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The Associated Press: Girl, 14, found starving in home; parents charged

Step-mother denies water to her step-daughter because of a power struggle between her and a helpless 14 year old girl

YouTube - National Conference on Media Reform Keynote

Lawrence Lessig gives a brilliant keynote at the National Conference on Media reform.

Letter from Dr. Laura Hamblin - Opinion

Dr. Laura Hamblin, working on gathering Iraqi refugee's oral histories, tries to raise money for a five year old girl to get a cochlear implant.

The Pipeline: Your source for UVSC News

UVSC Pipeline to stop publishing. Vegor Pedersen hangs up his sometime anonymous blogging on Utah Valley State College.

Daily Herald - UVSC prof. quits books

Old piece about rebelling against book sellers.

The Sonosopher - Life

Torbin and Travis take the wild adventure to Sicily to film Alex Caldiero in his homeish haunts.

Sunshine may be nature's disease fighter

Medical researchers are homing in on a wonder drug that may significantly reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many other diseases -- sunshine.

Politics and the Classroom: One More Try - Stanley Fish - Think Again - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Fish again sings the most perfect song of academic freedom and proper teaching I've heard.

Video of Previously Uncontacted Tribes

Logging and petroleum search threatens yet uncontacted tribes in South America.

YouType: The strange allure of making your own fonts.

excerpt:"In April, an online font clearinghouse called FontShop quietly uploaded a program that, the company wrote, was meant to be "purely entertaining—something to kickstart creativity." FontStruct, a browser tool that lets anyone create an original font, was so popular that  …

A Few Words about F-Words

Conservative bloggers have speculated that my use of "@!$%#" indicates that I possess an impoverished vocabulary, a thesis that I reject as pretty @!$%#ing stupid and in fact rather cromulent. Actually, I curse online as a conscious choice.

New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging - NYTimes.com

Agents in red wine, perhaps not limited to resveratrol, may contribute to longevity in ways similar to famine diets.

Marked-up birds become sexier, exude testosterone

A little strategically placed makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of male barn swallows into chick magnets, amping up their testosterone and even trimming their weight, new research shows.

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Norms and Deviations: Whos to Say? - Stanley Fish - Think Again - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Dr Stanley Fish explores the problematic of normalcy, launching from the perspective of an angry autistic who doesn't want to be cured, drawing a comparison from the movie X-Men and exploring the battle between groups that want to eliminate deviations from a norm and those who wa …

Is American beer any good?

"U.S. craft beer is probably the most diverse and interesting brewing scene in the world," beer aficionado Cass Enright said at a recent dinner in Toronto at the Academy of Spherical Arts to celebrate the Ontario launch of Southern Tier Brewing's India Pale Ale.

411mania.com: Music - Converse Unveiling Kurt Cobain & Grateful Dead Shoe Collections

Grateful Dead converse sneakers. Kinda cool looking, but so damned commercially insipid. Maybe I'll paint my own.

North Oaks tells Google Maps: Keep out - we mean it

You can look at almost anything on Google. Just don't try to sneak a peek of the homes in the private community of North Oaks.

Grateful Dead vocalist returns to old stomping grounds - Inside Bay Area

Donna Jean and the Tricksters to play in SF.

Deseret News | UVSC builds family home

UVSC helped build this families home.

Utah university looks to do more with ID card : CR80 News

Now here's a stupid call: Your student ID is also a Visa card. Can you say "corporate education"?

Advertising - For Dunkin', a Tempest in an Iced-Coffee Cup - NYTimes.com

Dunkin' Donuts and Rachel Raye teamed up for an ad that featured a black and white scarf, and Michelle Malkin and her idiotic minions scared the company into pulling the ad lest consumers think a scarf makes one a terrorista.

Ă€ la Recherche de Youthful Folly - Dick Cavett - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Dick Cavette remembers growing up in Lincoln, Nebraska with Jimmy McConnell. A decade later, I lived many of the same pranks and "playing out" activities on those wonderful summer evenings I remember.

Scott McClellan Apologizes for Bashing Richard Clarke

What goes around, comes around.

New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Elsewhere - NYTimes.com

New York Governor David A. Paterson directed state agencies to begin the process of recognizing same-sex marriages that are performed in jurisdictions that allow the marriages.

Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Walter Bender left "One Laptop Per Child" because he is committed to Sugar, the open source software OS that he hopes will significantly impact children's learning.

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I live in Utah along the Wasatch Front. Married with 4 daughters and two grandchildren.

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