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| # | Article | Article Summary |
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| 1 | Biomedical ethics -- dealing with life and death decisions every day. | Steven Schroeder says health professionals have been dealing with tough ethical questions for hundreds of years. People need to think about how they would react to making tough medical decisions. |
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| 3 | Iowa's own talented and gifted film star appears at Northern Iowa. | Annabeth Gish spoke at a conference dealing with gifted and talented students. She says her success has come about because of her parents and instructors, who never held back her creativity. |
| 4 | More work and not enough time? Broken promises. | Ken Jacobsen says while many predicted technology would give us more time, studies show we're working longer and harder/ He says unfortunately for us, long range forecasters don't predict this trend will get better. |
| 5 | Stalking the nighthawks of Iowa one roof at a time. | Barb Henze says the birds are becoming rarer, she has been studying their nesting sites to provide clues to the types of buildings they like to nest on. The birds eat only insects, and, while a few have dive-bombed pedestrians and cars, they're harmless. |
| 6 | The Elvis syndrome -- why do we refuse to let cult figures die? | Ed Amend says people recognize "stars" as being larger than life. Researchers are extremely interested in death-related topics and says Elvis fans who "believe" may be in the denial stage of the grieving process. |