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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2006
CAFFEINE (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
For students like Logan and Wiedemann, drinking eight or nine Red Bulls in a night provides 640-720 milligrams.
Popular energy drinks like Starbucks Double Shot contain 130 milligrams, while Sobe's No Fear contains 166 milligrams, according to data collected by Energyfend. com.
Coca-Cola's Full Throttle beverage contains about 145 milligrams. Coca-Cola has a contract with the University of Kansas allowing it to distribute its products without competition at the University.
Don't give up on Starbucks quite yet, though. Even for occasional heavy consumers like Logan and Wiedenmann, coffee and caffeine can have positive effects, too.
Coffee is full of antioxidants, and it could help reduce gallstones and Parkinson's Disease symptoms. Chapman said. It could even help with memory problems.
"If you get up and have coffee before a quiz, you'll likely feel more alert," Chapman.
Though caffeine is a stimulant, it leaves the bloodstream quickly. According to the World Health Organization, there is no evidence that links caffeine consumption to addiction, Chapman said.
Logan and Wiedemann don't worry much about occasional caffeine binges. The main concern for the two is the airplane design class that forces them to stay up for days at a time. They often don't even leave the room. Sometimes Wiedemann catches a quick nap on a wooden box with a sandbag as a pillow.
Logan said they had finished one massive report and that the next one was due the Monday after Thanksgiving break. Then it might be time to make another Red Bull run.
"You're awake to a certain extent but maybe not completely coherent" during the rush to finish a report, Logan said. "It's like having finals week for 15 weeks."
Kansan staff writer David Linhardt can be contacted at dlinhardt@ kansan.com.
Edited by Derek Korte
Photo illustration by Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
》 NORTH KOREA
South Korea warned not to join others in sanctions
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned South Korea against joining international sanctions, saying Wednesday that its neighbor would "pay a high price" if it joins the U.S.-led drive to punish the reclusive communist nation for its nuclear test.
The statement from the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland came as South Korea struggles to determine how it should enforce the U.N. sanctions, including whether to help interdict North Korean cargo ships suspected of transporting materials for unconventional weapons.
"If the South Korean authorities end up joining U.S.-led moves to sanction and stifle (the North) we will regard it as a declaration of confrontation against its own people ... and take corresponding measures," the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said in a statement.
President Bush dismissed North Korea's threats, saying leader Kim Jong Il was probing for weaknesses.
"The leader of North Korea likes to threaten." Bush told reporters in Washington. "In my judgment, what he's doing is testing the will of the five countries that are working together to convince him there's a better way forward for his people."
The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a sanctions resolution five days after the North's Oct. 9 test, and a South Korean task force met this week to determine how the country should address the measures.
South Korea's participation in the sanctioning the North is important because the country is one of the main aid providers to the impoverished communist nation, along with China.
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Gang-related violence becoming a problem in rural areas
DODGE CITY, Kan. — Dodge City has a rich history as an Old West frontier town, where cowboys and gunsinglers could take a break from the trail and get their fill of saloons and brothels.
Today, the tidy town that was built on meatpacking and rodeos once again is facing off with gunfighters. But this time it's street gangs, some with second-generation members as young as 11, whose drug of choice is
BY MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER
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"When it was old Dodge City, it was cowboys coming off the range and ending up in Dodge and raising hell and letting things go," said John Ball, Dodge City chief of police. "This is entirely different. There is no comparison."
methamphetamine and whose weapons range from automatic rifles to baseball bats.
A gang member was hospitalized Tuesday after being hit in the leg in a gang-related drive-by shooting, Ball said. The injury wasn't life-threatening.
About 24,000 gangs operate around the country, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which estimates there are about 760,000
Street gangs, often thought of as a big-city problem, have been turning up in rural areas across the country since the 1980s, frightening residents and straining manpower and budgets of the smaller law enforcement departments. Rural gangs are often more transitory than their urban counterparts, but they appear to have a foothold in several rural communities.
members, impacting 2,900 communities. Most gangs are in major cities.
But in the 2004 Youth Gang Survey conducted by the Justice Department, 82 percent of large cities surveyed. 42 percent of suburban counties, 27 percent of smaller cities and 14 percent of rural counties reported active youth gangs.
A 2005 study from the University of South Carolina showed 37 percent of towns surveyed in that state with populations of 10,000 or less reported gang activity.
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