Leaping into our world

Published: Saturday, March 1 2008 12:11 a.m. MST

Keith Johnson, Deseret Morning News

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Vanessa Butcher holds newborn son Owen Jack Butcher at St. Mark's Hospital on Friday in Salt Lake County. Owen was the first leap-year baby born at St. Mark's. The odds of being born on Feb. 29 are 1 in 1,461. Leap years, which come every four years, help keep our Gregorian calendars running like clockwork.

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