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  • LDS see jump in aid needs

    Jorge Carranza sits at a computer at LDS Employment Resource Services at Welfare Square, searching for a company looking for a worker like him.
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  • Utahns giving — to Obama

    Here's a quick political quiz about famously Republican Utah: Which presidential candidate has raised more money from Utahns this election cycle, Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama?
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  • Foster care for Jeffs' apparent child bride

    A 14-year-old girl believed to have been married to Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is back in foster care.
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  • Women gymnasts restore U.S. glitter

    Nastia Liukin's twists and turns had the grace of a ballet dancer. Every flip was carefully choreographed and repeatedly rehearsed to get the most out of her lean body.
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  • Delta-Northwest merger looks likely soon

    As summer winds down, Congress is lining up its autumn hearings. But airline mergers, the subject of four hearings this spring, are not among the hot-button issues scheduled for attention.
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  • Redeem team wary of medal-round slip-up

    The five-date slate of preliminary pool games for the 12 men's basketball teams at the Beijing Olympics has accomplished its purpose — providing the seeding for the eight quarterfinalists and reflecting how dominant the favorite United States squad really is.
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  • MormonTimes.com: Church leaders use sense in humor

    Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have often used humor to deal with the pressures that come with their responsibilities, prompting one LDS educator to dub a sense of humor ?a gift of the spirit.?
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  • Afghan kitchen: Adapting a cuisine to a new homeland

    Mahoba Rahimi is an anomaly in her U.S. kitchen. She doesn't use measuring cups, she is still getting used to an electric stove and the food processor seems out of place.
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  • Russia is denounced in NATO statement

    NATO declared Tuesday that there will be no "business as usual" with Moscow while Russian forces occupied large parts of Georgia, but it took no decisive action to enforce a demand for an immediate Russian withdrawal in line with a French-brokered cease-fire.
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  • Former Salt Lake library's future as 'Leonardo' uncertain

    Concerns about The Leonardo as a viable use of the former Salt Lake City library has city leaders considering other options for the building.
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