Hospital of the Transfiguration and the danger of indifference
A review notes Stanislaw Lem's first novel, written in 1948 and translated after censorship, portrays a Nazi regime's claim that society culls sick cells. The essay contrasts Lem's humane view with Reagan era welfare rhetoric, urging that without tenderness, nothing else matters.
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Stanislaw Lem
Lem
Poland
Austria
West
Christo
America
Reagan
Biography note for Terry Heller professor at Coe College
Terry Heller, a professor of English at Coe College, earned a bachelor’s degree from North Central College and both a master’s and a doctoral degree from the University of Chicago.
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Terry Heller
Coe College
North Central College
University of Chicago
Iowans returning home after stints in fast lanes
Census data show about 100000 Iowa residents left the state earlier in the decade but are now returning. Terry Reams, Marcia Nelson and John Bloomhall recount relocating to Texas, Florida and beyond before choosing to come back to Des Moines, Tampa and Cedar Rapids for better quality of life.
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Des Moines
Census Bureau
Terry Reams
Marcia Nelson
John Bloomhall
Iowa
Group Claims
San Antonio
Texas
Promised Land
Bexar County
Iowa State University
Tampa Fla
West Palm Beach
Nevada
Florida
Ocean
Reams
Cedar Rapids
IBM
Peoria
Kansas City
St. Louis
Bethesda
Bloomhall
Byways and far towns ring in a yawning 1989
Doris Hartwig describes a sleepy welcome to 1989 in Midland Times with a home party that ends before the movie. Jim Magdefray’s Sour Grapes column lists New Year resolutions to avoid clichés and more, while Montezuma publisher Jim Morrissey lets a global guest dream of Yasser Arafat visiting and a barber shave.
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Midland Times
Doris Hartwig
Hartwig
Jim Magdefray
The
Belle Plaine Union
Florida
New York
Nashville
Irving
Otley
Jim Morrissey
Montezuma
Don Erquist
Iowa senators avoid talk on D C mayor scandal
U S senator Tom Harkin says District of Columbia matters are in his past and declines comment on Marion Barry sex and drug cases. Senator Charles Grassley similarly declines to discuss the DC scandal as he awaits possible relief from his DC funding subcommittee assignment.
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Washig
Washington
Tom Harkin
Iowa
District of Columbia
Marion Barry
Harkin
Senate Appropriations
Barry
Georgetown University
Charles Grassley
D.C
Linn County Sees No Infectious Syphilis Yet
Health officials report zero infectious syphilis cases in Linn County for 1987 and 1988 amid an outbreak nearby in Black Hawk County. Gonorrhea declined from 342 to 229 cases, while chlamydia rose to 717 in 1988 from 521 in 1987 as testing increased and antibody HIV testing is conducted but not released.
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Nancy Stevens
Linn County
Black Hawk County
Vickie Smith
Waterloo
Smith
Linn
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