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THE UNIVERSITY OF JAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2002
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"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."
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The Cat in the Hat's first name is Abraham.
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**Camelis wait** during a media presentation of Camel Polo at the Dubai Polo & Equestrian Club at Arabian ranches on Wednesday. Twelve polo-playing camels, selected for their size and ability, have received four hours training every day to attract people to camel polo, which was launched by Dnata. A Middle East travel management company.
Former KU employee charged with theft
CRIME
BY RYAN MCGEENEY
rmcgeeney@kansan.com
Robert Lee Sample, a Facilities Operations employee who worked at the University for nearly 18 years, has been charged with three felony counts of theft of items valued at between $1,000 and $25,000 by the Douglas County District Attorney. Depending on a defendant's criminal history, these charges, considered Level Nine felonies because of the assessed dollar value of the stolen items.
can carry sentences of five to 17 months for each count.
Sample
Sample, a senior building systems technician who was employed by the University from Sept. 18, 1990 through Sept. 5 of this year, according to University Relations, was arrested on Aug. 11 at his home and arraigned on Oct. 21. Sample is currently free on a $30,000 bond, and is scheduled to appear before judge Peggy Kittel in Douglas County Court on Nov. 18, according to the court clerk's office.
Prosecutors consider Sample a suspect in at least 10 separate cases of theft between 2004 and 2008, including computer, photography and cleaning equipment taken from numerous academic halls across campus. Sheryl Wright, assistant to the district attorney, said that additional charges may yet be filed.
Edited by Kelsey Hayes
HEALTH
AIDS patient cured after bone marrow transplant
BY PATRICK MCGROARTY
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BERLIN — An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.
While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.
Dr. Gero Huetter said his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus.
"We waited every day for a bad
reading," Huetter said.
It has not come. Researchers at Berlin's Charite hospital and medical school say tests on his bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues have all been clean.
However, Dr. Andrew Badley, director of the HIV and immunology research lab at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said those tests had probably not been extensive enough.
This isn't the first time marrow transplants have been attempted for treating AIDS or HIV infection. In 1999, an article in the journal Medical Hypotheses reviewed the results of 32 attempts reported between 1982 and 1996. In two cases, HIV was apparently eradicated, the review reported.
"A lot more scrutiny from a lot of different biological samples would be required to say it's not present," Badley said.
Huetter's patient was under treatment at Charite for both AIDS and leukemia, which developed unrelated to HIV.
ODD NEWS Pastor gives his flock 7-day sex challenge
Young, 47, said he believed society promoted promiscuity and he wanted to reclaim sex for married couples. Sex should be a nurturing, spiritual act that strengthens marriages, he said.
DALLAS — The pastor of a mega-church says he will challenge married congregants during his sermon Sunday to have sex for seven straight days — and he plans to practice what he preaches.
"We're going to give it a try," said the Rev. Ed Young, who has four children with his wife of 26 years.
Young said he would deliver his seven-day sex challenge while sitting on a bed in front of his Dallas-area church campus.
"God says sex should be between a married man and a woman,"Young said."I think it's one of the greatest things you can do for your kids because so goes the marriage,so goes the family."
He is founder of the non-
denominational Fellowship
Church, which draws about
20,000 people each Sunday
and also has campuses in Fort
Worth, Plano and Miami.
Earlier this year, a southwest Florida pastor, perhaps having more faith in his congregants' stamina, issued a 30-day sex challenge.
Couple's cat returns after 13-year absence
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — A California couple recently had an unexpected reunion with an old housemate: their pet cat who went missing more than 13 years ago.
The cat, named George, was last seen in 1995. He recently resurfaced when the manager of a mobile home park trapped the sickly feline and gave him to an animal hospital.
A microchip implanted in George allowed him to be traced back to his owners.
Merman said after George went missing she visited animal shelters and wrote to veterinarians in search of the gray, yellow-eyed cat, who now weighs less than half his original 14 pounds.
But Merman and Walburg say George is eating well and displaying some of his old behavior, like jumping at a flickering light on the wall.
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KANSAN Newspaper now hiring spring semester staff
The University Daily Kansan has begun hiring its news and advertising staffs for the spring semester.
Applications for news section editors are available at the University's employment Web page, jobs.ku.edu. The applications include qualifications and supplemental questions. These applications are due Monday, Nov. 17. Applications for non-editor positions will be available soon and no Kansan experience is required.
Applications for advertising sales and design positions are also available on the Web site. Info sessions about the positions are Tuesday, Nov. 18 and Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 206 in Stauffer-Flint Hall. Applicants must attend one session to apply for a position. All majors are welcome.
The Kansan Board hired Brenna Hawley, Salina junior, as the Spring 2009 editor-in-chief. The board also hired Laura Vest, Augusta senior, as Kansan business manager. Students with questions about positions can contact Hawley at bhawley@kansan.com or Vest at lvest@kansan.com for more information.
The news staff has won the Hearst Journalism Award in the writing category for the last two years. CNBAM, Inc., has awarded the advertising staff best college newspaper in the country and best advertising staff for the last two years.
Brenna Hawley
Locally grown food is helping sustain Lawrence one piece of produce at a time. That's one of the topics Marga ret Tran, Derby junior, said local farmers, educators and entrepreneurs would address in a local food panel discussion tonight at 6 at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building. The panel, which is open to the public and welcomes walk in guests, will answer questions pertaining to local and global food economies, food production and the effects of local farming on the surrounding community. Tran said Simran Sethi, who has been on "Oprah," would moderate the discussion. The discussion will run from 6 p.m. until about 8:30 and guests will be treated to free locally-grown snacks. The ECM is located at 1204 Oread Avenue.
LOCAL Panel tonight at ECM focuses on food issues
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Cynthia Carroll is the first woman to become chief executive at Anglo American, one of the world's largest independent mining companies. She received her master's degree in geology from KU before going on to earn an MBA at Harvard University. In 2008, Forbes Magazine ranked her 5th in their list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. They described Carroll as "a powerhouse in the world of commodities, a sector crucial to the world's economy. And within the corridors of world governments, she is a force to be reckoned with."
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CEO of Anglo American
"The Role and Responsibility of the Multi-National Corporation" Cynthia Carroll
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