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...have followed the case of Tom Green with some wonder. Green, a self-proclaimed Mormon living in the Utah desert, has five wives and 30 children (the Mormon Church excommunicated Green in 1980 for his belief in polygamy). He has just been convicted of bigamy in Provo, and could get 25 years - five years for each wife - for doing what all self-respecting male waterbuck, eland, and gnu do as a matter of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Green: Polygamy and Its Discontents | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...accompany his wife and kids to the festival. But after listening to his first storyteller, he was hooked. Now his office staff knows not to make appointments for him during the annual event, which takes place at the foot of Mount Timpanogos in the mouth of the beautiful Provo Canyon in Orem, Utah. "It's so enriching to hear people share their sacred histories," he says. "It's the whole human experience--knowing we're not alone." His sole frustration? With five master yarn spinners weaving their magic at any given moment, he misses out on four sessions for each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: On The Road | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Larkin, owners of the Harrison, a small bed and breakfast located in Waxahachie, Texas, turned that to profitable advantage. Last year the Larkins were looking to increase business and draw weary travelers to the hotel's steps. Mark's brother suggested Big Planet (www.big planet.com) an ISP, based in Provo, Utah, that, for roughly $500, helped the Larkins set up www.harrisonbb.com a site with among other things an address and telephone number. In one year, bookings have increased 20%, and one online business customer stayed a record three months. "Once your name is out there, it opens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booting Up Your Business | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Harvey was traveling up I-15 with teammates Tony Fields and Roderick Foreman, said Utah State Trooper Wade Brewer. Fields, the driver, was racing another car carrying members of the football team from the north Springville exit. The accident occurred in Provo...

Author: By Jonathon Bagley, THE DAILY UNIVERSE | Title: Tragic Car Accident Claims Life | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...roof, a gaggle of children intently watches the proceedings. The teacher is Salome Isofea, 30, a young healer who is demonstrating her art. The man opposite her, a Westerner named Paul Alan Cox, is no ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this exotic setting, the paramount chief of the nearby village of Falealupo. To people here, he is known as Nafanua, in honor of a legendary Samoan warrior goddess who once saved the village from oppression and protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PLANT HUNTER | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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