Flood disruptions push Iowa schools toward opening day
In Cedar Rapids and nearby districts, seven weeks before classes, flood damage forced relocations of Educational Service Center offices and altered return plans. Administrators, parents, and students scramble as Cedar Rapids faces the worst impact with 1800 students in flood zones and closures at Taylor Elementary and Polk Elementary for the year.
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Gurtney Sargent
the Gazette
Tracy Jones
Cedar Rapids
Tristan Jones
Prairie Ridge
Tristan
Taylor
Dave Markward
Jefferson High School
Iowa City
College Community
Linn-Mar
Taylor Elementary
Polk
Schools scramble to locate postflood sites and plan
Schools after the floods search for a new site while moving offices to Kingston Stadium and a Blairs Ferry Road building. Leaders match students in special situations and aim to place the last 30 of more than 1,000 homeless students as classes begin. Markward notes on the spot problem solving with C R Schools superintendent and Mary Ellen Maske commenting on elementary education.
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Kingston Stadium
Blairs Ferry Road
Markward
Taylor
Mary Ellen Maske
Men end up happier than women study finds
USC researchers report that women start adulthood happier but end up less happy than men later in life. The shift is tied to changing views on family life and money. Early in life women are more likely to be in partnerships, boosting fulfillment, but as they age they are less likely to be in unions.
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McClatchy
Santa Ana
Calif
University of Southern California
Happiness declines with age for many women study finds
A USC economist and a Cambridge sociologist analyze surveys of about 21 000 men and 25 000 women and report that happiness tends to fall for women in their late forties as men reach financial goals. The results are interpretive due to many respondents being unmarried.
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USC
Richard Easterlin
University of Cambridge
Anke Plagnol
Floods of 2008 and Grand Forks flood history
In Grand Forks along the Red River a 20 foot round stone monument marks major floods including 1997 the worst in city history. The 1997 flood damaged thousands of homes and businesses prompting a new levee plan under Army Corps study begun in 1997. Some suggested a river diversion channel.
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Adam Belz
Gazette
Rand Forks
N.D
Red River
Grand Forks
Cedar Rapids
Army Corps of Engineers
Ken Wein
Blue Moose Bar & Grill
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