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- Lawrence warming up for holiday
- November 25, 2004
- (Updated Thursday at 9:00 a.m.) Lawrence got its second helping of winter overnight — not more snow, but a blast of arctic air that could chill every holiday turkey in the city.
- New U2 album boasts epic melodies, but few surprises
- November 25, 2004
- For more than two decades, Irish rockers U2 have made a ritual of mapping out different musical trails for themselves with each new album, sometimes with mixed success, but always sounding fresh and reinvigorated by the journey.
- Bush’s holiday includes royal visit; no surprise overseas trips expected
- November 25, 2004
- President Bush has never returned a congratulatory call on his re-election from Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a Socialist who withdrew Spain’s troops from the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq after winning an upset victory over a crucial White House ally in March.
- Violent episodes not new to sports
- November 25, 2004
- After the melee in Michigan, the generalizations have come flying as rapidly as punches thrown by Ron Artest. Over the last week, we’ve been told that sportsmanship is all but dead in America.
- Roethlisberger rare rookie standout
- Steelers QB, Jets linebacker Vilma succeeding early
- November 25, 2004
- Rookie quarterbacks don’t have immediate success in the NFL. Neither do first-year middle linebackers. The positions simply are too complicated and too critical, and coaches won’t trust them to the novice.
- James cashes career-high 43
- Cleveland standout proves point to Brown
- November 25, 2004
- LeBron James barely got to play at the Summer Olympics. On Wednesday night, he showed Larry Brown that may have been a big mistake.
- People
- November 25, 2004
- ¢ Charges cut down ¢ Willis sues for injuries ¢ Long Waits wait over ¢ Manson’s philosophy ¢ Birthday: Ben Stein
- Malpractice law puts doctors on edge
- Florida voters approve ‘three-strikes’ measure
- November 25, 2004
- Florida voters this month approved a three-strikes law unlike any other state’s — a measure aimed not at killers and thieves but at doctors who foul up.
- Horoscopes
- November 25, 2004
- Photo: Drop it like it’s hot
- November 25, 2004
- Hardy pioneers deserve our thanks
- November 25, 2004
- When giving thanks this year, think of Lena Woebbecke. She and many others paid a terrible price for misreading the prairie sky on the afternoon of Jan. 12, 1888.
- Mickelson’s 59 ties record
- Lefty rallies to win Grand Slam of Golf
- November 25, 2004
- Phil Mickelson shot a 59 on Wednesday to win the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, matching the low score in competitive golf.
- A real Paige-turner: MU barn’s name to be put to vote
- November 25, 2004
- Fans, students and alumni were furious when the University of Missouri announced its new $75 million basketball arena was being named for a 22-year-old Wal-Mart heiress who attended another college.
- Iraqis, Afghans will thank U.S.
- November 25, 2004
- Thanksgiving is a good time to reflect on the state of the world and how far we have come since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. And it’s also an opportunity to steel our resolve for the challenges ahead.
- Keeping a garden journal
- Tracking plans, disappointments and memories good for landscape, soul
- November 25, 2004
- I have always kept a gardener’s journal. It gives me satisfaction to sit in a comfortable chair in a quiet corner of the house and celebrate what the garden produced the past year or lament the disappointments of some plants.
- Attack now to reduce weeds in spring
- November 25, 2004
- At a recent arborist training, 45 regional treecare professionals poked, prodded, bored into and inspected the trees at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. As they looked up, I looked down, noticing the thick mat of weeds in bare areas of the lawn and at the base of each tree, the two most prevalent weeds being henbit and chickweed.
- Kooky art fair turns 15, honors ‘founding mothers’
- November 25, 2004
- Lawrence’s Bizarre Bazaar was born of humble roots. The show and sale of eclectic, funky and sometimes kooky art traces its beginnings to an effort by two neighbors, Nan Renbarger and Dixie Lubin — both artists — to have their work seen by more people.
- Area briefs
- November 25, 2004
- ¢ Donations still needed for holiday parade ¢ Salvation Army kettle stand taken at store ¢ State history museum to be open on Friday ¢ Police issue report in traffic fatality
- U.S. tanker delay could kill Boeing 767 line
- November 25, 2004
- The Pentagon’s pledge to require competitive bids to replace its aging refueling aircraft could deal a blow to Boeing Co.’s plants in Wichita and Everett, Wash.
- Briefcase
- November 25, 2004
- ¢ Reports a mixed bag ¢ Mortgage rates fall ¢ Stocks move higher ¢ AIG to pay $126M ¢ Judge delays ruling on PeopleSoft pill
- Briefly
- November 25, 2004
- ¢ Girl becomes first to survive rabies ¢ Drug reform group rejects $200,000 grant ¢ Reagan shooter denied longer unescorted trips ¢ Two U.S. soldiers killed in bombing ¢ International observers for election approved ¢ Rwanda threatening to attack Hutu rebels ¢ Canadian convicted of planning attacks ¢ Republican keeps lead in election recount ¢ Student slashes five high school classmates ¢ Two more top CIA officials leaving ¢ Protein dose prevents heart attack damage
- Grief weighs heavily on Wisconsin towns
- November 25, 2004
- Every time the phone rings at Brecka’s Floral Photo and Garden, Rita Sevals flinches. She knows it will be another order for a funeral bouquet, another plea for something pretty from a friend or family member whose loved one died when a trespasser, Chai Soua Vang, emptied his semiautomatic rifle into a group of friends out for a deer hunt.
- KU’s Lee delighted to dine at Self’s
- Coach serving dinner to handful of players
- November 25, 2004
- Shed no tears for Michael Lee. The Kansas University basketball player can’t go home to Portland, Ore., but he won’t be alone for today’s Thanksgiving holiday.
- Pittsburg prep Meier on Kansas’ list
- November 25, 2004
- Despite the potential logjam at the quarterback position — assuming everyone will be healthy by spring practice — Kansas University football coach Mark Mangino still has no reservations about combing the high school ranks in search of the next great KU quarterback.
- Evelyn A. Stull
- November 25, 2004
- Demon Deacons reach NIT finals
- November 25, 2004
- Justin Gray refused to let an elbow in the face upset his game, and his second-half shooting protected Wake Forest’s No. 1 status Wednesday night.
- Take a breath
- November 25, 2004
- These may be troubling times, but there always is reason for hope.
- NBA melee broke barrier of civility
- November 25, 2004
- Fine, suspend Ron Artest. Anyone who follows pro basketball knows his reputation as an emotionally unstable nitwit is no accident. And yeah, while you’re at it, suspend his Indiana Pacers teammates Jermaine O’Neal and Stephen Jackson for their part in last Friday’s fracas in the suburbs of Detroit. Suspend Ben Wallace, the Detroit Pistons center who triggered the initial altercation with a two-handed shove to Artest’s face.
- Poor excuse
- November 25, 2004
- School mission
- November 25, 2004
- Market factors
- November 25, 2004
- The old-fashioned touch
- November 25, 2004
- It’s Thanksgiving countdown and the kitchen table in our house is covered once again with familiar and familial lists.
- Small changes can transform home for winter
- November 25, 2004
- The dipping temperatures are surely nudging you back indoors to nest, and you may begin looking at your home with a critical eye. The tattered chair and ottoman in the living room aren’t going to look any better when snow begins to fall. And the dingy paint on the walls will drag your spirits down, along with all the clutter piled on desks and in closets after a busy summer.
- Bags of scraps become creative
- November 25, 2004
- Sewing clubs occasionally offer challenges to their members, and here’s one that was especially interesting.
- Exhibit explores early Dylan
- ‘American Journey’ first major show on rocker
- November 25, 2004
- Among the letters, articles and artifacts at the Experience Music Project’s new Bob Dylan exhibit is a September 1967 review from The New York Times. It begins: “It will be a good joke on us if, in 50 years or so, Dylan is regarded as a significant figure in English poetry.”
- Give thanks for TV networks
- November 25, 2004
- Jerry Seinfeld and co-producer Larry David look back at their hit series on “The Seinfeld Story” (9 p.m., NBC). This enjoyable amble through the past includes well-known anecdotes about the creation of the series. Seinfeld and David revisit a Manhattan deli where they realized they could create, or at least propose, a comedy series revolving around their pointless banter. A show about nothing, or yada-yada-yada, if you will.
- Weather slows holiday travel
- November 25, 2004
- Thanksgiving travelers crowded airports, bus and train stations and highways Wednesday, putting up with tight security and bad weather that included heavy snow in the Midwest, rain in the Northeast and tornadoes in the South.
- UMKC chancellor’s future up in the air
- November 25, 2004
- The head of the University of Missouri system says schools must be headed by an administrator whom professors trust, but he remains undecided on the future of a chancellor given a no-confidence vote.
- Eudora Township residents seek improved roads
- November 25, 2004
- A public hearing will help determine whether a community in the Eudora Township can create a road improvement district.
- KU student killed in wreck
- Friends mourn junior from Wichita who died on turnpike
- November 25, 2004
- Members of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority will spend this holiday weekend mourning after learning Wednesday of the death of one of their own.
- Weather outside is frightful for some, delightful for kids
- November 25, 2004
- The heavy, wet snow that covered the Lawrence area Wednesday morning came as a pleasant surprise for some and a rude awakening for others.
- City safety rankings draw ire
- Lawrence slips in controversial annual report by local firm
- November 25, 2004
- Lawrence resident Scott Morgan and his wife, Kathleen O’Leary Morgan, caused a nationwide uproar this week. A city official in St. Louis called them “charlatans.” The mayor of Camden, N.J., said she was “disgusted” by their work.
- Fourth-graders use $100 prize for food pantry donations
- November 25, 2004
- Heather and Hannah went on a shopping spree. But instead of heading to their favorite stores, the Prairie Park School fourth-graders used the $100 they won for their school fund-raising sales to buy groceries for a food pantry.
- Sprint to decide soon on sale of towers
- Company’s property could bring $1.2B
- November 25, 2004
- Sprint Corp. plans to decide by early next year whether to move ahead with the sale of its cell-phone towers, which could bring as much as $1.2 billion at auction.
- Biotech researchers target turkey troubles
- Team plans to create better Thanksgiving bird
- November 25, 2004
- Most of the turkeys gracing the nation’s dinner tables today have been selectively bred for their white meat for so many generations that simply walking can be a problem for many of the big-breasted birds and sex is no longer possible.
- Promotions aim to keep shoppers past Black Friday
- November 25, 2004
- Shoppers have been bombarded all month with coupons, 50 percent off deals and doorbuster specials. And it remains a good bet that many people will line up before dawn Friday on the holiday season’s traditional “Black Friday” selling blitz to snare a DVD player or flat-screen TV at a rock-bottom price.
- How to keep spending in check
- November 25, 2004
- Operating Instructions: Do not read this column Thanksgiving morning. For greatest effect, it should be read after an enormous meal and a day of sloth — at the moment you resolve to avoid all excess henceforth.
- Commodities
- November 25, 2004
- Rancher pays price for hunts with plane
- November 25, 2004
- A western Kansas rancher who ran a guide service has paid a steep price for illegally taking hunters aloft in a plane to spot and chase deer, federal and state wildlife officials said.
- Natural gas explosion rocks closed Wichita middle school
- November 25, 2004
- An apparent natural gas explosion Wednesday morning knocked down a wall on two floors of the Marshall Middle School, which was not in session because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
- ACLU files suit over Missouri student’s fight for gay-pride T-shirt
- November 25, 2004
- The battle over a gay-rights T-shirt stretched beyond the southwest Missouri town where it started and reached federal court on Tuesday.
- Flu season off to slow start
- November 25, 2004
- The flu season in the United States is off to a slow start, with only Delaware and New York reporting significant outbreaks — a relief to government health authorities, given the U.S. vaccine shortage.
- States fill federal void on drug safety
- November 25, 2004
- As Congress and others lobby to create an independent board to review the safety of prescription drugs, a dozen states — including Kansas — have been doing just that.
- Injured Marine returns home for Thanksgiving
- 22-year-old was shot in Fallujah
- November 25, 2004
- Today will be a special Thanksgiving for Dean and Becky Chapman and their family. A little more than a week ago, the Chapmans’ son, Marine Lance Cpl. Ryan Chapman, was struck in the head by a sniper’s bullet while fighting insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq.
- KU grad watches Ukraine history unfold
- November 25, 2004
- Brian Frederick was supposed to be back in Lawrence by Dec. 8. He may be late. He’s watching history being made.
- Ukraine declares winner
- Kremlin-backed candidate chosen over U.S. objections
- November 25, 2004
- Ignoring stern warnings from U.S. and European leaders, the Ukrainian government Wednesday declared the country’s Kremlin-backed candidate the victor in Sunday’s widely disputed presidential runoff election, triggering an opposition call for a national strike.
- City seeks volunteer snow shovelers
- November 25, 2004
- Now that you’ve practiced, city officials are asking you to volunteer to shovel someone else’s snow-covered sidewalk this winter season.
- Turkey help line workers recall holiday horror stories
- November 25, 2004
- Concerned about cooking that Thanksgiving turkey? Just keep in mind that if you don’t slice the bird with a chain saw, stomp on it to make it fit in a pan or lose it in a snowdrift, you’ll already be doing better than some cooks.
- Rating the field
- Ranking the season’s top racing teams, drivers
- November 25, 2004
- When That’s Racin’ ranks NASCAR Nextel Cup teams each week during the season, we’re trying to rank how the teams are doing right then.
- One pass could have changed everything
- November 25, 2004
- One pass. Forget about the record eight-point margin by which Kurt Busch beat Jimmie Johnson to win the 2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup. It was even more basic at the end of Sunday’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
- Gaughan says Cup status still uncertain
- November 25, 2004
- Nextel Cup rookie Brendan Gaughan still doesn’t know if he is returning to his Penske-Jasper Racing team next season. Team officials have not yet picked up the option on Gaughan’s contract.
- Nascar - By the numbers
- November 25, 2004
- All eyes on Texas-A&M
- Boise State’s, Cal’s BCS hopes in balance
- November 25, 2004
- The Lone Star State’s top rivalry will be drawing plenty of interest in Boise, Idaho, and Berkeley, Calif. No. 6 Texas plays host to No. 22 Texas A&M on Friday with the Bowl Championship Series hopes of Boise State and California on the line.
- Lions can’t outscore Manning-led Colts, even on Thanksgiving
- November 25, 2004
- With 35 touchdown passes in nine games, Peyton Manning is well on his way to shattering Dan Marino’s record of 48 in a season. Indianapolis’ game in climate-controlled Detroit today figures to be another big step on the way.
- Fight over brawl suspensions could affect labor talks
- November 25, 2004
- One of the byproducts of last weekend’s NBA brawl could be a poisoned atmosphere in collective bargaining talks.
- Call her Ellen DeGenerous
- November 25, 2004
- For relatives and friends of U.S. troops serving in Iraq, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” was the place to be.
- KU gets first victory
- Defense carries Jayhawks past Pioneers
- November 25, 2004
- A thing of beauty it wasn’t. Far from it. Not that Bonnie Henrickson wanted to remember her first official win as Kansas University’s women basketball coach forever.
- KU volleyball sweeps
- November 25, 2004
- Three Kansas University volleyball players notched double-digit kills as the Jayhawks swept Texas Tech, 30-25, 30-24, 30-25, Wednesday at the United Spirit Arena.
- Ex-LHS football coach Freeman headed to shrine
- November 25, 2004
- Bill Freeman, who won five Class 6A state football titles while head coach at Lawrence High, has been named to the Kansas State High School Activities Assn. Hall of Fame.
- Our town sports
- November 25, 2004
- Lawrence Datebook
- November 25, 2004
- On the record
- November 25, 2004
- Agencies, offices closed for holiday
- November 25, 2004
- Government offices and other services in Lawrence and surrounding areas will be closed today and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday.
- Patricia Josephine Harkins
- November 25, 2004
- Teresa Anderson Griffin
- November 25, 2004
- Bethany Louise Weidensaul
- November 25, 2004
- Recording attributed to terrorist airs
- November 25, 2004
- Thousands of U.S.-led forces on Wednesday squeezed insurgent strongholds in the dusty lawless towns south of Baghdad, as the purported voice of Iraq’s most-wanted terrorist blasted Muslim clerics for failing to rally behind the anti-U.S. uprising.
- Mexican police sweep town after agents killed
- November 25, 2004
- Hundreds of police stormed a capital-area neighborhood Wednesday night, breaking down doors in a hunt for the leaders of a vigilante mob that burned two police officers to death.
- Kansas high school football scores from Nov. 24
- November 25, 2004
- Studies address adult leukemia
- Umbilical-cord blood shown to save lives
- November 25, 2004
- Umbilical-cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors, two big studies indicate.
- USC guard picks KU
- November 25, 2004
- Rodrick Stewart, the 6-foot-4 sophomore guard from Southern Cal who attended Kansas University’s 91-51 men’s basketball victory Tuesday over Saint Joseph’s, returned home to Seattle late Wednesday night and said he had decided to attend Kansas next semester.
- Chemical’s dispersal raises concerns
- November 25, 2004
- Concentrations of a flame retardant banned by many European countries have been found in Lake Michigan and are increasing, adding to concerns over previous findings that the chemicals were showing up in supermarket foods and women’s breast milk.
- Troubled Tigers drop 3rd straight
- November 25, 2004
- Houston coach Tom Penders says his Cougars were more relaxed when they played Missouri for the second time this season. Despite not making a field gone in the final six minutes, Houston (3-2) beat Missouri, 57-55, Wednesday night for third place in the Guardians Classic.
- Portion distortion can endanger diets
- November 25, 2004
- A deck of cards, two computer mice, some salad and two slivers of pie, please. If you’re hoping to keep this Thanksgiving from turning into another gut-busting affair, that’s what your plate should look like: a serving of turkey no larger than a deck of playing cards and half a cup each of two starches. (A half-cup is about the size of a computer mouse.)
- Gardeners should consider homegrown holiday dinner
- November 25, 2004
- As the garden season closes, it would be nifty to plan one meal to include as much as possible of what grew in the garden. Think of it as a celebration of the garden, a gardener’s Thanksgiving.
- Collectors hip with poker chips
- November 25, 2004
- Poker has become the hot game of the year. Poker tournaments are featured on several TV networks, and ratings are high. This might be the time to collect poker memorabilia.
- 6Sports video: Firebirds don’t want to be known as a young team
- November 25, 2004
- The Free State High girls basketball team may have a lot of young players but don’t tell them that. The players say that they have experience and that they can play.
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