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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2008
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite."
fact of the day
— William Blake,
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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When The Doors were scheduled to play at Isle of Wight festival, which was going to take place in England, Jim Morrison had to receive special permission to perform there, as he was still on trial there for an Indecent exposure charge from the year before.
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Squirrels like you choose Jif
Although some squirrels in the area are collecting nuts this time of year, this one in New Carlisle, Ohio, was enjoying peanut butter which he found on a discarded spoon Wednesday.
ECONOMY Bush, Congress approve one-time tax rebates
WASHINGTON — With unprecedented speed and cooperation, Congress and the White House forged a deal Thursday to begin rushing tax rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most tax filers by spring, hoping they will spend the money just as quickly and jolt the ailing economy to life.
About two-thirds of the tax relief would go out in rebate checks to 117 million families beginning in May. Businesses would get $50 billion in incentives to invest in new plants and equipment.
The one-time tax rebates are at the center of a hard-won agreement to pump about $150 billion into the economy this year and perhaps stave off the first recession since 2001.
Individual taxpayers would get as much as $600 in rebates, working couples $1,200 and those with children an additional $300 per child under the agreement. In a key concession to Democrats, 35 million families who make at least $3,000 but don't pay taxes would get $300 rebates.
The rebates would phase out gradually for individuals whose adjusted gross income exceeds $75,000 and for couples with incomes above $150,000. Contributions to IRA and 401(k) retirement accounts and health savings accounts would not count toward the income limit.
"This package will lead to higher consumer spending and increased business investment," Bush said in hailing the agreement.
The bill will go straight to the House floor next week and on to the Senate, where Democrats hope to extend unemployment benefits for workers whose benefits have run out.
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What do you think?
BY ISADORA RANGEL
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY'S POLICY ON ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING?
TYREL REED
Burlington freshman
"It's probably good. It does deter people from downloading songs when they can just download them from iTunes, even though it's kind of harsh to shut ResNet off without a warning."
ZACK CAPEHART
St. Louis, Mo., freshman
"I'm fine with it. I'm totally against piracy."
OZZY BRAVO DE LOS RIOS Lima, Peru, senior
"ResNet provides service for students. Downloading songs would make KU look bad. It's probably for the best."
BRADLEY BEBEAUX
Midwest City, Okla., sophomore "It's not a big deal. I consider downloading as stealing."
on campus
The workshop "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" will be presented by KU Libraries Instructional Services at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
E. Arthur Bettis will present the lecture "Integrated Mapping, Stratigraphy and Hydrogeologic Investigations for Informed Resource Management and Land Use Planning" at 10:30 a.m. in 327 Hambleton Hall.
Student Union Activities will host "Late Night at Robinson" at 8 p.m. in Robinson Center.
Student Union Activities will present the film "Across The Universe" at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Heather McCrea will present the Latin American seminar "Vectored Victories: The Rockefeller Foundation's Anti-Yellow Fever Campaign in Mexico's Tropical Periphery, 1917-1929" at 3:30 p.m. in the seminar room of the Hall Center for the Humanities.
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A Lawrence police officer arrested a person yesterday for possession of a burnt marjiana joint and a plastic bag filled with marijuana.
$1,750 in traveler's checks were reported stolen this weekend from a room in McCollum Hall.
The Chiara String Quartet will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
Dr. Joseph Ready will present the seminar "Stereoselective functionalization of Alkynes" at 3:30 p.m. in 1001 Mallott Hall.
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From the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, camping for basketball games actually meant camping outside Allen Fieldhouse, 24 hours a day. Tents were pitched between the Fieldhouse and the parking garage.
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ODD NEWS
In Thursday's story "Hookah venues stay open despite new laws," the address for the Hookah House was listed incorrectly. The correct address is 730 Massachusetts Street.
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Man offers $5, Oxycotin in exchange for murder INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — An man is accused of offering an undercover officer $5 and 90 pills of the painkiller Oxycotin to kill a woman.
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Thirty-five-year-old Robert Macklin faces one count of first-degree assault or one count of the alternative charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. He was charged Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court in Independence.
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Macklin was arrested Tuesday night after he reportedly gave the officer $5 as a down payment.
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"I jumped away," said 39-year-old Yvonne Brechbuhler, who described the green critter as no bigger than the tip of her pinky finger.
"I didn't know what it was. But once I realized it was a frog, I was OK," she told the Daily News in Thursday editions.
Intrigued, she named the frog
Brechbuhler and her 7-year-old daughter, Orla, placed the frog in a jar on a bed of lettuce leaves and water, and fed it fruit flies they collected at a nearby garden. Afterward, they decided Curious would be happier at an animal facility specializing in reptiles and amphibians. The facility, Sean Casey Animal Rescue, has put it up for adoption.
That's how a Brooklyn mom felt when she found a tiny frog comfortably nestled in the leaves of organic lettuce she was preparing to eat.
Brooklyn woman finds bite-sized frog in lettuce
An employee at the food co-op said it was the first such incident in memory.
NEW YORK — You just don't want to eat some greens.
Brechbuhler, a stage actress, said she bought the lettuce at her local food co-op and kept it in the refrigerator three days before using it last week.
"Curious."
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FOLSOM, Pa. — The skies won't seem especially friendly to anyone taking off from Philadelphia International Airport if they notice what a suburban couple wrote on the roof of their home.
(“Expletive) U FA" the message reads, though one letter of the profane word is substituted with an underline. Below that it is a picture
of a plane with a slash through it and the words "no fly zone."
He said he and Buddy also were frustrated after being unable to leave a message with the FAA's noise-complaint hot line because the voice mailbox was always full. So they issued their complaint in roof sealant and 7-foot-tall letters about two weeks ago.
"Just doing it made me feel better, but I'd still like to say what I wrote directly to the idiot head of the FAA" Hall told the Philadelphia Daily News for Thursday's editions.
FAA spokesman Jim Peters had no comment.
Homeowner Michael Hall and his girlfriend, Michaela Buddy, are angry that jets have been flying over their house since last month, when the Federal Aviation Administration altered departure headings out of Philadelphia. Hall says he has to sleep with earplugs.
The flight changes are part of a massive restructuring of the airspace over the congested corridor between New York and Philadelphia.
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