MTV tough guys roil music world with golf course clash
Bob Greene notes a new kind of tough guy moment as Axl Rose taunts Vince Neil over a feud, threatening a match up any time on the golf course. The piece ties rock bravado to old western and war hero archetypes, with MTV framing the spectacle. Saturday Gazette readers see a cultural crossroads of image and aggression.
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Audie Murphy
Jack Dempsey
MTV
Barbara Walters
Kurt Loder
Loder
Axl Rose
Guns N’ Roses
Motley Crue
Rose
Vince Neil
Vince
Axton
Neil
America
Los Angeles
Fairway
Agatha Christie Birthday Festival in Torquay Marks Centennial
Torquay England sponsors a festival to honor its famed citizen Agatha Christie on the 100th anniversary of her birth. The crime novelist died in 1976, making the event a retrospective celebration of her life and works.
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Torquay
England
Agatha Christie
Local Events Guide for Eastern Iowa and Cedar Rapids
A dense listing covers theatre productions Mame and Nunsense in Iowa venues, a Paradise Hotel show, and music by the Iowa Composers Forum. Outdoors include hikes at Matsell Bridge and deep sky viewing at Palisades Dows, plus a 25 mile bicycle ride from Bever Park to Mount Vernon. Mexican Heritage Festival and National Cattle Congress highlights with Roger Whittaker in Waterloo.
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Mame
Hancher Auditorium
Iowa City
Paradise Hotel
Old Creamery Theatre
Garrison
Nunsense
Amana Colonies
Cedar Rapids
Bever Park
Mount Vernon
Hawkeye Bicycle Association
Four Year Old Girl Becomes Gene Therapy Pioneer
A 4 year old girl received an intravenous gene therapy infusion in a historic first. NIH officials describe the patient as doing beautifully while researchers say the therapy could unlock treatments for ADA deficiency and other genetic diseases.
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Washington
French Anderson
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Kenneth Culver
National Cancer Institutes
Don Ralbovsky
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda
Food and Drug Administration
R. Michael Blaese
Cancer Institute
Anderson
NIH
GM recalls 30,700 vehicles including school buses and vans
General Motors recalls 30,700 1990 vehicles due to faulty fuel hose connections. About 1,700 Chevrolet and GMC school buses and around 29,000 Chevrolet Astro and GMC Safari vans with 4.3 liter or 2.5 liter engines may have fuel-return hoses that can crack at crimped couplings, risking fuel leaks. owners will receive letters and dealers will replace hoses at no charge.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
Chevrolet
Correction notice on Youtheatre classes published
Correction responds to a Weekend section error about Youtheatre classes. Reader's theater and song and dance are for grades 5 and up. This year includes a creative dramatics class for primary-age children with mental or physical challenges. Gazette addresses accuracy and promises clarifications. Phone 398-8313.
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the Gazette
No cancer death rise found near nuclear plants
A two year government survey of 107 counties containing or near 62 nuclear facilities reports no convincing evidence of increased cancer mortality. Researchers warn the study’s large areas may miss risks in smaller zones around facilities.
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Washington
Department of Health and Human Services
National Cancer Institute
U.S
John Boice
NCI
Boice
Michael Mariotte
Nuclear Information and Research Service
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