Word: iowa
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There are many cases in which the media has been guilty of egregious failures of perspective. The grotesque frenzies surrounding the O.J. Simpson trial, the nanny trial or the birth of septuplets in Iowa seem entirely out of proportion to their actual significance. I believe there is a special circle in hell reserved for any television network that ever opened a broadcast with a story about Tonya Harding. And I detest local news stations that never once offer a decent, thoughtful story about education, but are always on the scene the moment someone falls down a manhole or gets...
...Iowa at Wisconsin, ESPN...
...unbroken "straight" households. There are far more children looking for adoptive parents than people willing to adopt. Adoption officials have to deal with reality. Their options, when considering the best interests of each child, should not be limited by pie-in-the-sky delusions. WILLIAM C. STOSINE Iowa City...
...eucalyptus and neem oils and chrysanthemum-flower extract, solutions that have been recommended on the Internet. Others have taken to smearing their children's heads with mayonnaise, petroleum jelly or Crisco, then having the kids sleep in a shower cap. In July a 13-year-old girl in Lorimor, Iowa, died after her mother doused her head in gasoline and a pilot light on the family's hot-water heater ignited the fumes. Last spring, a six-year-old Oklahoma girl stopped breathing temporarily after her mother's boyfriend soaked her hair in Diazinon, an agricultural insecticide...
...produce this high-quality fuel from a wide range of plant feed stocks at prices competitive with those of gasoline. In conjunction with fuel cells, ethanol will let us reduce our need for imported oil and dramatically cut our greenhouse-gas emissions. TERRY E. BRANSTAD Governor of Iowa Des Moines