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INSIDE166th Year — No. 34 © 2004 Wisconsin State Journal

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SPORTS SPECTRUM

T H E S T A T E O F T H E U N I O N A D D R E S SSome simple spots on the wings of a fruit fly

A call to ‘save’Social Securityare creating a major buzz in the science world.

AT A GLANCEHighlights from President

Bush’s speech Wednesday night:

THE KEY TO SOCIAL SECURITY

Once fully phased in, Bush’splan would allow workers whowill be 55 or younger this yearto place as much as two-thirdsof their Social Security payrolltax into private accounts thatthey could invest in stocks andbonds and draw on only afterretiring.

He did not say how he wouldpay for his plan, and did notcommit himself to anyparticular course of cuts in theguaranteed benefit to restorethe retirement system’sfinancial health.

“I know that none of thesereforms would be easy. But wehave to move ahead withcourage and honesty, becauseour children’s retirementsecurity is more important thanpartisan politics.”

Bush promised not toabandon the U.S. mission therebefore the Iraqis are capable ofproviding their own security.

“We will not set an artificialtimetable for leaving Iraq,because that would emboldenthe terrorists and make thembelieve they can wait us out.”

Bush asked Congress for $350million to support thePalestinians under their newpresident, Mahmoud Abbas.

The budget Bush will proposeon Monday would substantiallyreduce or eliminate more than150 programs.

“The principle here is clear. Ataxpayer dollar must be spentwisely, or not at all.”

The president repeated hissupport for a constitutionalamendment to ban same-sexmarriage and limits on stem-cellresearch, for a “guest worker”program for immigrants fromMexico and elsewhere in LatinAmerica, limits on medicalmalpractice lawsuits andawards, a simplified federalincome tax and extending theeducation standards testing forsecondary schools into highschools.

EVOLUTION?

By Ron SeelyWisconsin State Journal

Curious about how amorous male fruit fliesdance and display their spotted wings duringcourtship, UW-Madison researchers dugdeeply into the genetic underpinnings of thebehavior and are shedding new light on themechanisms that drive evolution.

Scientists working in the laboratory of biolo-gist Sean Carroll have described the geneticprocess that accounts for the alluring spots onthe wings of some male fruit flies. And theyhave isolated the section of the genome in-volved by transferring the genetic material re-sponsible for the spots to the eggs of fruit fliesunlucky enough to have plain wings.

The eggs produced fruit flies with the spot-producing gene and one fly actually was trans-formed, displaying a faint but definite female-attracting smudge.

The implications of the appearance of thatsmudge are considerable — especially for thefruit fly — in the context of evolution. Thesmudge will make it easier for the fly to attracta mate and produce offspring. The male off-spring will be more likely to have the smudge,prosper and multiply. Those that don’t will notdo as well.

That, in a fruit fly, is a working example ofCharles Darwin’s idea about how nature selectscharacteristics that allow for survival.

But Darwin did not have the benefit of mod-ern science to explain the nuts and bolts ofevolution, and scientists such as Carroll are fill-ing in the gaps.

The findings, published Wednesday in thejournal Nature in an article titled “ChanceCaught on the Wing,” provides one of the firstand most convincing glimpses of howevolution works at the genetic level. Scientistshave a good grasp of the longer evolutionaryprocess, of change in species over time, butlittle understanding of what happens in genes

Please see EVOLUTION, Page A9

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Charles Dharapak – Associated PressVice President Dick Cheney looks on as President Bush gives his Stateof the Union address Wednesday, focusing heavily on domestic issues.

MIDDLE EAST

Bush says a gradual overhaulof Social Security is essential SPENDING

OTHER ISSUES

WHAT’SWITH THEWINGS? UW-Madison photos

Different species of fruit flies display remarkably dif-ferent patterns on their wings. Observing how thosewith decorations such as spots seem to be able to at-tract mates more easily, researchers at UW-Madisondug deeply into the molecular mechanisms that con-trol what is, in essence, the machinery of evolution.By transferring genes and parts of genes from flieswith spots on their wings to flies with plain wings,they were able to find the molecular switches thatcontrol where pigmentation is deployed on the wing. REACTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE SPEECH ON PAGE A3

‘Life’s So Good,’ but isthe new tourism slogan?

State should’ve come to meA t first glance, it’s

hard to get ex-cited about our

new tourism slogan:“Wisconsin — Life’s sogood.”

Maybe it’s becausewe’re in the dead ofwinter, when the snow,sky and my complexionare all ashen.

“Wisconsin — Life’s so gray.”Well, at least February is better

than March, when everythingmelts. With a pair of scissors, youcould change our slogan to “Wis-consin — Life’s slow goo.”

Or maybe we could alter it to ad-vertise those naughty cheatingspouse services that keep popping

up in my e-mail:“Wisconsin — Wife’s

so good.”Sadly, I think the op-

portunities for mutatingtourism slogans aren’tas good as they used tobe. The most fun tour-ism slogan was the “Es-cape to Wisconsin”campaign of the 1980s.

Remember those green bumperstickers? (Remember bumper stick-ers? They’ve been replaced by“window clings.”) The “Escape toWisconsin” campaign just beggedfor clever scissors surgery. Theanti-tourism slogan “Escape

Please see SMITH, Page A9

By Patricia SimmsWisconsin State Journal

Debra Bresser, who works at theWisconsin Department of Com-merce, wrinkled her nose just alittle at the state’s new tourism slo-gan, “Wisconsin — Life’s So Good.”

“It doesn’t seem to have flow toit, especially with that apostrophe,”mused Bresser, leaving work as theCapitol slid into dusk Wednesday.

Earlier Wednesday, Gov. JimDoyle and Tourism Secretary JimHolperin announced the statewould spend about $2 million this

summer to saturate airwaves, pa-pers and billboards with the sloganto attract tourists from places suchas Chicago and St. Paul, Minn.

Tight budget times make thatseem like a lot of money, Bressersaid. “What’s wrong with ‘Escape toWisconsin’?” she finally asked, not-ing a past slogan.

Doyle also said he was proposinga $3.8 million budget increase fortourism marketing over the nexttwo years, in addition to the $8.8million the department already

Please see SLOGAN, Page A9

Department of TourismA new ad touts the beauty of Wisconsin’s state parks, oneof several with the new “Life’s So Good” slogan that willdominate advertising promoting tourism.

RHYTHM

Country music doubleheader tonightCountry music artists Montgomery Gentry and Trace Adkins

headline a show tonight at the Dane County Coliseum.

SUSANLAMPERT SMITH

T H U R S D A Y

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NEW STREAK COST OF ‘SIN’Badgers get back to their winning ways

at home, beat Northwestern 73-58 PAGE E1

Readers comment on the proposal toraise the cigarette tax PAGE F1

By Terence HuntAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Republi-cans repeatedly jumped totheir feet, cheering and ap-plauding. Democrats scowledin their seats, some protestingout loud as President Bush rat-tled off new details of hisagenda for change at home.

Yet, when these outsizedpartisan displays died down atthe first State of the Union ad-dress of Bush’s second term,the magnitude and politicalrisks of his proposals hung inthe air — apparent to those onboth sides of the aisle.

He was proposing no lessthan the most ambitious over-

haul of the federal retirementsystem since Social Securitywas created as the centerpieceof Franklin D. Roosevelt’s NewDeal seven decades ago.

Bush challenged a hesitantCongress to “strengthen andsave” Social Security, sayingthe nation’s costliest socialprogram faced bankruptcy un-less changed. Bush’s planwould cut guaranteed retire-ment benefits for youngerAmericans but would not af-fect checks for people now 55and older.

He pledged to work withCongress “to find the most ef-fective combination of re-forms,” although he has ruled

Please see BUSH, Page A9