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...Vilsack appointed a bipartisan group to figure out what to do. The Strategic Planning Council urged officials to use all available means to increase Iowa's population. "We've got to fire every bullet," says council chairman David Oman. And so in hopes of adding 310,000 new residents to the population over the next nine years, Vilsack is trying to lure expat Iowans back home. He is hosting receptions around the country for Iowa university alumni. But so far, only about 300 families have returned...
...Cinderellas Of the 200 countries that have sent athletes to Sydney, several could only produce the smallest of teams. Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Oman have only one representative each, while Somalia is fielding...
...Private citizens are an important source of funding--even the KSG professorships named after the Sultan of Oman and the late King Hussein of Jordan were partially funded by private donations...
...Sultan has ruled Oman, a nation of 2.1 million people in the southeast part of the Arabian peninsula, since...
...ruler is credited with modernizing Oman's economy and diplomacy. He also supported the 1978 Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel when many Islamic nations rejected...