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International Student Association and Sucre, Bolivia, junior, said he didn't like the bill.
"I think it will affect people who don't speak English but live here," he said.
Castillo said he enjoyed the mixture of cultures in the U.S. and specifically in Kansas.
He said the bill wasn't good because people should understand how important different cultures' languages are to them.
"Kansas is a pretty conservative place and they want to conserve their own culture," Castillo said.
junior and member of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, said other states would be more affected by similar legislation and that in Kansas the bill is merely a statement.
Christopher Munoz, Topeka
Kansan staff writer Tyler Harbert can be contacted at tharbert@ kansan.com.
"Those who only speak Spanish are automatically frowned upon," Munoz said. "It seems like the bill is going to make a lot of individuals' lives harder in Kansas."
Edited by Mark Vierthaler
UNITED NATIONS
Iran contiues nuclear defiance
BY GEORGE JAHN ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIENNA, Austria — Iran called Wednesday for talks with the United States — but despite a U.N. Security Council deadline did not budge on council demands that it mothball its uranium enrichment program or face harasser sanctions.
Amid Iran's nuclear defiance, the U.N. nuclear watchdog finalized a report to be released Thursday that is expected to formally confirm the
Islamic republics refusal to freeze enrichment — a conclusion that could subject it to tougher U.N. sanctions.
Officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency said the report by M o h a m e d ELBaradei, head of the Vienna based U.N. agen-
showed signs of compromise on the main demand of the U.S. and other world powers — a halt to enrichment and related activities.
"The enemy is making a big mistake if it thinks it can thwart the will of the Iranian nation to achieve the peaceful use of nuclear technology," Iranian state TV's Web site quoted that President Mahmoud Ahmadineed said. On Tuesday, he said Iran was ready to halt its enrichment program, but only if Western nations do the same.
"The enemy is making a big mistake if it thinks it can thwart the will of the Iranian nation to achieve the peaceful use of nuclear technology."
cy, would say Iran has expanded enrichment efforts instead of freezing them.
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD President of Iran
Once released, the report will be sent to the agency's 35-nation board and to the Security Council, which set a deadline of Wednesday for a freeze and said Iranian defiance could lead to sanctions in addition to those imposed in December.
In remarks directed at Washington — the key backer of tougher U.N. action — Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Wednesday the dispute "has to be decided peacefully with the United States."
But other top Iranian officials used harsher language and none
The White House dismissed Ahmadinejad's call.
"Do you believe that's a serious offer?" White House press secretary Tony Snow asked. "It's pretty clear that the international community has said to the Iranians, You
can have nuclear power but we don't want you to have the ability to build nuclear weapons.' And that is an offer we continue to make."
The United States and its allies suspect Iran is using its nuclear program to produce an atomic war
— charges Iran denies, saying its aim is to generate electricity. Enriched to a low level, uranium is used to produce nuclear fuel, but further enrichment makes it suitable for a bomb.
Iran has rejected the Security Council resolution as "illegal," and said it would not give up its right to enrich under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
No new sanctions were expected immediately.
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>> DEMOCRAT FORUM
Candidates focus on conflict in Iraq
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY BETH FOUHY
Democratic presidential candidates, from left, former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Conn. Sen. Christopher Dodd, and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, appear together before the Nevada Democratic Presidential Candidate Forum held by the AFSFC in Carson in City, Nev. Wednesday.
Rich Pedroncelli/ASSOCIATED PRESS
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Former Sen. John Edwards jabbed gently at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday in the first all-candidates forum of the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign, saying her retusal to disavow a 2002 vote on Iraq was "between her and her conscience".
"It's not for me to judge," said Edwards, who — like Clinton — voted in 2002 to authorize the invasion of Iraq, but unlike her, has since apologized for his vote.
The event format did not permit Clinton to respond to Edwards' swipe, which stood out on an afternoon in which Democrats launched serial attacks on President Bush's war policies.
Dermatology Center of laurence
Among Democratic presidential contenders, only Barack Obama skipped the event, which was hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union. The Illinois senator campaigned in Iowa instead.
"The worst we can do is tear each other down," said New Mexico Gov, Bill Richardson, who called on his Democratic rivals to sign a pledge to avoid negative campaigning and concentrate their energy on taking the White House away from the Republicans next year.
Democrat after Democrat vying to show their eagerness to end U.S. participation in a conflict that has resulted in the deaths of more than 3,100 U.S. troops.
"Sign me up. No negatives." Sen- Joe Biden of Delaware said just after Richardson made his appeal. Moments later, though, he spoke dismissively of congressional efforts merely to stop Bush's plan to deploy additional troops.
bers, stressing their backing for legislation designed to make it easier to join unions, for example.
Edwards, Clinton and others drew cheers when they voiced support for universal health coverage, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio vowed to pull the United States out of NAFTA soon after taking office in the White House.
BY SETH BORENSTEIN ASSOCIATED PRESS
But the Iraq war overshadowed all else at the two-hour event.
The convergence of so many candidates underscored Nevada's newfound importance in the 2008 nominating campaign. The state will hold caucuses on Jan.19, five days after the lead-off Iowa caucuses and presumably only a few days before New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.
In their time on stage, several of the candidates made an explicit pitch for the votes of union mem
>> OUTER SPACE
WASHINGTON — The first "sniffs of air" of two huge far-away planets reveal that they seem to be missing water, a surprising finding amid weather unlike any planets in our solar system with blast furnace-like gusts amid supersonic winds.
Two exoplanets' atmospheres missing water
The absence of water from the atmosphere of both these Jupiter-sized gaseous bodies upsets one of the most basic assumptions of astronomy.
One of the researchers, Harvard
So far, scientists have found 213 planets outside our solar system
- they are called exoplanets. But only eight or nine are in the right orbit and location for the type of study reported by three teams using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
University astronomy professor David Charbonneau, called the planets "very different beasts ... unlike any other planets in the solar system."
HD 209458b, is about 900 trillion miles away in the constellation Pegasus and it has a strange cloud of fine silicate particles. Two different research teams studied it.
w wasn't there," said Carl Grillmair of the California Institute of Technology and Spitzer Science Center. He and Charbonneau studied the closer of the two planets, and their work is being published online in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The two suns the planets orbit closely have hydrogen and oxygen, the stable building blocks of water. The planets' atmospheres — examined for the first time using light spectra to determine the air's chemical composition — are supposed to be made up of the same thing. H2O.
"We had expected this tremendous signature of water ... and it
The closest of the two planets studied, HD 189733b, is 360 trillion miles from Earth in the constellation Vulpecula. The other planet,
Our own solar system has two planets without water in the atmosphere. Grillmair noted: Mercury, which doesn't have an atmosphere, and Venus, which is a different type of planet from the huge gaseous ones that would be expected to have the components of water in the air.
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