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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006
quote of the day
"We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present."
Fairfield Osborn's "The Limits of the Earth
fact of the day
Dr. Seuss" "The Cat in the Hat" was originally written as a 200-word vocabulary lesson for elementary school children. Bonus Fact: "Green Eggs and Ham" was written when Seuss was dared to write a book using no more than 20 different words.
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Here's a list of Wednesday's most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com.
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1. Godzilla returns
2. Letter to the Editor: Green
3. Grills gone wild
4. Letter to the Editor:
Petermann
5. Safety to make switch to other side of the ball
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KSU to research fuel additive
Department of Agriculture funds research to turn vegetation into ethanol
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Kansas State University imagines a day when the
WICHITA — Kansas researcher Bikram Gill imagin state's annual prairie burns give way to turning the unwanted debris into automobile fuel.
"We may harvest the grass residue and woody brush as a marketable crop" he said. "This is very exciting."
Such a process is still far down the road, but Kansas State took another step forward this week when the U.S. Department of Agriculture selected it to take part in a $5.7 million program looking at other ways to develop
"We are going to be looking at the genes of the cell wall,looking for ways they can be manipulated to make that bond easier to break."
connot, an alternative fuel usually made with corn.
Gill's group is one of nine projects and will receive $700,000 to do genetic research on making different types of vegetation, such as native switchgrass, more conducive to being turned into ethanol.
BIKRAM GILL Researcher, Kansas State University
Scientists know plants are rich in cellulose, which is similar to the basic sugars used in making ethanol. But plants can also be much tougher to break down than corn.
"Plant cell walls have a very strong bond...which makes the wall very rigid." Gill said. "We are going to be looking at the genes of the cell wall, looking for ways they can be manipulated to make that bond easier
The project, being done in conjunction with
the Noble Foundation in Oklahoma, is almost the opposite of how Kansas State agriculture researchers normally work, trying to make crops more resistant to disease, drought and the cold. The chemical bonds being targeted in this study help wheat hold heavier heads of grain and grass stalks stand taller.
Gill said the study likely won't lead to weaker wheat straw. Instead, researchers can take what they learn from wheat and apply it to grasses, where the need to hold heavy grain heads isn't as important.
"Switchgrass, which is a native prairie grass, is very promising," he said. "It's very productive and grows fast."
Gill stressed that the research, which will be done in partnership with the Noble Foundation in Oklahoma, is the first of many steps required to see if such ethanol production is viable.
"finding the right genes to alter to get what you want and avoid what you don't want could take a long time." Gill said.
Praying for repair
Tiles await installation on the roof of Danforth Chapel on Saturday. It has now been over five months since the mircoburst that wreaked much of campus tore off the roof.
Jared Gab/KANSAN
odd news
Unusual red oak tree spits out 'blessed water'
SAN ANTONIO - Is it an artesian spring, a broken water pipe or an abandoned well?
Lucille Pope's red oak tree has gurgled water for about three months, and experts can't seem to get to the root of the problem.
Pope, 65, has sought answers from the Texas Forest Service, the Edwards Aquifer Authority and nurseries. They have taken pictures and conducted studies, but none have arrived at a firm answer.
Lucille Pope has started to wonder if the water has special properties. Her insurance agent dabbed drops of the water on a spider bite and the welt went away, she said.
"I just want to know if it is a healing tree or blessed water," she said. "That's God's water. Nobody knows but God."
Man urinates near police headquarters, arrested
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sometimes when nature calls, there's no time to delay, but a Kentucky man sure picked the wrong spot for a pit stop.
Michael Ray Hunter, 37,
found out Wednesday night
that the parking lot of the
West Virginia State Police
headquarters in South
Charleston isn't the right
soot.
Trooper J.S. Crane just happened to be walking nearby as Hunter was relieving himself.
As Crane approached, he smelled alcohol. That discovery led Crane to the truck where Hunter's friend James Alan Richardson, 40, was checking phone messages.
During a search of the pickup, Crane and another trooper found a marijuana pipe and pills for which Richardson had no prescription.
Both men were arrested for public intoxication. Hunter also is charged with indecent exposure and Richardson is charged with possessing controlled substances.
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