Word: iowa
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...inspectors for "serious or potentially life-threatening care problems" and that the same problems probably exist across the nation. These are likely to grow as the baby boomers become grandparents and the rocketing elderly population puts even greater pressure on the nation's nursing homes. Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Committee on Aging, argues that much of the blame for the flawed nursing-home system can be pinned on the Federal Government, which has the economic leverage to insist on improvements. Last year the Federal Government spent $28 billion on nursing-home care through Medicare...
...paratroopers dropped behind the lines on the eve of the invasion, is missing, and no less a figure than General George C. Marshall, the Army's Chief of Staff, has ordered his rescue. For Ryan is the last survivor of four brothers sent to war from an Iowa farm family. The memory of the five Sullivan brothers, killed together when their ship went down, is fresh in Marshall's mind. He will do anything to avoid a repetition of that tragedy. Or rather, he will ask others to do anything to avoid...
...customers have begun to think differently as well. Charles Hintz, a retired psychiatrist from Des Moines, Iowa, has found a kind of salvation in the Net's limitless ease and bounty. Hintz, a 68-year-old quadriplegic, was paralyzed in a fall 12 years ago, but for the past three years he has been doing the birthday and holiday shopping for his large family on the computer, which he operates by poking the keyboard with a stick he holds in his mouth. He buys clothes from Lands' End online, CDs from CDnow and books from Amazon.com "It makes me feel...
Businesses are paying attention. Computer firm Lucent Technologies has added "gender-identity characteristics or expression" to its equal-opportunity policy. The University of Iowa has similar language, and in February, Rutgers adopted more limited protections for "people who have changed or are in the process of changing" their sex. Last year Harvard allowed an incoming female-to-male freshman to live on a male dorm floor. Campus groups have asked the college to formally protect transgenders, but Harvard being Harvard, the university is studying the issue. Transgenders are pushing ahead in the courts as well. In a little-noticed...
...feminists have made progress, because my 12-year-old daughter believes she can do, say and be anything, and go anywhere her male friends can. She not only believes it--she expects it to be that way. That is not the power of a dead movement! TAMMY SCHEUERMANN Ames, Iowa...