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Why Mormons Build Temples
 Throughout history the Lord has commanded his children to build temples. Here is a video look at what they mean.
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"Saying It Like It Is"
by Sheri Dew
 Author and Deseret Book CEO and President Sheri Dew talks about themes from her new photo/quote gift book, "Saying It Like It Is."
By Steven Kapp Perry
Glenn Beck Throws Nationwide Party Celebrating Principles and Values
Glenn Beck, television show host and a Latter-day Saint, is inviting the entire nation to a gathering Friday night, to celebrate 9 principles and 12 virtues.
From the Editors
Messiah Chic in the White House
Support for a person in office is one thing, gushy adoration is something else.
By Gary C. Lawrence
Purpose in Pain
Elder Neal Maxwell said, “ If, indeed, the things allotted to each were divinely customized according to our ability and capacity, then for us to seek to wrench ourselves free of every schooling circumstance in mortality is to tear ourselves away from matched opportunities.”
By Darla Isackson
Books that Help Your Children Learn to Read
Here are some outstanding beginning books and websites that can help your children learn to read.
By Holly E. Newton
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First Line
News - Business -
Friday, March 13, 2009
Dow Finishes Above 7,000
Investors have been clamoring for months for a bit of good news. On Thursday, they got a load of it. The Dow Jones industrials shot up 240 points to a two-week high of 7,170, bringing its gains over the past three days to 622 points, or 9.5 percent. It was the index's biggest three-day jump since last November.
Feds Might Offer Bounties for Market Miscreants
The nation's top market cop is looking for a few good snitches. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro told a congressional panel Wednesday that her agency is considering offering cash bounties for the first time to private-sector whistleblowers who help expose financial wrongdoing.
A Rare Piece of Good News for GM
Troubled automaker says it has more cash on hand than expected and no longer needs a $2 billion government loan this month.
Double-Digit Unemployment Spreads
A growing number of states endured double-digit unemployment rates in January, and others are close behind, buttressing fears that the national jobless rate could reach 10 percent by year's end. |
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LDS Church Posts Temple Video on Web Sites
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has added a video, "Why Mormons Build Temples," to its section on LDS.org about the depiction on HBO's "Big Love" of a temple ceremony.
History Shows TV Boycotts Only Backfire
Here's a little quiz for you: What do these TV series have in common? "Cheers," "Gilmore Girls," "Friends," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "The Simpsons."
Publish Mission Reunions in Deseret News
LDS mission-reunion notices are published by the Deseret News as a public service in conjunction with LDS general conference.
The Coming Evangelical Collapse
ONEIDA, KY. - We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West
Obama on Spot As Rulings Aid Gay Partners
WASHINGTON - Just seven weeks into office, President Obama is being forced to confront one of the most sensitive social and political issues of the day: whether the government must provide health insurance benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.
Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It
On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."
Activists to Prod Obama, Congress to Overturn 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama says he wants to reverse "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the Clinton-era policy that prevents openly gay men and women from serving in the military. But so far the White House has been noncommittal about how and when he will try to make that happen.
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