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NEWS
TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2006
TUESDAY top10
BY BEN SMITH
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Top 10 highest grossing films in the United States:
1. "Titanic" (1997) $600,779,824
2. "Star Wars" (1977)
$460,935,665
3. "Shrek 2" (2004)
$426,471,036
5. "Star Wars: Episode I"-The Phantom Menace (1999)
$431.065.444
4. "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"
(1982) $424,940,459
6. "Spider-Man" (2002)
$403 706 275
7. "Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith" (2005) $380,262,555
8. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003)
$377019,252
9. "Spider-Man 2" (2004) $373,377893
10. "The Passion of the Christ" (2004) $370,270,943
Source:imdb.com
"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."
"Quote of the Day"
— Robert Orben, magician and comedy writer
Trevor Horn, a member of the band The Bugles, wrote the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" after reading a science fiction story about a opera singer who lived in a world without sound.
Source: www.songfacts.com
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attempt to profit from the misery of others are harmful to our society and should face severe consequences for their actions", Kline said in a news release.
Want to know what people are talking about?
Here's a list of Monday's most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com:
1. Swing low, fly high: Bipolar displeased guilty to interstate trafficking of cocaine, and Jeffrey Alan Pollit and Cyril Vernon Grindle have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
2. Baseball team falls 7-4 in series opener
3. Baseball drops all three games atTexas
TOPEKA - A federal grand jury has indicted 20 people
Jury indicts 20 people in drug investigation
Cody J. Glidden, Ryan Joseph Hunhake and Tera Beth Weisbender already
4. Rallying against domestic violence
in one of the largest drug investigations in Kansas, Attorney General Phill Kline said Monday.
Colin Constance, Lawrence senior, plays a piece called "Northern Lights" on the marimba Monday afternoon in Murphy Hall. Constance has been preparing this piece for three months for his jury next Monday, in which he'll play in front of a panel of professors. A large part of his grade will be determined by how well he plays.
"Those who profit or
5. Where in the world is geography knowledge?
Practice makes perfect
ODD NEWS
Lawnmower driver gets arrested, towed
VERMILION, Ohio — Police said a drunk man drove a lawnmower to a store about a mile from his house. They arrested him on his way home.
Dondi Bowles, 50, was arrested Friday night as he drove the mower on a sidewalk.
Police said a breath test showed that Bowles' blood alcohol level was 0.144 percent, nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent.
It was his third DUI arrest in six months, police said.
The lawnmower was towed.
The lawnmower was towed. Vermilion is on Lake Erie, about 40 miles west of Cleveland.
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ing near the downtown offices of the state Department of Environmental Protection became the first killed under the agency's no-tolerance rules.
DEP biologists euthanized the bear Saturday after it had wandered into the state capital.
Some state wildlife authorities criticized the killing, which was done because it was in a "bear exclusion zone" that covers large swaths of central and northeastern New Jersey.
"It's a waste of wildlife resource and it's just bad publicity for the state," Len Wolgast, a member of the state Fish and Game Council, told The Sunday Star-Ledger of Newark.
The exclusion zones were added to the state's bear management policy last year.
Bear killed for entering 'bear exclusion zone'
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TRENTON, N.J. - This bear picked the wrong place to wander.
Small Spanish town throws hook-up party
VILLAFRECHOS, Spain — A small town on the northern plains of Spain held a large-scale blind date party to help
Concerned that the population of rural Villefreshos will dwindle, Mayor Miguel Angel Gomez threw his support behind the initiative, inviting women through an advertising campaign to gather at the regional city of Valladolid.
its many single men find potential mates.
It began as the idea of local inn keeper Teresa Canal.
"There are too many bachelors here, we had to try and find them brides," she said.
About 100 women showed up Saturday and were taken by two busses to Villafrechos, population 540, where some 60 men escorted them to lunch. The men ranged in age from 24 to 68.
BERLIN - A former German politician living in Paraguay aims to be declared the legal father of 1,000 disadvantaged children by the end of the year in a bid to help them lead better lives, according to a news report.
The women were then invited to see the town's highlights, including an artisan cheese-making facility and a football field where some of the men hoped to impress with their soccer skills.
A 225-pound bear saunter
101 Dalmations? How about 1,000 children
Juergen Hass told Der Spiegel magazine in a story published Saturday he has already adopted 300 children from Paraguay, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine and India.
Tomas Infestas, a 57-year-old retired carpenter, said the women were gorgeous. "I want to find a partner, I'm lonely," he said.
The former municipal politician in the pro-business Free Democratic Party said the children can now become German citizens and take advantage of the country's educational opportunities, including tuitionfree universities, and generous welfare system.
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According to German law, any man can be named the father of a child as long as the mother agrees and there is no acknowledged birth father.
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CORRECTION
Monday's The University Daily Kansas contained an error. A outline for a photo accompanying the article "Fly high, swing low" left out a word, incorrectly implying who in the Niswonger family has bipolar disorder. The family must cope with Leslie Niswonger's bipolar disorder
ON THE RECORD
ON CAMPUS
Assistant baseball coach Richard Sabath reported six KU folding chairs and eight bats stolen from a storage shed behind Hogland Ballpark. A three-gallon orange Gatorade cooler was also stolen from the stadium. The items were reported stolen May 1st. The total value of the stolen property is estimated at $910.
Jared Ostermann, organ, is performing at 7:30 tonight at the Bales Organ Recital Hall.
The University Band is performing at 7:30 tonight in the Lied Center. Tickets are $5 for students.
WORLD
Joseph Heppert, professor of chemistry, is giving a lecture entitled "Understanding 'Alternatives' to Evolution" at 7:30 tonight at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
Record company sours, sues over apple logo
LONDON — A long and winding legal road took another twist for the Beatles' record company Monday, when a British judge ruled that Apple Computer Inc. is entitled to use the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store.
Apple Corps, the guardian of the Beatles' commercial interests, contended that the U.S. company's use of the logo on its popular online music store had broken a 1991 agreement in which each side agreed not to enter into the other's field of business.
But High Court Judge Anthony Mann disagreed, saying that the computer company's logo is used in association with the store - not the music and so did not breach the agreement.
Though Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs said he was "glad to put this disagreement behind us", the dispute appears far from over. Neil Aspinall, the manager of Apple Corps, said his company would immediately take the case to Britain's Court of Appeal.
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