Show A12 — Jhe Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday March 4 2002 $ National tomporaturos Cacho Valloy outlook Utah outlook Forecast for Monday ACCUWeathercom Temperatures indicate Sunday's high and overnight low to B pm torecaxt tor daytime condWont NoMow temowturex Eastern Time Hi KMNO ' iLBswlicrir'l Albany NY Atlanta wo TODAY TUESDAY Mostly sunny and warm Highs near 30 Lows in the Partly cloudy and warm Highs near 35 Lows in the mid-tee30 percent chance of snow mid-tee- NEV EXTENDED Mostly cloudy with 50 percent chance of snow on Wednesday Highs near 30 lows near 20 N Arctic air will have moved away from Utah Saturday night A developing westerly flow aloft today will lead Synopsis: to Cedar City a warming trend early next week 53"1“ From the news wire By The Associated Press 0 2002 AocuWmHmt More rain fell on parts of the East Coast Sunday while cold temperatures gripped the Midwest and parts of the West had dry weather A batch of rain has moved out of the Northeast but scattered rain and snow showers developed along the cold front in western New York and western Pennsylva- Inc tv'1 wee Local temperaturos City Hi Logan' 20 7 Logan Peak Mendon 21 Lo -- 2 -- 6 -- 1 Pro 343 Boise Boston Chicago Cincinnati Denver ' Des Moines Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Key West Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Beach New Orleans New York City Norfolk Va 43 60 15 27 21 21 1 dr 39 55 dr 14 09 cdy 27 20 dr dr sno 9 2 35 35 24 13 15-1- - 33 cdy" cdy cdy 06 cdy 0 Regional temperatures Alta 21 76 64 37 Canyonlands 45 28 dr 35 Ogden 81 73 dr Provo 34 55 31 dr Salt 35 Lake City 73 50 dr 21 Snowbird' 64 73 cdy SL George 52 38 38 01 dr Wendover 36 60 46 121 ck 69 55 37 cdy ZkmNP 52 The AccuWeathercom forecast for noon Monday March 4 I U-'ife- I -- Its Oe -- Oa I Its Mi I Mb I 40b 13 12 15 -- 4 25 12 10 1 - Mb 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 6 3 -- Mb 70b Mb i BiporalB hty tBfnpomluro mom lor Oio Mb 100b 11M day ' nia Another area of rain and scattered thunderstorms intensified ova- northern Florida and southern Georgia Strong winds affected much of the East with wirids at ranging from 20 to 30 mph with gusts over 40 mph ' ' times In the Midwest snow tapered off over Indiana but continued ova parts of Michigan Frigid temperatures remained throughout die nation’s midsection as a cold dome of high pressure was entrenched ova the region Gear to partly cloudy skies were seen throughout much of the Plains as well as the Midwest and the Mississippi Valley Temperature readings today were 20 to 30 degrees below normal as a result of the high - Almanac Up abovo Sun: Sunrise: 6:57 Sunset: At 7am EST today Mercury wtf be at aphelion This is the furthest Mercury gets from the sun at 04667 astronomical units One au: is equal to the average distance from the sun to the Earth Mercury will be nearly half the’ distance from the sun to the Earth Humidity: 65 percent UV Index: Prc Oik cdy 23 cdy 02 cdy Lo 64 40 49 46 Billings L 59 47 68 dr 67 41 dr 61 32 Portland Ore cdy Providence 55 40 135 dr Reno 54 23 dr Sacramento 66 40dr St Louis 19 13 02 cdy 68 50 dr SanDiego San Francisco 68 47 dr 36 3 SantaFe dr Seattle 55 32 cdy 20 5 dr Topeka Washington DC 58 47 65 cdy 1 (Minimal) Conditions: Clear Visibility: 10 miles Moon: Last OjattarMarch 6125 GMT ntronomyOrocketmaHxom KCMy CM 1 lenBt Weather Service Bomb gades from their mountain strongholds Saturday’s ground attack carried out in mountains ranging from 8300 Continued fromAl to 11600 feet above sea level similar Swiss vote in 1986 appeared to have made little when 75 percent rejected UN in Ihliban headway dislodging and w "membership backing oppo- fighters said who netfs regrouping in the hills of eastcm Afghanistan : polarization would compro- misewiss neutrality have been ufcl’Firafighta Hie government pushed the intense at times in heavy comlatest initiative believing that bat action” Maj AC Ropo spokesman of die 101st Army the political climate has division in southern Kandahar changed since die height of die Cold War and that it was told reporters Sunday time for die 7 million Swiss to force of 1500 A US-le- d a full role in die world allies US play Afghan Special Billionaire industrialist Forces and troops from die Army’s 101st Airborne assault Christoph Blocho — a nationalist politician who led die troops had assembled for the battle a US defense official opposition this time — said he said Australian and Canadian “deeply regretted” the out’Tt will lead to the come also took troops part The Afghan allies made up weakening of Switzerland” the bulk of the force and Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss assured voters approached die front from “Switzerland remains neu- three different directions traL” The some of them using pickup govtrucks rented for $200 from erning Cabinet which had the Gardez bazaar Afghans campaigned hud for approval ' expres$6d relief at die out-come About 600 fighters accomSwiss industry imd banks panied by at least 40 US solhad feared a no vote would diers approached from Gardez north of Surrnad said make Switzerland an interna-tional outcast with a selfish Safi Ullah amemboof the Gardez town council or shun and uncaring reputation Swiss snow-cover- Continued from A1 Continued from A1 - the site at times - Total sales for 2001 were about 5326 billion up 193 percent from 2000 according to a recent Commerce Department report Moreover the moribund market for initial public offerings of stock showed a touch ' of vitality recently The online payments provider PayPal Inc was able to sell $702 million of shares even though the Palo Alto company faces a lawsuit Even looking backward at invest- the slump in high-tec- h ment the Commerce Depart- mCnt takes a bright view: Spending on computo equip-- ’ ment and software in the fourth quarter of 2001 stood at “remarkably high levels' by historic standards” the agency’s report says The annual rate was $408 billion' down 16 percent from the peak four quartos earlier But since equipment prices ' are falling rapidly (hat means ' the number of units bought fell just 3 percent in 2001 patent-infringeme- nt - - Teen Continued from Al bandwagon ' And they did ' "Logan’sKinly punk rock' hand just broke up but there were two from Mountain Crest so we got them ' Taylor said An event was in the making and well on its way “I got the Logan Recreation Center to donate their facility ' o” ' ! McDonald's donated punch' Kharwar range to the west in Logar province The bombardments sent thick black plumes of smoke above die snowcapped peeks and shook the ground inSuiw mad where a constant stream of bombers streaked overhead However one Afghan Abdul Matin Hassan Kheil said his men came undo fire Sunday from mortars heavy artillery and rockets fired from where Arabs and Pakistanis were believed holrid up "You can see it is a big operation” said Kheil who led 50 fighters at a front-lin- e position He said coalition forces were dug in about one mile from bases in the mountains At least three Chinook helicopters which zoomed toward n the mountains Sunday flanked by two jets were supplying ammunition and food to American forces still in the hills he said Kheil estimated it would take a month to push the rene ’ The Christian Science Monitor HARD TIMES REMAIN: Overall is still rising at doubledigit rates But Simptydone a Los Angeles dotcom is dosing shop and selling off assets from 2000 With this trend in mind Professor Jorgenson projects that fhe growth in labor productivity - what Amoicah business produces per hour of work of input - will grow about 224 percent a year on averagein the next decade That’s only a bit below the 1 995-20average of 236 00 percent President Bush’s Council of Economic' Advisers has a similar forecast: a 21 pocent annual increase in productivi- Pepperidge Farms donated cookies friends and families donated time and equipment” Taylor said And thus the grand concert came together On Saturday Feb 23 some 80 teenagers let their hair down at Taylor’s gig “We had quite a decent turnout” said a beaming Taylor “This comes as a big help We’ve been running low on funds so this money will help us quite simply this month with die rent” said Leo Bravo director of the Hispanic Cento of Cache Valley ty once the present recession is past “There is something there” says Robot Solow referring to the New Economy A ’ econo- - Nobel-Prize-winni- ng mist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge he also sees 21 percent gains Any of these numbers are an improvement on die 1980s arid early 1990s They would provide a faster rise in living standards for Americans gen- erally Bravo was very appreciative of Ifylor’s efforts “She comes in two days a week and volunteers to do virtually any-thing This is very unusual for : high school student Most of the volunteers we get are coir lege students who come here because of some course ‘ requirement” Bravo said And why does she do this? “I do it because I love the Spanish language and culture and I want to help out I feel like I’m helping die community but it’s not just hewing the community I’m doing what I love to do” Taylor said l Shah-e-K- Astro Pets Abeve! feeture provided ot afro-noo- Toddler Continued from A4 'relies judgment of untrained security personnel The way die procedure is conducted leaves one with a sense that this is more a matter of quota than of science and that it probably doesn’t wok vay well then there is die numbing duplication Before even ottering die security area pas- sengers in Indianapolis were on-th- e doergor Construction Inc ed East-We- st : seven-mem- asked to show their tickets add identification an understand- able requirement evetywhere The waiting area at each gate was roped off and once again the travekr’s identification was matched with die ticket When die flight was called for boarding the same process was repeated despite the fact the waiting uea presumably included only those already ' choked Thu duplication was not just frustrating it probaMy was entirely unnecessary And some flyers wondered aloud how many more times they would have to be stopped : bo before reaching their seats Presumably much of this waste of energy will be eliminated when the new 25000-person federal force is in place But don’t count on it particularly if those being hired and many of thefr supo-visoare from the old pn- vate companies and if some common sense isn’t applied to rs netfi we’llcontinneto search toddlers Dan K Thomason it former edtof of the Scrippa Howard Newq 8oivica Hareh Puneh Paso Special Pro-Seas- on CONSTRUCTIOM INC : SIDING & SEAMLESS GUTTER h :s W v - i 'l FREE TV r l L M Sign up for a siding or window I ‘ package before April i and receive a free 2p” television l! i" ' Free Estimate 752-01B- 9 i-r- 'l-r- V ' (f r I s i Smtiar Rttt (80jl AfcokicrsiBso ite V r I J : Tdpurchase a pass or for more Information vteR Logan River Golf Couna 550 West 1000 Souths or caff (W 7504123 Safe end LIUS it J v ' |