Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freedman is widely praised as a leader in higher education. Before taking the top post at Dartmouth, Freedman was president of the University of Iowa for five years...
...warriors, welcome to your nightmare--a do-it-yourself guerrilla narcotic spread by paranoid insomniacs who think they see federal agents through every keyhole, even when it's just the Domino's Pizza man. In cities large and small across the West and Midwest crank belt, from Oregon to Iowa, where the drug is known as the poor man's cocaine in towns that barely had cocaine in the first place, the drug arrives nonstop from every direction and by every imaginable route. Wrapped by the ounce and the pound in duct-tape eggs that can be stashed...
...working in a print shop in Keokuk, Iowa, is dazzled by a book about exploring the Amazon, by a ship captain named William Lewis Herndon. The kid, who is fizzing with light-out-for-the- territory restlessness, quits his job and hops a steamer for New Orleans, hellbent to board the next boat for the Amazon's mouth. But no boats are headed there, then or later, so young Samuel Clemens is stuck with writing about the Mississippi. There is only the most tenuous and delightful of connections with another kid, in Defiance, Ohio, a century later. This fellow, named...
...million: Estimated combined amount spent by the three Republicans and two Democrats who ran in the Iowa gubernatorial primary...
...with contempt, refusing even to acknowledge them. As the singer and his burly entourage walked through a Honolulu hotel lobby, I saw Sinatra's bodyguards shove fans aside when they approached. Sinatra's voice was made of gold. The man behind it was a monster. ALAN L. LIGHT Iowa City, Iowa...