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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 2008
Page
2
The city council votes 9 to 0 to appoint a Michigan administrator as the next city manager. The decision comes amid budget talks and anticipated spring projects.
Federal investigators say millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction contracts were never completed due to delays and poor performance. The report notes failed projects misrepresented as complete by the U.S. government.
The Gazette announces subscription costs for carrier and motor route delivery and by mail options for Morning Editions and Sunday editions. It lists 319 numbers for service and a general contact line, with the Cedar Rapids mailing address for address changes.
A damaged OCR fragment lists general news contact numbers for Cedar Rapids and Iowa City including telephone lines for tips and circulation plus a note directing readers to GazetteOnline.com for the full company directory.
The Gazette highlights its commitment to the future by printing with soybean ink and on recycled newsprint. Readers are urged to recycle newspapers at City Carton on Ingleside Drive SW or at nearby recycling locations.
A 400 acre Sierra Madre fire forced evacuations of about 550 homes with 500 firefighters battling steep terrain and heavy brush. Firefighters aimed for 4 to 7 days to full containment aided by helicopters and air tankers. In San Diego County, 40 acres burned north of downtown.
In two parallel U S and Britain based efforts, six young patients received gene replacement therapy beneath the retina. Four showed vision gains including reading parts of an eye chart. Experts call the results a major advance with potential to treat other inherited eye diseases.
Edwin Stone of the University of Iowa leads a genetic testing component for Leber congenital amaurosis. His team developed a method to distinguish disease mutations from benign variants and a scalable non profit testing strategy. Project 3000, started in 2006 by Stone, Derrek Lee and Wye Grousbeck, aims to test all 3000 Americans with LCA and provide access regardless of insurance.
A Kaiser study of 175000 births across Southern California hospitals from 1999 to 2005 shows pre-existing diabetes in pregnant women more than doubling, rising from 8 to 18 per 1000 pregnancies. Teen mothers aged 13 to 19 saw the steepest rate increase, raising concerns for maternal and neonatal health.
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