2008 Woodie Awards
AMANA - Surrounded by cornstalks and pumpkins in the cold, drafty Festhalle Barn in Amana, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., pledged that as president he would unite the country and move it forward.
"People don't want to just be against something, but to be for something," he said. "They want to get a sense that we can still come together as a nation."
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The Republican Party of Iowa's central committee moved its presidential-nominating caucuses up from Jan. 14, 2008, to the night of Jan. 3 in a vote Tuesday.
The new date could help ensure that Iowa's caucuses remain the first Republican nominating contest in the nation.
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Where have all the doctors gone?
If it's the weekend, you won't find them at the UI Student Health Service. In fact, the only place that seems to be open to students is the emergency room. But there are a few problems with this arrangement, Student Health Director David Braun, admits.
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Ernesto Henderson said that if it weren't for his flute, he'd be pretty tense.
"It's a stress reliever, because all my classes are math and science," the eight-year flutist said, adding that if he did not have his instrument, he wouldn't have the opportunity to express his creativity that math and science really don't.
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As a eight-man, six-woman jury listened to the opening statements in the Robert Sallis prostitution-ring trial on Tuesday, defense attorney Pat Ingram made it abundantly clear he believed much of the state's witness testimony was rubbish.
"The testimony you'll hear today will be from a collection of people who don't want to go to jail," Ingram told the jury. "The only way they can do that is to blame Robert Sallis."
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It's not just little Timmy playing with the telephone anymore.
Nancy Sereduck, the Iowa City police emergency-communications director, said that years ago, emergency dispatch would only have to deal with 911 hang-ups from landlines - normally children playing with the telephone.
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At a restaurant, a turn around the bar will eventually be punctuated by a buzzing coaster-like device signaling, "Your table is ready."
The same concept also applies to local hospitals, where patients are provided pagers to alert them when their doctor is ready. Though waiting rooms are by no means obsolete, the technology allows patients to avoid thumbing through outdated magazines or eavesdropping on the conversations of other bored patrons.
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After contentious debate, UI Student Government voted Tuesday in favor of allocating an additional $2,000 to the UI men's rowing club.
Student Assembly Budgeting and Allocating Committee supplemental funding statements had recommended the senate allocate $7,000 to fund a used eight-person rowing shell, leaving the additional cost of the $9,000 boat to the team.
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As ethanol-production mania increases, Third World countries are feeling the effect of the high food prices caused by the phenomena.
The United States is not buying as much food aid for developing countries because of rising food prices, largely attributed to the growing popularity of alternative fuels.
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Biology prof wins $1.1 million grant
A UI biology professor recently received a $1.1 million grant to study whether a particular type of microscopic animal is capable of having sex.
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Several Iowa City city councilors continued the Oct. 2 debate on the proposed extension of the MidAmerican Energy franchise at their Tuesday night's meeting.
Opinions were divided, both on the council and in the audience.
The councilors debated several possibilities, then passed a first consideration to replace language in the proposal.
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