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Born in Chariton, Iowa in 1913, Willey attended the University of Arizona and got his Ph.D at Columbia University...
...encouraged senators to support two alternatives bills—one sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinsten (D-Ca.) the other by Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Arlen Specter (R-Penn.)—that would ban reproductive cloning but allow somatic transfer techniques to be used for “therapeutic cloning...
...Thousand Country Roads begins 16 years after the close encounter in Bridges. The two principals are spending their twilight years many miles apart: Robert Kincaid on an island in Puget Sound; Francesca Johnson, now a widow, dreaming away the long evenings on her Iowa farm. Bored with retirement and pushing 70, Kincaid sets off in his beloved pickup to see the fateful Roseman Bridge one last time. There's tension in the air, but not because we expect the two lovers to meet again--Waller made it clear in Bridges that they never do. The tension comes from...
...Winners JERRY SEINFELD Comic sells documentary rights to his tour for megabucks. Meanwhile, Michael Richards is pumped over his planned Iowa State Fair gig 'N SYNC Boy band beats lawsuit filed by puppetmakers who claimed singers had misappropriated identity of artificial, sawdust-filled characters CLINT EASTWOOD Aging actor named to California Parks Commission. First order of business: cut him in half so tourists can count the rings Losers ZHU RONGJI Chinese Premier red-faced over economic forum snafus. To-do list for next Boao summit: fewer boring heads of state, more beer bongs MARLON BRANDO Godfather hit with big palimony...
...family consciousness isn't limited to the coasts either. In Denton, Texas, Karen, a mother of two, formed a network to share such experiences as handling the questions her children got at school about why they do not have a dad. This spring near Tama, Iowa, the Iowa Conference of the United Church for Christ will launch Rainbow Family Camp, a weekend retreat for gay families. And this past June saw the debut of the glossy bimonthly And Baby, a magazine for gay and lesbian parents. Many of its articles are the usual child-rearing-magazine fare, but others, like...