Word: utah
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Founded in the 1820s by a New Yorker named Joseph Smith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now centered in Utah where Smith's followers moved after being chased out of Midwestern towns they had tried to settle in. A fundamentalist religion, it places heavy emphasis on the Bible, but also gives equal power to the Book of Mormon, which church doctrine says is Smith's translation of golden tablets he found under the guidance of a holy messenger. The book tells the story of ancient inhabitants of America descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel...
...junior this year, Matt Thomas first arrived at Harvard in fall 1971, a refugee from the Salt Lake Mormon environment that he had begun to find stifling. He was, he says, just slightly more than a "cultural Mormon": like many Mormons raised in the heavily Mormon atmosphere of Utah or some nearby Western state, he was still troubled by questions about the church. "I did not," the tall, lanky and bearded Kirkland House resident stresses. "want...
While Dad tends to this year's campaign, Steve Ford, 19, will be stalking horses, dark and otherwise, in California. The President's youngest son has abandoned Utah State University and headed further west to work for California Horse Breeder George Texeria in Mission Viejo. "He found that he had plenty of extra tune in Utah," explained a White House spokesman last week. "He just couldn't find the kind of job he wanted." Denying the suggestion that Steve's move is really an attempt to leave college, the White House pointed out that...
...help entice qualified physicians into the boondocks, a group that included doctors from the University of Utah's College of Medicine independently established a nonprofit corporation called the Health Systems Research Institute (H.S.R.I.). The idea has been successful from the start. H.S.R.I. has already supplied badly needed medical help to sparsely populated areas of five Western states, where it now operates eleven clinics and three hospitals. As one doctor recruited by the institute says, "It gives me an opportunity to practice medicine as it was meant to be practiced without all the garbage of fighting with insurance companies...
...Helped by a physician's assistant, a licensed practical nurse and three clerks, Norton sees about 200 patients a week, including many travelers (he is the only doctor along 120 miles of Interstate 80). In difficult cases, he can call upon advice from specialists at the University of Utah. He also has available the services of an ambulance plane. Best of all, says Norton, he doesn't have to take a "pay cut or suddenly pull a kid out of college" whenever insurance companies hike malpractice rates...