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City of Extremes

by Susan Parker

Want to know what’s going on in Kansas City right now?

I freely admit, I am still trying to find the best possible direction for about-kansascitymo.com. There are already a zillion websites of, by, about and for Kansas City… most better equipped than I to bring you up-to-the-minute developments. Just go to Google and type in “Kansas City festivals” and you get more than 1.6 million results.

True Kansas Citians are not interested in re-inventing the wheel.

I am still pondering why anyone would want to know “about-kansascitymo” any more than I want to get an in-depth understanding of, say, Mesa, Ariz., or Milwaukee, Wisc.

So, for now, until I find a better set of legs to run on, we’re going with extreme quirky stuff, unique to Kansas City.

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The smartest thing in Kansas City:
The Stowers Institute for Medical Research was founded by Jim and Virginia Stowers with an endowment of $50 million ion 1994. Stowers is founder is American Century Investments, a.k.a. 20th Century Investments, one of the country’s most respected and successful mutual fund companies. Today, that endowment has grown to $2 billion.

See? I told you he was a successful mutual fund guru! Can you imagine $2 billion?

At the institute, scientists and researchers study how genes determine biological fate. However, Missouri is a backward state when it comes to stem cell research. While state voters passed a constitutional amendment to protect stem cell research in 2006, still the state does not yet condone “full speed ahead” on embryonic stem cell research, an attitude that hampers the Stowers Institute from attracting top researchers and programs from around the world.

Extremely smart, extremely generous, extremely successful…

Yet, the growth and success of the institute is endangered by stubborn Missouri attitudes against embryonic stem cell research, giving a kind of uninformed, recklessly irresponsible, gap-toothed peace of mind to the many thousands of stupid people who live in Missouri. Extremely stupid, you see.


Posted in General on June 29th, 2007

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Kansas City is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri encompassing parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is situated at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers (Kaw Point), and it sits opposite Kansas City, Kansas. It is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the most populous city in Missouri, the seventh largest city in the Midwest, and the 39th most populous city in the United States. As of 2006, the city had an estimated population of 447,306. The city's municipal water was recently rated the cleanest among the 50 largest cities in the United States, containing no detectable impurities. Kansas City has more fountains than any other city in the world except Rome. The city also features more miles of landscaped boulevards than any city except Paris.

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