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Literary Paternity Test: Who Fathered The Computer?
If you’ve got an iPhone or a laptop or a high-powered desktop — any computer, really — you can thank bourbon for all of them. Bourbon and soda, in fact, because that’s what Iowa State College physics professor John Atanasoff was drinking the night he thought up the main principles on which all modern computers operate.
Iowa ousts same-sex marriage justices
Last summer, before my bride and I stepped out on a bright and clear Iowa afternoon to be married in her parents’ backyard, we kept peering through the windows to see who’d arrived. My cousins.
No. 9 Iowa rolls past Eastern Illinois 37-7
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Adam Robinson ran for 109 yards and three touchdowns in the first half and No. 9 Iowa breezed past Eastern Illinois 37-7 Senior Ricky Stanzi threw for 229 yards and a touchdown for the Hawkeyes (1-0), who won their 10th straight season opener under coach Kirk Ferentz.
Egg Recall: Unauthorized Packaging Leads to Customer Misinformation
CHICAGO, Aug. 18 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Wright County Eggs of Galt, Iowa used unauthorized egg cartons to package and sell eggs under the Dutch Farms name without Dutch Farms knowledge.
ISU’s David Sims out for opener
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads says defensive back David Sims has been suspended for the season opener against Northern Illinois. Sims was accused of charging gas, groceries and shoes on the debit card of a Des Moines woman who had loaned it to her son before he visited Ames.
Horses dragged driver as he tried to stop rampage
BELLEVUE, Iowa – The buggy driver whose horses trampled spectators at this town’s Fourth of July parade had tried desperately to stop the rampage, clinging to the reins as the animals dragged him down the street, his family said Monday. Mardell Steines was in the buggy with his wife, Janet, his daughter-in-law, his 7-year-old grandson and his 5-year-old granddaughter on Sunday when the horses bolted toward the end of the parade, injuring 24 people and killing Janet Steines.
Autopsy: OD killed Slipknot bassist
(CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — Slipknot bassist Paul Gray’s death two months ago was from an accidental morphine overdose, the Polk County, Iowa, medical examiner said Monday. Gray, 38, was found dead by staff at a hotel near Des Moines, Iowa on May 24, said Sgt.
Art’s Way Manufacturing Promotes Dan Palmer to President of Art’s Way Scientific – Buildings for Science
ARMSTRONG, Iowa , May 12 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Art’s Way Manufacturing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARTW ), a leading manufacturer and distributor of niche agricultural machinery, equipment and services, is pleased to announce the promotion of Dan Palmer to President of Art’s Way Scientific – Buildings for Science.
Obama taking heartland economic tour to Illinois
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Barack Obama is telling voters in the Midwest that unless lawmakers rein in Wall Street, there’s no guarantee another economic crisis won’t come crashing down on the heartland. Making that link as he sells the Democrats’ financial regulatory reform bill is a political imperative for Obama as well as an economic one.
Obama takes heartland economic tour to Mo., Ill. (AP)
DES MOINES, Iowa – President Barack Obama is telling voters in the Midwest that unless lawmakers rein in Wall Street, there’s no guarantee another economic crisis won’t come crashing down on the heartland. Making that link as he sells the Democrats’ financial regulatory reform bill is a political imperative for Obama as well as an economic one.
