Word: boyness
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Coming so soon after the May 25 tornado in the northeastern Iowa town of Parkersburg that killed seven people and injured about 50, the June 11 tornado in western Iowa at the Boy Scout camp made me want to shake my fists at the heavens. But there's no time for fury. There's work to be done...
...feel under siege with this weather," my friend Anne e-mailed this week, after reassuring me that her 15-year-old son was not among the Boy Scouts at an Iowa campground that was flattened by a tornado a few days ago. It was hard to react to that unfathomable tragedy - four teenagers killed, 48 people wounded - with the can-do stoicism that many Iowans have mustered in response to the sinking realization that yet another so-called "500-year flood" is slowly but surely swamping our state - just 15 years after the last...
...Interstate 80); looking at wrenching images of flood scenes near and far: a woman crying on her Des Moines doorstep as she's told to evacuate; a couple row-boating through their mobile home park in Altoona; an Iowa City police officer wading through water with a little boy on his shoulders; an astonishing aerial view of downtown Cedar Rapids where downtown buildings look like rafts in an ocean. But mostly, my fellow sandbaggers work quietly, diligently, steadily, shoveling sand, filling bags, heaving them into piles and hoping for the best while preparing for the worst...
...schoolchildren to be released by the afternoon bell. Technically, it's against city ordinances for the vendors to operate near school grounds during the day, but no one is stopping them. Elizabeth Medrano--an activist with the Healthy School Food Coalition and the mother of a 9-year-old boy--tours the streets around the school, where nearly all the food options are found at a handful of liquor stores and bodegas. Each prominently displays candy and packaged snacks; only a few small retailers carry produce--and unappetizing produce at that. "Would you buy this?" she asks, pointing...
...show's slogan put it, to bring viewers "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." And wherever his travels took him--from the Olympics to barrel-jumping, from horse-racing to demolition derby--he brought a reporter's eye, a poet's touch and a little boy's enthusiasm...