Word: salt
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...case started in 2002, when the Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska let students cross the street to watch the Olympic torch pass on its way to Salt Lake City. As TV cameras rolled, senior Joseph Frederick and several friends unfurled the infamous banner, thinking it was, according to Frederick, "meaningless and funny," just a way "to get on television." But the school principal was not amused, and when Frederick refused to take the banner down, she suspended him for 10 days. Frederick sued the principal and school for violation of his free speech and won in the lower federal...
...While the hotels, eco-lodge, organic date farm, and olive and lake salt factories created jobs for the men of Siwa, however, "We had to get the women to work or the reason for development was incomplete," explains Laila Neamatallah...
Life is slow in the breathtakingly beautiful Egyptian oasis of Siwa, nine hours drive from Cairo. Palm and olive trees seem to float on vast expanses of salt lakes surrounded by serene sand dunes enveloping warm water springs. Siwa's inhabitants are of Berber origin, and live according to centuries-old traditions. But the forces of globalization and economic development have started a slow-motion social revolution in this remote oasis...
...have drawn near to God with their mouths while their hearts remained far from him. We should put religious labels aside and ask candidates about policy positions and try to discern whether their faith puts them on a moral high ground for the betterment of our nation. Meagan Gilmore, Salt Lake City, Utah...
Meagan Gilmore, SALT LAKE CITY...