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BYU-Idaho serves record number of students in 2009 (LDS Church News) (March 10, 2010) A record 22,997 students attended Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2009, continuing the university's steady increase in enrollment since becoming a four-year institution in 2001.
A major reason for the university's enrollment growth is the three-track system, which offers three distinct 14-week semesters throughout the year: fall, winter, and spring. Each student is admitted to a track consisting of two semesters: fall/winter, winter/spring, or spring/fall. By having three full semesters, the university is able to serve thousands more students.
Mormon Church seeks to be 'more proactive' in green-building efforts (Deseret News - Utah) (March 10, 2010) In some ways, the old downtown malls never went away.
As the towers of the Mormon Church's City Creek Center continue to rise, construction workers are using rebar made from recycled steel.
It's part of City Creek Reserve Inc.'s goal to recycle half of the steel from the old Crossroads and ZCMI Center malls as officials target an LEED silver certification for the massive downtown development.
Interest in genealogy taking off thanks to new TV shows (Deseret News - Utah) (March 10, 2010) Genealogy is not the boring word anymore that applies only to your grandmother or mother.
Instead, it's penetrating the mainstream of American life.
Thanks in part to four new television shows, tracing personal ancestry is taking off again, some 33 years after Alex Haley's landmark series, "Roots," aired on TV.
There's the new NBC series "Who Do You Think You Are?" (Fridays, 7 p.m., NBC, KSL-TV, Ch. 5 in S.L.) It is based on an original British version of the show.
On faith: GH youth rise up early to demonstrate their faith (Peninsula Gateway - Washington) (March 10, 2010) One example of faith in action today in Gig Harbor is shown by the 70 or so high-school-age teens who rise at 5 a.m. to attend religious studies at the church at 6 every school day morning except Wednesdays, even in the dark of winter. Most are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and it’s marvelous to see these faithful young people gathered to study the scriptures and discuss how scriptural principles can be applied in their daily lives.
Road to redemption...(Boston Herald - Massachusetts) (March 10, 2010) How do you say “chutzpah” in Mormon?
Mitt Romney is out on a book tour insisting that Romneycare and Obamacare have very little in common. “It’s the difference between a racehorse and a donkey,” is Romney’s line. And besides, the former Bay State governor writes in his new book, “the plan is working.”
I don’t know how many of the working Massachusetts families facing insurance premium hikes of more than 30 percent this year alone - on top of the fastest-rising costs in America since the plan took effect - would say it’s “working.”
Family lifted up from sorrow (Deseret News - Utah) (March 10, 2010) t's been an entire year since Kandice Hemsley, Ryan Sherman and their children had to climb from the uttermost depths of sorrow to the top of the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle.
But on March 21, the family will do it again, climbing the 69 flights of stairs, 1,311 steps and 788 feet of elevation of the Pacific Northwest's tallest skyscraper in honor of their fallen family member, Ezra Sherman, who was named the official honoree of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Washington Alaska Chapter's Seattle Big Climb.
A day of rest amid March Madness (Deseret News - Utah) (March 10, 2010) Huddled in a news conference on a Sunday afternoon in a basketball arena in Ames, Iowa, a handful of reporters from around the country were stunned -- eyebrows raised and mouths agape.
They couldn't believe what they were hearing on that March day in 2002.
Dressed in Sunday-best attire, a couple of members of the No. 11-seeded BYU women's basketball team, which had crushed No. 6 seed Florida the previous day, 90-52, in the tournament's first round (it marked the program's first-ever NCAA tournament victory), sat in front of the media. They fielded questions about the Cougars' second-round, Monday-night matchup against vaunted No. 3 seed Iowa State -- on the Cyclones' home floor.
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