by admin | May 30, 2000 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
Government researchers working to cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other diseases are currently restricted from using human cells in their labs, but an effort led by Iowa Senator Tom Harkin seeks to change that. He says researchers should be allowed to use...
by admin | May 29, 2000 | Politics & Government
Iowa’s record-high return rate on Census forms bodes well for the next Census according to Beth Henning, the Iowa liaison to the U-S Census.Last Wednesday, Census bureau officials announced an estimated 74 percent of Iowans sent in their Census survey forms...
by admin | May 29, 2000 | Human Interest
Editors of a book on African-American history in Iowa are asking Iowans to contribute pictures to illustrate the work. Book editor Jack Lufkin says the chapters are written, and being edited. He says if they have pictures that have never been published before, they...
by admin | May 29, 2000 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
A television news photographer in Cedar Rapids was injured after the mast on his news van touched a power line. 30-year-old Peter McNaughton of KGAN in Cedar Rapids is in critical condition at University Hospitals in Iowa City.
by admin | May 29, 2000 | Military
A documentary on the Sullivan brothers of Waterloo will air tonight on the History Channel. The true story of the five “Fighting Sullivans” is part of the “History’s Mysteries” series on the cable T-V network. Arthur Drooker is the...
