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- From: jac54@cas.org ()
- Subject: On behalf of Iowa (was Re: US as No. 1)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.113532.12963@cas.org>
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- Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:35:32 GMT
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- In article <C1HGr8.DD8@news.iastate.edu> sballant@iastate.edu (Susan Ballantine) writes:
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-
- >At risk of being flamed off the net by all these midewest-haters, I'd like
- >to firmly assert that Iowa is really not too bad.
- >sue b.
- >iowa state u.
-
- As it was me that started this, allow me to expand and
- make my apologies to all the Iowans out there. Iowa has
- its strengths and its weaknesses. I really liked the people,
- they were easygoing, friendly and by-and-large well-educated.
- It had the characteristics one might expect of an agricultural
- state, and some of these are great strengths of the U.S.
-
- I am, however, not the agricultural type, I am a very urban
- person and many of the things I had grown to accustomed to
- after a life in metropoles were simply not available in Iowa
- and I found it most frustrating.
-
- I should also point out that I was in Iowa just after the worst
- days of the farm crisis and there simply was not the money in the
- state to give a good standard of living.
-
- Alec.
-