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THE UNIVERSITY HARLEY KANSAN
FRIDAY AUGUST 20, 2008
FRIDAY AUGUST 29.2008
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promises of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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Laughing lovers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
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Celebrating Obama's speech miles away
Lacy Mysir, Mission Woods nontraditional student, registers to vote at the Barack Obama acceptance speech watch party at Liberty Hall on Thursday night with help from George Dungan, Lienb. Neb., Junior, and Bene Garcia, Uylyssen, Kau. Junior, Members of the KU Young Democrats and Douglas County Democratic Party volunteered at the event to register voters and sign up volunteers.
ODD NEWS
Diaper breaks boy's fall saves his life
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.
Caua Felipe Massaneiro survived a 30-foot fall because his diaper snagged on a security spike embedded in the concrete wall around his apartment building in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife.
The boy dangled from the spike for a moment, then "the diaper opened and the baby fell to the ground, but at a much slower speed," a police officer said. "The diaper obviously lessened the impact of the fall and saved the baby's life."
"It was a miracle," said the officer who declined to be identified because she was not authorized to speak to the press. "He could also have been killed by one of
the spikes."
The child was treated for minor fractures at the Hospital Memorial Sao Jose, where spokesman Gilberto Tenorio said he was in stable condition.
Police have opened an investigation to determine how the toddler fell out the window and "if parental negligence was one of the causes," the police officer said.
The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper quoted Caua's father, 23-year-old Alexandre Cesar Massaneiro as saying that his son climbed onto a sofa underneath the window he fell from - "something he had never done before."
"It wasn't the diaper that saved him," Massaneiro told the newspaper. "It was God."
Town uses scarecrows to try and break record
HOSCHTON, Ga. — This small northeastern Georgia town's population boom is frightening. In a bid to break a world record for scarecrows and scare up some fun for the fall season, thousands
of straw-stuffed newcomers are creeping across town.
There's a scuba diver, the Georgia Bulldogs football team and — of course — the cast of the Wizard of Oz. Even likenesses of Jesus and Elvis popped up.
The 1,700 real residents of Hoschton hope to nearly triple their population with 4,000 scarecrows and break the Guinness World Record for "Most Scarecrows in One Location."
The title belongs to the Cincinnati Horticultural Society's Cincinnati Flower and Farm Fest, which set the record in 2003 with 3,311 scarecrows.
Antique dealer Robbie Bettis and her husband, Fred, are leading the effort for the town's fall festival, which begins Monday.
On Wednesday they watched over an assembly line at an old downtown train depot, where about 20 people passed wooden frames among tables of dingy clothes, yellow milk jugs, plastic grocery bags, old hats, twine, ribbon and other donated materials
"We thought if we gave people something fun to do then maybe they will forget about the difficult economy,"she said."Winning the world record is just a byproduct."
Jayhawks & Friends
Crows and criminals beware: Two men caught knocking over scarecrows were sentenced to build 25 of them, lest they face trespassing charges, Mayor Bill Copenhaver said.
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Ad for nanny makes appearance on blogs
on a life of its own, making the rounds of parenting blogs and e-mail inboxes and inspiring an article in Thursday's New York Times.
NEW YORK — It was an unusually honest ad for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, "My kids are a pain." But it worked, attracting a brave soul who's never been a nanny before.
"If you cannot multitask, or communicate without being passive aggressive, don't even bother replying," Rebecca Land Soodak, a mother of four on Manhattan's Upper East Side, wrote Aug. 19 in her advertisement on Craigslist.
Soodak, a 40-year-old painter whose husband owns a wine store, eventually hired Christina Wynn, a 25-year-old University of Virginia graduate, to take care of Rubin, 12; Ellis, 9; and Shay and Cassie, both 6.
"I made a commitment to stay in the job for at least a year," Wynn told the Times. "I met the oldest child, but not the others, which my mother said was crazy — to accept the job without meeting all the kids. So we'll see." She noted that one of the pluses is that the children are all in school for several hours each day.
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Some other excerpts from the listing: "If you are fundamentally unhappy with your life, you will be more unhappy if you take this job, so do us all a favor and get some treatment or move to the Rockies, but do not apply for employment with us."
"I can be a tad difficult to work for. I'm loud, pushy and while I used to think we paid well, I am no longer sure"
And this: "Also, if you suspect all wealthy women are frivolous, we are not for you."
And this: "I have all sorts of theories on how to stack my dishwasher, and if you are judgmental about Ritalin for ADHD, or think such things are caused by too much sugar, again, deal-break city."
This being the age of instant communications, the ad took
Candidate for the House chooses to be honest
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — A candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is bringing up his arrest for domestic assault — in his own campaign materials.
Democrat Jim Prendergast says telling voters about his 1996 misdemeanor assault conviction "to be honest with the people I'm going to work for." He also says he wants to explain the arrest on his terms, rather than have his opponent bring it up in an attack ad.
Prendergast calls the incident a turning point in his life. He says he didn't strike his then-wife, but grabbed her roughly with both hands during an argument. He says he and his ex-wife are now on friendly terms.
The man he's running to unseat, Republican state Rep. Tom Quigley, says he never had any intention of bringing up the incident.
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Ex-Marine acquitted in killing detainees
NATION
On Aug. 28, the Lawrence Police Department reported that a KU student was the victim of aggravated kidnapping and burglary.
The workshop "EndNote: Libraries and Databases" will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The seminar "The molecular photochemistry of a blue-light photoreceptor from the green alga chlamydomonas reinhardtii" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 1001 Malott.
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The jury took six hours to find Jose Luis Nazario Jr. not guilty of charges that he killed or caused others to kill four unarmed detainees on Nov. 9, 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq.
The entertainment event "FREE Cosmic Bowling" will begin at 10 p.m. in Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
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On Aug. 28, the KU Public Safety office reported that two men were given notices to appear in court after one was found in possession of marijuana and the other was found in possession of drug paraphernalia. The men were cited in lot 105 on the KU campus, near the intersection of 19th and Iowa streets.
RIVISIDE, Calif. — A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday.
The public event "Meet & Greet: Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso" will begin at 2 p.m. in the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union
The verdict marks the first time a civilian jury has determined whether the alleged actions of a former military service member in combat violated the law of war.
The workshop "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" will begin at 9 a.m. and again at 2:30 p.m. in Budig Hall, Room 6.
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