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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2008
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"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
Jeff Valdez
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The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.
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Keeper Petra Fritz pets the yet-unnamed polar bear cub Monday at the zoo in Nuremberg, southern Germany. The polar bear cub, nearly five-weeks-old and taken from its mother Vera last Tuesday, was feeding well on high-fat milk and weighs about 5 lbs.
RECOGNITION Two journalism students win Hearst awards
Two University journalism students received awards from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, an honor often named the "College Pulitzers."
Travis Robinett, Austin, Texas senior, and Betsy McLeod, Lenexa junior, placed third and sixth in the contest, respectively. Robinett won $1,000 for his column about a Mizou T-shirt celebrating Quantrill's raid. McLeon won $500 for "The war comes home", a column about her marriage to a Marine recently home from Iraq.
William Randolph Hearst, a publisher, established the William Randolph Hearst Foundation in the 1940s. Since then, the foundation has given more than 5500 million in grants and awards.
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Discarded sex toy requires bomb squad disarmament
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A Swedish bomb squad called out to disarm a suspicious package on
Wednesday did not find a ticking bomb. But they did find a vibrating sex toy.
A janitor alerted police after he found the package in a garage of an apartment building in Goteborg, the country's second-largest city, police spokesman Jan Strannegard said.
The package was humming and vibrating suspiciously, so police took no chances and sent out a team of explosives experts. After having cordoned off the area, they opened the package with bomb disposal equipment, only to find the battery-operated device inside.
"The package was vibrating when the janitor found it, but I think it had sort of died out by the time it was disarmed," Stranegard said.
Suspect accidently shoots himself in robbery attempt
KOKOMO, Ind. — A man accidentally shot himself in the groin as he was robbing a convenience store Tuesday, police said.
the cigarettes, she heard the gun discharge.
A clerk told police a man carrying a semiautomatic handgun entered the Village Pantry demanding cash and a pack of cigarettes. The clerk put the cash in a bag and as she turned to get
Police said surveillance video showed the man shooting himself as he placed the gun in the waistband of his pants. The clerk wasn't injured.
STRATFORD, Conn. — Officials have a history mystery on their hands in the form of a cellophane-wrapped postcard mailed from a post office long closed to a town manager long dead.
A short time later, police found 25-year-old Derrick Kosch at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg.
Kosch was released from the hospital Tuesday and booked into the Howard County jail on a charge of armed robbery, criminal recklessness and battery. He is being held on a $100,000 cash bail. A jail official did not know if he had retained an attorney Wednesday.
Decades-old postcard unveils a mail mystery
The postcard mailed from East Sumner, Maine, was postmarked Aug. 14, 1957, and bears a two-cent stamp. It was addressed to the late Town Manager Harry Flood, who
served from 1945 to 1963, and was written by a woman who must have been a friend since she only used her first name — Alice.
"Hi, enjoying this rather fallish weather. It was 44 degrees yesterday. See you next week," she wrote.
The post office in East Sumner no longer exists and Flood has been dead for nearly 40 years.
"It's a history mystery and it's fun to speculate," Stratford Mayor James Miron said.
A postal spokeswoman said it's possible that a collector sent the antique postcard to town hall. One clue is that it was tightly wrapped in cellophane.
Maureen Marion, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service region serving Connecticut, called it a "very, very rare and a true mystery."
"The likelihood that this postcard has been sitting in a building for 50 years is very slim," she said. "My guess is that some collector decided to send it to the town, or someone just found it in an old attic among a pile of letters or other documents and didn't know what else to do with it."
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What do you think? BY BEN SULLIVAN
HOW DID YOU SPEND YOUR WINTER BREAK?
ASHLEY LACHENMAYR Newton sophomore "My friend came to visit. At dinner with the Olive Garden, they served us wine illegally."
DAVID DARMITZEL
Sante Fe, N.M., graduate student
"I did a lot of reading and studying for my masters exam. Also, I went to Colorado for some snow heading."
boarding."
ERIN YOUNG
Bellevue, Neb., graduate student
Bellevue, Neb., graduate student
"I spent a lot of time with my
family, and I took a trip to State College,
Pa, to visit some friends and
moved to Lawrence."
JEREMY WALL Milwaukee freshman "I spent a lot of time with my friends in Milwaukee and celebrated the holidays with my family."
the holidays with my family."
POLITICS Kucinich excluded from presidential debate
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Supreme Court said Tuesday MSNBc could exclude Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich from a candidate debate.
Lawyers for NBC Universal Inc., had asked the high court to overturn a lower court order that the cable TV news network include the Ohio congressman or pull the plug on broadcasting the debate Tuesday night with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards.
An hour before the debate, the state Supreme Court's unanimous order said that blocking the debate unless Kucinich got to participate would be "an unconstitutional prior restraint" on the news network's First Amendment rights. The justices also said the lower court exceeded its jurisdiction by ordering Kucinich's participation even though he first requested and was denied relief from the Federal Communications Commission.
"It's a matter of being on stage and answering questions. That's the issue," lawyer Bill McGaha argued for Kucinich during a hearing before four justices in Las Vegas.
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on campus
Tea Time, sponsored by Student Union Activities, will begin at 3 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Professor George Tsofias will present the lecture Geology Colloquium, "High-resolution GPR and seismic imaging of the subsurface: From fractures and bacteria to ice sheets" at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley Hall.
The KU Childrens Chorus will perform at 4:30 p.m. in 328 Murphy Hall.
on the record
-Hy-Vee reported theft of an Xbox to Lawrence police at 11:41 a.m. Tuesday. The Xbox is valued at $300.
- A 21-year-old female reported an assault to Lawrence police at 5:43 p.m. Tuesday. The offender had a personal weapon and was under the influence of alcohol.
- Police arrested a person at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday for possession of cocaine with intent to sell.
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