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...words, play is children's work, and finding the right materials -- stories, drama, clay, blocks, sand, water, paints -- really means finding the tools for reasoning and maturing. "What's basic and important to any young child's education," says Shelley Lindauer, head of the Lab School Preeducation Program at Utah State University, "is curiosity and observation. It's much more important to know how to go about finding an answer -- not a right answer...
...receive prison terms of 10 years and fines of up to $10,000 if they refused to reveal their HIV infection before an operation -- whether or not they passed on the virus to their patients. The second bill, backed by Senators Robert Dole of Kansas and Orrin Hatch of Utah, threatens any state that does not implement the CDC guidelines over the next year with loss of its federal public-health funding. Congressional leaders expect the Dole-Hatch proposal to attract greater support from the House of Representatives...
...religion, as Karl Marx once wrote, is "the opium of the people," in Utah it is the amphetamine. Thanks largely to the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- the Mormons -- Utah has become the envy of its neighbors. Other states are bogged down in recession, but Utah's economy is racing. Other states around the country are raising taxes and cutting services to balance their budgets, but Utah is enjoying a third straight budget surplus. Other states are having trouble attracting job- creating businesses, but in Utah they are flocking in from all over. What...
That the rest of the country has cause to be jealous of Utah is an oddity. Established by the Mormons as a religious refuge in 1847, Utah applied for statehood six times before it was accepted into the Union. The locals even went so far as to name a county (Millard) and a town (Fillmore) after the 13th President in an unsuccessful attempt to get him on the side of Utah statehood. Not until 1896, when the Mormons formally abandoned polygamy, did Utah finally make...
...unprecedented summit conference in November of the Governors from the seven states served by the Colorado. And almost certain to come up, whether or not it is on the official agenda, is the 1922 Colorado River Compact, the agreement that divvied up the water among the Upper Basin states -- Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico -- and those in the Lower Basin -- California, Nevada and Arizona...