Portrait artist colors presidents for Hoover museum
Artist Mion features 41 portraits of presidents including Grover Cleveland twice and non-presidents tied to Smithsonian cards. The works mix sizes and styles with each piece hinting at a card value or suit while reinterpreting the National Portrait Gallery. Visitors will vote for their favorite president and painting during the Hoover museum exhibit.
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Grover Cleveland
Smithsonian
Mion
National Portrait Gallery
Winslow, Ariz
John Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
Herbert Hoover
Europe
Lbjlib
Utexas
Eisenhower
Ballet
Lou Henry Hoover
Hoover Museum
Hoover
Postville DNR enforces tough wastewater standards in dispute
DNR reaches stringent wastewater limits for a Postville plant over bacteria and solids. Agriprocessors sues over open meetings and sale of lagoons, claiming improper notices and records. Judge Pears on orders city to share minutes and related docs. hearing on blocking the sale set for mid month. Mayor Hyman and plant manager Hunt comment on the dispute and ongoing negotiations. Orlan Love reports from the Northeast Iowa bureau.
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Yellow River
Kalishek
Agriproceso
Postville
Agriprocessors
Iowa
Alan Pearson
1St Judicial District
John Hyman
Iowa Turkey Processors
Eastern Iowa schools trim costs with thermostat program
Schools including Cedar Rapids have not joined the energy program while Latham notes participating districts expect about one million dollars saved in January. Marion reports roughly three thousand eight hundred dollars saved last year. Some districts have lowered thermostats this year to curb costs.
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Gram. Latham
Bradley
Marion
Cedar Rapids
McVeigh execution plans under way in Denver
Prison officials began arranging the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh’s execution details including how victims may watch. He let appeals lapse and could be executed by lethal injection as early as May, with media and victims’ relatives allotted seats in the Terre Haute chamber.
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Denver
Oklahoma City
Timothy McVeigh
McVeigh
Terre Haute
Ind
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Dan Dunne
U.S
Volved
Dunne
Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Justice Department
Karen Howick
Howick
Rare gaur cloning dies after birth in setback to project
Noah the cloned gaur, born after years of anticipation by Advanced Cell Technology scientists, died from a common disease. Researchers will review procedures, seek a pathogen free environment, and plan to attempt cloning again while noting higher mortality in clones.
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Advanced Cell Technology
Noah
Lanza
Damiani
Grahame Bulfield
Roslin Institute
England
Dolly
Bulfield
Gaur Clone Produced Through Nuclear Transfer Technique
Scientists describe cloning a gaur using egg enucleation and skin cell nuclear transfer. An electric fusion forms an embryo implanted into a surrogate, aiming for a gaur not a gaur cow mix while noting rapid biotechnology progress and ethical questions raised by Gary Comstock of Iowa State University.
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India
Burma
Gary Comstock
Iowa State University
Surrogate Cow Bessie Births Noah After Complex Cloning Effort
The pregnancy arose from over 30 cows with 692 cow eggs fused to male gaur skin cells. Eleven embryos were implanted into cows, eight became pregnant, two fetuses were removed, five abortions occurred, leaving Bessie as Noah’s surrogate. Comstock warns of habitat needs for cloned extinct animals. Advanced Cell Technology plans another clone of the bucardo.
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Bessie
Noah
Oldest insole found in Switzerland dates 5200 years
Archaeologists in Zug uncover a moss impression used as an ancient insole dating to about 5200 years ago. The 10 inch moss piece fit inside a leather shoe, though the shoe itself decayed in lakeside soil. The find links to a Neolithic lakeside site with few comparable shoes from that era.
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Zug
Switzerland
Stefan Hochuli
Zug State
Archaeolo
Gist
Associated Press
Hochuli
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Rick Smith
Ricks
Tina Mion
Kennedy
DNR
Bill Kalishek
Hyman
Donald Hunt
Hunt
Orlan Love
Fyiowa
Graham
Janet Borheim
Janetr
Oklahoma
Comstock
Ir Ima
Mattress Factory
Serenity
Phelan’s
Matthew Greyson
Ted
Matthew
Greyson
Third Ave
Phelansinteriors.com
Phelan
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