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said that he did not have any extravagant plans for the $10,000, but that he would probably use it to pay off student loans or buy more pens, art supplies and graphic novels for drawing inspiration.
Snider's love for drawing started when he was little boy. He and his identical twin brother Gavin
used to put together comic
books. Gavin, Mu vane senior in architecture, said they would each take a side of an easel and create an imaginary world with different characters, stories and people. When the boys got older, they wrote and illustrated books of poems.
Although Snider continued drawing in high school, he did not seriously start drawing until he came to the University to study chemical engineering. During his junior year, he started drawing a daily opinion cartoon for The Kansan.
Soon after, then-editor Erick Schmidt asked Snider to redraw the Weather Jays that appear on the bottom of The Kansan's front page. The Weather Jays being used at the time were more than 30 years old, and Snider drew 20 new Jays.
"It was a pretty easy project and fun to do," Snider said. "That was my biggest cartooning commission since."
Now, Snider draws between one and three drawings a week for The University News, UMKC's weekly student newspaper. Last week, he started drawing a comic strip for The Kansas City Star's Thursday Preview section.
Gavin said his brother's dry sense of humor appeared in his comics, poking fun at political figures laughing at personal experiences or commenting on the music industry.
"Sometimes they're even more funny 'cause I know what he's talking about." Gavin said of his brother's comics about personal experiences. "The best ones have subtle, dry humor that will hit you over the head."
more said Snider sometimes drew in class, not because he was daydreaming, but because he was a bright student who easily understood the
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Snider also helped Detamore with research in testing the jaw joints of pigs, something that stemmed from Snider's interest in dentistry. Snider's research with Detamore was published in the Journal of Dental Research, something that Detamore said was a significant accomplishment for an undergraduate student.
Snider insists that dentistry and drawing are easily related.
"They're both pretty detail-oriented, using meticulous hands skills", Snider said. "You have to have a critical eye for what you're working on and it's all visual."
U.S. to attend nuclear discussions with Iran
NAHAL TOOSI Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Wednesday it would
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directly in group talks with Iran over its suspect nuclear program. another significant shift from President George W. Bush's policy toward a nation he labeled part of an axis of evil.
diplomats from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany meet with Iranian officials to discuss the nuclear issue. The Bush administration had generally shunned such meetings, although it attended one last year.
"We believe that pursuing very careful engagement on a range of issues that affect our interests and the interests of the world with Iran makes senses."
The State Department said
HILLARY CLINTON Secretary of State
"We believe that pursuing very careful engagement on a range of issues that affect our interests and the interests of the world with Iran makes sense," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told report-
ers. "There is nothing more important than trying to convince Iran to
cease its efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon."
the United States would be at the table "from now on" when senior
Sate Department spokesman Robert Wood said the decision was conveyed to representatives of Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia by the third-ranking U.S. diplomat, William Burns, at a Wednesday meeting in London. That group announced earlier that it would invite Iran to attend a new session aimed at breaking a deadlock in the talks.
"If Iran accepts, we hope this will be the occasion to seriously engage Iran on how to break the logjam of recent years and work in a cooperative manner to resolve the outstanding international concerns about its nuclear program," Wood said.
wanted a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear issue and believed that required "a willingness to engage directly with each other." He added that "we hope that the government of Iran chooses to reciprocate."
Wood said the administration
Prior to word from State, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran's hardline president, said his country "welcomes a hand extended to it should it really and truly be based on honesty, justice and respect." The remark was one of the strongest signals yet that Tehran might respond positively to President Barack Obama's calls for dialogue.
The invitation is to be sent to the Iranians by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana. No time frame was given for a date of the meeting.
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Charles Goldberg, Chicago senior, participates in the Birchat Hachama ritual in South Park Wednesday morning with other members of the Lawrence Jewish community. The sunblessing ritual occurs once every 28 years, when the sun is believed to be in the exact place where it was originally created.
said. "The sun is not the source, but a conduit for God. We are praising God for the sun."
Goldberg said he was 21 so he would be almost 50 years old the next time the ritual was performed. He said that several blessings were read specifically for this holiday that were never heard otherwise.
"This is a great way to express our appreciation for the environment. We take the sun for granted," Tiechtel said. "It's good to pause and thank God."
"It's a very important time and we want to take advantage and do as many mizvahs as possible to elevate ourselves to a higher spiritual level," Goldberg said. "It's a very meaningful thing."
Charles Goldberg, Chicago senior, said he heard that the last time the ritual took place, thousands of people filled a New York City street to join in.
"You only get to do this mitzvah once every 28 years in your life," Goldberg said. "It's not something you do every day."
Tiechtel said the holiday applied to anyone who appreciated the environment and the sun. He said Jews around the world, of many denominations, joined together for this one special occasion.
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Web. There is an expectation of continuous communication."
The site features articles and videos on topics ranging from politics to celebrities.
Ginevra Figg, marketing manager for OneRiot, said the company's objective was to index the "real-time" Web by arranging current information and displaying what articles people were looking at.
Figg said said the company has more than two million
"The crucial question on college students' minds is
users who have agreed to have their Internet-surfing activity tracked, which helps OneRiot. com determine the content placed on the site.
studies, said these public forms of communication were becoming more and more a part of students' lives.
Becca Nyman, St. Louis junior and marketing representative for OneRiot, said she and her friends looked at videos and articles on the site during study
"My students from ten years ago are very different from my students right now in terms of being connected," Asunicon-Lande said.
"With the fast paced world we are living in, everything has to be current and this gives it to you."
'What doesn't Google answer?' and that's what's going on right now', Figg said. "It's important that we bring these guys the hottest results on these topics. It allows college students to become trendsetters and stay ahead of the game."
Social networking and interactive sites such as Facebook, MySpace and You Tube are frequented by students regularly.
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She said the site stayed timely because information was updated constantly.
"With the fast-paced world we are living in, everything has to be current and this gives it to you," Nyman said.
Although Baym
said she thought search engines were great resources, she said it was important for people to recognize credible and complete information and baseless claims.
"I think there is a shallow conception of information in that whatever Google or Wikipedia says is all I need to know about something." Baym said.
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