Cedar Rapids weighs annexation despite landowner objections
Cedar Rapids City Council weighs accepting a petition from 141 rural property owners opposed to annexation by Hiawatha and 25 more seeking Robins. A public hearing is set for Wednesday at 9 a.m. The council could send the case to the state for final approval, with growth and service costs central to debate.
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Douglas Neumann
Cedar Rapids
Hiawatha
Robins
Ole Munson
Bart Woods
Hiawatha Chamber of Commerce
Iowa small fire departments face funding and staffing crisis
A Fire Service Institute survey finds 15 percent of Iowa's 870 departments have budgets under 5000 dollars annually, while rural towns under 10 000 population run under 75000 dollars. Volunteer firefighters supply a quarter of funds through fund raising and many communities must seek new emergency service models.
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Azette
West Union
Iowa
George Oster
Iowa State University Extension Fire Service Institute
Northeast
Oster
Iowa Department of Economic Development
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Fire Service Institute
Administration backs using plutonium as reactor fuel
The Clinton administration endorses burning weapons grade plutonium in U S nuclear plants to reduce stockpiles and deter weapon use. Energy Secretary Hazel O Leary promotes a dual plan of burning plutonium in reactors or sealing it in glass, with disposal estimated at 2.3 billion dollars and Russia wary of retrievability.
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Washington
Russia
Clinton
U.S
IES Utilities Inc
Duane Arnold Energy Center
Palo
Energy
Hazel O'Leary
White House
Defense
O'Leary
United States
Protein transfer triggers strong cancer attack in mice
Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center show that injecting human melanoma gp75 protein into mice awakens the immune system to fight cancer. In treated mice tumors were reduced by 95 percent, suggesting a path to human trials next year pending federal approval.
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Washington
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York
Alan Houghton
Sloan-Kettering
Proceedings
National Academy of Sciences
Houghton
Fry Says Bowl Bid Saved His Iowa Program
University of Iowa football coach Hayden Fry says he would have resigned if the Hawkeyes with an 8 3 record had not received a bowl invitation. He adds the team could have been left out of the bowl picture. Details on 10.
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University of Iowa
Hayden Fry
Fry
UNI professor theorizes Midwest reserve rooted in rebuffs
Barbara Lounsberry a University of Northern Iowa English professor argues Midwest reserve stems from rebuffs faced by early settlers. She cites European and Eastern failures driving immigration and notes how Midwestern humor and polite restraint discourage open talk among Iowans and UNI students.
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Associated Press
Barbara Lounsberry
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls
Midwest
Europe
East
Lounsberry
Somerset Maugham
Iowa
UNI
Scott Fitzgerald
St. Paul
Ernest) Hemingway
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