15 Mar 2000
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 2000
Page
1
An adoption group rescues Airedale terrier Wylie a 4 year old from a local surrender He will be placed in a foster home in Chicago as part of the group’s effort to re home dogs in need.
Cedar Rapids fabrication equipment maker Met-Coil is sold for 32 million and will merge with Mestek. The deal highlights a strategic consolidation in the metal fabrication industry.
Anne O Neil of Cedar Rapids Kennedy, a scoring record holder, is crowned Miss Iowa Basketball 2000. NCAA coaches argue gender equity influences funding and program availability in college athletics.
An audit of Cedar Rapids Traffic Engineering offices uncovers possible irregularities in computer use and records. Officials say the review seeks to determine if any crime or misuse occurred and will inform next steps after findings.
Sophomore Kate Baumert took over writing directing and playing the male lead for Marion High School’s madri gal due to a shortage of male participants. Ann Cannon appears in a photo with Baumert in Thursday’s Gazette Youth Plus feature.
Cargill Inc officials won a unanimous Planning Commission recommendation to rezone land south of Otis Road SE and east of 10th Street to industrial and commercial warehouse districts for a plant expansion. The panel required a boundary fence and urged ongoing attention to neighborhood impacts amid resident protests.
A Harvard School of Public Health study finds 22.7 percent of drinkers on colleges drank three or more times in the past month, up from 20.9 in 1997, with 36.5 percent of undergraduates nationally binge drinking in the two weeks before the survey.
Erin Weber, a 17 year old senior at North Cedar, watches nervously as No 1 plays Fort Dodge St Edmond in a 2A state basketball quarterfinal in Des Moines. North Cedar falls 48 45 in tournament coverage.
AP reports a San Francisco sergeant’s killer hid in Des Moines under the alias James Walker for about two years while his name remained on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, which marked its 50th anniversary. The piece names Cole and three others connected to Iowa cases, with brief arrest details and list history.
University of Iowa researcher Frederick Domann found that aberrant cytosine methylation silences maspin, a gene that keeps breast cells from spreading tumors. He showed 5-aza-dC can reactivate maspin in lab breast cells, though a targeted therapy is years away.
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