A state Board of Regents' presidency shadowed by a controversial UI presidential search may end soon.
Regent President Michael Gartner wrote in an e-mail to the regents Monday that he will propose they elect a new president before the first of the year. His term officially expires April 30, 2008.
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As soon as the first ribbon was handed out early Monday morning, Iowa City became the newest home for an international campaign designed to end violence against women.
The UI Rape Victim Advocacy Program is handing out ribbons, purchased from the White Ribbon Campaign, to be worn by men from Dec. 3-14 who want to show their support for sexual-assault survivors in Iowa City.
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Iowa produces the second-highest amount of greenhouse-gas emissions from agricultural uses in the nation, according to a recent report by the World Resources Institute.
The report detailed greenhouse-gas emissions in the Midwest and other regions. The gases contribute to global warming by trapping heat from the sun.
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Democratic presidential-nomination hopeful Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., visited Iowa City on Monday afternoon, speaking at two different events related to foreign policy and campaign financing.
At the first event, held by the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council at the Iowa City Public Library, Biden denounced a possible war with Iran.
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Psychopaths aren't always manipulative, conceited, pathological liars.
Just sometimes.
UI "part-time" psychology Professor Don Fowles spoke in the Blank Honors Center South Commons on Monday night to differentiate between the two main types of psychopaths in a lecture titled "The Psychology of Antisocial Behavior with Emphasis on Psychopathy."
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People living in rural areas - even those who are poorer and older - are likely to seek treatment in early stages of some cancers compared with urbanites, according to recent research.
"We were surprised," said Ian Paquette, the lead researcher and a physician at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. "In our experience, and we're in a rural area, there was anecdotal evidence of the contrary."
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What was once thought to be too expensive - healthy cafeteria food - is now affordable and desirable.
According to a study done by researchers at the University of Minnesota, providing healthy foods for school lunches costs the same as providing less-healthy choices, and students responded equally to both.
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More than one-third of Americans are obese, but rates are starting to level off, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The epidemic is more prevalent in women than men; 35.3 percent of women were considered obese, while 33.3 percent of men fell into this category.
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Iowa City is certainly a place for active involvement; there are clubs all over the city devoted to music, languages, and even flowers. But who would have thought there would be a club devoted to Americans' overall No. 1 fear: public speaking? (0) comments
Man gets 10 years for indecent contact
A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to indecent contact with a child, according to online court records.
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