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...America teacher, so you can imagine my concern when I read the headline on Klein's article "Who Killed Teach for America?" Teach for America is not dead. It is the scholarship funds provided by the Federal Government that have been killed, not the program. BILL ZESSAR Bettendorf, Iowa...
...former NATO commander has enough grass-roots support (there are at least three "Draft Clark" movements on the Web) that catching up won't be a problem. They have already raised or won pledges for hundreds of thousands of dollars--enough to pay for TV ads in New Hampshire, Iowa and Clark's home state of Arkansas. And Clark's speeches have sounded suspiciously like campaign warm-ups. In an appearance at New York University last week, Clark wowed the crowd with his thoughts on Iraq (he opposed the war and now calls for U.N. involvement); impressions of the former...
...favoring more American troops and more money--opened it a crack. "If we need more troops, they are going to be foreign troops," the former Governor said, changing his position and glancing warily over at Kucinich, who hopes to dent Dean's support in the peaceable kingdom of Iowa. "Ours need to come home...
...almost all of North America it has now become almost impossible for farmers planting natural crops to avoid genetic pollution from migrating GM seeds. In Iowa in 2001, for example, only 1 percent of the fields were planted with genetically engineered wheat (the infamous StarLink variety, in this case), yet eventually 50 percent of Iowa’s wheat fields were contaminated. North of the border, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, organic farmers were so affected that they are in the process of filing a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto for making it impossible for them to grow...
...people to speculate on terrorist strikes, assassinations and coups, was "wasteful and absurd." Poindexter is expected to leave his Pentagon post in the wake of the controversy, but we may not have heard the last of the plan. "The p.r. has been bad," says George Neumann, a University of Iowa economics professor. "But people are going to want to revisit these issues...