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Each Oscar statuette is 13 1/2 inches tall and weighs 8 1/2 pounds.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. AIDS takes top spot as deadliest disease in China
2. Guatemalan president regrets role in Bay of Pigs
But last year, health authorities said sex had overtaken drug abuse as the main cause of HIV infections.
BEIJING — AIDS was the top killer among infectious diseases in China for the first time last year, with 6,897 people dying in the nine months through September, a state news agency said.
About 1,500 Cuban exiles trained under CIA guidance in Guatemala
The HIV virus that causes AIDS gained a foothold in China largely because of unsanitary blood plasma-buying schemes and tainted transfusions in hospitals.
HAVANA — Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom apologized to Cuba on Tuesday for his country's having allowed the CIA to train exiles in the Central American country for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
before invading the island beginning April 17, 1961, in an unsuccessful bid to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government.
DUNGU, Congo — The failure to protect the people of Dungu and other towns from attack by the Lord's Resistance Army is a sign of the collapse of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in this sprawling Central African nation.
The invasion ended after less than three days, with about 100 invaders killed and more than 1,000 captured by Cuban forces.
Aid workers and others say the U.N. force and Congolese military received almost daily alerts of attacks as the death toll mounted and the rebel offensives multiplied.
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Critics say the 17,000-member U.N. mission has floundered despite being the largest and most expensive in the world - and with the strongest mandate ever issued to U.N. troops to use force to protect civilians.
3. Critics say U.N. mission to protect Congo is failing
4. Florida jury rewards widow of chain smoker
NATIONAL
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Philip Morris was ordered by a jury to pay $8 million in damages to Elaine Hess, the widow of Stuart Hess, who died of lung cancer, in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits.
Stuart Hess died in 1997 at age 53 after decades as a chain smoker.
The Hess case was the first to go to trial since the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 voided a $145 billion class-action jury award in the so-called Engle case, by far the highest punitive damage award in U.S. history.
HARTFORD, Conn. — Geronimo's descendants have sued Skull and Bones — the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures — claiming that its members stole
5. Geronimo's family sues secret society for bones
— claiming that its nests
Geronimo's remains decades ago
and have kept them ever since.
Harlyn Gerontino, great-grandson, said his family believes Skull and Bones members took some of the remains in 1918 from a burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla.
According to lore, members of Skull and Bones dug up his grave when a group of Army volunteers from Yale were stationed at the fort during World War I.
BOSTON — Volunteer organizations such as the Peace Corps and Teach for America say the floundering economy and President Barack Obama's call for service have led to a major increase in applications.
6. Volunteer groups see increase in applications
Teach for America received a record 14,000 applications by November, an almost 50 percent increase over the previous year. And Peace Corps applications rose 16 percent from fiscal year 2007 to 2008, with a big spike registered around the time of Obama's inauguration.
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Mammoth of a dig
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Andrea Thomer, left, Page Museum excavator, and Michelle Tabencki, a volunteer excavator, work on a fossil cache deposit outside the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Researchers discovered 16 fossil deposits under an old parking lot next to the tar pits in 2006 and began sifting through them last summer. The mammoth remains, including 10-foot-long tusks, were found in an ancient riverbed near the fossil cache.
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ODD NEWS Marijuana stash makes SUV's gas tank half-full
SANDY, Utah — A stash of grass can take the place of a lot of gas, but it won't do anything for mileage.
A Utah man took his newly acquired used SUV to a mechanic to find out why the gas gauge always read half-full.
The mechanic looked inside the gas tank and found about 35 pounds of marijuana in plastic-wrap packages that filled about half of the tank's volume.
Police estimate the pot is worth about $35,000.
The Nissan Armada has had several different owners and was once a rental car.
Sandy police say the current owner is not a suspect.
Investigators in the town south of Salt Lake City say the drug packs could have been in the tank for months.
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The "Dreamweaver Getting Your Site Under Control" workshop will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig.
The "Grad Finale" public event will begin at 10 a.m. in the Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
The Geography Brownbag Series lecture will begin at noon in 210 Lindley.
The "Photoshop Introduction" workshop will begin at 1 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The "ShipsThat Fly in the Sky" seminar will begin at 2 p.m. in the Education Building of the Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church.
ON THE RECORD
Atheft of $300 in cash and cashed checks was reported at the Dole Human Development building on Tuesday. The suspect stole a wallet and then cashed checks inside and was later arrested by Lawrence police.
A resident of JayhawkerTowers' TowerD reported criminal damage to a vehicle at loss of $250 on Monday after a window was shattered in the parking lot.
The "Open Access to Knowledge: What Comes of the Right to Know in Kansas and Kumasi" seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
Criminal damage to a vehicle was reported on Sunday in parking lot No.105. Twimirrors were broken off at aloss of $600.
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The Wu Man and Friends concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
DAILY KU INFO
It was 79 years ago this week that KU alumnus Clyde Tombaugh announced his discovery of Pluto. He was 24 years old and had not yet become a KU student. Tombaugh has had schools, planetariums and university observatories, including one at the University named in his honor.
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