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Earth-shaking GPS news

<p class="p1">Early Saint Patrick’s Day morning, residents of Los Angeles woke up to a jolt. The ground was rumbling. Then, suddenly, it seemed as if the whole world was kicked out of place. It was an earthquake.<p class="p3">Within seconds, computers at the United ...

The conflict in Crimea: What’s it about?

There have been many stories in the news recently about Crimea. You may have never heard of it. After all, Crimea is more than 5,000 miles from Washington, and it's not a place many Americans visit. We asked Tiffany Harness, an editor on The Washington Post foreign desk, to explain what's going ...

Grandma

<em>Ashlyn Ellis's poem won second place in the UVU HS writing contest. She is a junior at Karl G Maeser Prep Academy.</em><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Grandma</strong><p style="text-align: ...

As Nationals enter new season, hopes are high

The Washington Nationals begin their 2014 baseball season in New York against the Mets on Monday. The big word for the Nats' season is "expectations." Washington players and fans expect the team to be very good. They think Washington should at least make it to the playoffs this season.Of ...

Women of character, courage, commitment

Flip open any history book and look at the names. What do you see? That's right — most of them are men. Oh, a few women pop up here and there. But mostly it has been a man's world.March, though, is a time to focus on the other half of the world's population. It's Women's History Month. As ...

Water and Life

<em>Jeremy Madsen is a junior at Mountain View High School. He writes that his real writing background (in part), came from the wonderful counsel received from his mother. His essay Water and Life recently won third place in the BYU Re-write writing contest for high school ...