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Show ' " ' f . i Sunday Urah Valley AUGUST 19, 2007 edition wwwjKnUextnxom $1.50 yniJR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS r YOUR NEWSPAPER sports .UM-Vs- Y ,. ,L t V:l 1 i f9 ;T ? Bemanke acts quietly to carefully guard the economy o NellUwtn r.' f , c, $ vfiVjfr ro:P ' - , .v .' ' indicated that it would do what THE WASHINGTON POST Stakes to protect theeconomy . from problems in the markets. the world! financial - But the Fed, chaired by BemanA markets experienced ke, was not as disengaged before .. . Xi wrenching upheaval Friday as conventional wisdom A"7vL and markets tor home suggested, and it jsnat now as --iXmortgages and many eager to take dramatic action other kinds of debt came to a as some investors seem to hope, standstill, Wall Street begged Ben dose watchers of the central bank S. Bemanke and the Federal Resay. Fridays moves were narserve to do something about it. rowly tailored, and they stopped On Friday, they did. Wall Street well short at using all the toots in the Feds arsenal to ease the crisis, rejoiced when the Fed cut the interest rate on loans to banks apd such as lowering a key interest rate that would make it cheaper for consumers and businesses to borrow money. The Feds actions, say market watchers and longtime friends of the Fed chief, are consistent with the Bemanke they know: cautious, cerebral and disinclined to react to the rumor and specula- tion that are among Wall Streets .. greatest exports. He doesnt want to act pre- - .. dpitously and doesnt change his . . X .. fV :Iif5r4l j Ci 0V;V; i "He doesn't want to act precipitously and doesn't change his view on fleeting evidence. He Wants to see real evidence . before changing his views about ; the economy, See BEMANKE, A8 . Pm J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE Associated 7T ' " i : MINE TRAGEDY t ' Il;. t r 1 r m. , . - . . , k i ' 7 v.itHr- "j ; iJ r - - 4 M J 'H i .f ; ir Jennifer Dobim1 and Brock Vergakls i i , i i ... V V A U-- : d ' Jf . v r ,V JL 'r , to six men trapped deep inside a I ,, " A miner CARBONVILLE who died while trying to tunnel A 1 : " THE ASSOCIATED PRESS'- - ' V1;k . r V. . n i mountain threw himeetf on another worker, shielding him from a violent cave-i- n that has halted underground rescue operations, his former wife said. Brandon Kimber.29,. was one of ; three men fcando timber' who died dur- - ... ' ing a collapse Thursday night at the Oandall ; Canyon mine. said she teamed His about his final moments from a relative of miner who survived the disaster. The young mans mother-in-,1acame to me and said he told her that Blfendon laid upon him and took most of the debris, Kristin Kimber said in an interview Saturday, - K . s . ex-wif-e ; Photo by SEMM FasvAHocjMd Pim crews imploded an office building Saturday morning to dear space for a Demolition rwievelopment in Salt Lnke City. The Key Bank tower shifted slightly first round of explosives, top left then toppled after a second blast and a area huge doud of dust spread over the area around 630 a.m. Police dosed off a around the building hours before to keep onlookers at a safe distance. The 20ory building was still structuralbr sound, but didnot fit in with construction plans for the new City Greek Center, scheduled to be finished in 2011. Bottom right: The historic Salt Lake LDS Temple is shrouded in dust after the demolition. See I China: Flooding A8 MINE, leaves 181 ' coal miners trapped, AS- nine-bloc- k Tourists jam airports to escape Dean .. . Jonathan M.Katz ' , Nancy Zmkefbrod the AFTs deputy director of educational issues, from helping local unions hammer out contracts that include new WASHINGTON While the words merit-paplans. ' We don't have a message on a merit pay drew hisses ind boos at board that says, Hey, thinking about a recent teachers' union convention, educators are endorsing contracts that this? he said. But he said the AFT. pay bonuses for boosting students test feels obliged to assist chapters that have derided to go this route. scores. Teachers usudly are paid accordThe National Education Association career ladder that and the American Federation of Teach- ing to a centmy-oi- d rewards seniority and levels of educaers oppose linking a teachers pay-cheto how well their students do on tion. The system was designed to entests. But that is not stopping Rob Wed, ure fair compensation for women and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS sunny . . y HIGH 91 LOW 58 k . : VOLUME 89 ISSUE 19 I ck 5tfM5 nnn i UUUUW u -- . A . , . -- e' .f , ; A8 See HURRICANE, A8 See TEACHER, . . Cat-ego- ry nt J ST L m up to offi 70 I tf " - h:ey last 'A a : .' minorities. The average starting salary today is about $31,000. TTiey don't make enough money, especially especially the good ones the great ones, said Louis Malfaro, the teachers union president in Austin, Texas, where nine schools ere part of a pilot program to overhaul how teachers are paid Malfaro said Austins approach is modeled parity on Denvers, which links salaries to students' test scores and mnrEI D 17I111E J PRESS Alarmed tourists can Republic jammed Caribbean airports for flights out of Hurricane Deans path Saturday as the monster storm began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and threatened to engulf Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. In Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, a boy was pulled into the ocean and drowned while watching waves kicked up by the 4 storm strike an ocean-froboulevard, the emergency operations center reported The Union contracts tie teacher bonuses to test scores Slightly ASSOCIATED SANTO DOMINGO, Domini- i ilNSIDE THE A 1 t rk ,R y ua ,i w ,i y k p ' p : ? A i A j, vi k . |