2008 Woodie Awards
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Two months after revealing his tragic battle with terminal illness and nearly two years after being diagnosed with cancer, Iowa women's track coach James Grant died Monday morning in Iowa City. He was 60.
One of the longest-tenured coaches at the university, Grant had worked in the track program since he became an assistant in 1986, and he was in his 11th season as head coach of the women's team.
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Mike Huckabee opened his Republican presidential-nomination campaign appearance at the North Liberty Pizza Ranch on Monday by joking that the Midwestern pizza chain's locations throughout Iowa have become de facto campaign headquarters for him. He said he has held meetings in almost every Pizza Ranch in the state.
After introducing himself, the former Arkansas governor addressed an issue most candidates never mention: his weight.
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Not all women are "too posh to push," as British tabloids write when decrying celebrities who opt out of traditional vaginal birth.
Still, cesarean sections made up 30.2 percent of all live births in the United States in 2005, according to data from the National Vital Statistics System. Alarmed health officials want to cut C-section numbers in half by 2010, closer to the World Health Organization's recommended rate.
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Seventeen of 20 protesters pleaded not guilty at the Linn County Courthouse July 20 to charges of trespassing on Iowa Sens. Tom Harkin's and Charles Grassley's Cedar Rapids offices.
The pleas stem from the July 6 arrests of Iowa Occupation Project demonstrators - who campaign to stop funding to the war in Iraq - rallying outside the offices of the senators.
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Spectators flocked to the inaugural rubber-chicken-throwing contest at the Johnson County Fair - which began Monday and runs through Friday. With each chicken filled with three to four pounds of sand, they weren't your traditional slapstick comedy prop.
"The object is to throw the chicken as far as you can in one try," said Mike Waldschmidt, one of the contest coordinators.
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A UI Student Health Center dietitian touted farmers' markets as one less-expensive option for Iowans to incorporate necessary nutrients into their diets.
"This time of year, [farmers' markets] are more cost-effective options," Kathy Mellen said on Monday, noting a July 19 Drake University Agricultural Law Center study that said Iowa residents are not getting enough nutrients, despite the state's reputation as an agricultural leader.
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During its Monday night work session, the Iowa City City Council approved conceptual designs for a $6.2 million rowing facility that will coordinate use among public, university, and community rowing teams and clubs.
The Hawkeye rowing team boathouse is expected to cover 22,000 square feet along the Iowa River in Terrell Mill Park, said UI project manager Hugh Barry. He hopes construction will begin by March 2008, with a projected opening in the spring of 2009.
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A team of UI researchers received a five-year, $1.5 million National Institutes of Heath grant to study and explore the treatments for constipation, according to a news release dated July 23.
The release stated the award is the only federal grant funding research for constipation, a condition that affects nearly 15 percent of the population.
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The UI police are investigating a report of an intruder at Hawkeye Court apartments early in the morning of July 21.
A female resident living in the 300 block of the Hawkeye Court University Apartments reported that she awoke at approximately 5:30 a.m. and found an unknown person in her apartment. After the woman confronted the intruder, he fled the area; he was last seen running west away from the scene, UI police said.
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