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...last month, one was particularly shocking. Volunteers by the dozen lined up at the Taser International booth for a chance to get blasted with 50,000 volts from the company's newest stun gun. "It felt like I got hit by lightning 100 times," said Jeremy Friedbaum, 46, of Provo, Utah...
...social relations are evolving slowly, urbanization is happening in a hurry. Some 1.7 million people now live on the Wasatch Front, an almost uninterrupted suburban strip along the I-15 highway from Ogden through Salt Lake down to Provo. The entire valley often has a blanket of brown air hanging over it, the legacy of years of unchecked growth. Now the consensus on unlimited growth is being challenged-from within the state...
...help others. That it took a tragedy for people to forget themselves and remember family, freedom and God is a sad commentary on Americans. Maybe we have learned something from this. Do I want to return to the selfishness and complacency of a "normal" life? No! MINDY CARLSON Provo, Utah...
Kennecott's once dominant local stature has diminished over the years with its shrinking operations, the influx of new-economy folk like computer-chip makers and software firms, and growth in tourism and business services. Tech companies such as Intel and Provo-based Novell draw on Utah's young, educated work force. This creeping diversity isn't only commercial: in August a Hindu temple opened in South Jordan, which is 75% Mormon...
SENTENCED. TOM GREEN, 53, brash Mormon Fundamentalist with five wives and 30 children; to five years in prison and repayment of $78,000 in state welfare checks; in Provo, Utah...