Principal Financial to cut 550 jobs

AP - Principal Financial Group Inc., an insurance, retirement and financial services company, reported a profit Monday, saying cost-cutting reduced its expenses and it lost half what it did a year earlier on its investments.

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Nick Johnson writes in: Great piece on health prices, but your analogy -- US health care prices : other countries' health care prices :: NY skyscrapers : Des Moines skyscrapers -- does a disservice to Des Moines. According to Wikipedia the Empire State Building is less than 3 times the height of Des Moines' Principal Building.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Nothing says summer in Iowa like a cloud of dust behind a combine....

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa plant and accused egg hatcheries of being "perhaps the cruelest industry" in the world....

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The Midwest is known more for growing corn than cauliflower, but if its farmers raised the fruit and vegetables eaten in the Heartland, they could create thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in income, according to a recent study....