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A University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released Monday shows Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee gaining ground in Iowa, moving into a statistical tie for second place with Rudy Giuliani and trailing Mitt Romney. "If Huckabee can motivate religious conservatives to attend the caucuses in large numbers, he may well threaten Romney," said DAVID REDLAWSK, director of the poll. The newspaper is based in New Hampshire.
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Jason Fine, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics recently departed for the University of North Carolina. Jason served as a joint faculty member for 10 years prior to his departure. A search is currently underway to find a replacement.
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Democratic senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in a statistical tie in Iowa among the party's likely caucus-goers, a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA poll found. Clinton of New York received 28.9 percent support compared with 26.6 percent for Obama of Illinois. The gap is within the poll's 5.5 percent margin of error for Democrats. In a similar August poll, former North Carolina Senator John Edwards was backed by 26 percent, a near-tie with Clinton's 24.8 percent. Obama received 19.3 percent support in August. In the latest poll, Edwards garnered 20 percent support.
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James Harper, head of the Entomology Department at North Carolina State University said the Brown Recluse Spider usually does not attack without cause on a human. If cornered in a tight space and not able to get away from danger, the spider will attack as a form of defense.
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