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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2009
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Mexican authorities hunt gangs after killings
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities found five abandoned, bullet-riddled and bloodstained vehicles on Wednesday, fueling their hunt for killer gangs following a wave of border-region slayings and clashes with soldiers that left 21 people dead, an official said.
2. People long skirmishes around the town of Villa Ahumada on Tuesday were part of a wave of drug violence that has engulfed parts of Mexico, and has even spilled across the border as the army confronts savage narcotics cartels that are flush with drug money and guns from the U.S.
President Felipe Calderon said more than 6,000 people died last year in drug-related violence.
2. British officials to visit prisoner in Guantanamo
LONDON — A British court met Wednesday to reconsider a case regarding a British resident being held in Guantanamo — a lawsuit that stands to embarrass
the American and British governments over torture allegations.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced that a doctor and other British officials would visit Binyam Mohamed at the prison camp. Mohamed has been on a hunger strike for more than a month and is being force-fed. He launched the strike to protest his continued detention. Charges against him were dropped last year
3. New Prime Minister sworn in for Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe swore in his longtime rival as prime minister Wednesday, cracking his nearly three-decade stranglehold on power and conceding they must work together to rescue Zimbabwe from economic and humanitarian disaster. The opposition leader has been beaten and was once nearly thrown from a 10th floor window by suspected government thugs. Morgan Tsvangirai promised to begin repairing the economy and healing the country's other wounds.
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4. Two satellites collide
500 miles above Siberia
However, any risk to the international space station is thought to be low. There also should be no danger to the upcoming space shuttle flight, targeted for liftoff no earlier than Feb. 22.
The collision occurred Tuesday nearly 500 miles over Siberia. The crash produced a pair of massive debris clouds, and the magnitude of the situation won't be known for weeks at least, said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries.
5. Ohio teacher cuts class for second job as prostitute
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two communications satellites have collided in the first-ever crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, NASA said Wednesday.
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio — A fourth-grade teacher had a side job as a prostitute, and even skipped class after using a school computer to arrange an afternoon tryst at a motel, authorities said Wednesday.
Amber Carter, 35, left school early on Tuesday and was arrested in a motel parking lot in Bellefontaine, where authorities had set up a sting operation.
Carter was placed on administrative leave, said Bellefontaine City Schools Superintendent Larry Anderson. She has worked for the district for 13 years.
6. Study shows love comes from head,not heart
WASHINGTON — Like any young woman in love, Bianca Acevedo has exchanged valentine hearts with her fiance. But the New York neuroscientist knows better. The source of love is in the head, not the heart.
In humans, there are four tiny areas of the brain that some researchers say form a circuit of love. Acevedo is part of a team that has isolated those regions.
The research could eventually lead to pills based on the brain hormones which might help troubled relationships.
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A memorial for graduate student Dimitri Mavridorakis, who was killed Saturday when he was struck by a car, will be held this Friday at 10 a.m. in the Relays Room in the Burge Union. The memorial is open to the public. Police reports said Mavridorakis, an exchange student from St. Etienne, France, was helping push a disabled car on the shoulder of Shawnee Mission Parkway in Merriam when he was hit by a drunk driver. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 3 a.m.
OBITUARY Memorial service for grad student to be held Friday
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The Chagrin River rages over the falls in downtown Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on Wednesday. The overflowing waters follow unseasonably warm temperatures and piles of melting snow.
ON CAMPUS
The "SPSS II" workshop will begin at noon at the Edwards Campus.
The "SAS Enterprise Guide:
Point and Click with SAS" workshop will begin at 2 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The "Windows: Vista" workshop will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Computer Center Auditorium.
The Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair will begin at noon on the 5th Floor in the Kansas Union.
The Unclassified Senate full senate meeting will begin at noon in the Courtside Room in the Burge Union.
The "Osher Institute: Ships That Fly in the Sky" seminar will begin at 2 p.m. in the Education Building in the Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church.
The Geography Brownbag Series lecture will begin at noon in 210 Lindley Hall.
The University / Faculty Senate Meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 106 Green Hall.
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The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets Open House will begin at 2 p.m. in the lobby in Nichols Hall.
Tomorrow is the last day to register for the 22nd Annual Blueprints Student Leadership Conference. Either go to groups.ku.edu/~bprints or visit the SILC office in the KS Union for registration.
The "SUA: Tea Time" social event will begin at 3 p.m. in the lobby in the Kansas Union.
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The "What Clicks in the Classroom: iPods and Podcasting" workshop will begin at 3 p.m. in 135 Budig.
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The University of Kansas reached record levels of research funding in 2008, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies announced Monday.
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The University also provided $100 million in institutional support, reaching a total record for research spending of $297.8 million.
Kevin Boatright, communications director for the office of research and graduate studies, said KU researchers had brought $960 million dollars to the University throughout the last five years.
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External research funding for the University hit $197.8 million for fiscal year 2008, increasing by 2.3 percent.
Boatright said external funding usually came from federal government grants and went to all areas of study.
"A lot of that funding enables us to have more and better graduate students,"Boatright said.
Boatright said the increase in funding was "extraordinary" despite poor economic conditions and the flattening levels of federal funding.
"Our peer institutions have
experienced some difficulty in maintaining their levels of funding," Boatright said, "while KU has been able to increase the level of funding."
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The University was ranked 44th in external research funding among national public research universities in 2007. Boatright said he expected 2008's ranking would be similar.
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