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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008
quote of the day
"Love may not make the world go'round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile."
—Sean Connery
fact of the day
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The first commercial Valentine's Day greeting cards produced in the U.S. were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland.
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1. Seniors enjoy last hockey game
2. Jury finds Walton guilty of misdemeanor
3. Senators consider bill to lower tuition
4. National Merit Scholar recruitment down
5. Stewart: Why not adopt bad habits for Lent?
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CRIME
CRIME Area men rob Lawrence apartment on Tuesday
Two men entered a Seventh Street home with a machete and a handgun early Tuesday morning demanding personal property, according to police reports.
The four college-age residents of the house, three males and one female, as well as a 31-year-old male guest, said that the intruders ordered them to empty their pockets.
The victims said the intruders then made them all go into the bathroom while the intruders fled the scene.
The intruders took with them various personal items from the home as well as electronic gaming systems.
There was no sign of forced entry and no one is injured. Lawrence police are looking for two male suspects, both black and in their 20s.
The first is described as 5-foot-9 and 210 pounds.The other is described as 5-foot-5 and 145 pounds.
They were both wearing hoods, dark bandanas and blue jeans at the time of the incident.
Police request that anyone with information on this crime call the TIPS Hotline at 785-843-TIPS (8477).
Jessica Wicks
GOLF
TOPEKA — PGA Tour great Tom Watson was in the spotlight again,
Watson lobbies legislature for anti-annexation bill
but this time it had nothing to do with golf.
Watson was in Topeka on Wednesday urging legislators to approve a bill that curtails involuntary annexation.
Associated Press
The House Elections and Governmental Organization Committee is debating the bill, which would require mail ballots to be sent to people in proposed annexation areas. If annexation is rejected by those residents, the question couldn't be raised again for four years. The committee took no action Wednesday.
Watson says he lives in southern Johnson County and is upset over efforts by Overland Park to annex 15 square miles of mostly rural land near Miami County.
ODD NEWS Police set up fake business to expose safety problems
NEW YORK — Undercover police secretly set up a fake company to demonstrate how easily and anonymously a terrorist could purchase chlorine on the Internet for a deadly chemical strike against the city.
A videotape — presented Wednesday at a briefing of private security executives — discloses for the first time the results of "Operation Green Cloud" — a reference to the yellow-green color of chlorine gas.
The purpose was "to assess the ease or difficulty with which a terrorist in the United States could acquire large quantities of chlorine without being detected by law enforcement or intelligence
agencies;"a narrator says on a copy of the video obtained by The Associated Press.
The conclusion: "At the present time, few if any barriers stand in his way."
Chlorine typically is used as a disinfectant or purifier, and as an ingredient in plastics and other products. While routinely transported in liquid form, it can turn into a deadly toxic gas when exposed to air.
There has been no specific terror threat against the city involving chemicals, but New York City police recently put more emphasis on screening shipments of chlorine after learning that it has become a favored component of homemade bombs in Iraq.
"It's something we have to be concerned about," he said of the potential of an attack using chlorine. "We think the whole area needs a lot of regulation."
A 2007 United Nations report found that at least 10 attacks in Iraq involved explosives attached to chlorine canisters.
Kelly said the NYPD has been lobbying the Department of Homeland Security to draft stricter regulations requiring chlorine vendors to verify the legitimacy of their customers.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said that while there were no places to obtain chlorine in New York, there are several locations in neighboring New Jersey.
The department sent federal officials a copy of the videotape and "asked them to include strict 'know-your-customer' rules," Kelly said.
Homeland Security has been focusing on high-risk manufacturers, distributors and retailers of chlorine in an attempt to secure the nation's domestic supply, agency spokesman Russ Knocke said. The agency also has been briefing other law enforcement groups on the issue, he said.
Police stressed that the chlorine deal was within current regulations, which have no requirement that vendors verify identification of their customers or report transactions.
In the video, an intelligence detective describes how in June 2007 the department fabricated a water purification company, complete with a mailing address, Web site and a phony contract with the city to clean up a polluted creek in Brooklyn. Investigators, after using the internet to identify local vendors, used a credit card to place an order with one unnamed firm for three 100-pound cylinders of chlorine.
No one ever asked for identification and the purchase required little human interaction, police said.
The video includes surveillance footage of a truck delivering the canisters on a rain-slicked Brooklyn street lined with warehouses. At the time, hazardous material teams were on standby to respond to any accidents, police said.
Associated Press
RELIGION Billy Graham's health improves after surgery
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Evangelist Billy Graham is in fair condition at a North Carolina hospital after a successful surgery.
Doctors say the 89-year-old Graham was talking immediately after the surgery Wednesday at Mission Hospitals near his home in Montreat.
Graham has a buildup of fluid within the brain. The surgery replaced a valve in a shunt installed in 2000 that drains excess fluid from his brain through a small tube.
"Rumplestiltskirn, created by Moses Goldberg, will begin at 9:45 a.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
campus
The SUA Valentine's Day Open House will begin at noon in the Traditions Area of the Kansas Union.
Associated Press
The Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair will begin at 12:30 on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union.
The Jo Renfro book signing will begin at 1 p.m. in Oread Boods inside the Kansas Union
the film "Aelita, Queen of Mars" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium.
The seminar "Adiabatic Quantum Computing with Superconducting Flux Quibits" will take place at 4 p.m. in 1089 Malott.
The KU Wind Ensemble will begin its concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
on the record
The SUA feature film "American Gangster" will begin at 8 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Alvamar golf club reported $1,629 worth of alcoholic beverages and a 32-inch television stolen and a broken glass door. Total loss was valued at $2,929.
KU Public Safety officials filed a report against an Ellsworth resident who returned home intoxicated and damaged a screen and a wall. The suspect also bit his roommate.
correction
Tuesday's The University Daily Kansas contained an error The article, "Senators consider bill to lower tuition," should have said KU Endowment provides 9.2 percent of the University of Kansas' budget.
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It was 78 years ago this week that KU alumnus Clyde Tombaugh announced his discovery of Pluto. He was 24-years-old at the time, and had not yet become a KU student. Tombaugh has had schools, planetariums and university observatories, including one here at KU, named in his honor.
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