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...hour south of the Great Salt Lake, a two-lane blacktop crosses a cattle guard into a wild expanse of golden scrub grass. A few trailers and prefab houses, a collection of junked cars and a gas station that sells Spam and soda pop--such is the homeland of the Native American tribe known as the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes. At their peak, the Goshutes numbered 20,000. Today only a dozen of the band's 121 members live on the 18,000-acre reservation; the rest have scattered across the West in search of a better life...
...east is one of the world's largest nerve-gas incinerators. To the north is a giant magnesium plant, a major polluter. To the northwest sit a hazardous-waste incinerator and a toxic-waste landfill. The tribe's only profitable business is a municipal garbage dump serving Salt Lake City...
...license on the grounds that the spent fuel would sit dangerously close to an Air Force training path. F-16 fighter jets roar overhead on 7,000 sorties a year. Should one crash into the steel-and-concrete casks, state attorneys argue, cancer-causing radiation could waft over Salt Lake City. Moreover, the state says, used fuel rods, parked aboveground, would be a target for car bombers or airplane hijackers--"a terrorist's dream come true," says Governor Jon Huntsman Jr., adding, "I'd lie prostrate on the train tracks to keep this out of our state...
...weather makes Diego's younger brother Andrea Della Valle, 40, vice president of Tod's S.p.A., very nervous. Even after the elicottero has floated up several hundred feet and the 100-acre estate below?tennis court, boccie court, soccer field, man-made lake, lemon and olive groves and church included?has receded into the distance and there's not much left to view except gray fluff, Andrea keeps a watchful eye out the window. It's not surprising, given the family dynamic. Andrea plays the goalie to Diego's striker, the introverted, behind-the-scenes power broker to Diego...
...After the season-opening Plant City tournament, Harvard will spend the following weekend in Miami for the Blue & Gold Felsberg Memorial Tournament. After trips to Philadelphia to play Villanova and New Rochelle, New York to play Iona, the Crimson will spend spring break at the Utah Tournament in Salt Lake City before trips to Logan and Orem, Utah to face Utah State and Utah Valley State. After one last trip to Hamden, Connecticut to face Quinnipiac, the Crimson finally comes home. But the respite will be brief. Between conference and non-conference dates, the Crimson will be home just five...