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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1997
Page
4
Fifty students enroll in a 40 hour for credit course at the University of Amsterdam exploring Madonna as a media phenomenon. The class reviews her lyrics voice film persona sexuality religion and media presence. Students say Madonna's media savvy attracts them more than her music.
Miami AP reports activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, author of The Everglades River of Grass, celebrated her 107th birthday resting at a ground breaking ceremony for an environmental education center near her cottage dating from 1926. She joked about aiming for 115.
In Ada Minnesota residents flee by bus and vehicle as Red River swells and floods linger. The scene shows ice and water two abreast with a town growing desolate while National Guard aid and shelters attempt to restore basic services.
Dams along the Missouri River in South Dakota face critical capacity as spring rains threaten to force overflow releases. Water storage nears the highest levels since the 1960s, with 65.6 million acre-feet pushing against the dams and forecasts of further runoff and floods across Minnesota and the Dakotas.
The 1997 Pulitzer winners include Wall Street Journal coverage of AIDS drugs and The Times-Picayune two awards for ocean and housing issues. Philadelphia Inquirer and Seattle Times teams won for explanatory and investigative reporting on illness, corruption, and industry problems. AP and Newsday also took prizes for photography and breaking news coverage of crises.
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