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...Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area tops Money's eighth annual "Best Places to Live in America" list. The Chamber of Commerce ought to be happy: Fortune magazine, also published by Time Inc., ranked the area as the nation's best business spot earlier this year. Rounding out the Top 10: Provo-Orem and Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah; San Jose, Calif.; Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.; Gainesville, Fla.; Seattle, Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Albuquerque, N.M. At the bottom: small Midwestern cities like Jackson, Mich., home of that state's largest prison...
Each of those who serve first attend the Missionary Training Center in Provo, which can handle 3,000 students at a time. Part of their studies includes intensive language training for several hours a day, seven days a week. From Armenian to Vietnamese -- including such low-demand tongues as Estonian, Tahitian and Icelandic -- 38 different languages are taught at the center, usually by former missionaries or foreign students from nearby universities. At Mormon-backed Brigham Young University, more than 60% of the 28,000 students acquire extensive foreign-language experience...
...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...
Some prosecutors think the device could also be used to issue pollution tickets to motorists who have deliberately tampered with their cars to get around the new rules. But for the moment at least, about 100 drivers in Provo face a far more desirable consequence if the roadside detector flunks their cars twice: private sources will pay for the necessary repairs...
...board was paying too much attention to the complaints of "disappointed women who had difficulty conceiving" and ignoring "the other side of the coin," the fact that he had treated a lot of other women who did get pregnant. Jacobson agreed to give up his practice and moved to Provo, Utah, where his father lives...