Narrowing the unprepared in National Preparedness Month
The Gazette editorial urges reducing the unprepared in American households amid terrorism fears. It cites Russia plane crashes as likely terrorist acts and calls for readiness through family plans, emergency kits, first aid, and volunteering with over 50 national groups coordinating National Preparedness Month in September. Governors unite. Iowa offers a tool kit online at homelandsecurity and ready.org for guidance and readiness regardless of threat proximity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Marsha Evans
Tom Vilsack
Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Homelandsecurity.org
Ready.org
New York City
Wolves and campaigns clash in two readers letters
A reader rebuts Peter Brown’s wolf column arguing wolves are not vicious predators and elk loss is minimal. The letter cites a study by James Halfpenny and notes poaching losses dwarf wolf impacts. A second letter accuses Swift Boat Veterans for Truth of ties to the Bush campaign and calls for focusing on policy issues.
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Red Cross
Peter Brown
Cody
Wyo
Yellowstone
James Halfpenny
Brown
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth
John Kerry
Bush
Benjamin Ginsberg
Air Force
Ken Cordier
Swift Boat
Houston
Bob Perry
Dallas Morning News
Karl Rove
John McCain
Linn County veterans back Bush despite Kerry contrast
A Cedar Rapids reader cites Linn County veterans supporting George W. Bush, noting no reasons given for backing a non combat veteran while Kerry is a combat veteran. The letter questions Bush's draft history and calls for explanation of how his Texas Air National Guard path affected draft status.
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Linn County
George W. Bush
Bush
Kerry
Middle East
Texas Air National Guard
Vietnam
Yale
Richard L. Peick
Cedar Rapids
Fiegen Earns Praise in Iowa Senate District 40 Bid
Elaine Nicola of Decorah lauds Thomas Fiegen for timely legal help during a messy divorce and endorses his bid for Iowa Senate District 40, noting his kindness and willingness to assist others despite his workload.
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Thomas Fiegen
Fiegen
Iowa
Senate
Elaine Nicola Decorah
Medicare cuts delay cancer drug coverage harms seniors
Health economist Frank R. Lichtenberg argues Medicare's policy to slash reimbursements for intravenous cancer drugs and delay coverage for oral forms until 2006 will worsen outcomes for about one million seniors. He notes trials show oral capecitabine and temozolomide improve survival, while policies raise costs and burden caregivers. He cites FDA data on oral-only cancer drugs and urges faster access to effective therapies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank R. Lichtenberg
Medicare
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Agency For
The
Tional Bureau of Economic Research
Remembering hazy days at home by Dean P. Johnson
Dean P. Johnson recalls family smoking in a Virginia jail case framing smoking in front of children as a harsh but revealing fate. He details personal memories of ashtrays, menthol taste, and early loss to bladder and lung cancer, linking secondhand smoke to premature death. He teaches English at Camden Academy Charter High School and Rowan University.
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Dean P. Johnson
Virginia
Curt
Camden Academy Charter High School
Rowan University
Glassboro, N.J
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