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Cooking oil extracted from algae Research shows possibilities
LOGAN — Researchers at Utah State University think they may have found a new and healthy form of cooking oil extracted from a plant you might not expect. When it comes to cooking oils, they have to have the right lipid chain. If they don't, they could either taste bad or leave a weird feeling in your mouth. "We have found a type of algae that makes just the right kinds of ...
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About Utah Without fanfare the National Ability Center in Park City has taken the dis out of disability
Jacob Johnson (17) brushes a horse after riding it on a trail behind the National Ability Center during Camp Xtreme at the NAC in Park City, Utah August 13, 2010. (Keith Johnson, Deseret ...
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Doug Robinson Utah State runner Brittany Fisher gaining strength after 50-foot fall from a Southern Utah cliff
Whatever happened to Brittany Fisher, the former Utah State student-athlete who fell from a cliff in the middle of the night? Glad you ...
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Utah mom makes big difference in fight for clean air
SALT LAKE CITY — Cherise Udell spent her early years as a guide through the Amazon jungle. Armed with a 17-inch machete, she said she was ready for any challenge. When she moved to salt lake city in 2006, she found something to fight for: Making Utah's air cleaner for her children...and all of us. "I call myself a full-time mom, but when really look at it...there is no ...
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Boy attacked by 3 rottweilers recovering well
ST GEORGE — Just two weeks ago, an 11-year-old boy from St. George was attacked by three rottweilers. He had injuries over his entire body, including bites so deep doctors could see muscle. Nevertheless, these days K.J. Reid is doing much better. At the start of National Dog Bite Prevention Week, you wouldn't think he was the same boy suffering from an attack back on May 6. ...
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Movie Review
Bad Lieutenant
When I think back on watching this film, two thoughts immediately cross my mind. First, it was a terribly unpleasant experience, and secondly, it was a brilliant. Those two thoughts, while sounding a bit contradictory at first, are intricately related. How could film depict this kind of subject matter without being unsettling? The real victory in "Bad Lieutenant" is how it is so horrifying without ... ...
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XanGo co-founder says partners embezzled hundreds of thousands
SALT LAKE CITY - A co-founder of one of Utah's most recognizable and successful brands paints a picture of a company rife with corporate looting, internal cover-ups and spying in a federal lawsuit. XanGo co-founder and board member Bryan B. Davis accuses his five founding partners of asset mismanagement, intimidation and illegal activities from fraud to bribery in the 38-page complaint ...
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Closer to home How will these national scandals affect Utah politics
In the past two weeks, Americans were confronted with the fact that their government engaged in activities repugnant to democratic societies — cover up of mistakes in protecting foreign diplomats, IRS probes of conservative political organizations and secret seizure of more than 100 journalists' phone records. We offer insightful examination (in other words, LaVarr needling Frank, ...
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Who Needs a Limo
Who Needs a Limo? Authorities accused Audrey Ferguson, 51, of calling ambulances at least 100 times in the past seven years to get free rides to downtown Charleston, S.C. "We transport her to one of the area hospitals and then oftentimes before we can get our paperwork completed, she’s signed out from the hospital and gone on to do other things," Dorchester County EMS ...
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Pro Wrestler Damien Sandow
Ordinarily, hearing a pompous, condescending, presumably overeducated man bloviate and self-promote doesn’t provide for engaging entertainment. Being able to experience Damien Sandow doing said bloviating and self-promoting, however, means an exception to that ...
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70 years later firefighters honor fallen heroes of Victory Theater Fire
SALT LAKE CITY - A 1931 Mack firetruck was parked on streets wet from rain Sunday morning outside a building that once housed Victory Theater. The truck was one that firefighters used to respond to a fire at the theater 70 years ago to the day, that resulted in three responding firefighters killed and 10 injured. Dozens of Salt Lake and Murray firefighters stood at attention as a bell sounded ...
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Crowne Plaza, Los Angeles International Airport
I needed a hotel overnight near LAX and decided on the Crowne Plaza, a 4 star recently-renovated business class hotel ...
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- Cooking oil extracted from algae Research shows possibilities
- About Utah Without fanfare the National Ability Center in Park City has taken the dis out of disability
- Doug Robinson Utah State runner Brittany Fisher gaining strength after 50-foot fall from a Southern Utah cliff
- Utah mom makes big difference in fight for clean air
- Boy attacked by 3 rottweilers recovering well