Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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January tornadoes roar across Midwestern states...
...what if biofuels could be made without food crops, using an inedible plant grown on less than optimum farmland? That's exactly the thinking behind the push to develop cellulosic ethanol from the waste plant switchgrass, which grows throughout the Midwestern prairies, with little input from farmers. Instead of fuel from food, switchgrass cellulosic ethanol promises fuel from virtually nothing - and a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) argues that it's worth making the switch...
...corner of Sixth and Locust is probably the tensest spot in downtown Des Moines. And the frostiness has little to do with the subfreezing Midwestern winter and everything to do with presidential politics. For housed alongside each other on the bottom floor of a 73-year-old office building at 405 Sixth Avenue - and sharing the bathrooms in the basement- are the Iowa headquarters of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Texas Congressman Ron Paul...
...Harvard’s Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP) as a model. UMRP, which is staffed by current undergraduates available to address specific concerns about life at Harvard, helps prospective students from minority backgrounds overcome negative stereotypes associated with Harvard. The College should set up a similar program for Midwestern and Southern prospective students, recruiting current Harvard students from those regions to return home and talk to high school students about misconceptions. Such a program could show students that Midwesterners and Southerners are welcome and can fit in at Harvard, and that their future classmates will be (for the most...
...have felt comfortable in. It subscribes to a "Black Value System" in which "black" was always the operative word--"black family," "black community," "black freedom," etc. But it was not a black value system that accounted for Obama's success in life; it was the values of his white Midwestern mother. Could he stand up in his own church and say this...