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- Horoscopes
- December 5, 2004
- Briefly
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Police misplace bag of plastic explosives ¢ Palestinians say Israeli raids hampering peace ¢ Germans arrest fourth suspect in Allawi attack
- Briefly
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Radio host pulled for on-air profanity ¢ Quadriplegic woman takes first plane trip
- Briefly
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Kerry gives money to Democratic races ¢ Stun gun kills driver ¢ Taliban suspect goes before tribunal
- More than one way to crack a nut
- ‘A Kansas Nutcracker’ puts prairie spin on traditional holiday ballet
- December 5, 2004
- It was an idea born of necessity. After all, the traditional “Nutcracker” ballet is already performed in Kansas City and Topeka each year. So to lure people to a local production of the show, Deborah Bettinger gave the time-honored story a new spin — a personalized touch for the Lawrence area — and brought Clara and her family a little closer to home.
- Colombia drug chief taken to Miami jail
- December 5, 2004
- A founder of a Colombian drug cartel that became the world’s chief supplier of cocaine in the 1990s was transported to a Florida jail Saturday after being extradited from Colombia.
- Cargo plane ditches in lake; pilots are not hurt
- December 5, 2004
- The crew of a decades-old cargo plane put the aircraft down in a lake in a Miami suburb Saturday after it developed engine trouble, avoiding high-rise buildings in the densely populated area, then were rescued from the floating fuselage.
- National Guard’s ranks decrease
- December 5, 2004
- Increasing numbers of soldiers are deciding not to join the Army National Guard after they leave active duty, a trend so troubling that the Guard is hiring 1,400 more recruiters to reverse it.
- UT big men plunder Pirates
- No. 18 Texas utilizes inside game in 70-62 victory
- December 5, 2004
- Texas’ good start this season was a result of great long-range shooting.
- Briefly
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Bush downplays risks to U.S. food supply ¢ Grandmother acquitted in dog mauling death ¢ Mom auctions ghost on eBay to ease son’s fears ¢ Marital odds not good for $149 million winner
- Briefly
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ President to review citizenship issue ¢ Belgrade officials seek annulment of election ¢ Parliament approves EU-backed amendments ¢ Winds injure at least 13
- The Motley Fool
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Last week’s question and answer ¢ Insurance needs ¢ Split over splits ¢ Intel’s extreme makeover ¢ Tight stops
- Mayer: Self wowed ethics session crowd
- December 5, 2004
- Many would agree that at a November session on ethics, Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self was the star of the show.
- K-State shocked in Wildcat Classic
- KSU loses to Liberty in title game, 77-56
- December 5, 2004
- Kristal Tharp had 26 points, and Liberty took advantage of No. 19 Kansas State being without Kendra Wecker on Saturday in the championship game of the Wildcat Classic.
- Musharraf: Bin Laden’s trail cold
- Bush praises Pakistan’s anti-terror efforts
- December 5, 2004
- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday that the search for Osama bin Laden has gone completely cold, with no recent intelligence indicating where he and his lieutenants are hiding.
- Bookstore
- December 5, 2004
- Chiefs, Raiders have similar woes
- Little on line as longtime rivals meet again
- December 5, 2004
- Trent Green spent his first season as a starting quarterback under Norv Turner in Washington six years ago, and the Redskins lost their first seven games before bouncing back to finish 6-10.
- GOP, Democrats each win seat in La.
- December 5, 2004
- Republicans picked up a congressional seat in southern Louisiana on Saturday, but gave another right back to Democrats in a second, much closer runoff election that also was in Cajun country.
- People
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Miss Peru crowned Miss World ¢ Boss promotes local shops ¢ Movie auctioning its props ¢ Town seeks glimpse of stars ¢ Owens brings pick-me-up
- Couple dusts off honeymoon Mercury for 50th anniversary
- Car’s overhaul helps restore memories of wedding trip
- December 5, 2004
- Months had passed since the black-and-white 1950 Mercury was pulled from a farm building and taken to be restored.
- Commentary: Decade of baseball under suspicion
- December 5, 2004
- I keep coming back to the two dopes who fought over Barry Bonds’ 73rd home run ball a few years back.
- Gooden, James lift Cavs
- December 5, 2004
- Everyone on Toronto’s embittered bench had a nice view of LeBron James’ jaw-dropping dunk. Back in his hotel room, an ailing Vince Carter probably even got to see a replay of it.
- Medical experts are asking about massage
- Studies show benefits go beyond therapy
- December 5, 2004
- You lie on the crisp white sheet of the massage table in semidarkness. The scent of almond oil fills the air. Then come the hands, gently kneading the necklace of knots that rings your back, your neck, your shoulders. You close your eyes, breathe deeply and let yourself relax. Beyond the pleasures of the moment, though, are there medical benefits to massage?
- Revised pyramid coming soon
- Federal agencies set to announce changes to dietary guidelines
- December 5, 2004
- Five years ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services jointly released a set of dietary guidelines intended to help Americans make wise food choices.
- Produce choices tell about personality
- December 5, 2004
- Apples or carrots? Oranges or celery? What you select may say a lot about not just your food choices, but also your personality.
- Rescuers distribute aid to Philippines storm victims
- At least 640 killed in back-to-back storms
- December 5, 2004
- Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared on Saturday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that have left 640 people dead and nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.
- Pet post
- December 5, 2004
- UOP, Maraker hang with KU
- December 5, 2004
- Probably the only person Saturday afternoon in Allen Fieldhouse — other than Pacific fans — who knew how to pronounce Pacific’s Christian Maraker’s last name correctly was former KU women’s basketball player Leila Mengüç.
- Poet’s showcase
- December 5, 2004
- Briefly
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Man to plead guilty in wrong-conviction case ¢ Bush attends storied Army-Navy game
- Different route
- A year or two at a community college may be a good investment for many Kansas students.
- December 5, 2004
- Any effort by Kansas University to raise its admission requirements for Kansas residents is bound to cause an uproar.
- Porous borders
- December 5, 2004
- Roundabouts out
- December 5, 2004
- Sore winner?
- December 5, 2004
- Teens need fun
- December 5, 2004
- Changing world is leaving U.N. behind
- December 5, 2004
- The global security crisis that began Sept. 11, 2001, and deepened with the American-led invasion of Iraq now resembles the multi-tentacled villain of that recent “Spider-Man” movie. Nothing seems to escape its grasp.
- Malice needn’t accompany political change
- December 5, 2004
- On the eve of the recent election, the Wall Street Journal suggested that this one wasn’t really any more vitriolic than past elections and that the nation wasn’t really as divided as it seemed.
- Gift-challenged men feeling holiday stress
- December 5, 2004
- Christmastime is a festive time — a time of parties and presents and songs that we all love, except for “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” which I for one got tired of in approximately 1958, and which now causes me to dislocate my forefinger stabbing the car-radio button. I prefer traditional Christmas carols, such as “Ding Dong Merrily on High.” I am not making this carol up.
- Home for the holidays
- Lawrence businesses hope to keep dollars in town
- December 5, 2004
- Judy Desetti loves Lawrence too much to spend her shopping dollars out of town.
- Experts question safety of drugs
- Recent recalls put light on standards issued by FDA
- December 5, 2004
- In a sharp pivot, many medical authorities are questioning the fundamental safety guarantees for American drugs, threatening to dull the national appetite that has demanded and devoured pharmaceuticals at a faster clip for nearly a generation.
- Sinking corporate profits can signal drop in stocks
- December 5, 2004
- Why do investors buy stocks? Simple: To share in corporate profits.
- Briefcase
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Scientists answer call for holographic booth ¢ Name that company
- Calendar
- December 5, 2004
- Dogsledding trips provide wild winter rides
- Mushing adventures take visitors into wilderness
- December 5, 2004
- Twenty-three Yukon huskies are frantically barking and jumping up and down and sideways, their born-to-run bodies eager to pull the dogsleds hitched behind them.
- Orange gear mandatory
- December 5, 2004
- Firearms deer season in Kansas started Wednesday and will run through next Sunday.
- Topeka Wildlife and Parks office moving
- December 5, 2004
- Hunters shatter record during Missouri firearms deer season
- December 5, 2004
- Hunters shot a record 222,329 deer during the November segment of Missouri’s firearms deer season Nov. 13-23.
- Fall turkey hunts great for youth
- December 5, 2004
- The first modern-day wild turkey seasons in the United States were in the fall. However, in the 1950s, the Alabama Department of Conservation experimented with a spring gobbler season.
- Bryan brothers keep U.S. hope alive
- American doubles team topples Spain in Davis Cup
- December 5, 2004
- The Bryan twins stopped Spain’s momentum in the Davis Cup final. Now it’s up to Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish.
- USC, Auburn go undefeated
- Trojans deny UCLA; Tigers topple Tennessee
- December 5, 2004
- Take that, pollsters and computers. The team most likely to be left out of the national-championship game has a trophy of its own.
- No. 9 Tar Heels hold off No. 8 Wildcats
- North Carolina wins showdown of all-time winningest schools, 91-78
- December 5, 2004
- Jawad Williams found himself in the right place at the right time, with a stern message from assistant coach Steve Robinson fresh in his mind.
- McCarville, Gophers tall task for Jayhawks
- December 5, 2004
- Janel McCarville may be licking her chops with struggling Kansas University on tap.
- Burlingame sweeps Seahawks
- December 5, 2004
- Burlingame broke open a close game late in the second quarter and went on to win.
- Randtke, Eagles rout Flint Hills Christian, 68-40
- December 5, 2004
- Mark Randtke scored 21 points, and Noah Barclay added 11 as Veritas Christian defeated Flint Hills Christian, 68-40, Saturday for fifth place in the Shea Invitational high school boys basketball tournament.
- Westminster College stops HINU women
- December 5, 2004
- Westminster College’s women’s basketball team defeated Haskell Indian Nations University, 70-67, in overtime on Saturday night.
- Jayhawks rally, but fall in 5 games
- December 5, 2004
- They out-killed, out-dug, and out-blocked the Washington Huskies. It wasn’t enough.
- Sooners steamroll CU, stake claim to Orange bid
- December 5, 2004
- Any questions? Any doubt who has the best football team in the Big 12 Conference now — if ever there were any to begin with?
- Look who’s back
- Langford breaks out of slump
- December 5, 2004
- The impostor who had been wearing Keith Langford’s No. 5 jersey didn’t show up for Saturday’s Kansas University-Pacific men’s basketball game at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Fort Riley soldier just misses child’s birth
- December 5, 2004
- A Fort Riley soldier returning home from Iraq to be with his pregnant wife missed the birth of his second child by just 20 minutes after his flight was delayed.
- State pharmacy board criticizes Sebelius’ drug plan
- December 5, 2004
- The State Board of Pharmacy criticized Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ plan to help residents acquire lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and Europe.
- Topeka judge resigns under pressure
- December 5, 2004
- A municipal court judge who was scrutinized for her oversight of the court has announced her resignation.
- Praise heaped on horses
- Neigh-sayers plentiful at parade
- December 5, 2004
- The annual Old-Fashioned Lawrence Christmas Parade is alive and well, and thousands of people who gathered Saturday in downtown Lawrence to watch the steady procession of decorative horse-drawn wagons were happy to see it.
- Covenant marriage called ‘next step’
- Law would make divorce much harder for those who sign up
- December 5, 2004
- Next year’s debate about how to define Kansas marriages won’t be limited to banning homosexual matrimony.
- Common thread runs through recent crimes
- Suicidal tendencies cited in all
- December 5, 2004
- One young man bought a gun and robbed banks. One went on an arson spree, police allege. One told police he beat an acquaintance in the head with a crowbar because he didn’t like him and felt disrespected.
- Commander must testify about Abu Ghraib prison
- December 5, 2004
- A military judge on Saturday ordered the former commander of U.S. prisons in Iraq to testify at the trial of a soldier who says he was ordered to abuse detainees at Abu Ghraib.
- Police arrest suspect in credit union robbery
- December 5, 2004
- A little more than 12 hours after a Lawrence credit union was robbed, police arrested a suspect early Saturday as he stood outside a Wendy’s restaurant near Sixth Street and Kasold Drive.
- Some write-in candidates comical
- December 5, 2004
- It never fails. In every election, somebody writes in Mickey Mouse as the preferred candidate for every office from president to township treasurer. But the write-ins don’t end with the ultra-cheerful cartoon mouse. People write in their mother for county commissioner, their neighbor for U.S. Senate and cartoon characters ranging from Homer Simpson to Kermit the Frog.
- Philanthropist’s legacy gets new look
- Bromelsick Christmas Party makes a splash
- December 5, 2004
- When Lawrence philanthropist Alfred Bromelsick created an endowment more than a half-century ago to fund an annual Christmas party for Douglas county youths, he asked only that the party feature trees, carols and candy.
- Need for English language classes increasing in Lawrence, state
- December 5, 2004
- Laleh Matinkhosrani wants to know enough English so someday she can serve up lattes at her own coffee shop. So the Lawrence resident, a native of Iran, is beefing up her language skills at the Lawrence Public Schools adult education program.
- On the record
- December 5, 2004
- Area briefs
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Local book illustrator to work with students ¢ Enrollment begins for Parks and Rec ¢ Former officer sentenced in child porn cas
- Chester Alden Fleming
- December 5, 2004
- Harold W. Jones
- December 5, 2004
- Book notes
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ KU alumna named best poet of 2004 ¢ Compilation of bad jobs can make yours look good
- Alice Royce Pulliam
- December 5, 2004
- Lawrence commuter report
- December 5, 2004
- The following construction projects and events may affect commuter traffic in the region this week
- Ministry punished for gay pastor
- December 5, 2004
- An urban ministry that aids the poor and homeless had its official recognition removed by Lutheran church officials in a dispute over an associate pastor who is in a lesbian relationship.
- Ohioans call for president recount
- December 5, 2004
- About 400 protesters gathered outside the Statehouse on Saturday to support a recount of the presidential election in Ohio and call for an investigation into Election Day irregularities.
- Alabama becomes unlikely ally in California’s medical marijuana fight
- December 5, 2004
- Alabama, which has some of the nation’s toughest drug laws, has become an unlikely ally of California on medical marijuana use.
- Ukraine parliament declines to enact election reforms
- December 5, 2004
- Supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko lost a round to their foes in parliament Saturday, when pro-government lawmakers helped block legal changes intended to prevent fraud in the Dec. 26 repeat of the country’s presidential runoff vote.
- Iraq car bombs kill 16
- U.N. envoy: Elections can’t be held Jan. 30
- December 5, 2004
- Suicide car bombs struck Iraqi police and Kurdish militiamen in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 16 people, wounding dozens, and again demonstrating the lethal reach of Iraq’s insurgency just weeks ahead of crucial elections.
- E.M.U. Theatre blasts talk radio and America’s bloated theatrical mainstream
- December 5, 2004
- In Oliver Stone’s 1988 film “Talk Radio,” shock jock Barry Champlain plays the part of an indignant crusader who “tells it like it is” and enrages the moral majority in the process.
- Moore helps secure funding for endowment
- December 5, 2004
- U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., has helped secure $80,000 in funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for area arts projects.
- Altruism alluring to do-gooders
- December 5, 2004
- I ran into this biologist the other day at the library. We’ve both worked at Kansas University for decades, and I’ve interviewed him several times about dragonflies, midges and that sort of thing.
- A writer restored
- Original manuscript of Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’ read in entirety for first time
- December 5, 2004
- British painter and writer Frieda Hughes was 35 before she was able to even glance at the poetry of her mother, Sylvia Plath, whose painfully sharp images and tumultuous life have captivated readers for decades.
- What are you reading?
- December 5, 2004
- KU Opera personalizes ‘Faust’ in adaptation
- December 5, 2004
- Kansas University Opera will perform “The Visions of Marguerite: A Faust Project,” a creative adaptation of the well-known opera “Faust” 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Robert Baustian Theatre (formerly known as The Black Box) in KU’s Murphy Hall.
- Review: ‘Talk Radio’ neatly sums up today’s media-saturated era
- December 5, 2004
- Barry Champlain is a profane, angry motormouth contrarian, a man willing to insult you for your opinion no matter what opinion you hold — who will, in fact, insult you for precisely the opposite reason he insulted another person five minutes ago.
- Arts notes
- December 5, 2004
- ¢ Grant will help museum digitize collection ¢ Poetry organization seeks members, entries ¢ Sketch comedy show receives four awards
- Card readers help photographers archive, print own digital images
- December 5, 2004
- In last week’s “Behind the Lens,” I wrote about choosing the right megapixel sized digital camera for your needs and how to select the proper digital memory card for your camera.
- Woodling: Miles puts on clinic
- December 5, 2004
- You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make the nag drink. You cannot squeeze blood out of a turnip. And you sure as heck can’t make the Sphinx talk.
- Notebook
- December 5, 2004
- Kansas University power forward Wayne Simien earned every one of his 15 rebounds Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Harvard outlasts weary KU
- Jayhawks can’t topple Crimson; Gruber again solid
- December 5, 2004
- It didn’t take much for Kansas University’s swim team to defeat Houston, but the Jayhawks gave everything they had against Harvard and still came up short on the second day of a two-day triple dual meet at Robinson Natatorium.
- Faces and places
- December 5, 2004
- ‘04’s lesson: ‘It’s the partisanship, stupid’
- December 5, 2004
- The more the academics and analysts explore the entrails of last month’s election, the clearer and simpler the lesson becomes. As the Clinton folks might put it, “it’s the partisanship, stupid.”
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