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...Moines from further flooding, the atmosphere was downright festive. Jokes flew (most popular: the state motto, "Iowa -- A Place to Grow," should be changed to "Iowa -- A Place to Row"). Valerie Kenworthy, 15, explained her presence: the scene "looked cool on TV so I came down." At Iowa Methodist Medical Center, the only designated trauma center serving the city, president David Ramsey explained why trauma cases are actually down: "People are helping out and are not out on motorcycles drinking beer and acting crazy." Hospital workers were busy carrying buckets of water for patients. "Our arms are six inches longer...
...group of skinheads in California had a dream, but it was decidedly different from the one imagined by Martin Luther King. Their vision allegedly went like this: a phalanx of skinheads with machine guns would invade the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. The congregation would be sprayed with bullets, and the pastor, (the Rev.) Cecil Murray, would be murdered. Across the U.S., other blacks were potential targets -- Rodney King, (the Rev.) Al Sharpton, the rap group Public Enemy, perhaps even a baseball player. An all-out race war would be triggered, a final, bloody Ragnarok...
...Elders, the pediatrician nominated to be Surgeon General, was the first in her sharecropper family of eight children to go to college, working her way through Philander Smith, a black institution in Arkansas, as a cleaning woman. When she was home one weekend, her younger brother Chester, now a Methodist minister in Pine Bluff, realized that she had begun to change when she took her siblings to the drive-in to see a movie. "She went to a section not marked off for coloreds," says her brother. "The attendant told her to move, and they got in a heated argument...
...Tears filled Mr. Clinton's eyes as he listened to hymns at an interfaith service inside Washington's Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church." --INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE...
...hospital beds are unoccupied on an average day) and duplicating costly equipment that they could share. In Iowa, however, so many hospitals are merging that Des Moines may soon be the only city with more than one -- and there two of the remaining three big ones, Iowa Methodist Medical Center and Iowa Lutheran Hospital, are completing a merger. Among other things, they will concentrate on types of care in which they specialize: Methodist's doctors will do the surgery and other specialized care while Lutheran's physicians focus on family practice...