THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
ASIA
North Korea rocket launched, flies for just over a minute.
PYONGYANG — North Korea fires a long-range rocket early Friday, South Korean and U.S. officials said, defying international warnings against moving forward with a launch widely seen as a provocation.
Days after threatening to do so, a rocket lifted off at 7:39 a.m. from the west coast launch pad in the hamlet of Tongchang-ri, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said, citing South Korean and U.S. intelligence.
However, the launch may have failed, U.S. officials said in Washington. Japan's Defense Minister Naiki Tanaka concurred.
"We have confirmed that a certain flying object has been launched and fell after flying for just over a minute." He did not say what exactly was launched.
Cameramen stand by to cover the PAC-3 surface to air missile units at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Japan, Friday.
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He said there was no impact on Japanese territory from the launch.
In Pyongyang, there was no word about a launch, and state television was broadcasting video for popular folk tunes. North Korean officials said they would make an announcement about the launch "soon."
North Korea had earlier announced it would send a three-stage rocket mounted with a satellite as part of celebrations honoring national founder Kim Il Sung, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated Sunday.
its third bid to launch a satellite since 1998.
Space officials say the rocket is meant to send a satellite into orbit to study crops and weather patterns
The United States, Britain, Japan and others, however, have called such a launch a violation of U.N. resolutions prohibiting North Korea from nuclear and ballistic missile activity.
AFRICA
Dioncounda Traore to head Mali nation as interim President
BAMAKO, Mali — Mali's new interim president took office Thursday, returning the country to civilian rule three weeks after mutinous soldiers overthrew the nation's democratically elected leader in a coup.
Dioncounda Traore, who heads the country's national assembly, is to serve as Mali's president for 40 days according to the constitution. Regional mediators, though, already acknowledge it will take longer than that for the country to organize new elections.
The deal to move Mali back to constitutional rule was hammered out between the head of the military junta that seized power in March and the West African regional bloc ECOWAS. Longtime Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure emerged from hiding
this week to render his official resignation.
Toure was just months from finishing his last term when soldiers on March 21 stormed the presidential palace, sending Toure into hiding and overturning a democratic tradition stretching back more than two decades.
The soldiers claimed they had grabbed power because Toure had mishandled a rebellion that began in northern Mali in January. However, it was only after Toure was ousted that the Tuareg rebels succeeded in taking the three largest cities in the region and declared independence.
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The loss of the northern half of the country, an area larger than France, has plunged Mali into crisis. The fighters are divided between a secular group and an Islamist faction that wants to impose Shariah law in Mali's moderate north.
Mali's Interim President Dioncounda Traore, left, is congratulated by coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo after being sworn in in Bamako, Mali Thursday.
Under intense international pressure and regional financial sanctions, Mali's coup leaders signed an accord last Friday, agreeing to return the country to constitutional rule.
EUROPE
Russian government to invest billions in space program
MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday his nation will spend about $1 billion this year alone to build a new space launch pad in the far east that should ease the Russian space program's reliance on ex-Soviet neighbor Kazakhstan.
Putin told government officials in televised remarks Thursday that the first rocket launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome is set to be conducted by 2015, and in 2018 it should launch a first manned mission.
Officials have put the total cost of the project at about $10 billion.
Putin said Russia will continue to use the Soviet-built Baikonur launch pad it leases from Kazakhstan, but added that a new launch facility of its own is needed to secure the national space program's independence.
"Only the existence of several space launch pads would guarantee Russia a full independence in space activities," Putin said.
Russia also has the Plesetsk launch pad in the north used mostly for launches of military satellites.
the far eastern Amur region, 3,400 miles east of Moscow, and just about 60 miles away from the border with China.
Putin said the new facility will include more than 40 apartment buildings for personnel and the necessary infrastructure to make it a "comfortable, modern town."
"We aren't going to repeat the past when they were saving money on people," he said. "It will create a stimulus for the development of the entire far eastern region."
Officials have previously said that the new town will have a population of 40,000.
NORTH AMERICA
6.9 magnitude quake hits Baja, no major damage reported
MEXICO CITY A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Mexico on Thursday, waking up residents living near the Gulf of California, only hours after a separate quake swayed tall buildings in Mexico City, causing evacuations.
Authorities said neither quake left major damage nor victims.
People begin returning to a building that was evacuated after an earthquake was felt in Mexico City, Mexico, Wednesday.
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The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.9 magnitude quake hit the waters between the Baja peninsula and the northern state of Sonora at 12:15 a.m. local time.
Residents in the city of Hermosillo woke up as their beds swayed and their ceiling fans shook. Luis Enrique Cordova, director of emergency services in Sonora, said confused residents clogged the phone lines of the civil protection office in Hermosillo, the largest city and capital of the state, where some 700,000 people live. But Cordova said no major damages have been detected in the region.
"I was on my bed, leaning against the wall, and the fans kept moving nonstop, side to side," said Carlos Morales, a teacher in Hermosillo.
The quake was centered 82 miles northeast of Guerro Negro, and 133 miles west of Hermosillo, and it hit some 6.4 miles below the surface.
It follows a 6.4 magnitude quake which struck a sparsely populated area in the mountains of western Mexico on
Wednesday, and caused multi-story buildings to sway more than 200 miles away in Mexico City.
Wednesday's temblor was the latest in a series of strong shakes to hit Mexico City since a powerful 7.4-magnitude quake hit southern Mexico three weeks ago. But this was not an aftershock of that one, USGS geophysicist Dale Grant said.
RESEARCH
Econ courses lack entrepreneur lessons
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A study published by a University professor claims not enough attention is given to the role of entrepreneurship in introductory economic classes. Barbara Phipps, associate professor of curriculum and education, found that while the entrepreneur plays a vital role in the economy, most basic economic classes across the country rarely discuss the importance of entrepreneurship.
"We found that in most textbooks, there's little or no mention of the entrepreneur," Phipps said. "The entrepreneur and entrepreneurship is really the driving force in economic growth."
While Phipps said most universities offer classes about entrepreneurship, she pointed out that only a small percentage of students actually take those classes.
"The intro economics course is the only exposure to economics students, and ignoring the entrepreneur is ignoring a huge part of our economy" Phipps said.
In the study, Phipps and two collaborating professors looked at three economic textbooks that do cover the importance of entrepreneurship. The study found the books to be suitable models for educating students on the role of the entrepreneur
"We don't teach entrepreneurship explicitly, but we do teach things that do contribute to entrepreneurship," Becker said. "We talk about factors related to entrepreneurship without using the word."
Neal Becker, assistant professor of economics at the University, teaches introductory economic courses. Becker acknowledged that entrepreneurship is not covered in detail in the class.
Febrio Kacaribu, a graduate student in economics from Jakarta, Indonesia, said emphasizing entrepreneurship in the introduction course is unnecessary. Kacaribu views entrepreneurship as too complicated to teach in a basic economics class.
Becker said advanced economic classes discuss economic growth and factors relating to entrepreneurship, but that the complexity of the subject makes it difficult to cover in an introductory course.
"Economics is a theory about limited resources and how you make decisions." Kacaribu said. "Entrepreneurship is more of a business concept."
in the economy.
Rape suspect arrested, bond set at $75.000
CRIME
McKinley said the suspect was an acquaintance of the victim and the department placed the man under arrest after questioning him.
The Lawrence Police Department arrested a 36-year-old Lawrence man on suspicion of rape Wednesday night.
"We can't be all things in all courses." Becker said.
Sgt. Trent McKinley, a spokesman for the police department, said the rape occurred within city limits at a residence in the southern part of town early Wednesday morning.
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He was charged with criminal restraint
"The victim reported no serious injuries," McKinley said, "but unfortunately, with these kinds of cases, there is injury of another nature."
rape by force or fear, domestic battery and aggravated burglary, because he is suspected of entering the victim's property or vehicle without permission with the intent to commit a crime.
Bond has been set at $75,000 and the case has been referred to the Douglas County Prosecutor's Office.
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