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Promoting while partying
The 2005 Miller Lite Women of KU calendar models enjoy the ride as they head to Mad Hatter, 623 Vermont St. The women appeared at three bars to promote the new calendar Friday night: The Hawk, The Wheel, and Mad Hatter.
Bush tours Florida panhandle
Residents frustrated with sealed area, can't access property The Associated Press
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Relief workers fanned out across Florida and Alabama yesterday to hand out ice, water and meals to frustrated victims of Hurricane Ivan who faced another day digging through debris and waiting in lines as tempers began to flare.
temperers began Days after Florida's third deadly storm in weeks, some residents demanded to return to neighborhoods along coastal areas that had been evacuated and sealed off.
"They won't even let me go in there and look for my underwear," said Roy Butgereit, who gathered with other residents of the Grande Lagoon Lake subdivision southwest of Pensacola and pleaded for deputies to let them check their homes.
homes.
President Bush toured the Florida Panhandle early yesterday — the third such visit for Florida — and planned a morning flight over parts hit hardest when Ivan howled ashore Thursday with 130 mph winds, spawning deadly tornadoes and a huge storm surge that gutted homes and businesses and washed out roads and bridges.
roads and bridges.
"Hang in there," the president said as he walked along a street and saw homes destroyed, their lawns littered with broken lamps, clothes dryers, windows, chairs and microwaves.
More than a million people were without power across 13 states, leaving many in Florida's Panhandle and Alabama's Gulf Coast to sweat it out without air conditioning. At a Pensacola shopping center, people waited in cars or on foot for hours Saturday to receive necessities from Florida National Guard troops.
"We're all in the same boat. It's frustrating, but it's not just you, it's everybody," added Lowell Weaner, who said a tree fell on his home during the storm.
"It's part of the life; 364 days of the year it's paradise. One day it isn't," said Kevin McKinly, 37, who was in Iowa on leave from the Air Force when he decided to drive 15 hours home to Pensacola to board up ahead of Ivan.
teen on his home terrace. Ivan's path of destruction across the South and Northeast left 49 people dead, 19 of them in Florida. Earlier, it was blamed for 70 deaths in the Caribbean.
Hundreds of urban search and rescue workers scoured demolished neighborhoods Saturday, some using tracking dogs to look for victims in the rubble and along flooded river banks. In Escambia Bay, where a trucker was killed when a bridge collapsed, the Army Corps of Engineers was asked to use sonar to search for possible additional victims.
As rescuers searched flattened homes in the Grande Lagoon Lake subdivision, Butgereit and about 20 other residents pleaded with deputies to let them check on their homes.
on their homes.
Butgergeit sheted that he had the right to protect his property from looters.
"Because of the government we're losing personal property!" he shouted.
There have been 72 reports of looting in Escambia County since Ivan passed, sheriff's officials said. Deputies have arrested 15 suspects.
More than a million people were without power across 13 states, including more than 340,000 homes and businesses in Florida, state officials said Saturday.
Todd Livingston, who led a Federal Emergency Management search team Saturday along Perdido Key, said his team combed through residential structures ranging from washed-out single-family homes to high-rise condominiums "that will definitely have to be demolished," he said.
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Bioscience research to make economic impact in Kansas
Kansas has gotten off to a good start in its bid to encourage the development of a biosciences industry in the state, a federal official said Saturday.
notch" researchers.
federal official said Saturday. "Success comes from attracting and retaining the best possible talent you can find," said Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health. He pointed out that efforts at the University of Kansas and in Kansas City had recently attracted 50 "top-
"You've created a buzz here," Zerhouni said. "The question is, how do you exploit that?"
Zerhouni spoke at the Regional Biosciences Collaborative Summit, a gathering of more than 60 researchers, politicians and entrepreneurs at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
Robert J. Dole institute of Saturday's event focused on turning university research into startup companies, which will be key to the success of the Kansas Economic Growth Act approved by this year's Legislature. The act uses growth in the life sciences industry to fund research
at state universities and business development. It is expected to generate $500 million in the next 10 years.
u. S. Sen, Sam Brownback, R-Kan., attended the summit, along with U.S. Reps. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., and Jim Ryun, R-Kan. State Sen. Nick Jordan, R-Shawnee, and state Rep. Kenny Wilk, R-Lansing, co-sponsored the economic growth act and also attended the meeting.
the meeting.
Zerhouli said biosciences would be a $3 trillion industry in 10 years and that even a small chunk of that could have a big economic impact on the state.
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Chinese have first leadership transition
The Associated Press
BEIJING — Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China as the country completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era yesterday with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post — giving a new generation a freer hand to run the world's most populous nation.
Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, resigned at a meeting of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee that ended yesterday.
Committee that ended yesterday. Analysts did not expect Jiang's exit to affect Beijing's stance on relations with the United States or Taiwan, economic reform or other key issues.
of power to you. "This is a good, positive step because it finally completes the systemic change," said Sin-ming Shaw, a China specialist at Oxford University's Oriel College. "To have someone as chairman of the party and not control the guns is very awkward. This will definitely make things easier."
nitely make things easier There was no immediate indication why Jiang chose to cut short his term. But it might suggest that he felt he had succeeded in ensuring his political legacy — especially the addition of the pro-capitalist "Three Represents" ideology that he championed to the party's constitution — and the interests of his family and allies.
Jiang and Hu are not known to have had any major policy disagreements and both support continued capitalist-style reforms and one-party communist rule.
ET CETERA
Hu, 61, replaced Jiang as party leader in late 2003 and as president early the next year. But the 78-year-old Jiang, who led China for 13 years, retained influence by holding onto his military post even as all his contemporaries retired in a long-planned handover of power to younger leaders.
But the consolidation of the top party, government and military posts in Hu's hands will allow him and his premier, Wen Jiabao, to act more decisively as the government copes challenges such as wrenching economic changes and rural poverty.
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