Legislature ignores science in meat warning uproar
A Iowa audience defends ISU researcher Dr Suzanne Hendrick over red meat cancer risk warnings. Critics in the Senate urge pro industry bias, while advocates urge diversification and truth from universities. The piece links education funding and national shifts away from meat to broader calls for better schooling and foreign-born teaching assistants.
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Iowa
Iowa State University
Suzanne Hendrick
ISU
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sen
Hurley Hall
Marion
Hendrick
Iowa State
Michael Dukakis
Massachusetts
University of Iowa
Westinghouse
Chetan Nayak
Janet Tseng
Brian David Conrad
Weiya Yu Sieh
Benjamin Abella
Vijay Satyannand Pande
Chetan
Vijay
Actors, Miss USA, Hall of Fame Stokes Event News
The piece reports on Jack Nicholson enduring a dog attack during an Ironweed shoot before being coaxed back by producers. It also covers Courtney Gibbs winning Miss USA amid tough odds, Anita Bryant entering the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame, Cloris Leachman urging parenting secrets, Robert Bork criticizing universities, and Zhao Ziyang golfing during Lunar New Year.
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Jack
Jack Nicholson
Denis Blouin
Nicholson
Courtney Gibbs
Anita Bryant
Florida Citrus Hall of Fame
Ladies for lit discuss Shakespeare in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids women meet twice a month to share their love of William Shakespeare in a long running lifestyle feature.
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Cedar Rapids
William Shakespeare
Hi tech tickets replace tickets with hand held scanners
Cedar Rapids parking patrol officers will switch from yellow tickets and pencils to hand held computers that issue high tech tickets. The change signals a move toward electronic citation reporting in Iowa.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Marion Tinsley Plays 20 Blindfolded Checkers Games
King of checkers Marion Tinsley asserts the game’s complexity but demonstrates unusual skill by playing twenty blindfolded matches simultaneously. The feature appears on Leisure page 3F.
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Marion Tinsley
Leisure
Fitness fashions and DIY athletic wear trends
Readers explore sewing their own exercise clothing as a cost saver while noting the challenge of sourcing high quality fabrics used by manufacturers. The piece surveys fabric options and fashion ideas for home sewers.
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Leisure
Riddling the rich author Lewis Lapham profile
The article profiles Lewis Lapham born into San Francisco wealth and educated at Hotchkiss and Yale in the 1950s. It notes his new book Money and Class in America and his critical stance toward high society.
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Lewis Lapham
San Francisco
Hotchkiss
Yale
America
Bill Bradley Eyes future presidential bid
Former Princeton basketball star and NBA standout Bill Bradley has advanced to the U S Senate and is now seen as a potential future candidate for the presidency. Parade notes Bradley’s patient political climb and national attention.
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Princeton
Bill Bradley
Bradley
U.S. Senate
Parade
Marveling at Miami
Miami has grown into a diverse hub with about 2 million residents half speaking Spanish and about three quarters of Cuban origin, marking it as the most foreign city among the United States. Leisure section features.
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Miami
Leisure
Is it live or TV the real families compare
The page surveys how real families resemble or differ from famous TV clans like the Cleavers, Bradys, Huxtables, Ewings, Colbys, and Nelsons, pondering life on and off screen with a light, reflective tone.
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Cleavers
Bradys
Huxtables
Ewings
Colbys
Nelsons
Swaggart donations fall as layoffs follow scandal
Jimmy Swaggart's admission of sin and sexual misconduct allegations led to a sharp cut in donations, forcing his ministry to lay off 100 workers and halt construction. A spokesman said layoffs come from the fallout and that work will not resume until contributions rebound. Louisiana Assemblies of God leaders confirmed seeing photos of Swaggart with a prostitute at a New Orleans area motel. A woman claiming to be the same person said he paid her to pose naked.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmy Swaggart
Gus Weill
Swaggart
Gild
Louisiana
Assemblies of God
New Orleans
Weill
Sion
Cedar Rapids
James
Cox
America
Los Angeles singer found guilty of murder over foot gesture
Thai entertainer Pongsak Torr Trakulrat 38 was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court of second degree murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon in the March 1985 slaying of Korak Piou Sourinha 29. He followed the patron outside after a foot sole gesture and shot him. Sentencing set for March 28 with a maximum penalty of 31 years to life.
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Los Angeles
Thailand
Southeast Asia
Pongsak “Torr” Trakulrat
Los Angeles Superior Court
Trakulrat
Piousourinha
David Dahle
Italian woman gives birth to two headed baby in Naples
Immacolata Izzo, 38, delivered an 8.3-pound girl at Loreto Mare hospital in Naples. Dr Mariano Zaccarino said the infant has two heads, two lungs, three arms, and one set of organs with a malformed heart, adding the baby is relatively healthy but life expectancy unknown.
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Naples
Italy
Immacolata Izzo
Naples’ Loreto March Hospital
Mariano Zaccarino
Correction on Ex Prisioners of War meeting date
A correction notes the Hawkeye Chapter of American Ex Prisoners of War meets at 11 a m March 13 in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Club Room 3240 Southgate Place SW. The Gazette also explains its process for reporting accuracy and corrections and invites complaints at phone 398 8313.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
Southgate Place
the Gazette
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