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...Bacons decided to take action. Sally, an artist and real estate agent, remembered hearing about a child who had had a good experience at a wilderness-therapy camp, North Star Expeditions, Inc. The Bacons talked with North Star's owners about the 63-day survival course in the south Utah desert. The program, the Bacons decided, could be just the thing to help their son get back on track. "I pictured Aaron sitting around campfires, being nurtured by nature," Sally Bacon explained to the Los Angeles Times. "I thought I was sending him to a little slice of heaven...
...March 1, 1994, Aaron's North Star adventure began -- an ordeal that resembled a desert hell and that ended one month later with the return of Aaron's emaciated corpse to his parents. Last month a Panguitch, Utah, judge ordered North Star's owners and some of its staff to stand trial later this year on charges of child abuse and operating a program in violation of state licensing standards. Lawyers for the owners contend that Aaron was uncooperative and refused to carry his backpack, thereby depriving himself of food and supplies. "While no one wants to use the word...
...journal, as well as diaries kept by other campers and an inquiry conducted by Garfield County deputy sheriff Celeste Bernards, tells a more harrowing story. Early in the trip he developed intense stomach pain, which an autopsy later revealed was caused by an ulcer, according to testimony by Utah chief medical examiner Todd Grey at last month's pretrial hearing. In a civil suit, Aaron's parents claim that some counselors taunted him for slowing down the group. As punishment, the suit continues, North Star took away Aaron's sleeping bag, leaving him with only a blanket in the sometimes...
Salt Lake City willhost the 2002 Winter Olympics. While boosters watched on a giant screen back home, delegates from the Utah capital sprang from their seats when the International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...
...last minute.) "This is a very cynical vote," saysTIME senior technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It's unconstitutional, and the first time anybody challenges it, it's going to be thrown out." The handful of opponents Wednesday found a rare conservative ally in Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, who criticized the cheap political theatrics at play: "It's kind of a game, to see who can be the most against pornography and obscenity," Hatch said. "It's a political exercise, and I'm against...