A debate created in America
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Europeans have long viewed the conflict between evolutionists and creationists as primarily an American phenomenon, but it has recently jumped the Atlantic Ocean with skirmishes in Italy, Germany, Poland and, notably, Britain, where Darwin was born and where he published his 1859 classic.
Darwin’s defenders are fighting back. In October, the 47-nation Council [...]
Costs for schools disputed
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AMERICAN FORK Alpine School District officials are still smarting from statements that were reportedly made by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Lehi, during a recent Saratoga Springs town meeting.
Alpine officials say that, among other remarks, Madsen said 25 percent of all tax money given to the district [...]
Centre stage
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It started with a drink. Just a quick one late at night in one of the campus hotels on the edge of Coventry that Warwick University uses to put up visiting academics and staff members who live some distance away. “We love a good gossip about politics after an evening at the keyboard,” David Thomas, [...]
Will Utah enchant Disney
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A state board is hoping Disney is enchanted enough with a Utah financial incentive that it grows its video-game development operations here.
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development Board on Friday approved a $5.25 million tax-rebate for Disney Interactive Studios Inc. if the company adds more [...]
Sweet 16 AllCentury team part of the celebration of Utahs 100th basketball season
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Most of them weren’t surprises, but now we know the names of those who will be honored Saturday afternoon when the University of Utah’s All-Century basketball team is introduced.
The 16-man list the Sweet Sixteen includes players from every decade since the 1930s, most of whom [...]
Teachers critical of unrealistic culture target
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Government plans to give all children five hours of high quality cultural activities each week have drawn widespread criticism for being an impossible target to meet.The schools secretary, Ed Balls, and culture secretary, Andy Burnham, launched a %26#163;25m pilot scheme today aimed at giving all children more time to develop their creative skills at school [...]
Why does anyone care about the Oxford Union
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The single most striking fact about the list of famous people who have appeared at the Oxford Union down the years - the only striking fact, really - is that it is a list of famous people. Beyond that, the list appears to obey no logic, no organising principle. In parts, it reads as if [...]
Turkish Lawmakers Vote to Ease Curbs on Headscarf (Update2)
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Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — Turkish legislators voted to soften a
ban on the Muslim headscarf, a measure that has increased tensions
between Turkeys Islamist-rooted government and the secular armed
forces and judiciary.
The Grand National [...]
Spain#39;s Zapatero Assailed by Church Over Gay Marriage (Update1)
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Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — It isnt just Peoples Party leader
Mariano Rajoy whos running against Spanish Prime Minister Jose
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Spains Catholic bishops, angered by the prime ministers
decisions to legalize gay marriage [...]
BUDGET WINNERS
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EDUCATION :
Budget grows by 4 percent WHAT’S IN THE BUDGET: Public
schools, public higher education institutions and libraries
all would see an increase in the $11.8 billion education
spending proposal. The proposed $291.3 million increase in
state aid for regular education programs is the largest
one-year increase in more than two decades, and would begin
to fill the gap identified in [...]
