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An Invitation to Graduate and Professional Students From the Graduate and Professional Association (GPA)
Join us for GPA's Annual Picnic and Info Fair September 14, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Potter's Pavilion (located behind Potter's lake and Carruth O'Leary)
Complementary Food catered by Kansas Union & Drinks by the Coca-Cola/KU Foundation Campus offices,services,and organizations will have information tables,brochures,and representation Freebees include phone cards with 30 minutes free calls by Grad Resources
For more info call 864-4914 Or visit GPA's website www.ku.edu
About one drink per hour over a 5 hour period
One drink = 12 oz. beer = 4.5 oz. wine = 1-1.5 oz. liquor
- Based on survey responses from 1,608 KU students. Survey administered by the KU Office of Institutional Research & Planning (2001).
WEATHER FORECAST
TODAY
8257
Clear and sunny and clear and cool tonight.
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Clear and sunny.
Newscasts are every hour on the half hour starting at 5:30 p.m.
83 Mostly sunny.
AMANDA FISCH/DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
/HI/TCHOKIN PHOK XHSK ANU.DEU
GONGFARMER
BY RANDY REGIER
Now that market bubbles have burst and property prices halved from the peaks they hit after Britain returned Hong Kong to China four years ago, many turn to TV game shows like Millionaire, hoping to get out of debt by plowing through general knowledge books.
'Millionaire' lifts Hong Kong's burdens
The Associated Press
Most hope to strike it rich mainly so they can get out of the hole — paying off their losses from property purchases. Many here hold mortgages on apartments worth less than what they paid, putting them in a position of "negative equity."
HONG KONG — Postman Sin Kan-tong didn't miss a beat when asked what he would do with the money.
"I will use all of it to bet on horses," the 34-year-old Sin said as he appeared on ATV's Chinese-language version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Some people, like Sin, don't bother studying for the show, hoping instead to get lucky with a few questions about things they already know.
Many people in Hong Kong love gambling, so the show was a natural here and has gained an enormous following.
If you ask contestants their top wish is, few would save a round-the-world ticket or a new car.
But Hong Kong's hard times have tempered expectations.
"Amid the economic difficulties, it's a ray of hope among many despondent people," said Lau Siu-kai, a sociology professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
"Those who come for the quick money are the majority—about 80 to 90 percent," said Ken Chan, host of the hit show that has attracted several hundred thousand applications from would-be contestants.
Top prize is 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($128,205), but so far nobody has won it. Two contestants have won 500,000 Hong Kong dollars ( $64,103).
The show averages 1.7 million viewers, or about one-fourth of the Hong Kong's 6.9 million people.
To some, the show simply offers good fun.
Chu Mow-dow, 83, needed a helping hand from her daughter to get to her seat in the studio audience, and because she speaks only Chaozhou, a dialect rarely used by Hong Kong's younger generations, she didn't understand a single word of the show.
That didn't stop her from laughing and clapping all the way through.
"It makes me happy." Chu said, using her daughter as an interpreter.
Crossword
ACROSS
1 ___-jongg
4 Relinquish
8 Panama currency unit
14 Drs.' group
15 Spoken
16 Standards of excellence
17 Decompose
18 Connection
19 Thousands of $
20 Reduction
22 Midday
22 Bermuda and Vidalia
24 Quiet perseverance
28 Spirited horse
29 Hawaiian garland
30 Follow a scent
31 Spin
34 Takes a chair
35 Writer's block
38 Lacking an edge
38 Singer Peggy
41 Garbage boat
43 Helped a criminal
45 Bundle
47 Consumed
48 Exists
52 Dandie dinmont and Airedale
54 Letter-shaped home
55 Discharged a debt
56 Flight formation
57 Sighting
60 Loyal
61 "___ Now or Never"
62 ___ poodle
63 Part of FIU
64 Understand
65 Objective
66 Chick's call
67 Double curve
DOWN
1 Imelda or Ferdinand
2 Quantity
3 Oscar winner McDaniel
4 Food drainer
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52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67
8/11/01
5 Sevareid and
Clapton
6 Unpleasantly
moist
7 Wapiti
8 Intolerant person
9 Nimble
10 Some thrown
horseshoes
11 Prohibit
12 No longer current
13 Blockhead
21 Afrikaner
22 Natural simplicity
24 Shot
25 Pin down
26 Quote as an
authority
27 Otherwise
29 Actress Carole
32 By way of
33 Winter hrs. in NY
35 Attention getter
36 Yearn
37 Go-getter
39 Category of books
42 Distorting
Solutions to yesterday's puzzle
44 Dreadful
46 Engaged man
49 Traveling bag
50 Behaves
theatrically
51 Feels
53 Skater's figure
54 Shrewd
56 Sea eagle
57 At the stern
58 Writer Levin
59 Mal de ___
(seasickness)
60 Gratuity
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