Word: iowa
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...KURT WARNER The retired Iowa grocery bagger made the most of his NFL chance: he quarterbacked the St. Louis Rams to a 13-3 record and a 23-16 Super Bowl win over the Tennessee Titans. Warner threw 41 touchdown passes during the season, only the second...
Daye disagrees. "There were 6,000 guys at Folsom prison," he says, "and I was the only one from Iowa." He learned to make a knife out of a sardine can and sew a steel tray into his coat as body armor. "They put my life in far more peril than I was ever in on the street." Daye, who makes $7 an hour as a cook in Raleigh, N.C., still hopes that his lawsuit, now under appeal, will help set things right...
...pervasive is the gender gap? According to Thomas Mortenson, an education analyst in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the share of college degrees earned by males has been declining for decades. U.S. government figures show that from 1970 to 1996, as the number of bachelor's degrees earned by women increased 77%, the number earned by men rose 19%. Not all schools are feeling the imbalance; many elite colleges and universities have seen applications soar from both sexes. But the overall numbers, says Mortenson, should make us "wake up and see that boys are in trouble...
...press stopped publishing in 1976, due in part to a lack of "interesting manuscripts." North, gentle and erudite, partly blames the "fake professionalization of poetry and by the MFA phenomenon" for the shoddy state of contemporary verse. Indeed, Masters programs at prestigious schools (of which Iowa is the most famous) seem increasingly out of touch with the imaginative energy so consistent of underground communities. But today's problems are also economic. When publishing was cheaper, poets could devote their time to the serious business of writing verse-and keep their sense of humor about it. "Now," Fagin laments, "poets...
...marketing of a combination PET/CT machine, the first medical-imaging device that simultaneously and clearly reveals both anatomical details and metabolic processes within the body. By early next year the new scanners will be installed at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Indiana University, the University of Iowa and other medical facilities...