Record Powerball Jackpot Attracts Holiday Players
Shoppers flock to Cedar Rapids and Iowa City stores on Christmas Day to buy Powerball tickets as the $314.9 million prize draws crowds. Store clerks report hundreds of tickets sold while noting odds are 1 in 120 million per ticket. No winner announced yet Wednesday night.
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Positive hip hop dance squad grows at Cedar Rapids club
Lori Ampey founded a hip hop dance squad at the Boys & Girls Club of Cedar Rapids to offer six weeks of classed sessions for youth ages 5 through high school. The first session drew 50 students, double the expected 25, with a second session planned to start January 8. DNA stage name artist Roland Gibson, 28, teaches the classes.
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Freedman criticizes intercollegiate athletics role
Former University of Iowa president James Freedman says intercollegiate sports distort liberal arts aims and admissions, calling big money the driving force behind athletics and noting the system favors a small number of players. He highlights his UI Press book Liberal Education and the Athletics.
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Arthritis drugs under scrutiny as safety questioned
A New England Journal of Medicine study finds Celebrex Vioxx and Bextra offer less stomach protection than hoped for high risk ulcer patients. The study notes about 10 percent yearly risk of another bleeding ulcer and questions protection against kidney complications. Pharmacia defends Celebrex's risk reduction in vulnerable patients.
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Nixon orders secret nuclear alert in 1969
Declassified documents reveal President Nixon launched a worldwide secret nuclear alert in October 1969 as part of a "madman" strategy to pressure North Vietnam. The plan aimed to spur concessions at Paris peace talks, but Moscow showed no concern and the outcome remains unclear.
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