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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 2001
Page
2
Jacquelyn Mitchard recalls readers challenging her on backyard breeders, purebreds, and mongrels. She reports on euthanasia rates, relinquishment motives, and a shift toward adopting shelter dogs like Hobbes and other rescue animals.
The FDA approved a pacemaker with a tiny transmitter that automatically sends heart data to a central computer and then to a doctor's office. The Biotronik system allows daily or weekly monitoring without patient actions, with a six foot receiver range and magnet trigger for immediate transmission if symptoms arise.
The Gazette highlights its use of soybean ink and recycled newsprint to support farming and sustainability. It urges readers to recycle by dropping newspapers at City Carton on Sixth Street SW or using the nearest recycling location.
V S Naipaul, born in Trinidad to Indian descent, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature at age 69 for his postcolonial and Muslim fundamentalism critiques. The Swedish award carries a $943000 prize. Naipaul, a British novelist, began with the West Indian island and expanded to India Africa America and Islam in Asia.
Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul will visit Iowa City for a Live From Prairie Lights reading on November 4 at 5 p.m. in Buchanan Auditorium Pappajohn Building. The event is sponsored by the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and broadcast on WSUL AM 910.
The Gazette corrects severance rules for Rockwell Collins salaried workers advancing four weeks minimum and hourly severance per contract. It notes Doug Wagner said Thursday cuts disclosed only counts, not departments. Leah Cohen, an Iowa City at large winner, had not run before. The 1987 murder year for Carl Wiedemeier was stated incorrectly.
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