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"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
—Hubert H.Humphrey
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GOVERNMENT Prison inmates receive federal stimulus checks
WASHINGTON — The federa government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to prison inmates.
The checks were part of the massive economic recovery package approved by Congress and President Barack Obama in February. About 52 million Social Security recipients, railroad retirees and those receiving Supplemental Security Income were eligible for the one-time checks
The inspector general for the Social Security Administration is performing an audit to make sure no checks went to ineligible recipients, spokesman George E. Penn said.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Russia asks for help solving hijacking case
MOSCOW — Russian authorities said Wednesday they will run the investigation into the alleged Arctic Sea hijacking but will ask other nations to help solve the mystery of the cargo ship's bizarre voyage.
The Maltese-flagged freighter seemed to vanish after sailing from Finland on July 21 with a Russian crew and a load of timber. A Russian warship intercepted the vessel last week in the Atlantic, and eight suspected hijackers are jailed in Moscow, facing charges of kidnapping and piracy.
Associated Press
2. Canadian police think car belongs to suspect
VANCOUVER, British Columbia
A silver PT Cruiser matching the description of the vehicle seen dropping off reality TV actor and murder suspect Ryan Jenkins at a motel is parked in his half-sister's condominium in Vancouver.
Police Cpl. Norm Massie declined to say Wednesday whether Alena Jenkins is the mystery woman who checked Jenkins into a motel in Hope, British Columbia, three days before he was found dead in his room Sunday of an apparent suicide.
Royal Canadian Mounted
A message left with a woman answering Alena Jenkins' phones was not immediately returned. The woman said Jenkins' half-sister was away arranging funeral details.
BUNOL, Spain — Tens of thousands of revelers pelted each other with tons of ripe tomatoes in a good-natured battle that filled the streets of a Spanish town with rivers of red pulp.
3. Thousands participate in tomato tradition
Bunol's town hall estimated more than 40,000 people, some from as far away as Japan and Australia, took up arms Wednesday with 100 tons of tomatoes in the yearly food fight known as the "Tomatina," now in its 64th year.
NATIONAL
NATIONAL 4. Government attempts to calm swine flu fears
WASHINGTON — Government health officials are urging people not to panic over estimates of 90,000 people dying from swine flu this fall.
While the swine flu seems quite easy to catch, it so far hasn't been more deadly than the flu strains seen every fall and winter — many people have only mild illness. And close genetic tracking of the new virus so far has shown no sign that it's mutating to become more virulent.
Still, the CDC has been preparing for a worst-case flu season to make sure that if the virus suddenly worsened or vaccination plans fell through, health authorities would know how to react.
CHILMARK, Mass. — Edward M. Kennedy was much more than just former Senate colleague and influential legislator to Barack Obama, evident in the president's personal, mournful tribute
5. President speaks at Ted Kennedy service
Wednesday.
Obama lauded the Massachusetts senator's tireless work for legislation that reshaped the lives of millions of Americans — "including myself," the president added.
"His fight has given us the opportunity we were denied when his brothers John and Robert were taken from us: the blessing of time to say thank you — and goodbye," Obama said.
6. Clunkers program briefly boosts auto sales
WASHINGTON — The popular Cash for Clunkers program generated nearly 700,000 new car sales during the past month, giving the U.S. auto industry a badly needed jolt of activity during the deepest decline in auto sales in two decades.
Many dealers are still waiting to be repaid for the Cash for Clunkers incentives they gave car buyers and were allowed to submit paperwork seeking reimbursement until late Tuesday.
Associated Press
KANSASCITIES
BY BEN WILINSKY
bwilinsky@kansan.com
City: Clay Center
Nickname: C squared, Clay town
County: Clay County
Location: 40 miles northwest of Manhattan
Founded:1862
Distance from Lawrence: Two hours and six minutes or 124 miles
Clay Center
*population as of 2000:* 4,442
Destinations: Clay Center Zoo,
WHERE DID YOU GO HANG OUT IN CLAY CENTER?
five parks, city orchestra. Plotque Festival, Tuttle Creek Lake, Milford Resevoir, Steve Lloyd Wetlands, Clay County Museum, Tasty Pastry Bakery
- Lawrence
Interesting Fact: Clay Center had a chance to be Chicago, but railroad plans were abandoned
MAY DAVIS
Student Senate Vice President
and the city was built at its current location in Illinois.
"After football games, we hung out at Kier's Grocery Store parking lot and the high school parking lot until the cops came at midnight to enforce curfew."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY AUGUST 20 2020
HEIDI PIERSON
Senior
Sources: www.claycentarkchamber.org,www.cityofclaycenter.com,www.mapquest.com
"We always went to Tasty Pastry Bakery after school."
ALEX MOORE Freshman "We went to the zoo but not for the animals."
Massachusetts senator Kennedy dies at age 77
OBITUARY
BY GLEN JOHNSON
For nearly a half-century in the Senate, Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, a powerful voice on health care, civil rights, and war
BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins' bullets, has died at his home in Hyannis Port after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.
Associated Press
His family announced his death in a brief statement
most glamorous political family, the eulogist of a clan shattered again and again by tragedy.
and peace. To the American public, though, he was best known as the last surviving son of America's
Kennedy
"We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light
released early Wednesday.
in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," the statement said. "We thank everyone who gave him care and support over this last year, and everyone who stood with him for so many years in his tireless march for progress toward justice, fairness and opportunity for all."
Kennedy was elected to the Senate in 1962, when his brother John was president, and served longer than all but two senators in history. Over the decades, he put his imprint on every major piece of social legislation to clear the Congress.
His own hopes of reaching the White House were damaged perhaps doomed — in 1969 by the scandal that came to be known as Chappaquiddick, an auto accident that left a young woman dead.
The third-longest-serving senator in U.S. history, Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in May 2008 and underwent surgery and a grueling regimen of radiation and chemotherapy. His death late Tuesday comes just weeks after that of his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver on his August 11.
ON CAMPUS
The Blackboard Strategies and Tools workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
Tea Time will begin at 3 p.m. in the Kansas Union lobby.
The "Proterozoic underground: sulfur worlds beneath your feet" lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley Hall.
The Introduction to Personal Computing with Mac OS X workshop will begin at 10 a.m. in the Budig Media Lab.
The "Periodicity in Fossil Biodiversity I: Statistical Foundation" seminar will begin at 4 p.m. in 1089 Malott Hall.
The Introduction to Personal Computing with Windows workshop will begin at 1 p.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The School of Pharmacy Picnic will begin at 5 p.m. in Centennial Park.
The "Journey of an Environmental Student: From the KBS Trailer to a International Sustainability Auditor" lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in 256 Snow Hall.
ODD NEWS Giant python returned to zoo after escaping
Narrow and historical house for sale in New York
Imagine Cargill's surprise about 1 a.m. Tuesday when he discovered that the snake was a 14-foot reticulated python that was supposed to be safely sleeping in his zoo.
Located at 75% Bedford St. the red brick building was built in 1873.
NEW YORK — It's 9% feet wide and 42 feet long and is billed as the narrowest house in New York City. But there's nothing small about its asking price: $2.7 million.
Cargill was able to recapture the reptile and move it and another python to a secure site.
Cargill discovered that a mower had left a hole in the fence around the python exhibit, just large enough for thepython to squeeze through.
Real estate broker Alex Nicholas says anthropologist Margaret Mead and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay called it home.
GREAT BEND—When a motorist called Great Bend police to report a "really big snake" stretched from one side of a city street to the other, officers called Mike Cargill, director of the Great Bend Zoo.
The current owner bought it in 2000 for $1.6 million.
Associated Press
While Ted Kennedy never made a formal visit to KU, his brother Robert actually opened his presidential campaign with a lecture in Allen Fieldhouse on March 18, 1968.
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