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Show Daily Utah Chronicle Thursday, March 10, 2005 ALLERGIES "When [people with allergies] are exposed to things in the air, their immune the pollen-causing problems comes from system will react. They get sneezing, juniper, cedar, cottonwood and maple runny eyes and headaches," Bitner said. trees, according to Bitncr. For some students like Hansen, allerIn May and June, grass and hay cause gies are just an annoying part of life. "I allergies. During the fall, sagebrush is a run on the track team, and I can still do that—I'll sneeze in between intervals or major allergy problem, he said. Junior Matt Hansen pauses to sneeze something," Hansen said. into a white handkerchief. For the past Not everyone can live a normal life three days he has been feeling the effects with allergies, according to Bitner. of spring allergies. "Some people feel physically ill—there are literally millions of work days missed Hansen is not alone. "Up to 20 percent of the population due to allergies," Bitner said. "If an individual is having to modify their activities has allergies," said Bitner. The cause of most allergies can be because of allergies, there is a reason to traced to an "overactive" immune sys- see an allergist." tem. He added that because there are so continued from page 1 Blood on whose hands? ers in his orThe way selfganization had interest can been requestmake the goving informaernment turn tion for more tricks never than a year, U ceases to amaze administrators me. contacted Bell In Jeremy just days before Beckham's case, the 2005 legisU administralative session tors have deCara Wieser to ask if he'd bated, . stalled, Columnist sponsor the bill ignored and fought against him, as they that would make the majority have withheld information of the animal research records about the hundreds of mon- confidential. On such a short keys living in the Animal Re- notice, I wonder how many, if search Center on campus. And any, of the legislators had time now, their most recent trick: to actually read the bill and pushing a bill through Legisla- consider its implications. ture that could make it imposBell said he worked with othsible for Beckham to ever find er organizations that opposed out if the animals are suffering the bill, such as the Utah Press as much as he fears. Association, to address their The bill's sponsor, Sen. concerns. Beckham's conflict Gregory Bell, R-Fruit Heights, with the bill, however, was left said the bill was introduced in unresolved. order to protect trade secrets After being asked if Beckof companies wanting the U to ham would ever get his hands do research for them. Accord- on the records about the aniing to Bell, U researchers had mals, Bell said he didn't acalready lost two contracts due tually know what kind of imto fear of disclosure, and they plications the bill would have didn't want to lose any more. on Beckham's requests, even Last year, when I wrote news though Beckham had written for The Chronicle, I covered letters to the senator explainstories about Beckham, found- ing his opposition. And we all er of the Utah Primate Free- think those letters we write dom Project, and his struggle to our government officials to get information about the should hold some weight, monkeys by way of records re- right? quests and legal proceedings. Which leads into my final This lone college freshman point: If senators like Bell are tackled the U's high-powered primarily interested in turning attorneys head-on. He even tricks for the more powerful succeeded in getting some of entities in Utah, where does his requests met. Then came that leave the individual conSenate Bill 179. stituents who arguably have as The timing was interesting. much, if not more, at stake? cwieser@chronicle.utah.edu Even though Jeremy and oth- ROSS continued from page 1 among other actions. He added that Arab oil states, which often claim to care so much about the Palestinian cause, must begin funding Palestine. "All I want for the Palestinians from the Arab oil states is 1 percent" to finance housing, social priorities and security, Ross said. Despite the fellow Arab countries' failure to finance Palestine, some issues are reaching the greater Middle East. In the wake of recent protests in Lebanon, Ross said something is changing in the Middle East—the people are shedding their fears and taking to the streets in numbers. The same type of phenomenon is occurring in Palestine, he said. "They made the decision to have elections, and they'll have four more this year," Ross said. "These are potentially transforming sets of events, but we're still in transition." He added that 84 percent of Palestinian voters wanted to end chaos, 81 percent wanted to see the economy and normal life restored and yy percent wanted talks restored with the Israelis. Inside negotiations The former ambassador also conveyed some inside stories from years of service to President Clinton. In the months leading up to the Persian Gulf War, thenSecretary of State James Baker traveled to each of the five countries on the United Nations' Security Council to solicit their views. But Ross said that Baker told him the invasion of Iraq to protect Kuwait was not contingent on the generation of a coalition, and the move to vis- it the other U.N. nations was simply to show their views were taken into account. "[Baker] told me, 'We're going to stop this. If we have to go it alone, we'll stop it,'" Ross said. He told another insider story about a May 4,1994 ceremony in Egypt, which he had persuaded the secretary of state to attend. However, the event became awkward when, on live television, Arafat refused to sign peace documents. "Fifteen minutes into the signing ceremony, Arafat stood up there before the world and refused to sign the maps," Ross said. "We got Arafat off the stage and Yitzhak Rabin said to him, 'What's your problem?'" It turned out Arafat wanted Rabin to agree, in writing, to specific discussions regarding Jericho. "What neither one of them knew was that at 2:30 in the morning when we had concluded [the previous night], I had put it in writing, and they both already signed this," Ross said. "But one of the first things you learn as a diplomat is when people agree, you don't interrupt." The underlying point Ross expressed was a desire to keep trying. "When it comes to the MidEast peace process, the one thing we've never had is luck," Ross said. But he added the United States' image is improving as it begins to stand for democracy in general. If the hard work continues, it could eventually lead to luck. The Lebanese may help provide change, but Iraq is only one factor, he said. "Bush has said we can't rest until we see this resolved. How that will translate into behavior is yet to be seen." sgehrke@ chronicle.utah.edu HQW LQN<i MJ !T BEEN JINCE YOUR ; V ON THE SPOT! ^ Comedy Extravaganza ^'.'., ' ,.\ ? S Saturdays W''''^ ;j^',^> £ ' . , m-,' ' -* ' ..' :•„• , ' A 1 >v 6;30PM-8:30 PM Starting March 12lh 548-1116 for Reservations Murray Historic Theater 4959 S. State Street (1 block north of Murray Park) $7.00 (visit our website for S1/off coupon) www.improvonthespot.com * improvonthespot@yahoo.com •V1 many different things that cause allergies, it is possible for a person to have the symptoms all year long. To find out what medicine works best, those suffering from allergies can get a prick test to find out what that person is allergic to. To do the test, the doctor will inject small amounts of an allergen into a patient's back. If the patient is allergic to the allergen, it will cause the skin to swell. For more information on allergies, visit: http://my.webmd,com/medical_information/condition_centers/allergies/ default.htm ccatlister@ chronicle.utah.edu COFFEE use pig excrement to help fertilize the trees and the pigs continued from page 1 themselves eat the cherries The seeds of the cherries are that fall from the trees, acthe coffee beans, which are cording to Bolton. This is the often sorted into different closest thing farmers have to bins by quality, but growers fertilizers, he added. sell them all. "I want to support people This is one reason Bolton who do things on their own. said he likes to visit the cof- I'll pay more for good coffee," Bolton said. fee farms. "They want to give the All of the coffee at the best to someone who comes Roasting Company is roastto learn about their culture... ed by Bolton. Roasting is we all like to be appreciated," the process that reveals the Bolton said. unique flavors and aromas in "I like organic, shade-grown each coffee. coffee because it has the best Roasting levels are subjecflavors and tastes like the cof- tive, but roasting is artistic fee when I first entered the and scientific with wisdom business," Bolton added. somewhere in the middle, acOrganic, shade-grown cording to Bolton, who in the coffees have a tendency to early 1980s claimed to be the cultivate a more natural en- only roaster between Denver vironment than high-yield- and San Francisco. ing hybrid trees resistant to "I roast coffee artistically disease and frost, according because I can't paint a paintto Bolton, but he added that ing. It's a feel thing," he said. many people use buzzwords Bolton doesn't have any bells like "organic" and "shade- or timers on his roasters to grown" as marketing tools. acknowledge certain moisNot all great, naturally pro- ture contents. duced coffees can be organic Bolton said big companies because certification is ex- like Starbucks have moved pensive, Bolton said. toward automated roasters, Bolton tells a story of a but in so doing, they "lose the small coffee farm in Peru, a romance and soul of it." one-day-and-a-half hike. First, Despite his hardcore love a worker standing on a piece for coffee, Bolton said he "enof wood crushed the berries joys a latte now and then, but on the dirt or on a small slab I want to taste the varietal difof concrete. The people then ferences in straight coffee." sorted them by hand. cfrazier@ chronicle.utah.edu Farmers in the region will Th£ Chronicle is hiring Katie or ©rooke in Onion 240. Enroll now and get $100 back! 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