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Pleiades star cluster visible Tuesday night
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If only the weather predictors prove wrong, Utahns could be in
for a binocular treat Tuesday evening, when the moon pays a visit to
the Seven Sisters.
The Seven Sisters is the ancient Greek name for the Pleiades star
cluster, which actually has hundreds of dim stars and as many as 14
visible to the naked eye under stellar conditions. With enough
magnification, they seem bound closely together by the hazy wisps of
a nebula.
On Tuesday evening, the thin crescent moon will be close ...
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Salt Lake's struggle to join world - on its own terms: Winter Games spotlight city's split identity.(USA)
The Christian Science Monitor
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ATTRACTIONS IN SALT LAKE COUNTRY
Music Clubs Magazine
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Go for the Greed.(the corrupt tactics used to get the Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City)
Newsweek
; Squeaky-clean Salt Lake City won the 2002 Winter Games -- but may have paid for them with its soul. They once called it the city of the Saints, and it only takes a few hours in Salt Lake City to understand why. The city is built around the magnificent Mormon temple, and it unfurls from there in
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Delta plans nonstop flights from Salt Lake City to Europe.
Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT)
; ... the newspaper, go to http://www.sltrib.com. Copyright (c) 2007, The Salt Lake Tribune Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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Salt Lake City emerges as an unlikely battlefield in war on drugs.(The Dallas Morning News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; SALT LAKE CITY _ Pioneer Park was named for the clean-living founders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The neatly groomed common of shade trees and footpaths is six blocks from Temple Square, world headquarters of the Mormon faith. It is also a prime location for scoring drugs.
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