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quote of the day
Animals are my friends ... and I don't eat my friends.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2008
George Bernard Shaw
fact of the day
Praying mantis' excellent eyesight allows some to see movement up to 60 feet away.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com
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4. Overland Park students star in reality show
1. Russell Robinson: A New Yorker at heart
Wednesday's Student Senate Notebook said Senate had already implemented its legislation from Wednesday's Student Senate meeting. The legislation will not go into effect until Student Body President Hannah Love signs it.
S. Stewart: Bored in April? No sweat, take the T-shirt challenge
Yesterday's University Daily Kansan Senate Notebook story should have listed Adam McGonigle as Student Executive Committee chairman.
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'Can I get some peanuts with that?'
Elephant uses their trunks to grab the fruits during the round table feeding ceremony on Thursday at the ground in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, Thailand. Sixty-nine named pachydermes from Ayutthaya elephant camp were brought to take part at the ceremony sponsored by local businessmen to celebrate national Elephant Day on Thursday.
ODD NEWS Police on the hunt for 6-foot-tall glass of beer
EASTPOINTE, Mich. — Police in suburban Detroit are looking for a 6-foot-tall glass of Guinness. Don't worry, it's work-related.
A green, pint-glass-shaped Guinness costume has been reported stolen from an Eastpointe resident's garage. It's valued at $3,000 and had been flown to Michigan from Ireland to be used as advertising. Eastpointe Police Lt. Leo Borowsky says it is believed to be one of only two such costumes in the U.S.
Authorities say a Detroit beer distribution company loaned out the costume for Halloween. The owner of the home where the costume had been stored found out it had been stolen after the company asked for it back.
Borowsky says to be on the lookout. There's no better time to dress up as a green pint of Guinness than on St. Patrick's Day.
Women gives birth inside broken-down truck
CARROLTON, Ohio — Amy and Jim Albert's truck handled a special delivery when it broke down on the way to a hospital.
A pregnant Amy was having painful contractions when
the couple left their home on Wednesday. But they had to pull over about 45 minutes from the hospital when their truck died.
Amy's water then broke, but the expectant mom was prepared. A paramedic, she brought towels just in case.
Jim said his newborn daughter was in his hands before he even knew what happened.
Amy's fellow paramedics soon came along to take the couple and healthy little Erin Nicole Albert to a hospital.
No voters show up for election in Tamarac, Fla.
TAMARAC, Fla. — Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all?
That's the case in Tamarac. No voters showed up Wednesday night to cast a ballot in an annexation referendum for an unincorporated Broward County community.
Details were mailed to voters. If just one had shown up, that one vote would have decided the neighborhood's fate.
There are 68 registered voters in the 200-person Prospect Bend neighborhood. Tamarac officials have proposed annexing the neighborhood.
The cost of keeping a polling site open for 12 hours: $2,500.
Administration officials predicted an economic rebound once the impact of the Fed's credit cuts and the recently passed economic stimulus package begin to be felt.
ECONOMY Private analysts skeptical of Fed's credit cuts
credit markets.
Private analysts were not as confident, worrying that the economy is being hit by multiple blows and noting that some of the problems, such as plunging home sales and mortgage defaults, are showing no signs of abating.
WASHINGTON — Oil hit a record high, the dollar sank again, and consumers stopped buying pretty much everything.
Stocks kept gyrating, too, on Thursday, swinging between gloomy recession evidence and rising hopes that all the bad news would bring another aggressive cut in interest rates when the Federal Reserve meets next week.
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MONEY
— plans to fix various problems that have led to a severe crisis in
The Bush administration, conceding the economy was facing "difficult" times now, rushed out new proposals aimed at next time
"We're in the belly of the recession beast right now and all we really can do is take defensive action," said Bernard Baumohl, managing director of the Economic Outlook Group.
Randy Duncan, Carlinville, Ill., an actor portraying Abraham Lincoln at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill., shows off the new five-dollar bill at the museum on Thursday. The new bill came out Tuesday, bearing the traditional image of the 16th president, but with some touches of color added to foil counterfeiters.
Associated Press
Lincoln gets new design
BY JEANNINE AVERSA
es and eventually into the hands of people in this country and beyond.
It's the latest in a series of redesigned notes aimed at foiling phony money makers, who over the years have grown increasingly sophisticated.
Associated Press
Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, is still on the front and the Lincoln Memorial remains on the back.
New $5 bills bearing the gaurd visage of the nation's 16th president — but with some touches of color added — are making their way to banks and cash registers near you.
The bill goes into circulation Thursday. That's when the Federal Reserve, the supplier of the nation's cash, starts shipping the bills to banks, which send them to business-
WASHINGTON — Abraham Lincoln is getting a little color in his cheeks.
To the naked eye, the most notable difference is color — splashes of light purple at the center of the bill that blend into gray near the edges.
on campus
The Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show will take place all day at University Press of Kansas.
The University of Kansas Professionals for Disabilities Student Conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The workshop "SoftChalk LessonBuilder" will begin at 10 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The Softball team will compete against Buffalo at 3 p.m. at Arrocha Ballpark.
TGIF will begin at 4 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
The Student Union Activity Big 12 Basketball Watch Party will begin at 12 p.m. in the Traditions Area in the Kansas Union.
The Softball team will compete against Buffalo at 5 p.m. at Arrocha Ballpark.
Cosmic Bowling will begin at 10 p.m. in the Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
on the record
Yellow Sub on 23rd Street reported graffiti vandalism on their structure to Lawrence police. Total damage was listed at $100.
The lawn in front of Taco Bell was vandalized resulting in $1,000 worth of damage to its property on Sixth Street.
LAW ENFORCEMENT Grant awarded to enforce underage drinking laws
The Lawrence Police Department was recently awarded a $10,000 grant that will allow it to increase its enforcement of underage drinking laws from now until May 2008.
Sergeant Dan Ward, who is in charge of the enforcement effort, said about $1,500 of the grant would be used to purchase portable breathalyzers and the remainder would be used to pay for the extra hours police officers would have to work.
Ward said three to six police officers whose only job would be to enforce underage drinking laws would work on random weekend nights. He said they would respond to noise and party complaints, visit bars, and enforce public consumption laws, especially in areas that are known for parties.
Ward said the grant was important because previously, the city did not have enough money to staff extra officers.
He was unsure how many deaths or crimes in Lawrence each year were alcohol related, however he said at least seven medical emergencies and many other crimes that involved minors and alcohol consumption, including criminal damage occurred in 2006.
—Francesca Chambers
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