Word: utah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York City's holiday shoppers could be found last week at department-store sales. Thousands of people were snapping up presents at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's gift shops. Calvin and Sharon Petersen of Mantua, Utah, bought build-it-yourself paper medieval towns (price: $6.95). Cathy Smith of Medford, Ore., bought a framed print of Nathaniel Currier's lithograph The Favorite Cat ($38). For his mother, Steven Prince, a Los Angeles businessman, selected a shawl imprinted with the tree of life ($25). Says Prince: "Museums sell items of quality. They bring art to the people...
...engage in sexual activities" and foster "good communication between parents and child about sexual matters." The plan has won favor with conservative church groups but has been derided by family-planning advocates as an unrealistic "chastity act." Terrance Olson, professor of family sciences at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is using funds from the new program to develop a conservative sex-education curriculum. Olson's offering stresses abstinence, and, he says, "we try to involve teenagers with their parents in understanding the issues of marriage, family and reproduction." The program has been tested in selected schools in Utah, California...
...they have complained that he does not permit his family the free flying privileges that most airline executives give their children. Burr and his wife Bridget, who was a cheerleader for his high school basketball team, occasionally manage to take the family to their ski condo in Park City, Utah, and to a home on Martha's Vineyard...
B.Y.U.'s Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies opened quietly in 1968, operating in various rented quarters and offering semester-long courses to students from the main Utah campus. In 1980 the university was offered a long-term lease for its own campus on a plum site: a 6.6-acre plot near Hebrew University with a panoramic view of the ancient walled city. B.Y.U.'s plan, calling for a $15 million seven-story building, including a 500-seat concert hall, was approved by Israeli authorities in 1984. Now half finished, the structure is due to be completed by the spring...
...schools spend their money wisely. Appalled by bloated administrative and bureaucratic expenses, Patrick Byrne is championing state initiatives that would require schools to spend 65% of their budgets on teachers' salaries and other classroom costs. The national average is 61.5%, and only four states--Maine, New York, Tennessee and Utah...