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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 2003
Page
8
Geeks line up for the Return of the King opening at 11 45 this morning connecting with others who share a love of horror and fantasy cinema. Experts note event films endure amid home video growth and fans anticipate extended DVD versions and later critiques.
The morning-after pill costs 20 to 30 dollars per one-time pack and delivers up to 89 percent pregnancy prevention within 24 hours. FDA advisers note safety but worry about user understanding without professional guidance. Commissioner McClellan expects a final decision in months as five states permit pharmacist access without prescription.
The piece traces the Wright brothers early years in Ohio and Iowa, noting a claimed wooden helicopter toy and later silences around their first flight near Kitty Hawk in 1903. It cites scholars like Peter Jakob and local historian Richard Scearce, and recounts Milton Wrights moves and early funding that aided their experiments.
The Wright family resided in Cedar Rapids for three years across three now-altered addresses: 158 Jefferson Street later Fourth Street, 104 Greene Street, and 184 Iowa Avenue. Expert Derek Buckaloo notes early flight misunderstood. Wright brothers remain central American inventor archetypes.
The earliest known Wrights writing, a postcard from Orville to his father on church business in Omaha, Nebraska, dated April 1, 1881, shows boyhood curiosity about science with notes on water pipes and a water squirting experiment.
Regents and presidents of Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa expect about a 7 percent fall in state funding. Cuts could exceed 16 million at Iowa and ISU, with four years of prior reductions totaling over 100 million. Administrators form a work group to craft plans, with tuition and fees rising and programs trimmed to raise revenues.
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