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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The next time I have a daughter, I hope it's a boy!"
— Harry McAfee, from "Bye Bye Birdie"
FACT OF THE DAY
"Bye Bye Birdie" was Dick Van Dyke's first feature film.
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NEWS NEAR & FAR
INTERNATIONAL
1. Iran plans to continue
space program, launches
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadjad said Tuesday that Iran planned to launch a "more sophisticated" satellite into orbit, another potential step forward for the country's space program that have raised concerns in the West.
Iran's official news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying the launch would take place despite concerns over the earlier launch of Iran's first domestically made satellite in February.
2. Scientists claim to have produced cloned camel
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
DOUBLE HARBOR INHALTERS
— A scientist says the world's first cloned camel has been produced in the desert emirate of Dubai.
Nisar Ahmad Wani, a senior reproductive biologist at the government's Camel Reproduction Center, says the cloned camel is a six-day-old, one-humped female called Achievement or Injaz in Arabic.
Injaz was born April 8 after an uncomplicated gestation of 378 days, the center said in a press release Tuesday.
The center said she was created from cells harvested from an ovary of an adult female camel.
Camels are a valuable commodity in the desert sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. They are used for racing and transport.
3. Bolivian president ends his election hunger strike
Morales, 49, had spent the weekend reclining on a mattress in the presidential palace, drinking chamomile tea and chewing coca leaves, a mild stimulant that helps suppress the appetite.
NATIONAL
LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Males ended a five-day hunger strike Tuesday after Bolivia's congress broke a political deadlock, approving a law that lets him run for re-election in December.
The compromise also reserves seven seats for minority indigenous groups in the 130-seat lower of house of the new congress, and enables Bolivians living abroad to vote.
NATIONAL
4. Sheep suprises farmer by having quintuplets
VEVAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A Michigan farmer whose ewe gave birth to twins found himself carefully counting sheep when he later discovered three more lambs.
The Lansing State Journal reported Tuesday that one of Paul Oesterle's Suffolk-mix ewes gave birth to quintuplets last week. Michigan State University sheep expert Alan Culham says the chance of that breed bearing the multiple litter is one in 10,000.
5. Woman faces charges in murder of neighbor
STOCKTON, Calif. — The neighbor of an 8-year-old Northern California girl whose body was found in an irrigation pond has made her first appearance in court to face a murder charge.
cash to have a murder charge.
Twenty-eight-year-old Melissa Huckaby was led into a San Joaquin County courtroom in a red jumpsuit and shackles for the Tuesday afternoon arraignment. She cried as a judge read the charges; one count of murder with the special circumstances of rape with a foreign object, lewd or lascivious conduct with a child under 14 and murder in the course of a kidnapping.
She did not enter a plea.
She did not enter a plea. Authorities have not said how Sandra Cantu was killed, nor discussed a motive.
JOBS
6. Gates says piracy threat not a priority in budget
DOTHAN, Ala. — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he didn't see any immediate need to bulk up the military response to piracy near the Horn of Africa.
He added, however, that "we'll make those decisions as they come along."
Gates said it may be too soon to tell how lawmakers will treat his $534 billion budget proposal for the coming year. The package rearranges spending to emphasize the smaller, lower-tech wars Gates says the United States is fighting now.
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Jayhawk Shuffle
Drew Saylor, Topeka junior
What would be your
dream concert?
"Oasis opening for the Beatles at Wembley Stadium in odon"
The first 10 songs on shuffle on his iPod:
1. "Evil Angel" by Rufus Wainwright
2. "The Giver" by Shannon Elder
*Ew Angel by Rufus Wainwright*
*2. Thanks A Lot B* by Third Eye Blind
3. "Mexican Wine" by Fountains of Wayne
4. "End of Anchor" by Dashboard Confessional
5. "Wordplay" by Jason Mraz
6. "Like a Song" by HR
7. "Pusher Man" by Curtis Mayfield
8. "Crab" by Weezer
9. "Rockin' Chair" by Oasis
10. "Tonight, Not Again" by Jason Mraz
Natalie Brown
The Free Runner's Clinic will begin at 9 a.m. at the Southwest Entrance of Watkins Memorial Health Center.
ON CAMPUS
The Peter Pran "Realizations" lecture will begin at 11:30 a.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The "Managing the West's Water" university forum will begin at noon in the ECM Center.
The "Anthropology in Practice: Amazonia & the Prospects for Human Rights" seminar will begin at 2 p.m. in The Town Hall in Brandon Woods Retirement Community.
The Gary Reich American Seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
The Jayhawk Choice Awards will begin at 5 p.m. in the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
The "Darwin's Shadow in Tolstoy's
Apiary: The Biology of War and
Peace" lecture will begin at 4 p.m.
in the Malott Room in the Kansas
Union.
The Tibetan Spiritual Music & Dance event will begin at 6 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
The "Dole Institute: Pizza and Politics" lecture will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Room 163 in Regnell Hall on the Edwards Campus.
The lecture entitled "The Devil's Highway: Stories from the Border and Beyond" will begin at 7 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
ON THE RECORD
Campus police recorded criminal damage to a door at McCollum Hall at a loss of $100 Monday. The damage was the result of someone cutting a wire in the door, disabling its alarm April 5, the report said.
Campus police recorded criminal damage to a vehicle at a loss of $100 in KU parking lot No. 105 Saturday.
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