Sorenson left all to charity
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The family of Utah inventor and billionaire philanthropist James LeVoy Sorenson said Monday that he willed his entire personal fortune to charity.
Sorenson died of cancer last month at age 86.
Last year, Forbes Magazine estimated his wealth to be approximately $4.5 billion.
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Ratings for recruits are guesswork
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Bronco Mendenhall pegged it pretty good this week. He’d get little argument from Utah’s Kyle Whittingham.
The advent of the “star” system by Internet recruiting services that hit more than a decade ago may have about as much value as a monkey pulling the right lever [...]
Harsh lessons in school closures
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I am happy to reassure your readers that closing schools is certainly not our preferred means of tackling surplus places (New plans put 1:10 secondary schools at risk, January 31). I have not ordered a review of surplus places.However, we have renewed a contract with the Audit Commission to develop a “toolkit” to help councils [...]
Fightback begins as schools face axe
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Headteachers and governors who were told last month that their village schools will be shut by July are demanding that ministers order local councils to think again.Staff are furious that they were given the final order to close just days before Jim Knight, the schools minister, wrote to local authorities to remind them they had [...]
He has gone home #151; Service full of fond memories
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With millions of Latter-day Saints worldwide watching and listening live, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley was eulogized Saturday his red chair on the Conference Center dais empty and his casket resting in front of the pulpit handcrafted from a tree he planted decades ago.
To [...]
High court to hear strip club dispute
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Next week the Utah Supreme Court will hear a case between a landlord and a tenant over whether a tenant’s failure to pay rent during one month of a potentially 20-year contract gives the landlord the right to kick that tenant out.
The high court wants [...]
YouTube serves up some gems
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It’s been more than two years since a few guys in Menlo Park, Calif., launched the now famous YouTube Web site, which allows anyone with a video camera to upload clips of anything from the interesting to the inane.
Today, hundreds of millions of video clips [...]
Carney May Resist FedLike Rate Cuts to Curb Canada#39;s Inflation
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Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Mark Carney, the former Goldman Sachs
Group Inc. investment banker who takes over the Bank of Canada
today, may resist matching Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernankes rapid
interest-rate cuts in a bid to secure his inflation credentials.
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UPDATE 1China vows to boost rural spending by 14 bln
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By Lucy Hornby
BEIJING, Jan 31 (Reuters) - China will spend over $70
billion on rural development this year, a quarter more than in
2007, as Beijing races to patch up crumbling dams, provide
clean water and help narrow the yawning economic gap with its
coastal boomtowns.
Policymakers hope that boosting spending on roads, health,
education and agricultural subsidies [...]
Faster higher stronger the Olympian challenge facing school sports
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Of all the grand ambitions attached to the 2012 Olympics, the worthiest is the commitment to inspire future generations of children into sport and an indolent nation into activity. The promise was at the heart of Sebastian Coe’s pitch to the International Olympic Committee and, delivered with 30 children from east London at his side [...]
