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...Which presidential candidate came closest to playing a professional sport? Jimmy "The Engineer" Carter played quarterback on his intramural football team at Annapolis, but showed little poise in the clutch. Ronald "Run and Gun" Reagan's set shot swished through many a net during his childhood in lowa, but lack of vision prevented anything more. John Anderson's athletic career ended early, when he refused to participate in games involving only two teams...
...that it is not the thought that counts, it's the cost of a gift multiplied by its value on the Total Uselessness Continuum (TUC) which determines its success as a crowd pleaser. For example, if your giftee does not own any sort of boat and lives in Central lowa, you can given him or her a brass ship's wheel which costs about $550 in the Quincy market. On a Total Uselessness scale from 1 (relatively useful), to 10 (no earthly reason why anyone would need this object), a ship's wheel rates about an eight...
Defending champion lowa State captured its fourth consecutive team crown while host University of Colorado's Mary Decker took the individual honors. Ivy-rival Princeton finished 12th in the team standings while the University of Maryland, which tied Harvard last week at the Eastern championships, grabbed ninth...
...from Dacca, Bangladesh, says: "I feel closer to people here than at home--but I'm not at home here either. I guess I'm somewhere in between. Rahman, whose mother is a biochemist with a Ph.D. from Yale and father holds an M.S. as an engineer from lowa, grew up speaking four languages (Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and English)--although the most technical discussions were reserved for English. His school, like that of every elite student I talked to, made a practise of sending its graduates out of the country; Rahman says that out of around 40 graduates 25 went...
...Varsity: NCAA Championships at lowa State...