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• Cell phones more distracting than passengers
Dave Strayer of the University of Utah and colleagues have found in a series of experiments using driving simulators that hands-free mobile phones are just as distracting as handheld models. They have demonstrated that chatting on a mobile phone can ...
• Oklahoma jumps Texas into No. 2 in BCS
Oklahoma tight end Brody Eldridge (83) celebrates a touchdown against Oklahoma State in the fourth quarter of the Sooners' 61-41 win. No. 10 Ohio State dominated arch-rival Michigan, Utah wrapped up a BCS bowl bid and more from around the country ...
• Polygamist sect leader faces new charges
Jeffs was convicted in Utah and is awaiting trial in Arizona on charges related to underage marriages of sect girls. He faces charges in Texas of sexual assault of a child and bigamy. Church records and journal entries released in the custody case ...
• (Proposition) Eight is enough
... successor, was a bridegroom twenty times over, and his successors, along with much of the male Mormon élite, kept up the mass marrying until the nineteen-thirties—decades after the Church had officially disavowed polygamy, the price of Utah’s ...
• ND worst for drunken drivng
That is about the same number of fatalities as Utah, which has four times the population and ranked best in the nation in terms of drunken driving deaths. Mothers Against Drunk Driving blames the lack of a law requiring convicted drunken drivers to ...