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...against smog may soon get a new high-tech weapon. A device being tested in Provo, Utah, uses an infrared beam, computer software and a video camera to add up the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons billowing from the tail pipes of passing cars -- and to automatically record their license numbers...
...dramatized enactment of problems a player may face regarding women and friends. More and more N.B.A. teams are flying charter and unloading their athletes onto buses parked right on the tarmac. Some teams visiting Phoenix prefer hotels near the Coliseum to the Westcourt hotel, 10 miles away. The Utah Jazz books rooms at a hotel in New Jersey even when they are playing at Madison Square Garden. "New York has too much," says the team's president, Frank Layden...
Denver at Utah...
Bucking its Mormon, conservative traditions last week, Salt Lake City made Deedee Corradini, a Lebanese-born Presbyterian, its first woman mayor. Corradini, who had never held office before, scored a 55% to 45% victory over Republican Dave Buhler, director of Utah's Department of Commerce. Gender was never an issue in the campaign, where crime and pocketbook concerns prevailed. And Corradini worked so hard to keep the race nonpartisan that when state Republicans held their convention a few months ago, she set up a booth among them to attract support. The mayor-elect's female supporters couldn't help crowing...
...others are now vying with California. Sunbelt states like Texas and Florida already have top-flight sports systems at the high school and university levels. Recent research supporting the benefits of high-altitude training will continue to attract athletes to mountainous states like Colorado and Utah...