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...incident rattled the industry. Some major players, among them Dow and Monsanto, are steering clear of the Farm Belt, preferring to grow their pharmacorn in isolated areas of Arizona, California and Washington State. Even so, the USDA--under pressure from Midwestern politicians who dream of biopharm Silicon Valleys in Iowa--has stopped short of restricting biopharming in major corn-growing states. Its new rules would step up inspections of biopharms and expand the buffer zone between genetically modified corn and food crops to a mile. But opponents say that's not wide enough to prevent cross-pollination, and a coalition...
Lately, other coaches have forgotten other rules. There's ex-basketball coach Larry Eustachy of Iowa State, who forgot the one about not getting drunk and canoodling with coeds. There's Jim Harrick, ex-basketball coach of the University of Georgia, who forgot the one about not permitting athletes to receive bogus class credits. There's Jan van Breda Kolff, ex-basketball coach of St. Bonaventure University, who forgot to require a transfer student to have a two-year degree, not a certificate in welding...
Then, too, there is the coaches' star wattage. At $1.1 million per year, Eustachy was the highest paid employee on the State of Iowa's payroll. A star on the sports pages is going to enjoy rock-star treatment--and rock-star latitude. The downside is, he'll also live in a rock star's bubble...
...author of three books of fiction and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Hemley has a great story on his hands, and he has done much valuable research. His book, however, is far from satisfying. In tone it alternates between a voice so low key as to verge on dull and a stuffy attempt to make the book appear more scholarly than it is. Hemley's humor is always just off target, or trite, or both. "To paraphrase Groucho Marx, we don't want to be members of a human race that would have us as members"; it almost...
...still, we’re all able to enjoy these precious moments of college while still being responsible students. If you want proof of how much we’re going to miss these years, just look at Iowa State basketball coach Larry Eustachy, who was photographed kissing female students with a beer in his hand at a frat party at the ripe old age of 47. Eustachy’s behavior was disturbing, pathetic and outright wrong—let’s not have any Harvard kids revealing the repressed party animal inside 25 years from...