THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY MARCH 3, 2007
NEWS
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POLITICS
Chavez to Bush: 'Gringo, go home'
BY STEVENSON JACOBS ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shadowed his political foil President Bush on a tour of Western Hemisphere nations, stopping Monday in Haiti after passing through Jamaica to promote aid packages and discuss development projects.
Chavez, who left Nicaragua as crowds greeted Bush in Guatemala, was met by Haitian President Rene Preval and several thousand cheering supporters outside the Port-au-Prince airport.
Many waved Venezuelaan flags, while some chanted "Down with Bush. long live Chavez!"
Chavez came to discuss a $20
million fund announced last week by Venezuela's state-run development bank to provide humanitarian aid to Haiti and develop joint cooperation projects with the hemisphere's poorest nation.
Earlier, Chavez made an unannounced stop in Jamaica.
He had a "short working visit" with Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, the country's first female prime minister, said Wilton Dyer of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Haiti similarly benefits from Petrocaribe The program, widely seen as an effort by Chavez to make inroads in a region where the United States is a major trading partner, allows deferred payment and long-term financing for fuel shipments.
Preval, a Chavez ally, relies heavily on U.S. aid. The United States, Haiti's largest donor, last year pledged a $492 million aid package aimed at helping the country recover from a devastating 2004 revolt that ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Chavez appears intent on spoiling Bush's tour of Latin America. In Nicaragua on Sunday, Chavez chanted his anti-Bush mantra of "gringo go home" at a rally with President Daniel Ortega.
As Bush traveled to Guatemala on Sunday evening, Chavez and Ortega went to the city of Leon, where they left flowers at the tomb of poet Ruben Dario and announced that Venezuela would build an oil refinery nearby. Cheered by thousands, Chavez
said Bush's tour was a failure.
"Latin Americans are telling you: 'Gringo, go home!' he said.
While Bush has declined to even mention the Venezuelan leader's name in public, Chavez has peppered his speeches with gibes at his rival. Sunday's appearance in El Alto, Bolivia — 13,100 feet above sea level — was no different.
On Friday, he held a stadium rally in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires and then headed to Bolivia flood-ravaged lowlands on Saturday to tout his pledge of $15 million in disaster aid — 10 times that sent by the United States.
Bush's plane "doesn't dare" fly over the Andean city, Chavez said, "because here we are so high up he might think that we were going to reach up and grab him."
AGRICULTURE Corn seed shortage affects Kansas farmers
WICHITA — With ethanol demand driving corn prices to the levels not seen in a decade, the nation's farmers are gearing up to plant massive amounts of the crop this spring, creating shortages of some popular biotech hybrid seeds.
While growers should still be
able to find plenty of corn seed to plant, it may not be the variety developed for their season or bred with the genetic modifications they want to combat insects and diseases in their region, experts said.
"It is a nationwide problem. One reason it is so severe in Kansas is that a lot of the seed available for us is being used to replace cotton acres in Texas and Mississippi. But the shortage
is nationwide. They are facing the same problems that we are," said Terry Vinduska, the sales representative for Pioneer Hybrid International in Marion.
Kansas farmers do not typically plant the varieties of corn favored by Corn Belt growers farther north, Vinduska said. Farmers here need corn hybrids bred to resist local pests and to tolerate blistering hot summers that can wilt even irrigated crops.
Those popular varieties were sold out before Thanksgiving, Vinduska said.
Those are the same kinds of hybrids southern growers in the nation's Cotton Belt want. Many acres of cotton are going to be planted to corn this year rather than cotton, Vinduska said, noting the price of corn is close to double what it was at this time last year.
Associated Press
METEOROLOGY New tornado damage scale to increase safety
WICHITA — Meteorologists compare the Enhanced Fujita Scale that is being used for better tornado damage assessment to switching a black-and-white TV for a high-definition screen.
The revised system promises to be far more detailed than its predecessor, which was introduced more than 30 years ago.
The "EF Scale" can provide a better measure of a tornado's damage potential, he said, which
could lead to more detailed warnings as tornadoes form and move along the ground. The Enhanced Fujita Scale officially went into effect Feb. 1 and has already been used to assess early season tornadoes in Florida, Louisiana and elsewhere.
The new Fujita scale uses 28 indicators to measure damage, with several different degrees of damage possible within each indicator, including trees, commercial buildings, manufactured homes, and houses built with metal or wood.
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Patty Quinlan, Watkins spokeswoman, and Belinda Rehmer, Lawrence Memorial Hospital spokeswoman, said their institutions did not keep count of Wii-related injuries, but said people had come in for treatment. They said that their facilities kept count of injuries by complaint, such as wrist, arm or leg, but not by cause.
Rehmer said she had spoken with a doctor who said he had treated someone for a Wii-related
eye injury.
Tornow and Conyers both said that their first impressions with the Wii would not dissuade them from playing again.
"I will play Wii again, but not with so much vigor," Conyers said.
Tornow said he would just make sure he had a little bit more room.
Kansan staff writer Nathan Gill can be contacted at ngill@kansan.com.
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Magdalene and lesus, which disproved any genetic relationship Because of their proximity to one another in the tomb, Cameron hypothesized that these people were most likely married. Even so, matrimonial relationships cannot be scientifically proven, which makes his hypothesis speculation.
In his documentary, Cameron said
Redd said that either test could be used on the remains of Judah to prove a relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. However, he added that links to the supposed family of Jesus would be difficult to make without knowledge of their last names. Even if those three people were genetically related, it could not be proven without written record or genetic evidence from ancestors of the family. Additionally, Redd said he would not trust that the remains are not contaminated because it seems that they have been moved a lot.
members of the Orthodox community in Jerusalem demanded his team not interfere with the integrity of the artifacts. They said the community will not let them analyze the bones, only the remnants that have broken off from the supposed remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The bones will be returned to Orthodox community members for rebursal without extracting any DNA.
Kansan staff writer Katy Blair can be contacted at kblar@akansan.com.
Redd said the real problem with these claims is that they have yet to be peer-reviewed for factual evidence.
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"Right now, this is just a bunch of speculation and story-telling." Redd said. "There may very well be some science behind it, but wed like to see the evidence."
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The University and Chevron Energy Solutions started working together in 2001 to produce similar energy-saving results.
Rod Ideker, energy resource manager for Chevron Energy Solutions, said the company helped save the University about $900,000 in the program's first year by using more efficient light fixtures, installing a new boiler and improving the cooling system. Ideker said Chevron would help save the University more than a million dollars this school year.
sponsor an energy fair on April 2 in the Kansas Union. They have invited KU Environs, the center for Sustainability and the Student Environmental Advisory Board to participate. This event will be a chance for students to find out more about these on-campus groups.
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis-Jones can be contacted at bljones@ kansan.com.
Chevron Energy Solutions will
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Casad said the interest of many students in technology and the abundance of skilled University graduates also made Lawrence an attractive location.
"It's a combination of the big supply of highly skilled people and also the cosmopolitan culture of a university town." he said.
Osborn said the office would probably hire about five to 10 employees in the short term, and Kite said she
hoped the office would add more jobs in the future. She said qualified people would be easy to find in Lawrence.
"I think it says a lot about Lawrence that they could have picked anywhere for a U.S. location, and they picked Lawrence," Kite said.
Kansan staff writer Matt Erickson can be contacted at merickson@ kansan.com.
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
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