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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2006
"Quote of the Day"
"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."
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Fact of the Day
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Lovebirds are a real species of parrot native to Africa. They tend to come together in pairs, but some bird owners prefer to keep them separate because they will ignore their human owners when they live with their mates.
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Lawrence sophomore Tio Duermeier juggles pins on Wescoe Beach Tuesday nevening. Duermeier has been a member of the juggling club for two years. The club meets on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
1. Athletic Department monitors athletes' Web profiles
3. Noise ordinance stands as is
4. lawfully hosts us
2. ReNu contact solution users in danger of eye fungus
4. Jayhawk bats heat up against Bears
5. University makes good with Honors program
NATION
White House staff continues shakeup
WASHINGTON - White House political mastermind Karl Rove surrendered a key policy role Wednesday and press secretary Scott McClellan resigned in an escalation of a Bush administration shake-up driven by Republican anxieties.
Rove gave up his responsibilities as chief policy coordinator, a position he assumed just more than a year ago that strengthened his influence over matters ranging from homeland security and domestic policy to the economy and national security. The promotion had left him stretched too thin in the eyes of some officials, as the White House grappled with mounting problems.
ODD NEWS Man finds 40-year-old fruitcake he misplaced
The Associated Press
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake: He set it aside. Only Nesta rediscovered his more than 40 years later in his mother's attic.
Nesta couldn't resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.
"I was amazed that it hadn't changed at all," he said.
His two aunts sent him the fruitcake in November 1962 while he was stationed in Alaska with the Army, he said.
"I opened it up and didn't know what to do with it," Nesta said. "I sure wasn't going to eat it, and I liked my fellow soldiers too much to share it with them."
As best he can remember, he packed the cake with the rest of his belongings and shipped it home to Waukesha when he left the military a few years later. He recently rediscovered it.
The cake arrived wrapped in brown paper with a red "fragile, handle with care" sticker on it. The cake itself was contained in a round blue tin
printed with the words "Old Fashioned Fruitcake."
"Now it's just old," Nesta said.
The Associated Press
Homeless man finds $900, returns money
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A homeless man searching through garbage bins for recyclable cans found a missing wallet and had it returned to its owner.
Kim Bogue, who works as a janitor in the city's government buildings, realized that her wallet was missing last week and doubted she'd ever get back the $800 and credit cards inside, she said.
"I prayed that night and asked God to help me," said Bogue, who was saving the money for a trip to her native Thailand.
Days later, a homeless man found the wallet wrapped in a plastic bag in a trash bin, where Bogue had accidentally thrown it away with her lunch. He gave it to Sherry Wesley, who works in a nearby building.
"He came to me with the wad of money and said, 'This probably belongs to someone that you work with, can you return it?' Wesley said.
Workers at a nearby relief
kitchen said the man, who didn't want to be identified, insists on paying for his food.
"He has a very good heart," said Bogue, who gave the man a $100 reward. "If someone else found it, the money would be gone."
The Associated Press
Fire prompts goats to stampede
WEST NEWYORK, N.J.
— When fire broke out at a busy poultry market, the goats weren't sticking around.
A drove of goats hightailed it down a busy avenue as firefighters responded to a three-alarm fire on Tuesday afternoon.
Some firefighters teamed up with market workers to run down the goats by fashioning a corral out of garbage cans and a trash bin, said Jeff Welz, North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue co-director.
The scheme worked. The Humane Society in Newark stepped in after the fire had been brought under control about 90 minutes later to provide temporary shelter for the goats.
Rescuers also saved some of the dozens of live chickens for sale in the market, Welz said.
however, was heavily damaged, and the rear half of the roof collapsed.
The cause of the fire has not been determined.
The one-story building.
State asks voters for their favorite movie
The Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania election officials are trying to make it fun for the state's voters to learn how to use new high-tech voting machines by asking residents to pick their favorite movie.
In the first week of the effort, visitors to an online election site were able to pick their favorite film made in Pennsylvania on a computer simulation of the machines to be used in their home counties in the May 16 primary.
ON CAMPUS
The choices included: "Girl,
Interrupted" (filmed in Harrisburg),
"Rocky" (Philadelphia),
"Silence of the Lambs" (Pittsburgh) and "Witness" (Lancaster). But like in a real election, write-ins were welcome, too.
Fewer than 5,000 people had voted by Monday, a slow start considering that more than half of the state's 67 counties were required to replace their election systems.
The Associated Press
Student Health Services will host a free runner's clinic from 9 to 11 a.m. today in Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Meredith Church, lecturer in Latin American studies, will give a lecture titled "Mixed Dialect, Mixed Identity? The Case of Portunol in Rivera, Uruguay" at noon today at 318 Bailey Hall.
Scott Murphy, assistant professor of music theory, is giving a lecture titled "An Audiovisual isomorphism in the First Thirty Seconds of Psycho" at 3:30 p.m. today at 123 Murphy Hall.
Guinevere Eden, associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University, will host a seminar on "Functional Brain Imaging Studies of Reading and Reading Disorders" at 4 p.m. today at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Dennis Romano is giving a lecture titled "Art, Politics and the Venetian Territorial State: The Building Projects of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1423-1457" at 5 p.m. today at 211 Spencer Museum of Art.
The film "The Producers" is showing at 7 and 9:30 tonight at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Admission is $2 or free with an SUA Activity Card.
Carol Bier, research associate for Islamic textiles at The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., is giving a lecture titled "From Classical to Conventional: Evolution of the Persian Carpet" at 7 tonight at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art.
Oliver Lubrich, Freie Universität, Berlin, is giving a lecture entitled "Fascinating Voids - Alexander von Humboldt and the Chimborazo" at 7:30 tonight at the Max Kade Center.
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