The winners and the losers
• Winner: Speaking of the Olympics, it has not been lost on the USA men's basketball team the importance of the Americans playing as a team and displaying the utmost sportsmanship during the Beijing Games. Credit coach Mike Krzyzewski who has insisted that members of the so-called "redeem team" comport themselves in a positive manner and resist the temptation to hotdog when playing teams that do not have the same degree of talent. The team, perhaps one of the most-watched and most popular across the Games, has also made a point to support other American athletes during their competitions and to sign autographs and pose for photographs with Chinese fans.
• Winner: Earlier this week, President Bush signed into law consumer-safety legislation that bans lead from children's toys, imposing the toughest standard in the world. This is a critical issue considering there are some 28,000 deaths in the United States each year linked to unsafe products, including toys, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
• Loser: What is it about Utah? Why are gasoline prices some of the highest in the nation? Why is inflation in Utah twice the national rate? If there's a ray of hope in this picture, oil prices are falling and food prices are expected to moderate, economists say. Meanwhile, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s office has announced the state is carefully monitoring motor fuel prices to hopefully discern why motorists in the Beehive State pay so much.
Comments
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- Bull kills runner at Pamplona 10:05 p.m.
- Free after 14 years for contempt 9:56 p.m.
- Photo: Missing a sister 9:55 p.m.
- 'Hope' poster artist guilty of vandalism 9:51 p.m.
- Report disputes wiretapping 9:51 p.m.
- Tax rich for health care, Demos say 9:50 p.m.
- Parks nominee is in hot water 9:30 p.m.
- Burris bows out of 2010 race 9:30 p.m.
- Regulators close Wyoming bank 9:17 p.m.
- LDS seminary principal arrested
- Jazz talking Boozer trade?
- Reactions on Boozer speculation
- Stadium of Fire flag burning was fake
- Blazers offer Millsap 4-year deal
- Jazz in back of line for free agents
- A primer for the 6th Potter film
- Okur signs two-year extension
- Jazz won't meet Lopez on Europe trip
- Restaurant destroyed by fire
- Letters: Palin mistreated
142 - Bronco collecting a galaxy of recruits
141 - Teachers struggle with district cuts
138 - Jazz talking Boozer trade?
136 - LDS seminary principal arrested
134 - Blazers may offer Millsap a contract
123 - Stadium of Fire flag burning was fake
94 - Fairness of BCS debated
81 - Chaffetz eyes challenging Bennett
74 - Blazers offer Millsap 4-year deal
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