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...office of Gordon Hinckley, the president of the Mormon church, leads through long carpeted corridors with wood-paneled walls and security doors that swing open noiselessly with no visible movement from the guards. It is like walking into a David Lynch movie. In these hushed precincts, groups of gray-haired men in identical black suits pass by, beaming smiles like undertakers. Everyone is scrupulously polite, but as a visitor, one feels that one has been dropped into the middle of a plot, without knowing the beginning...
...Utah of the inside [the Mormon faith] and the outside," says the writer Tempest Williams. "The vitality of this state is right along that border-the place of greatest reward, but also the place of greatest risk." That is where the plot is still being written. Like all David Lynch movies, it will have many strange twists before...
...STORY Mars Mission Jan. 26, 2003 Past Issues Sex & Health Jan. 19, 2003 ----------------- The Real Dean Jan. 12, 2003 ----------------- Person of the Year Dec. 29, 2003 ----------------- Lost Gospels Dec. 22, 2003 ----------------- Insurgents Dec. 15, 2003 ----------------- Diabetes Dec. 8, 2003 ----------------- Love/Hate Bush Dec. 1, 2003 ----------------- Jobs Nov. 24, 2003 ----------------- Jessica Lynch Nov. 17, 2003 ----------------- Russell Crowe Nov. 10, 2003 ----------------- Medicated Kids Nov. 3, 2003 ----------------- New SATs Oct. 27, 2003 ----------------- Eating Smarter Oct. 20, 2003 ----------------- CIA Leak Oct. 13, 2003 ----------------- What Went Wrong Oct. 6, 2003 ----------------- Reagan Letters Sept. 29, 2003 ----------------- Johnny Cash Sept...
...passage of time. Sometimes you have to help it along with a pair of scissors. In the archives of the Tulsa Tribune, a now defunct Oklahoma newspaper, two pages from May 31, 1921, have been clipped away. Researchers believe they contained an inflammatory news story and an editorial--"To Lynch a Negro Tonight"--that egged on the men who set off that year's Tulsa riot, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history. When students of the event went looking for those pages, what they found was a blank space...
...relatively safe route into Japan is blue-chip Japanese exporters, which, while not dirt cheap, stand to benefit from renewed buying among U.S. customers and a continuing slide in the yen. David Bowers, chief international strategist at Merrill Lynch, likes the copier company Canon, where 84% of sales are outside Japan, and consumer electronics giant Pioneer, where 64% of sales are outside Japan. Also on his list is Nissan, which has been aggressively investing in new production technologies. All three stocks trade in the U.S. as American Depositary Receipts...