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Iowa to receive high-speed rail funding
Iowa is set to receive more funding for high-speed rail equipment as part of $268 million in federal grants for train travel in Midwestern states.
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Column: Syrian revolution far from grassroots
One of the nations that has been in the throes of civil unrest since January is Syria. The nation, like many others in the Middle East and Africa that have seen people's movements dedicated to ousting a regime and engendering social change, has seen a corrupt Ba'ath Party regime rule in an authoritar...
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University of Iowa steps up monitoring of students abroad
Summer Schoop stayed up all night Sunday to watch President Obama inform the world about the slaying of Osama bin Laden. The University of Iowa junior, who is studying abroad in Seville, Spain, said she streamed Obama's speech online after she saw the news on Facebook and Twitter.
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Friends rally for detained journalist
Friends of Clare M. Gillis—Harvard graduate and freelance journalist—urged for more action to bring back captured journalists in Libya at an event on Tuesday, which was World Press Freedom Day and also marked a month after Gillis was captured by Libyan loyalists.
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Student group helps non-profit develop loan program for impoverished Indians
Nearly 30 years ago, it came to Brent Hample in a dream. Hample, who was a University sophomore at the time, recalls that the vivid dream involved Jesus, foreigners, food and himself, which he believed was a call for him to go to India.
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Tornado wreaks havoc in south
About 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, an EF-5 tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa, Ala., leaving many residents homeless and destroying businesses on McFarland Boulevard and 15th Street. "There were people stuck under debris and yelling for help," University of Alabama student Adam Melton said.
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Grad battles traffic for trafficking awareness
Imagine driving a low powered go-kart across more than 3,000 miles of the most dangerous roads on the planet. This is how UCF graduate Cedric Dahl describes the charity rickshaw race he is participating in to help raise awareness of the human trafficking problem across India.
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Political geographer discusses Greece’s woes
Political geographer Georges Prevelakis spoke on the various challenges facing Greece in a discussion hosted by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies yesterday afternoon.
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Column: Something is wrong when being raped is a crime
I believe that many would agree that violence against women (VAW) is wrong. Many would be outraged to see their sister, mother, friend or daughter suffer the trauma of rape.