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...There are several races coming up in the next few months and my calendar is marked in red. I'm planning on heading out to Wyoming in March for the National Championships, and the Olympic Trials start on December 26, 2001, in Utah. In all likelihood, the future is going to hold more of the same brain-twisting good/bad madness that has come along...
...opposite end of the technology scale, Eldrid Sequeira, a Utah State University graduate student, is designing microscopic "submarines"--drug-bearing capsules that someday could be propelled through the bloodstream by bacteria to attack disease. Looking even further ahead for alternative means of driving these tiny craft, he is considering building biomotors 100 billionths of a meter wide that would use only the bacteria's hairlike, propelling flagella to move ahead...
...week, she will be honored at the Tribute to Independent Vision. We wouldn't begrudge the star of Boogie Nights and Magnolia a thing, but she'd better watch her back in the parking lot. For this year there will be another star on the slopes of Park City, Utah, who will no doubt consider herself worthy of the kudos. She's the fearless, delusional transsexual heroine of the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and the fact that this unlikely entry has made it into the Dramatic Film competition means that Hedwig must be in fighting form...
...cone snail produces a unique venom that contains between 50 and 200 pharmacologically active peptides known as conotoxins. The most advanced conotoxin-derived drug in development is Elan Corp.'s Ziconotide, a nonaddictive treatment for severe chronic pain that is awaiting FDA approval. Cognetix, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently started clinical trials on a possible epilepsy treatment. Also in the works: potential therapies for schizophrenia, stroke and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases...
...potentially hostile Congress. Roosevelt used the act in 1908 to protect the Grand Canyon. Standing on his predecessor's shoulders, Clinton chose the South Rim of the Grand Canyon as a backdrop for his declaration in 1996 of the 1.7 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah...