Schools skip 9/11 in middle curriculum across Linn Johnson counties
Alyssa Cashman reports that Linn and Johnson counties middle schools do not teach 9/11 in grades six through eight. Students recall little about the day as curricula focus on earlier Western Hemisphere history and end in 1890 before American history.
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the Gazette
Ethan Baldwin
America
Vernon Middle School
Marion
Angelica Claytor
Nathan
Angelica
Linn
Johnson Counties
Western Hemisphere
Laura Mallicoat
Linn-Mar
Vernon
United States
Eastern Hemisphere
Mid-Prairie Middle School
Wellman
9/11 Attacks Quiz Answers and Source
Answers indicate 9/11 fatalities excluding attackers were 2 973. Four hijackers destroyed or damaged 17 buildings in the attacks. Planes belonged to American and United. All four planes were used. Attackers mainly came from Afghanistan and Iraq. The bombing occurred on a Tuesday. There were 19 terrorists. Source credits Encarta Encyclopedia online.
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Iran
Afghanistan
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Yemen
Gardner uses 1986 squad car in Linn County sheriff race
Cedar Rapids. Democrat Brian Gardner a Linn County sheriff’s major campaigns for sheriff with a refurbished 1986 Chevrolet Caprice bearing the Linn County Sheriff's Office seal and the words Gardner for Sheriff. Opponent is Republican David Zahn. Gardner says the use is legal after state confirmation.
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Ne Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Sheriff's Office
Gardner
Brian Gardner
Linn County
David Zahn
Iowa scientists help test world’s largest atom smasher
UI researchers helped build a detector for the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. The device passed its first test as CERN launched the giant accelerator, with UI teams led by Yasar Onel and Usha Mallik ready to shed light on the universe’s first moments.
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Diane Heldt
Gazette
Associated Press
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Yasar Onel
Onel
CERN
European Organization For Nuclear Research
Geneva
Jane Nachtman
Usha Mallik
Ox Yoke Inn abandons historic neon sign in Amana era end
The Ox Yoke Inn will remove its store sign next week ending a landmark that has greeted guests since about 1950. Bill Leichsenring Jr. recalls the sign as a family legacy and a memory of Christmas shopping trips with his late parents William and Lina Leichsenring.
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Amana
Ne Gazette Amana
Ox Yoke Inn
Bill Leichsenring Jr
Ox Yoke Restaurants
William
Lina Leichsenring
Leichsenring
Cedar Rapids
Highway 149
Highway 151
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