Laura Marostica
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Published: Friday, May 25, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Researchers investigating the content of films, especially romantic comedies, are finding that love as depicted has very little to do with real life. Marriage is often portrayed as entirely distinct from romanc...
Published: Monday, May 7, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Online dating is a modern paradox. Once widely considered a tactic only for the socially inept, exploring romantic possibilities online has slowly but surely made its way into mainstream American culture. But w...
Published: Friday, April 27, 2012 8:38 am MDT
New research from the site CareerBuilder found that more than one third of companies surveyed use social networking sites to check out job candidates.
Published: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:27 am MDT
With the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the event has re-emerged as a talking point in the media and an enduring public fascination.
Published: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:14 am MDT
In keeping with the Mormon moment, missionaries serving in Uganda were observed and asked about their day-to-day life and their goals, during their mission and after it.
Published: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:00 am MDT
"Every time I've entered, I fail to win. So I must have a really good chance this time!"
So says the Pirate Captain in the trailer for the children's animated film, "Pirates: Band of Misfits," arriving in th
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Published: Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:00 am MDT
The cost of groceries stayed mercifully flat in the Salt Lake Valley this month, according to the Deseret News' fantasy shopping spree.
Published: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:14 am MDT
A new study from the UK found that home environment was five times more powerful than school environment on the variation in teenagers' test scores, adding more evidence to the debate over which childhood influ...
Published: Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Heather Armstrong had not planned to have a fight with an appliance company. But her brand-new, not inexpensive Maytag washing machine had broken down, and the timing could not have been worse.
Published: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:00 am MDT
"Nervousness seeps into terror as I anticipate what is to come. I could be dead, flat-out dead, in an hour."