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Mining engineers call it a "bump," but that seems like far too tame a term for what happened at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah Thursday night. As rescuers tried to dig down to where six coal miners have been trapped since Aug. 6, the walls of their tunnel exploded inward violently, hurling projectiles of rock and coal at the workers. The awful result: two rescue workers and a federal mine inspector are dead, and several more are in the hospital...
...Teacher in Space program was a creature of NASA's arguably naive, 1980s belief that, with a fleet of sturdy shuttles, space flight could become a wonderfully routine thing. Former Utah Senator Jake Garn snagged himself a seat on one flight - never mind that he spent much of the mission so violently space sick that NASA wags informally added a whole new category, labeled "Garn," to the sliding scale used for diagnosing nausea in orbit. Then Congressman (now Senator) Bill Nelson of Florida spent six days in space aboard the shuttle Columbia in January of 1986, the same month Challenger...
...couldn't remember answers for even the rare friendly inquisitors. After Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, tried to prod him about how long Comey was in Ashcroft's room - hinting that maybe he hadn't really been present for much of the conversation - Gonzales replied, "I don't remember...
...that the believers in the Lal Masjid compound are victims and not common thugs. It is clear that they will not be happy until they force their beliefs on all of Pakistan. They would be committing more crimes if they weren't under siege. Scot Westwood, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH...
...compromise Senate bill emerged out of committee last month that would add two seats to the House of Representatives. One would go to the overwhelmingly Democratic Washington, D.C., while the other would be given to heavily Republican Utah, whose population count during the last census fell just short of netting the state an extra representative. A similar bill passed the House in April and supporters are optimistic that the Senate version has a similarly good shot of passage in the next few months. Standing in their way are President Bush and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, both...