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...center of everything, even when you're in the middle of nowhere. The problem is that the center of everything is not an actual, inhabitable place but a floating media mirage, an invisible digital bubble of information located somewhere in the fifth dimension. Having passed through the canyonlands of Utah while listening to Caribbean pop and having crossed the Black Hills of South Dakota immersed in a disco channel called the Strobe, I feel after a year of nonstop driving (50,000 miles in all) that I haven't, in fact, gone anywhere except deeper and deeper inside my radio...
...also true that a state could decline to link its database or verify immigration status, but then federal officials (like the ones at airports) would not accept its licenses as proof of identity. The bill would, however, allow states to issue illegal immigrants special driver's licenses, as Utah and Tennessee do, that allow driving but are unusable for official identification at airports or federal buildings...
...unveiled last week. Scientists say it offers the first glimpse into how dinos made the transition from small, agile meat eaters to elephant-size vegetarians. Falcarius, as it turns out, was dug up by a black-market fossil collector named Lawrence Walker, who found it on federal land in Utah while digging at night under a tarp. Convinced he was onto something big, the poacher tipped off a paleontologist he knew, James Kirkland, and led him to the site. Kirkland tried to protect his source but, asked under oath how the dinosaur was discovered, reluctantly turned Walker in. Kirkland...
...legislature than a drift to the left. Most Montana Democrats and Bozeman Ph.D.s still hate wolves, taxes and all forms of government, and still like to cut down trees, dig up mountains and race snowmobiles through national parks. Montana has about as much chance of turning blue as Utah...
...history is any judge, the outcome will be mixed. The Utah War was bloodless in the end. Buchanan did install his own Governor. And then he pardoned everyone in the state. All was forgiven, if not forgotten. --With reporting by Melissa August/ Washington, Nadia Mustafa/ New York and Maggie Sieger/ Chicago