THE UNIVERSITY TRAIL KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007
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"In philosophy, if you aren't moving at a snail's pace, you aren't moving at all."
—Iris Murdoch
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The fastest snails are speckled garden snails, which can move up to 55 yards per hour, compared with the 23 inches per hour of most other land snails.
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Student Leadership Panels are being held tonight at Ellsworth, GSP Corbin and Oliver Halls. From 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., you can learn about campus involvement as a part of Academic Success Week. Check www.academicsuccess.ku.edu for a complete list of this week's events.
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Seattle lets residents keep goats as pets
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SEATTLE — They have hoofs instead of paws and aren't known for fetching sticks or chasing mice, but pygmy goats are now legally pets in Seattle.
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The city council voted unanimously to reclassify the goats also known as dwarf or miniature goats as small animals rather than farm animals after testimony touting the virtues of the dog-sized critters as companions, weed eaters and milk producers.
"One small step for man, one giant step for goatkind," council member Richard Conlin, who sponsored the measure, said after Monday's vote.
these pets must be dehorned and males must be neutered to reduce musky odors.
The little goats — up to 2 feet tall and weighing 50 to 100 pounds — must have pet licenses, just like cats, dogs and potbelly pigs. However,
They're not allowed outside the owner's yard — but other people can borrow them for grazing.
The measure was suggested to Conlin by Jennie Grant, president of the Goat Justice League, which she says has 100 members.
She said a neighbor had complained about potential public health risks from her two pet goats, Brownie and Snowflake.
The goats "are happy, they have each other, they have enough space to do the things goats like to do". Grant said at a hearing last week. "Every day they harvest blackberry bushes. Every day Snowflake gives a half gallon of delicious milk. I make cheese and I bring it to the neighbors."
Mark Adkins judges a pygmy goat during a show for goats that are up to three months old in the pygmy goat barn at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe, Wash., on Aug. 30. Seattle City Councilman Richard Conlin wants to give Seattleites the right to keep miniature goats as pets — a proposal he hills as one small step toward sustainability.
Turning sunlight into wine
A worker drives through the Oakville, Calif. vineyards at the Nickel & Nickel winery with solar panels in the background in Oakville on Sept. 18. Factors driving the California winery solar connection include relatively high electricity rates coupled with abundant sunshine.
ODD NEWS Rental car worker jailed for driving car 172 mph
LONDON — A rental car worker who was clocked at 172 mph in his company's Porsche was jailed Monday for 10 weeks.
Tim Brady, 33, became the fastest speeder ever convicted in Britain. He beat the previous record — 156 mph — set by car dealer Jason McAllister in 2003.
Brady was caught driving the $198,000 Porsche 911 Turbo, which
he took from his employer, authorities said.
Brady had nagged his boss to take the Porsche out the day before, but was repeatedly told no, authorities said.
Judge David Morton called the act"criminally self-indulgent."
Brady, who admitted to dangerous driving, was banned from driving for three years. He quit his job a day after he was caught.
("You were) utterly thoughtless of the danger you might be creating for the innocent," he told Brady.
Circus protesters steal pet rabbit from preschool
SPOKANE, Wash. — A pet rabbit named Sugar Bunny was stolen from a preschool, and filers protested circus animal acts were left in its empty cage.
The preschool's children gathered in a circle Monday to remember Sugar Bunny.
"We talked about how some people have different ideas about animals," teacher Lori Peters said. "Some people don't think they
should be in cages."
Sugar Bunny vanished from the Community Building Children's Center on Saturday, teachers said.
on Saturday, teachers said.
"Somebody stole him," 5-year-old Zion told The Spokesman-Review, which gave only the first names of him and other children.
"I'm sad."
The fliers protested the Ringling Brothers Circus, which was in town over the weekend.
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on campus
"Behind the Scene"tours of Watson Library will start at 11 a.m. at Watson Library.
"Around the World with the Peace Corps" will start at noon in th Regionalist Room at the Kansas Union.
The Aaron Douglas Mural Project unvelling and celebration will start at 3 p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Anschutz Library tours will start at 4 p.m. at Anschutz Library.
Ben Eggleston will present the seminar "Genetic Discrimination in Health Insurance: An Ethical and Economic Analysis" at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room at the Hall Center for the humanities.
Major Andrew Harvey will present the lecture "Observations from Iraq: Implications for the Future" at 7:30 p.m. at the Dole Institute of Politics.
Business mock interviews will be held all day in 125 Summerfield Hall.
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Lawmakers seek funds to rebuild disaster areas
TOPEKA — Lawmakers need to help pay for replacement housing and assist businesses that want to locate in areas devastated by tornado and flood damage, two legislative leaders told a legislative committee Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt and House Majority Leader Dennis McKinney told the Special Committee on Assessment and Taxation that survival of the towns in disaster areas depends on rebuilding local economies — which means people have to live there.
"It will cost a little bit now to get these communities on their feet or a lot in the coming decade to pay for the economic decline," said Schmidt, an Independence Republican whose hometown and much of his southeast Kansas district suffered massive flooding this summer.
"From a state standpoint, there needs to be a discussion about the long-term health of regional communities" he said.
McKinney, a Democrat whose hometown of Greensburg was all but wiped away by a May 4 tornado, said many people can't afford to replace their homes.
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