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Thanks a lot, Andy--now I've got that one alternating in my head with the other! Not to mention being reminded of the mistake I made on the 5th grade capitals test--forgot Little Rock.

Grad students as dignitaries--yeah, it probably explains a few things about me that I grew up thinking physics grad students were waaaay cool.

I HATE that song. My dad (a physics professor) made us kids learn it when we were 9 or 10 and then we'd have to sing it for visiting graduate students and other dignitaries.

However, Teresa might get a kick out of the image of 3 blond kids singing "Along the trail you'll find me lopin', where the spaces are wide open, in the land of the old A.E.C." for a Los Alamos Ward Talent Show. We did that too.

If anybody can bear to read more about Short Creek, and wants to consider notions of fundamentalism(s?) at length, there's a good book about the 1953 (and 1935 and 1944) raids on the town. If nothing else, the history makes it a little more understandable why neither state nor federal authorities are eager to rush in.
Book's called _Kidnapped from that Land_, by Martha Sonntag Bradley, who is a Salt Lake City-variety Mormon (though she has been seen by the more orthodox of that crowd as a maverick) and University of Utah history professor.

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