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Dunk for donations
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Weston White/KNMAN Greg Loving, McPherson sophomore, throws a softball at a dunk tank after donating a dollar; Loving struck the bull's-eye to knock off the girl. The money raised was for the Anchor Swap event put on by the Dgamma Alliance. $m earned during the Anchor Swap event will go to the Children's Center for Visually Impaired.
Robbers use helicopter for heist
CRIME
BY KARL RITTER Associated Press
STOCKHOLM - With cinematic flourish, the masked robbers dropped from a helicopter onto the roof of a Swedish cash depot before dawn, broke into the building through a glass pyramid, set off explosions to get to the millions inside and escaped by hoisting themselves and their haul back up on rope lines.
All in 20 minutes, and all while Stockholm police were grounded by a fake bomb planted outside their own helicopter hangar.
Sweden has had its share of high-profile heists against cash storage facilities, post offices and armored cars in recent years, but police said Wednesday's command-style robbery was the first to use a helicopter.
"There are about 100 hardcore criminals in this country who have specialized in this type of serious robbery," said Jerzy Sarneci,
professor in criminology at Stockholm University. "They are definitely no amateurs."
He said every successful heist inspires others to follow suit, which explains why they have become relatively frequent in Sweden.
"When you have a group of people doing these things, others are inspired by them," Sarncki said.
A nationwide manhunt was launched for the suspects. Investigators believed at least 10 professional outlaws were involved.
"These are people who most likely have committed similar crimes before," police spokesman Ulf Goranzon said. "We have naturally activated police throughout Sweden as much as possible, especially when it comes to border controls: airports, bridges and ferries."
The company that owns the high-security facility, G4S PLC, said the thieves made off with "an unconfirmed sum of money" and added it would offer a large reward for information leading to their
arrest and the return of the loot.
The company did not give an exact amount for the reward.
Britain-based G45 PLC is one of the world's largest security companies. The Vastberga facility stores cash that is transported to banks and other businesses in Sweden. G4s declined to say how much money was in the cash depot when it was attacked.
Swedish criminologist Leif G. W. Persson told Swedish news agency TT that there normally would have been about 1 billion kronor ($150 million) stored there.
The attack could lead to ATMs in the Stockholm area running out of cash, said Dick Malmlund, head of security at the Swedish Trade Federation.
"They account for a large part of the cash supply. If a facility like that is disabled ... we don't have a lot of reserve capacity." Malmlund told the news agency.
Two men were detained for questioning in Stockholm later Wednesday in connection with the robbery, but police stressed it wasn't clear if, or how, they were involved.
"You always need an insider in this kind of crime," Persson told TT.
Persson said the robbers likely got help from a current or former employee.
"The they are suspected of handling stolen goods," police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said.
The helicopter swooped down on the depot shortly after 5 a.m. and hovered there while the team of robbers did their work.
Students excited about food book
BY RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. — One best-selling book advocating fresh, local foods is shaking up America's Dairyland.
HEALTH
Students across the University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus, organic grocers, scientists and dairy farmers large and small have jumped into the debate on how food is produced and eaten. The discussions started last month when the university began giving Michael Pollan's book, "In Defense of Food," free to all incoming freshmen and school officials urged professors to use it in class.
"I have not seen the students this excited about something in years," Irwin Goodman, a horticulture professor who is vice dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences said of the buzz on campus about Pollan's field-to-table philosophies.
The book urges readers to "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" and criticizes food companies and scientists for replacing traditional foods with unhealthier, highly processed substitutes and confusing consumers with health claims.
Pollan's work has been used on college campuses from the University of California-Berkeley, where he is a journalism professor, to Columbia University in New York City
to speak at the 17,000-seat Kohl Center Thursday in the liberal college town.
Kelsey Ward, an 18-year-old freshman from Naperville, Ill., said she's talked about the book in chemistry and diversity classes, and with her roommate, a food science major.
for courses ranging from science journalism to environmental politics. But the program at UW-Madison is unique because the book is being discussed everywhere from French and political science courses to an exhibit on the history of food. And Pollan is
"It's really cool how they've connected everyone on campus through this project," she said. The book, which earlier this year won the James Beard Foundation Award for best food writing, has prompted her to eat more salads and fewer processed foods.
But not everyone is so excited.
"Pollan has narrow and elitist ideas about how you should eat and how farmers should (or shouldn't) feed a hungry and growing world," Bruins wrote on the farm bureau's Web site.
Bill Bruins, who has a dairy farm near Waupun and is president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, called the book "a direct attack on the way we farm today." His group is working with the university to have farmers go into classrooms to present their points of view.
Another critic, John Lucey, is a UW-Madison professor and food
"I have not seen the students this excited about something in years."
IRWIN GOODMAN horticulture professor
scientist. Pollan blames food scientists for replacing food with "nutrients," and Lucey wrote on a university Web site that scientists have helped preserve foods longer, improved food safety and
cut meal preparation time for busy parents.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin started the "Go Big Read" program, in which the campus is asked to read the same book, and hopes it becomes a tradition.
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