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TOPEKA — Debate on a transportation-ballot-turned-abortion legislation raged into the night yesterday in the House before the Senate passed a watered-down version of the bill. A final vote is saddled for today.
Med Center bill
Cries of legislative rules violations erupted in the House yesterday when the bill came to the floor.
The House Transportation Committee substituted a parental notification bill for a Senate bill that would have dealt with the use of vehicle registration fees by county treasurers. The abortion bill, introduced by State Rep. Artie Lucas, R-Highland, had been killed by the Federal and State Affairs Committee last week.
Lucas, vice chairman of the Transportation Committee, and committee chairman State Rep Rex Crowell, R-Longton, used the committee to get the abortion bill to the floor. Twelve co-sponsors of the abortion legislation hold seats on the committee.
Lucas said the committee process was flawed because there was
Hunt for ancient brews
British try to uncover Egyptian beer recipe
The Associated Press
LONDON — British brewers and archaeologists wanting to know how ancient Egyptians made beer plan to examine the ruins of a brewery, read hieroglyphics and search for tiny amounts of the liquid in ancient pottery.
News of the three-year project, launched by a leading British brewery and the nation's prestigious Egypt Exploration Society, drew headlines in London newspapers recently.
"brewers seek the Pharaohs' secret," one said.
"Explorers seek the recipe for Tutankhamen's beer," another procured.
The Independent called it one of the first large-scale research projects to be undertaken jointly by archaeologists and a commercial British company.
But Jim Merrington, corporate affairs director for Scottish and Newcastle Breweries PLC, said he wasn't sure whether the man would be offered to tipplers in British pubs.
When the researchers have figured out what went into brewing beer in ancient Egypt, the brewery will try to reproduce it at the laboratory in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh.
it is highly improbable it will appear on the bar, but it is not beyond the realms of possibility," he said at a news conference last week in Edinburgh.
He said the project would be based on
archaeological excavations at Tell-el Amarna, one of Egypt's ancient capitals about 190 miles south of Cairo.
Archaeologists from the society, led by field director Barry Kemp of Cambridge University, are investigating a royal brewery to a temple built by Queen Nefertiti.
She was the leading wife of King Tukan-khamen's father, the Pharaoh Akhnaton, whose name also was spelled Akhenaten or Ikhnaton.
Tutankhamen reigned from 1360 to 1350 B.C. His tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor in 1922. His solid gold coffin and other fabulous treasures found inside captured the imagination of the world.
Merrington said Nefertit's temple, each side of which measured 750 feet, had its own brewery and bakery for making beer and ciders, as well as festivals. Both processes employ yeast.
But no one knows what the beer tasted like.
Ancient texts and wall paintings suggest there were several different beers, ranging from thick gruel-like ales to those of a finer texture.
Wall paintings from Tutankhamen's day depict courtiers vomiting after getting drunk on beer. Another wall painting shows a muscular figure through a strainer to remove lumps of gruel.
Merrington said the archaeologists hoped to find small traces of the beer. If they're successful, he said, scientists working for Scottish and Newcastle would use a chemical process to test those samples to try to
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President, Senate OK air bill
Leaders hope move will quell opponents
The Associated Press
The agreement, after more than three weeks of closed-door negotiations, was viewed as a middle ground likely to attract enough support to thwart continuing regional opposition in the looming Senate debate.
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders and President Bush compromised yesterday on future air pollution controls for automobiles, factories and electric power plants, enhancing chances that a clean air bill will pass this year.
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, called the compromise a comprehensive agreement that would substantially improve air quality during the next decade. He planned to bring the legislation to the Senate floor on Monday.
"President Bush is extraordinarily pleased with the agreement. It is a milestone, an enormous step for America," he said. "it's chief domestic policy adviser."
Porter said the administration did attempt to expedite Senatessage and seek a similar agreement in the House, where clean-airilation remains in committee.
out the compromise still is likely to counter stiff industry lobbying,ygale because of its estimated $20 million and $40 billion annual cost to the momy.
some senators also have expressed concern that the bargaining acknowledged provisions in the original rate bill that would have required longer automobile emission conls to combat urban smog. Other voiced continued concern about impact of acid rain controls.
today hearing ers, FBI agent says
le (Grisom) made two sts and raised his nuckles and rubbed his yes like he was trying rub out a memory.'
Mike Napier FBI agent
memory."
Finally, Grissom said the women probably had died, Napier said. "You'll dig them up," Napier said, ungritting Grissom's words.
Napier said that while questioning rissom he called Morrison, who fered to ignore theft charges in johnson County if Grissom would say hat happened to the women.
this response was that he knew assouri had a death penalty and it kansas did not, and that we knew anything in Missouri," mapler said.
Later that day, Napier and Grisam met again.
Grissom told him that he, Thibodid id a man named George were solved in the killings, Napier said.
"At that point, he said, 'I can give em the whole package,' " Napier id.
During cross-examination yester-
day, deputy public defender Michael
arree questioned the reliability of
auier's testimony because Napier
did not take notes during his discuss-
ance with Garrison.
"So your written report is not a complete, accurate account?" Barre asked Nanier.
"That's correct," Napier said.
In other testimony, Gary Dirks, a chemist for the Johnson County lme lab, said pubic hairs taken om Grissom by authorities in Dala were indistinguishable from those und by investigators in Rusch and vown's beds.
In his closing argument, Morrison id. "I suggest that these girls are it as dead as if we had presented a bodies in court."
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Warren said. "The fact that somebody is dead is not sufficient evidence to bound somebody for trial."