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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 2012
Page
1
Iowa City entrepreneur Leslie O'Hare launches Your Campus Mom to support University of Iowa students with executive functioning disorders. The service acts as a mom away from home providing prescription pickup, room organization, healthy groceries, and laundry help when UI departments cannot.
The program provides services and accommodations to students outside the classroom. O’Hare notes the transition to college is a leap of faith and stresses organizing and getting on task. The description highlights helping students who lack organizational skills, including those with disabilities.
Nathaly Uribe, a 17 year old daughter of a construction worker, has her documents ready as a federal program begins that allows illegal immigrants to defer deportation and seek work permits. She says the program could help her find a decent job and fund college, expressing strong ties to the United States in Santa Ana California.
Environmental groups accuse federal crop insurance of subsidizing the conversion of grasslands and wetlands to crops during the drought. The Plowed Under report notes a 5.7 million acre drop in Conservation Reserve Program grasslands from 2007 to 2011 as high prices push farmers to plow sensitive land, increasing erosion and pollution and harming wildlife habitat. The findings align with University studies on the economic drivers of habitat loss.
Armando Angulo, the fugitive Miami doctor involved in a multiyear Internet pharmacy scheme, had charges dismissed after prosecutors cited more than 400 000 documents and two terabytes of data. Panama refuses extradition, and authorities concede the volume of records hindered continued pursuit.
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