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Iguchi, who is now an American citizen, shed his Japanese roots early on. A native of Kobe, he graduated from high school in 1969 and swiftly lit out for the territory, which in this case meant Southwest Missouri State University, in Springfield. Iguchi, one of 54 foreigners in a student body of more than 12,000, majored in psychology and became a cheerleader before graduating in 1975. "He was a little shy," recalls retired mathematics professor Howard Matthews, who advised foreign students at the school. Matthews remembers Iguchi as "an A and B student and a courteous young...
...standout Harvard center, who graduated this past June, signed a multi-year contract with the Hartford Whalers, which used the fifth selection in the NHL's 1994 Supplemental Draft to acquire him. Martins will either play with Hartford or their AHL affiliate, Springfield...
Haden first caught Jones on recordings, playing behind Parker. Haden had worked up a keen ear for all kinds of music from early on. His parents were country musicians who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry and started their boy performing at age four. Some Sundays in Springfield, Missouri, Haden's mother would take him on outings to the African-American church. "We would quietly go in the door after everybody and sit in the back and listen to the music," he says. "That was one of the most moving experiences of my young life...
...would her life be like had she been on estrogen the past 20-plus years? RICKI POLLYCOVE, M.D. San Francisco A MAJOR DISSERVICE HAS BEEN DONE TO the women of this country. The article on estrogen fed the cancer fear in women. Your report was sensationalistic. HALINA WICZYK, M.D. Springfield, Massachusetts...
...into his three-year sentence for transmitting obscene images by computer, the man the Carnegie Mellon report calls a modern-day Marquis de Sade hardly looks like a political cause celebre. Robert Thomas spends his day like any other inmate at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri: cleaning the prison kitchen and laundry room and waiting to hear whether his lawyers will get him out on appeal. Thomas' case could well end up in the Supreme Court, where it would set legal precedent for all of cyberspace...