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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
— Henry James
FACT OF THE DAY
North America's highest temperature ever recorded is 134 $^{\circ}$F, which occurred at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California on July 10, 1913.
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NEWS NEAR & FAR
INTERNATIONAL 1. Daily violence forces Somalis out of home
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalis are experiencing near-daily atrocities, including rape, the shelling of civilian areas and fighting that has forced more than 100,000 to flee their homes since May, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
A surge of violence in Somalia since last month has killed about 200 people as Islamist insurgents battle the government and its allies. Insurgents are trying to topple the Western-backed government and install a strict Islamic state.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, and the U.S. worries that Somalia could be a terrorist breeding ground.
2. Pablo Picasso drawings stolen from Paris museum
PARIS — A red notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso has been stolen from a specially locked glass case in the Paris museum that bears the painter's name, authorities said Tuesday.
The theft took place between Monday and Tuesday morning at the Picasso Museum, removed from a glass case that "can only be opened with a specific instrument," the Culture Ministry said.
A museum employee discovered the notebook was missing Tuesday morning from the second-floor display case.
The book is believed to be worth 8 million euros ($11 million).
Mitchell talked the man down, wrestled him to the ground and took the gun away.
A district spokeswoman, B.J. Greco, said the students were "100 percent safe."
The market for stolen art is valued at billions of dollars annually.
3. Hurled acid harms many shoppers in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — An unidentified assailant hurled acid in a busy Hong Kong shopping district, injuring 24 pedestrians including a 4-year old girl, police said Tuesday. It was the third in a series of acid attacks that have hurt around 100 people.
Police said a bottle of corrosive liquid was thrown on a crowd in the Mong Kok district Monday night. None of the victims, aged 4 to 49, were seriously burned.
Investigators have posted a 900,000 Hong Kong dollar ($116,097) reward for information leading to an arrest.
The man walked into the school around 11:45 a.m. and confronted Ken Mitchell, the South Orangetown Central School District superintendent, about an unspecified "minor" issue.
If convicted, the assailant will be charged a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
NATIONAL
4. Armed man walks into New York middle school
ORANGETOWN, N.Y. — An armed man walked into a suburban New York middle school with a handgun Tuesday.
No one was injured and no shots were fired in the events at South Orangetown Middle School in Blauvelt, about 20 miles north of New York City, authorities said.
5. Explosion at Slim Jim plant harms employees
GARNER, N.C. — An explosion at a Slim Jim meat products plant Tuesday injured at least 38 people, including four who suffered critical burns, and left a toxic cloud around the facility as authorities searched for two people still missing.
Jeffrey Hammerstein, district chief with Wake County Emergency Medical Services, said a third person initially reported missing was found and taken to the hospital. Authorities were searching for two others.
Hammerstein said 38 people — five tagged as priority patients with serious conditions — were taken to hospitals. Garner Mayor Ronnie Williams said injuries ranged from burns to smoke inhalation.
6. Hussein's source gets four year prison sentence
DETROIT — A man described by the Saddam Hussein regime as "our good cooperating source" was sentenced Tuesday to nearly four years in prison for supplying information to Iraq.
Najib Shemami, 62, of Sterling Heights, was a frequent traveler from 1996 through 2002, smuggling items into Iraq.
U. S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds rejected Shemami's claim that he acted under duress from the Iraqi government.
There is no dispute that he told Iraqi authorities about the activities of expatriates in the U.S. He also reported on U.S. military movements in Turkey before the invasion, describing the location of 200 tanks as well as tents for refugees.
Associated Press
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