by admin | Nov 30, 2000 | Sports
Drake managed just 35-percent shooting for the game and fell to Central Michigan 73-68 last night in the Knapp Center. Andry Sola led the Bulldogs with 15-points. Lamont Evans had 12 and added six assists. Drake is now 1-3 and all three losses have gone down to the...
by admin | Nov 30, 2000 | Health & Medicine, Recreation / Entertainment
A medical marvel is one of the items to go on display next month at the State Historical Building. This item made it into the list of “100 Creations of the 20th Century.”The longest-serving U-S President contracted it, and earlier this century thousands...
by admin | Nov 30, 2000 | News
The Iowa Farm Bureau wraps up its 82nd annual meeting today in Des Moines. Bureau President Ed Wiederstein says one of the issues discussed was the proposed Smithfield Foods merger with I-B-P. The president of Smithfield addressed convention delegates. Wiederstein...
by admin | Nov 30, 2000 | Education, Health & Medicine
A University of Iowa survey of hundreds of school nurses nationwide finds nearly half of them admit making mistakes when giving medicine to children. Dr. Ann Marie McCarthy, a U-of-I Nursing Professor, says the term “mistake” was used to refer to things...
by admin | Nov 30, 2000 | Technology
Innovators who hope to better our lives through biotechnology are meeting in Des Moines. Tom Ranken is the symposium’s keynote speaker. He’s past-director of the Seattle, Washington-based Biotech Trade Association and is now heading up a company focused on...
