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...would like to work with orangutans when I grow up. Any tips about how to get started? Lauren Webb, LAYTON, UTAH...
...role in a dogfighting ring. Visitors can take dogs - and potbellied pigs! - for walks, feed horses or tend to rabbits. You can stop in for the day, or stay longer, sleeping in a handful of cabins on the grounds. If you're planning to catch some of Utah's scenery during your next Stateside visit, remember that it's even more beautiful with a couple of dogs happily leading...
...American Southwest, one of the most memorable was a stroll over a stretch of desert scrub with a scruffy, playful, sweet-as-can-be black-and-white dog named Harley. We met at Dogtown, a section of the nonprofit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, www.bestfriends. org, outside the Utah town of Kanab. Harley, like many of the approximately 500 dogs at Best Friends - and many of the pigs, horses, birds, rabbits, mules and other animals who live there - was abandoned by his owners. Others had it worse. They were abused, used for fighting or kept in horrible conditions. But since they...
...Despite national attention, simultaneous text messaging and driving remains legal in much of the country. A national ban may deter many potential text messagers, especially if the penalty for causing an accident while texting rivaled that of drunk driving, like the law passed last month by the Utah legislature that could send offenders to prison for 15 years. But while such a law may help ensure that perpetrators get the penalty they deserve, it may save few lives. Texters who get lucky and avoid an accident will be hard to detect, since phones are small and many hold theirs...
...advantages of a so-called 4-10 schedule are clear: less commuting, lower utility bills. But there have been unexpected benefits as well, even for people who aren't state employees. By staying open for more hours most days of the week, Utah's government offices have become accessible to people who in the past had to miss work to get there in time. With the new 4-10 policy, lines at the department of motor vehicles actually got shorter. Plus, fears that working 10-hour days would lead to burnout turned out to be unfounded - Wadsworth says workers took...