Refugee Convoy Trapped As Croats Bosnians Press Advance
Fleeing Serbs in cars tractors and carts were trapped Tuesday by advancing Croat and Bosnian armies that shelled them set homes ablaze and shot at them. More than 100000 Serb refugees fled Croatia with 30000 near a UN base south of Zagreb and 50000 bound into Serb held Bosnia.
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It's So Hot Contest Spawns Dairy Queen Gift Certificates
A weather hot spell prompts a Cedar Rapids and Iowa City contest asking residents to answer How hot is it by completing a sentence. Winners published receive Dairy Queen gift certificates.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Cool Dairy Queen
Birds invade Cedar Rapids Educational Service Center area
A flock of black birds nests near the Cedar Rapids Educational Service Center on Fifth Street and Second Avenue SW, disrupting parking and daily work. The Cedar Rapids Animal Shelter plans to assist the city as officials consider options amid ongoing bird problems and a past history of crow control methods in Greene Square Park.
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Second Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Charlotte Beeson
Sarah Dravis
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Inappropriate drugs harm elderly
GAO study warns millions of elderly Americans suffer adverse drug reactions from prescriptions unsuited to age or duplications. About 17.5 percent of 30 million Medicare recipients receive unsafe or conflicting medications, risking hospitalization or death.
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Congressional
General Accounting Office
GAO
GAO urges safeguards to curb improper drug use by elderly
A GAO study recommends patient counseling and monitoring systems to avoid adverse drug interactions in seniors. It cites the role of physicians, pharmacists, and managed care in preventing inappropriate prescriptions, noting billions in higher hospital costs and risks of falls and accidents from adverse reactions.
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Wyden
Ragweed pollen season brings misery for allergy sufferers
University of Iowa doctor warns ragweed pollen will make many people miserable over the next three to four weeks. Counts guide comfort from under 200 to over 1,000, with advice to stay indoors, wash hair after outside exposure, shower on returning inside, and avoid hanging clothes to dry. Casale notes 20 to 25 percent of Americans have allergies and lists remedies from antihistamines to shots and nasal sprays. Some researchers test a new drug, not yet market ready, while travel west of the Rockies may offer relief from ragweed though other grasses could trigger reactions.
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Thomas Casale
Division of
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Iowa
Rockies
ISU Coach Dan McCarney’s Realistic Expectations
The article states coach Dan McCarney’s expectations for Iowa State University football are grounded in reality. Details referenced on page 1C. An attorney for former union leader Don McKee filed a notice of appeal on Tuesday. Details on page 8A.
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Brice Cruser
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