation us for a century may be the healthiest do foe us rest of retired people They don’t have real airports Phis they’re more important than the raw materi- thing this region can do als the West used to export and has overwhelmingly white In Nevada more than 13 million turned experience and leisure into Hal Rothman is a contributor to Writers of die 18 million people in die state currency u upon us It’s a little early on foe Range a service of High Counlive in Washoe or Clark counties to declare an end to the natural try News (wwwhcnorg) He teaches world economy but history at foe University of Nevada Lae home to Las Vegas Carson City and resources-base- d 1 in the least at Vegas Devils’ Bargain: Tourism in foe Reno Phoenix and Tbcson comprise American West US natural resource extraction is Twentieth-Centur- y 1 fbp&toe : g: us in the West "Why do we need the rural West?" --' I always cringe when people from foe rural West tell the rest of us how to live There’s an anpgance to their pronouncements a foolhardy pretend sioo that they are real and that the 93 percent of us who live in western cities somehow don’t matter The truth is that they — not us — Mallard Fillmoro o?teecy it ' 1 t to pubiehed however and toe adtor t toe itgN to adt alletlere to contoim to toleitato and style requirements ol tot ' JLsureVtouidbe: doubts and Typeiptosn spaced tonidfatoan 450 woids in lengfoi Attested and tndudsi number for PrPosss of i Standby toe author IndMduaie are fenSed to one pubished tetter wNhin any today period AddreasE-ma- l lettare to tyMlsrOtynowioom Quest commentariee are ateo welcome end are run at toe edMof’i tSecrdbon - ' - 5 : |