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...within the trauma wards, Landstuhl's doctors and nurses have had a close-up view of the war's mayhem, almost as intense as in Iraq itself. After being wheeled through Landstuhl's doors one snowy morning in late January, Brent Jurgersen, 42, a first sergeant from Low Moor, Iowa, was rushed into an operating room, where surgeons amputated his left leg at the knee. The day before, as Jurgersen led his Humvee through a village near Samarra...
...That didn't stop him from founding in 2003 Common Sense Media, which runs a website that rates TV shows, video games, music, books and websites for age appropriateness. "I'm no right-winger or religious ideologue," he says. "This is a nonpartisan issue." Kathleen Richardson of Des Moines, Iowa, is executive secretary of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and the mother of three kids, 12, 16 and 18. "Here I'm promoting free speech and the values of the First Amendment professionally," she says, "and yet it drives me crazy that my kids are swimming around in this...
...thus cannot subconsciously influence the witness. That can pose a problem in small towns, where the officers usually know everyone, including the suspect. Minneapolis police captain Richard Stanek's solution is to put mug shots on a laptop computer and allow the witness to view them privately. Iowa State University psychology professor Gary Wells, who has been advocating sequential lineups for almost 30 years, contends that they will be the dominant procedure across the country in five to seven years. "It's been a slow awakening," he says, "but it's finally happening." --By Kristin Kloberdanz
...himself somewhat outflanked on Social Security. Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican senator who is also weighing a 2008 run, had introduced the first Social Security plan in Congress this year. Hagel repeatedly noted in a press conference Tuesday that he was "first," and there's no doubt voters in Iowa will hear that too in coming years...
...Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin said, "Mr. Greenspan lost his credibility when he endorsed the President's tax cuts." Republicans, not surprisingly, don't agree, and have been almost gleeful at Greenspan's endorsement of their plan for Social Security. "Nobody in government has more credibility than Greenspan," says Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley...