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...With all that money at stake, no wonder the selection process has a questionable past. In 1998 evidence surfaced to indicate what many Olympic insiders have been whispering for years: that bid cities like Salt Lake City, host of the 2002 winter games, had showered I.O.C. members with gifts?fully paid shopping trips for spouses, college scholarships for children and even cash in envelopes for members. Chastened by the scandals, the I.O.C., long a notoriously secretive body, publicly scrubbed itself clean. Members were expelled. New regulations were drafted forbidding members from visiting candidate cities, imposing a limit on gifts...
Green was born in Salt Lake City. He was brought up a Mormon, and did two years of missionary work for the church in Indiana and Michigan before returning to Utah to study church history. "It was then I saw polygamy had not been abandoned; it just went underground," he says. For proclaiming his belief in polygamy, Green underwent a four-hour excommunication trial in 1980. "For them it was a ticket to hell," Green says. "I saw it as a graduation...
...easier and cheaper than trying to cure it. It was by studying the differences between people who get sick and people who don't--the branch of medical science known as epidemiology--that doctors discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer, between cholesterol and heart disease, between salt and high blood pressure. Epidemiology also led to the understanding that cooked tomatoes may help protect against prostate cancer, and that fruits and vegetables tend to stave off cancers of all sorts...
...return to our lodgings, eat an improbably large meal and talk over the events of the day and our training plans to get faster over the summer. The conversation inevitably turns to the Salt Lake Olympics and the next series of dates marked in red on all of our calendars. The trials start on December 26 at the Soldier Hollow venue in Utah. I still haven't exactly figured out how to "qualify" for the trials (aren't they supposed to be open to everyone?) and this is one of my projects for the summer. There is some kind...
...vanguard policy in Arizona (see box), it is expected to divert some 100,000 first- and second-time drug offenders from prisons into rehab over the next three years. "California's Proposition 36 highlights the disgust many feel for our current system," says Rocky Anderson, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, which has been dealing with a spate of heroin overdose deaths. "Punitive policies, at tremendous taxpayer expense, are an unmitigated failure." Anderson and like-minded officials are sending a message to the White House that if the Bush war on drugs means warehousing users, many states will...