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SUSPENDED. MARIE-REINE LE GOUGNE, 41, and DIDIER GAILHAGUET, 48, French skating officials who, the International Skating Union ruled, colluded to fix the result of the pairs event at the Salt Lake City Olympics in February by ranking the Russian pair ahead of the Canadians; from any involvement with international skating for three years; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
There was, Martin recalls, "this pregnant pause" when she first broached the idea to the Salt Lake City library in late 1999. But she soon persuaded officials to try a pilot program. Within a few months, the Reading Education Assistance Dogs program had landed in all six of the city's branches. It has since been picked up by the school system as an after-hours program, by a residential center and by the Boys and Girls Club. And the idea has quickly spread beyond Salt Lake City to about a dozen other cities around the country, from Oregon...
...Salton Sea is a body of salt water lying some 225 feet below sea level in California's Imperial Valley. It is a dead lake, and the landscape around it is also desolate and eerie. For obscure reasons, a jazzman, Danny Parker (Val Kilmer), and his wife are vacationing there. They ask for directions at a forbidding house inhabited by methamphetamine dealers. While they are there, masked criminals break in, and Danny's wife is killed by the intruders...
Another learning experience for me was my involvement in UNICEF's campaign to eliminate iodine-deficiency disorders. Like most people, I had never heard of this problem, which causes stillbirth, dwarfism and low IQ but is easily prevented by eating iodized salt...
Mired in scandal over bribes recieved by its members, the International Olympic Committee called on Romney to take the helm of the local organizing authority, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee...