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- Poet’s showcase
- July 18, 2004
- People
- July 18, 2004
- • Shock jock seeks sheriff's job • Prince's plane had ‘near miss' • Creator of Internet knighted
- Briefly
- July 18, 2004
- • Four injured as balloon gets stuck over city • Boyfriend charged with using alligator in fight • Videotape of beheading posted on Internet
- Bookstore
- July 18, 2004
- Strange webbing encases trunk of walnut trees
- July 18, 2004
- No one is playing pranks and putting plastic shrink-wrap around trees, although it may look like it in one Kansas county.
- Rainy weather increases chance of blackspot
- July 18, 2004
- Rose gardeners in the area are watching their prize-winning rosebushes slowly turn yellow and drop leaves, leaving behind a twisted mass of unattractive leggy stems.
- Rodeo coordinator fights cancer
- McCracken resident runs award-winning event despite illness
- July 18, 2004
- Jack Wilson calls cancer “a little bug” he's trying to kick and downplays his importance to the award-winning McCracken Rodeo.
- Calendar
- July 18, 2004
- Douglas County Senior Services, 745 Vt., offers activities during the week for residents age 55 and older. Future seniors are allowed to participate if space permits. Call Senior Services at 842-0543 for more information.
- Herbicide hinders crops
- Farmers form educational venture
- July 18, 2004
- Pep Solberg is a new type of Douglas County farmer. He grows grapes on a 20-acre tract about a mile south of Kansas Highway 10 between Lawrence and Eudora. But unlike many traditional farmers, Mother Nature isn't his biggest worry. He spends his time looking at the skies and wondering what is blowing in the wind.
- New cartridges will reduce rifle recoil
- July 18, 2004
- There are a couple of neat new deer hunting products that should be in local sporting good stores this summer. One could save you some money. The other may cost you a few bucks.
- Survey shows duck numbers down 11 percent
- July 18, 2004
- Duck populations have declined to 32.2 million birds — 11 percent below last year's count — in surveys conducted in May by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
- Area fishing report
- July 18, 2004
- More French follies
- Levet’s struggles similar to Van de Velde’s
- July 18, 2004
- Thomas Levet staged more French follies in the third round of the British Open.
- Maddux magic on July 17
- Pitcher tosses shutout on day oddly good to him
- July 18, 2004
- Greg Maddux must like July 17. Maddux pitched a six-hitter for his first complete game in exactly one year and his first shutout in precisely three years, earning his 297th win and leading the Chicago Cubs over the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-0, Saturday.
- Garcia, ChiSox ‘finally’ solve A’s
- Chicago wins at Oakland for second time in last 17 games, 5-2
- July 18, 2004
- Freddy Garcia and the Chicago White Sox got rare wins in Oakland on Saturday.
- Byrd maintains B.C. Open lead
- Five challengers one stroke back at New York tourney
- July 18, 2004
- Jonathan Byrd stayed in the catbird seat in the B.C. Open. Barely.
- Commentary: O’Neal changes landscape in East
- More trades rumored as NBA teams try to counter Miami’s acquisition of impact center
- July 18, 2004
- The first week of the NBA free-agent signing period dramatically altered the landscape in the Eastern Conference with the arrival of Shaquille O'Neal in Miami and the departure of Kenyon Martin from the Nets.
- KU’s Bookman fails to reach 200 finals
- July 18, 2004
- Kansas University sprinter Leo Bookman's 2004 Olympic dreams ended in the semifinals of the 200-meter run at the United States track and field trials Saturday.
- KU’s Green sporting new look
- July 18, 2004
- Kansas University football fans might not recognize Clark Green — at least not out of uniform — this fall.
- Baty slugging for Hudson Valley
- July 18, 2004
- Former Kansas University first baseman Ryan Baty drove in four runs with a two-run homer and a pair of singles to lead the Hudson Valley Renegades to a 7-2 win over the Aberdeen IronBirds on Friday night.
- Mayer: U.S. hoop squad worth rooting for
- July 18, 2004
- Since 1952, I've never rooted harder for a U.S. Olympic basketball team than I am and will be doing for the 2004 version with three former Kansas University coaches in charge. It is a team some think is a cut or two below what it would be if all the candidates were equally patriotic.
- KU gives pay raises to Perkins, staff
- Kansas athletic director’s salary boosted from $400,000 to $420,000; Hadl’s salary bumped by $55,000
- July 18, 2004
- Kansas University athletic director Lew Perkins received a 5 percent pay raise this month, as did a handful of his senior staffers.
- Education is Job One
- Kansas voters shouldn’t let hot-button issues distract them from the top issue in this fall’s legislative elections.
- July 18, 2004
- There is no more important duty of state government than to educate its young people. That's Job One, and it should be Issue One in the current campaigns of those seeking seats in the Kansas Legislature.
- CIA intelligence shaped to justify agenda
- July 18, 2004
- I feel sorry for the CIA. The Senate Intelligence Committee found that the CIA's prewar reporting on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was mostly wrong. So now when critics cavil about missing Iraqi weapons, the president can say he got bad information.
- Vote distribution
- July 18, 2004
- Life purpose
- July 18, 2004
- Ease pollution
- July 18, 2004
- The race card
- July 18, 2004
- Congress shouldn’t stall car donations
- July 18, 2004
- Father Joe Carroll ministers daily to thousands of this city's destitute and disoriented. Yet he, and hence they, may soon have a tax problem created by Congress. If so, he and many other doers of good works will do fewer, cities nationwide will struggle to do more, and many vulnerable people will lose their tenuous grips on the lowest rung of the social ladder.
- Services set Monday for El Dorado airman
- July 18, 2004
- Family and friends will gather in Arkansas on Monday to remember a Kansas airman who was killed during an attack in Iraq.
- Speeding stop lands officer in court
- Driver says Parkville, Mo., policeman made her shed clothes to avoid ticket
- July 18, 2004
- A former suburban Kansas City police officer has been charged with a felony after a woman accused him of making her disrobe to avoid a speeding ticket.
- Clarence E. Denton
- July 18, 2004
- Parents grieving after school fire
- July 18, 2004
- Parents of the dead went home, silently weeping. Others sat in the sun Saturday outside a hospital, hoping their children would survive burns they suffered in a school fire in southern India that killed 90 children.
- Army desertion case is four decades in making
- July 18, 2004
- The Army's desertion case against Charles R. Jenkins seems to hinge on four notes he left behind that cold morning on Jan. 5, 1965, when he disappeared while on patrol in a wooded no man's land.
- Zahniser services
- July 18, 2004
- Brownback recommends use of adult stem cells
- July 18, 2004
- U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, a leading opponent of using embryonic stem cells, last week chaired a hearing that investigated the use of adult stem cells.
- On the record
- July 18, 2004
- Area briefs
- July 18, 2004
- • Accident in Tonganoxie sends drivers to LMH • Regional coordinators for security chosen • LHS students place in French competition • Early enrollment scheduled at Ottawa • Crack cocaine habit fed by K.C. car burglaries
- Old-school cyclers ride through Lawrence
- July 18, 2004
- The “high wheels” of 19th-century bicycles rolled Saturday through downtown Lawrence, captivating onlookers and giving them a history lesson at the same time.
- Visiting Nurses to make tough decisions
- Without extra funding, agency may cut services
- July 18, 2004
- Leaders of Douglas County Visiting Nurses Assn. will meet this week to make sure they're on track for a balanced budget by the end of the year.
- Governors test party promises at meeting
- July 18, 2004
- Politics undermined efforts to find common ground as the nation's governors gathered Saturday for their summer meeting, with Democrats criticizing domestic security and the economy and Republicans defending President Bush.
- Los Alamos suspends work
- July 18, 2004
- The Los Alamos National Laboratory director, tired of security lapses at the northern New Mexico lab, has brought nearly all work there to a standstill and is calling scofflaw “cowboys” out for a final showdown.
- Soldier details tactics of Afghanistan interrogations
- July 18, 2004
- Soon after he arrived at Afghanistan's Kandahar Airfield in December 2001, Army Sgt. 1st Class Chris Mackey discovered that the training he and his fellow interrogators had received at the Army's top intelligence school was useless in persuading supporters of al-Qaida and the Taliban to talk.
- Mr. Moran goes to Kansas
- Congressman travels state’s highways and byways every weekend to stay connected to constituents in his sprawling 1st District
- July 18, 2004
- It's known as the “Big 1st.” It includes 69 counties, a quarter of the state's population and about two-thirds of its area. And for the past eight years, Rep. Jerry Moran has returned nearly every weekend of the session to visit the sprawling 1st Congressional District he represents.
- Talks to end Sudanese violence collapse
- July 18, 2004
- Talks to end the unbridled violence that has killed tens of thousands of people in Sudan's western Darfur region collapsed Saturday with two rebel groups charging the government had not kept its end of the bargain.
- Deaf dog learns sign language
- July 18, 2004
- “I want to tell him to sit again,” Lee Jones, 11, of Brierfield, Ala., tells Melannie Layne.
- Labrador retrievers can collapse with exercise
- July 18, 2004
- Some Labrador retrievers are collapsing from a syndrome called exercise induced collapse. After 5 to 15 minutes of strenuous exercise, affected Labrador retrievers develop weakness, incoordination and can collapse.
- Verify dog’s cataract diagnosis
- July 18, 2004
- My poodle, Mimi, is the light of my life. The poor thing is 15 and has developed cataracts. So far, it seems she still sees well, and I don't really want to do surgery. Are there any natural therapies that might help? I'll try anything that will prolong her vision. I can't bear the thought of her losing her sight and not being able to get around
- Sculptural toys can be found at rummage sales
- July 18, 2004
- Designs for furniture, glass, pottery and kitchen appliances changed dramatically in the 1950s.
- ‘Cairo on the Kaw’ celebrates decade of Middle Eastern dance
- July 18, 2004
- Jo Anne Zingo-Hargis, a thrill-seeker since birth, used to climb telephone poles for a living. The Connecticut native moved to Kansas in 1978 after she heard Southwestern Bell was “looking for women to work outside.”
- Behind the lens: Stair rail casts right light on line-up
- July 18, 2004
- I tried shooting Lawrence's Big Metal Rooster all over the band's house: in the basement, sprawled out on the living room floor, on some stairs — pretty much anywhere because nothing seemed to be working right.
- White migration ravaged Kansas Indians with disease
- July 18, 2004
- A summer day in 1800 probably felt to a Kansa Indian very similar to how the early summer weather this year felt to Lawrence residents.
- Martin: Literacy helps people celebrate differences, honor commonalities
- July 18, 2004
- Literacy ain't what it used to be. I'm serious.
- Behind the scenes
- Budding thespians enliven Lawrence Arts Center stage
- July 18, 2004
- Hannah Bailey scrunches up her face and tries to look menacing. Playing a dog — even a soft, shaggy one — is no easy task.
- Hooked on fishing
- Crown Casting Club reels in young anglers
- July 18, 2004
- Tiara Barrett was exultant about her catch. “I got a big-mouth bass — 12 inches, I think. I'm just happy to see the fish and catch it. I'm trying to get another one,” said Tiara, 10, a fifth-grader at Deerfield School.
- Raiders not great, but good enough to triumph
- July 18, 2004
- Those poor Lawrence Raiders. If injury-induced absences continue to add up, soon they'll be shorthanded because everyone will be on the bench applying ice packs to every joint, bone and muscle imaginable.
- ‘Ordinary People’ author hopes for success with fifth novel
- July 18, 2004
- Judith Guest's first book, “Ordinary People,” has brought her “one birthday present after the next,” including a film version that won wide acclaim and several Academy Awards.
- What are you reading?
- July 18, 2004
- Children’s titles explore the fantastic, serious
- July 18, 2004
- From absolutely wacked-out, to absolutely serious, these two children's books won't soon be forgotten by kids or by the adults who introduce them to lucky adolescents.
- Thursey Mae Atkins
- July 18, 2004
- Jayhawk housing authority
- KU players pitch in to help build Habitat house
- July 18, 2004
- David Ochoa didn't lead Kansas University's football team in any statistical categories last season. The offseason has been a different story.
- Santana solves K.C. again
- July 18, 2004
- Johan Santana has mastered the Kansas City Royals.
- Top pros in hunt at Open
- Hamilton leads by one,but golf’s finest lurking
- July 18, 2004
- Todd Hamilton is used to feeling out of place. It's strange enough trying to make a living in outposts stretching from Singapore to Pakistan to Kuala Lumpur, or showing up at PGA Tour qualifying school for the eighth time as a 38-year-old father of three.
- Half Dome’s alluring summit
- Yosemite National Park visitors overcome fears on 8,842-ft. climb
- July 18, 2004
- Anthony Frost was just 200 feet from the summit of Half Dome when he lost his nerve. Then he almost lost his lunch.
- Outdoor fitness
- Research shows working in garden has health benefits
- July 18, 2004
- Lawrence commuter report
- July 18, 2004
- The following construction projects and events may affect commuter traffic in the region this week
- Former Enron chief Lay in handcuffs pleasing sight
- July 18, 2004
- The other day, my 9-year-old asked why a cartoon character on TV stood at attention, saluting as his ship sank beneath him.
- Minus story
- When it comes to color, painter says less is more
- July 18, 2004
- Color wields power. Everyone remembers that Dorothy's slippers glistened ruby red in “The Wizard of Oz.”
- Quirky artist declares: ‘We’re all mad here’
- July 18, 2004
- Margaret Meyer Schultz isn't REALLY twisted. It's just that she loves Halloween, she loves darkly imaginative filmmaker Tim Burton and she loves painting curious pictures and fabricating even curiouser puppets and dolls.
- Pet post
- July 18, 2004
- Review: This ‘Cinderella Story’ a tired tale
- July 18, 2004
- Maybe the time has come to give the Cinderella story a rest for a while.
- The truth about water
- Eight glasses a day advice turns out to be a myth
- July 18, 2004
- Water is the wheel that keeps us going. It lubricates our joints, protects our organs, makes our blood flow and regulates our body temperature.
- Study says kids visualize pain relief
- July 18, 2004
- When asked what his pain felt like, a Tucson, Ariz., teen pictured a red-hot, molten rock in his stomach.
- Review: Modern ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ surprises, delights
- July 18, 2004
- The “Summer of Romance” continues at University Theatre with Oliver Goldsmith's “She Stoops to Conquer,” a hallmark of the brief 18th-century revival of the Restoration comedy of manners; despite its age, the play is a fresh, funny and pointed caricature of humanity's foibles.
- Day of rest not what it used to be
- Changing attitudes lend new character to Sunday
- July 18, 2004
- Once, within living memory, it was a day apart in many places: a 24-hour stretch of family time when liquor was unavailable, church was the rule, shopping was impossible and — in some towns — weekend staples like tending the lawn and playing in the park met with hearty disapproval.
- Praeger endorses Kerry’s health care plan
- GOP insurance official says Bush’s proposal would harm Kansans
- July 18, 2004
- Fifty percent of adult Americans are “uneasy” about President Bush's approach to reforming the nation's health care system, according to a poll taken shortly after his State of the Union speech earlier this year. Count Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger among the uneasy half.
- Palestinian premier resigns amid chaos
- Qureia says security in state of crisis
- July 18, 2004
- The Palestinian prime minister resigned Saturday in a sweeping leadership shakeup that also saw two senior officials replaced in Yasser Arafat's overhaul of his security forces, a key U.S. and Israeli demand for restarting the deadlocked peace process.
- Firefighters making progress against wildfires
- July 18, 2004
- Fire managers began releasing engines and air power from a fire Saturday that destroyed at least 15 homes as crews secured containment lines near homes and made progress in the Sierra backcountry to keep the flames out of the Lake Tahoe basin.
- Shoot to end today
- July 18, 2004
- Suspect sprinters advance
- Edwards, Grimes in finals in 200; Jones withdraws
- July 18, 2004
- A couple of sprinters who may be barred from the Athens Games because of positive drug tests sped into the men's and women's finals in the 200 meters Saturday at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials.
- Armstrong clears path for his sixth crown
- July 18, 2004
- Start icing the champagne. Lance Armstrong cleared his path to a record sixth straight Tour de France crown, overpowering rivals to win the 13th stage Saturday. His two-day display of dominant mountain riding has all but decided cycling's showcase event even before it veers into the Alps next week.
- Briefly
- July 18, 2004
- • Route 66 museum to cruise into K.C. • Wyoming city ranks high on outdoor report card
- Undecided voters share their leanings
- July 18, 2004
- A generation ago, analysts Ben Wattenberg and Richard Scammon portrayed a housewife in this southwestern Ohio city as the prototypical swing voter.
- Men approach shopping like surgical strike
- July 18, 2004
- I can't shop with my wife. The problem is that she almost never has a clear objective. I ALWAYS have a clear objective. Without a clear objective, you're just wandering randomly around a store, which is NOT the point of shopping.
- City briefs
- July 18, 2004
- • KTWU forum to probearea congressional race • Board ready to schedule public hearing on budget • Boys & Girls Club benefits from fund-raiser
- Iraq justice minister escapes bombing
- Suicide attack is latest on government targets
- July 18, 2004
- Iraq's justice minister, Malik Dohan al-Hassan, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, but five of his bodyguards were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked his convoy as he drove from his home in the capital Saturday.
- From riches to rags: Martha may be roughing it
- July 18, 2004
- The Danbury Federal Correctional Institution is only about 20 miles from Martha Stewart's home in Connecticut, but it will seem like a world away from her usual lifestyle.
- Arts notes
- July 18, 2004
- • Arts Commission seeks poet laureate • Lawrence City Band wraps up season • Brown Bag Concert features jazz band • Organ concert includes artists and dancers • Children's theater program sets sail • Van Go to unveil Benchmark 2004 • Online book seminar set for the fall • Lawrence thespians act in Colorado • Entry deadline nears for art exhibitions
- Horoscopes
- July 18, 2004
- Work keeps retiree sharp
- July 18, 2004
- He'll sharpen anything: saw bits, knives, scissors, lawn mower blades. Read the signs outside his house.
- Briefcase
- July 18, 2004
- • American Cancer Society accepting car donations • John Deere video game offers lesson on farm life • Name that company
- Boeing boss focuses on discipline, costs
- Chief executive’s return boosts company’s outlook
- July 18, 2004
- Boeing Co.'s boss is pushy, aggressive and loath to compromise. That's the way Harry Stonecipher sees himself — with no punches pulled.
- Pro fisherman’s life high on work, low on glamour
- July 18, 2004
- Skipping across Lake Wylie at 65 mph a few minutes after 7 a.m. is a great way to start a day.
- Murderer given prison sentence of 113-plus years
- Club owner had cut up, burned bodies of three victims after slayings in 2003
- July 18, 2004
- A former nightclub owner convicted of killing three men and recruiting patrons to help destroy the victims' remains has been sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.
- K.C. group on lookout for politics in pulpits
- Volunteers monitor religious services for adherence to federal tax guidelines
- July 18, 2004
- A recent Sunday found Tina Kolm paying particularly close attention to a church sermon more conservative than what she typically hears when she's at her usual Unitarian Universalist service.
- Congress may look to Kansas for sentencing guidance
- July 18, 2004
- Federal courts nationwide are in disarray after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling intended to correct sentencing injustices, and some experts are looking to Kansas' judicial system for answers.
- Faces and places
- July 18, 2004
- Mitchell: Cats adjust to new home, companions
- July 18, 2004
- There is a cat living in my sock drawer. Don't worry. He likes it there.
- 9-11 commission to urge centralized agency
- Cabinet-level post would oversee intelligence offices
- July 18, 2004
- The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks will recommend a new Cabinet-level post to oversee the nation's 15 intelligence agencies and control their budgets, say two people familiar with the panel's final report.
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