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Mueller and Currie make their collections, are 50 feet by 50 feet above ground and as much as 10 feet below ground.
As a child, Currie never had an ant farm. What attracted him to the research was his interest in studying complex relationships.
"Some people who study insects have a love of insects early on, but I don't fit into that category." Currie said.
Currie received a five-year
$2.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
His research was published in the journal Science on Jan. 17 and has also been featured in the science section of The New York Times.
Currie has received positive feedback from his colleagues. The most interesting reaction came just two days ago from some college students in Washington state who had written a play based on his research for their biology reading group.
Edited by Leah Shaffer
Powell to present case against Iraq
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Secretary of State Colin Powell will be joined by top CIA officials today as he presents the U.N. Security Council with evidence culled from classified material to try to convince wavering allies and other nations that Iraq has defied calls to disarm.
The evidence is expected to include transcripts and possibly recordings of intercepted conversations of Iraqi officials discussing weapons programs. There may also be images taken by satellites of suspected biological weapons labs, officials said.
Powell's report also is expected to indicate that Iraqi officials had advance knowledge where U.N. weapons inspectors were going to look, in line with a recent report from the British government that said Iraqi intelligence had bugged inspectors' telephones and hotel and conference rooms.
Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Tuesday that it's "five minutes to midnight."
President Bush and his top national security officials have said repeatedly that Iraq will be forcibly disarmed if it does not comply with U.N. resolutions demanding that it reveal and give up weapons of mass destruction.
CIA Director George J. Tenet and his chief deputy, John McLaughlin, are expected to accompany Powell.
In selecting evidence, Powell and intelligence specialists are said to be taking care not to reveal more about their operations than they could safely show Iraq.
The intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs is considered solid; the information on Baghdad's contacts with Al Qaeda is less so but still suspicious, officials said.
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least some order and organization. Jones must have permission from private property owners before painting over graffiti.
Brandon Baker/Kansan
"Cosr" KU student and local graffiti writer, doesn't get permission. He just does it.
"I can understand any business owner not wanting graffiti on their walls," Cosr said. "But a big gray block on an abandoned building? I guess they're thinking maybe it's a deterrent or something, but I think it makes the town look uglier."
Jones said graffiti writers didn't like to tag on top of his gray blotches.
"I would rather them tag over the gray, to be honest with you," Jones said. "Whenever they tag over a fresh surface, then I've got to put this ugly gray blotch on there, and that's sad to me."
Although Jones said he had no bias in what graffiti he painted over, he was impressed with the skill of some graffiti writers and artists.
Tony Jones, community service work supervisor for Douglas County, tries to keep walls free from graffiti. This tag was placed on the wall before Jones arrived yesterday.
"And these individuals that do these elaborate things," he said. "God, they're wasting their time. They're wasting their time and they're wasting my time."
Cosr thought covering up graffiti is a waste of time, too, but that it was the police's job.
"If that's what police have been brought down to, to clean graffiti off of walls, then that's their choice," he said. "They're going to do what they're going to
do, and we're going to keep doing what we're doing."
Jones cited tagging as the biggest graffiti problem in Lawrence. Gang graffiti and vandalism were around, but the tags frustrated him the most.
"The tagging is somebody who wants their name to get around. Somebody who thinks they're all that and a bag of chips. For instance, a person called drop1," Jones said. "I think he's playing a
game with me that he thinks he needs to tag the entire city of Lawrence. And I go paint over it, and he comes back and tags my gray block."
Jones doesn't really think Lawrence has a problem with graffiti because of its aggressive policy in the city code. He wants to keep up with taggers because he said he knew graffiti was bad for business and bad for the community.
"Lawrence wants to have an image as a good place to live, a good place to raise kids, a good place to shop, a good place to go to school," he said. "That's what every community wants. Well, we have it."
Jones said that most of graffiti artists were in junior high school, high school or college.
Jones said he thought writing graffiti was counter-productive to seeking a higher education. A trend exists between graffiti and the University, he said.
"When KU goes on break, it almost stops, so draw the conclusion you will," he said.
Attack prompts gunfire in Gaza Strip
Edited by Erin Chapman
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israeli tanks and troops entered a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early today, exchanging fire with gunmen, Palestinian security officials and witnesses said.
A 62-year-old bystander was wounded while watching the incursion into the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza from his window, Palestinians said.
The Israeli military said a routine operation was under way in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian security officials and residents said
about 10 Israeli tanks entered the refugee camp, and soldiers searched houses.
The incursion came after a settler was shot and seriously wounded yesterday by an infiltrator in the Kfar Darom settlement in Gaza. The militant Islamic Hammers took responsibility for the shooting.
Yesterday Israel said the Shin Bet security service captured all 10 members of a cell of the militant Islamic Jihad accused of attacks in the Heron area on the West Bank. Sixteen Israelis were killed in those attacks.
The Syria-based leadership of Islamic Jihad gave the cell its orders, offering money for the purchase of weapons and materials for building bombs, said security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity. The arrests of the 10 began in December and the last one was caught early yesterday in Heron, the officials said.
Later, Israeli forces arrested a militant from the Al Aqa Martyrs Brigade in Tulkarem. The Israeli military said he was involved in planning an attack on the Israeli village of Metzer on Nov. 10, in which five people were killed.
Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayad confirmed Tuesday that Israel transferred to the Palestinian Authority almost $60 million in taxes collected from Palestinian laborers and businesses, the single largest payment since fighting began more than two years ago.
Of the amount, about $21 million is from money owed to the Palestinians that Israel has frozen during fighting, alleging that it is used to finance attacks. Israel transfers tax money to the Palestinian Authority according to interim peace agreements.
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