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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: $25 cash for each gun in working order...
Unofficially called Four Corners disease, because it was first identified in the region around the intersection of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, the malady has now turned up in 12 states, from Oregon to Texas. At first, no one knew why so many men and women -- often young and otherwise healthy -- were dropping dead. But months of swift and skilled medical detective work have confirmed the cause of the outbreak -- and provided hope that it will not spread farther...
...shameful nadir of this bias followed the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Under pressure from security-conscious Army officials, the Federal Government exiled more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to internment camps in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. Despite this humiliation, 30,000 Japanese Americans served in uniform, and the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Battalion became the most decorated units in U.S. military history...
Jason G. Wood '97, who hails from Orem, Utah, faces this problem, but he is in good spirits about spending Thanksgiving at Harvard...
...huge fire trap. If it were a building, it would fail inspection. Every year for five months virtually no rain falls. And every year from mid-September to November the weather system overhead jerks into reverse -- instead of blowing from the Pacific landward, it blows westward, from Utah to the sea. The winds superheat in the Mojave Desert. Then, in hundreds of canyons leading coastward from the mountains, they can accelerate up to 75 m.p.h. If California is lucky, the Santa Anas, as they are called, merely annoy, ushering in what author Joan Didion has called "the season of suicide...