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"Kiss and make up — but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss."
Mae West
fact of the day
The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act requires that cosmetics and their individual ingredients must be safe, and labeling must be truthful and not misleading. The FDA can take immediate action to stop the sale of any cosmetic product that does not meet its standards.
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illinois-shaped corn
flake to join exhibit
WILLIMSBURG, Va. — A corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois will join Jack Ruby's hat and Marilyn Monroe's datebook in a traveling exhibit.
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An Internet trivia site submitted a winning bid of $1,350 for the famous flake, found by two sisters and put up for auction. The owner collects Americana items to put in a planned traveling museum.
Alex Haynes, Overland Park senior, and Tosin Morohunfola, Overland Park sophomore, apply gender-reversal makeup in their theater class Tuesday. The elective course also covers make up effects for wounds and gore, period, fantasy and old age.
Australian mayor chosen in trash-can drawing
Emily Mcntire, 15, found the flake in a box of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. Inspired, she and her sister, Melissa Mcntire, 23, of Chesapeake, Va., offered it for sale as "The Great Illinois Corn Flake."
CANBERRA, Australia — For Ed Warren, becoming mayor of the Australian Outback town of
All dolled up with no place to go
"That's the most perfectly Illinois-shaped corn flake I've ever seen," said Jon Wolf as he accepted the flake, swaddled in a cotton-lined jewelery box.
The curator of TriviaMania. com flew from Austin, Texas, to take possession Tuesday of the flake at the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in Williamsburg.
The flake will join a collection that includes Ruby's hat, worn the day he shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President Kennedy; Ron Howard's letter jacket from "Happy Days"; and Monroe's datebook from the year she died.
"I've got a guy who does museum-quality mounting." Wolf said of the flake's future home.
"If I was prepared, I was going to say we'll toss for it," Warren told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
Queensland state electoral laws
The cattle farming town famous as the birthplace of Australia's unofficial anthem "Waltzing Matilda" chose its new mayor late Wednesday by drawing a name from a trash can after local elections in a draw.
Warren said Thursday he was surprised by the unconventional approach used to break the 423-vote tie with rival candidate Butch Lenton.
allow for such ties to be decided by either the drawing of a name or tossing of a coin. Warren said a draw was used to choose the mayor in the city of Rockhampton eight years ago.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008
But some opposition state lawmakers argue the law should be changed to remove any 'raffle stigma' from the office of mayor.
Rattlesnake found in suitcase. bites coach
McLEAN, Va. — A high school coach emptying his luggage after a team trip to South Carolina was bitten by a small rattlesnake that had somehow gotten into his bag.
Winton was the luck of the draw from a trash can.
authorities said.
Andy Bacas was released Tuesday after an overnight hospital stay.
Bacas, a rowing coach at Yorktown High School in Arlington, told authorities he felt a sharp pain on his hand Monday when he reached into his luggage after returning from the road trip. He then saw the nearly foot-long snake and slammed the suitcase shut.
Fire and rescue workers took the suitcase outside, opened it and blasted the snake, a juvenile canebrake rattler, with a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher.
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POLITICS
Obama, Clinton discuss economic issues
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BY DEVLIN BARRETT ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Democrat Barack Obama said Thursday a firmer government hand was needed on Wall Street and a $30 billion stimulus was needed to rescue homeowners and the jobless.
Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D-N-Y), left, and Sen. Barack Obama, (D-III.), debated economic issues Thursday. Both argued that Republican presidential candidate John McCain wasn't ready to handle an economic emergency.
favors when we turn a blind eye to excessive leverage and dangerous risks," Obama said.
Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a new job retraining program to remedy what both candidates derided as Republican indifference to a sputtering economy.
Both Obama and Clinton argued that Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain wasn't ready or willing to handle an economic emergency.
He said outdated government regulations have fallen dangerously behind the realities of modern finance.
"Our government is more focused on how you lost your job than how you can find a new one," Clinton said. "And while we have been rightly focused on trying to help people who are out of work, there's been too little thought and effort to help people gain new skills while they still have their existing jobs."
"The phone is ringing, and he would just let it ring and ring," Clinton said, echoing the "3 a.m. phone call" TV ad she used earlier to suggest she was more qualified than Obama to handle a national security crisis. Speaking in Raleigh,
N. C., she chastised McCain for opposing government intervention in the nation's credit and mortgage crisis.
Clinton focused on job insecurity and said the government needed to take more responsibility for helping displaced workers.
The economic setbacks of recent months, Obama argued, show hardships long felt by middle class Americans had now spread everywhere.
part of an additional $30 billion stimulus package, much like the one Clinton offered last week.
While many of the two Democrats' ideas on the economy overlap, Obama laid out six different areas where he would stiffen regulations of the financial system. H e proposed relief for homeowners and the long-term unemployed as
on campus
The Oral History Workshop "Learning to Hear the Stories IX" will take place all day in the Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
The workshop "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
"Literary Studies and Environmental Studies in Africa will begin at 9 a.m. in the Ma-lott and Kansas Rooms in the Kansas Union.
The tennis team will compete against Oklahoma at 11 a.m. at First Serve Tennis.
The baseball team will compete against Texas A&M at 6 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark.
The film "Friday Night at the Kino" will begin at 7 p.m. in 318 Bailey Hall.
Student Union Activities will present Casino Night at 6:30 p.m. in Templin Hall.
Student Union Activities will present Cosmic Bowling at 10 p.m.at the Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
on the record
A McCollum Hall resident reported the theft of an X-box controller and X-box games and criminal damage of a dry erase board on Monday. The theft and damage occurred between 3:15 p.m. on Fri., March 14 and 10:15 a.m. on Monday.
CORRECTION
Thursday's article "Students decide on transportation" said each student would pay $785 if all three proposals pass. If the proposals pass, each student would pay $810.40.
KU1nfo daily KU info
Good luck to the men's basketball team tonight! Since the tournament went to 64 teams in 1985, there has never been a Final Four made up of all four #1 seeds. KU has played a role in two of the three times that the final four was made up of three #1 seeds. In 1993, KU was the only non-one seed in the Final Four, and in 1997, KU was the only No.1 seed not in the Final Four.
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