Also from January 8
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Photos
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Polls
What do you do when you're looking for spiritual renewal?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Find time for quiet introspection | 35% | |
| Go to church, synagogue, mosque, etc. | 30% | |
| Who has time for any of those? | 18% | |
| Read books | 15% | |
| Total | 303 | |
All stories
- Sunshine prevails today
- January 8, 2006
- The mild January the area has enjoyed so far will continue Sunday, with the high expected to reach 58 degrees under sunny skies.
- Notebook
- January 8, 2006
- Former Kansas University point guard Kevin Pritchard said Saturday’s 73-46 rout of Kentucky reminded him a bit of a game he played in - KU’s 150-95 rout of the Wildcats in 1989.
- Discovery of unstable rock delays expansion of Highway 59 one year
- January 8, 2006
- Expansion of U.S. Highway 59 in Douglas County will be delayed one year, to 2011, after unstable shale rock was found near Pleasant Grove Hill.
- Austria staging yearlong birthday bash for Mozart
- January 8, 2006
- Roll over, Beethoven. Beat it, Brahms. Mozart is back with a vengeance, though he’d probably flip his powdered wig if he could see the fuss being made over his 250th birthday.
- Beautiful ‘Beasts’
- Magical books cast spell that lingers long after the last page
- January 8, 2006
- Magical retellings of “Beauty and the Beast” will capture the hearts of teenage girls on Valentine’s Day gift lists.
- Construction slump: Builders expect sluggish activity to continue
- January 8, 2006
- Phil Struble sees Lawrence’s $78 million in construction activity during 2005 as a bad sign. Even worse: It could sag more this year.
- Horoscopes
- January 8, 2006
- Faces and places
- January 8, 2006
- Pats’ postseason win streak hits 10
- January 8, 2006
- Tom Brady, Willie McGinest and the New England Patriots outclassed Jacksonville, setting an NFL record with 10 straight postseason victories and sending a warning to the rest of the league.
- Young, Baylor keep UT reeling
- January 8, 2006
- Sophia Young didn’t just score a lot of points for Baylor. She scored them when they were needed the most.
- Sunday news shows announce lineups
- January 8, 2006
- Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows this morning.
- On the record
- January 8, 2006
- Lawrence Arts Guild plans supply swap
- January 8, 2006
- The Lawrence Art Guild will feature a show-and-tell and swap-meet especially for artists at its meeting Monday.
- Session signals unofficial start to campaign season
- January 8, 2006
- When the gavel falls to open the 2006 legislative session Monday, the campaign begins. Statewide elected officials, most notably Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, will be up for re-election in November, as well as 125 House seats.
- Review: ‘Sacred Cut’: Cop story starts like ‘Da Vinci’
- January 8, 2006
- A body is discovered in one of the world’s best-known tourist attractions. The body is mutilated and its limbs are positioned like those of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man.
- Gambling proponents to roll dice again
- January 8, 2006
- Last year lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about expanding gambling opportunities for Kansans to help balance the budget and fund education.
- Poet’s showcase
- January 8, 2006
- “New Mother,” By Michael L. Johnson
- Kansas women suffer first setback, 73-61
- January 8, 2006
- Of all things, it was a zone defense that finally busted Kansas University’s women’s basketball team.
- Comedy radio series presents year in review
- January 8, 2006
- The sketch comedy series “Right Between the Ears” will present its “Year in Review” show at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday at Liberty Hall, 642 Mass.
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- January 8, 2006
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 8, 1906: “Two boys who have given local police a lot of trouble for a long time with break-ins and theft have been sent to the Reform School.”
- Government can dump moralizing stress
- January 8, 2006
- Well, yes, certainly no massage parlors. Or hot tubs, of course; one shudders to think what happens in those. And tanning facilities, too, are the Devil’s playgrounds. As for racetracks, although state governments promoting their lotteries are America’s most energetic advocates of gambling, government should err on the side of caution when protecting whatever this tax provision protects by frowning on racetracks, hot tubs and other things.
- Pivotal report
- For better or worse, a school finance report due out Monday will play a large role in determining the future of Kansas schools.
- January 8, 2006
- Having already acknowledged they have little choice but to accept the findings of the Post Audit report on school finance, legislative leaders and the rest of their colleagues must be holding their breath in anticipation of the report’s release on Monday.
- Stray cats at D.C.-area country club win reprieve
- January 8, 2006
- The cats stay.
- 2 charged in slaughters of seven in two families
- January 8, 2006
- Two men were captured Saturday and charged in the brutal killings of seven people from two Richmond families, slayings that police hadn’t publicly tied together until now.
- Virginia Tech’s Vick will turn pro
- Quarterback to enter draft after being kicked off team
- January 8, 2006
- Marcus Vick decided to turn pro Saturday, one day after he was kicked off the team at Virginia Tech for transgressions on and off the field.
- People in the news
- January 8, 2006
- ¢ Energetic tour ¢ Classical move ¢ Vet bills overdue
- Army captain cleared in Afghan abuse case
- January 8, 2006
- The only officer charged in a 2002 Afghanistan prisoner abuse case will not face a court-martial.
- McCray’s three stops OU
- Nebraska wins on late bucket; MU stops Okie State
- January 8, 2006
- Joe McCray made Oklahoma’s Terrell Everett pay for his mistake. With the Sooners trying to protect a two-point lead in the late going Saturday, Everett succumbed to Nebraska’s pressure defense and threw a pass right to the Cornhuskers’ Wes Wilkinson in the Oklahoma end.
- Spotlight to shine on ‘other’ Manning
- January 8, 2006
- The glare of the spotlight that has followed every move of Eli Manning’s blossoming NFL career is about to get much brighter.
- FSHS wrestlers 10th
- January 8, 2006
- Free State High’s wrestling squad placed 10th out of 18 teams after Saturday’s second day at the Derby Invitational. Jesse Hardy placed first at 189 pounds for the Firebirds, going 4-0. Marc Somers (130) placed second, and Mike Goble (125) and K.J. Siebert (152) each placed sixth.
- Bengals don’t quite feel at home for playoffs
- January 8, 2006
- For nine excruciating years, offensive tackle Willie Anderson went home in January, fired up the grill, watched the NFL playoffs and fantasized about getting there someday.
- Jayhawks respond to big-game hype
- January 8, 2006
- How is it that a team that had such sluggish stretches against the likes of Pepperdine and Yale could bury 19th-ranked Kentucky from the outset without letting up as Kansas University did Saturday in a 73-46 bully number at Allen Fieldhouse?
- Views vary on New Urbanism proposal
- Bauer Farm plan features mix of housing, shops, offices and a theater
- January 8, 2006
- Lawrence city commissioners are about to get their first taste of New Urbanism, and they must decide whether the high-density style of development is bitter or sweet.
- ‘Truthiness’ voted 2005 word of year
- Tom Cruise inspires more new terms than anyone
- January 8, 2006
- A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is “truthiness,” defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
- Airlines put fares on sale
- Discounts smaller than in past years
- January 8, 2006
- Airlines have unleashed a spate of discount fares as they try to drum up business during the slow winter months, but travelers might need to search a little harder this year for the best post-holiday bargains.
- Politics at play in rate jump, ex-official says
- First-class postage increases two cents today
- January 8, 2006
- Postal rates go up today. The cost of mailing a first-class letter jumps two cents, from 37 cents to 39 cents.
- Lawrence commuter report
- January 8, 2006
- The following construction projects may affect commuter traffic in the region this week.
- Doctors assess Sharon’s chances
- January 8, 2006
- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s chances of surviving his severe stroke are very high, but his ability to think and reason have been damaged, one of his surgeons said Saturday.
- Best sellers
- January 8, 2006
- Global warming blamed for abundance of robins, related mess
- January 8, 2006
- Do your car a favor. Don’t park near a tree.
- Women increasingly named school leaders
- January 8, 2006
- Women are increasingly being appointed to lead schools and school districts in Kansas, new statistics show.
- President not keen on U.N. interview
- January 8, 2006
- Syrian President Bashar Assad denied threatening Lebanon’s former prime minister but suggested in an interview published Saturday that he would not allow U.N. investigators to interview him about Rafik Hariri’s killing.
- What are you reading?
- January 8, 2006
- Traffic timing
- January 8, 2006
- To the editor: As I drive around the city of Lawrence, I always wonder how much $2.25 per gallon gasoline, as well as time, is wasted by the stoplights that operate by time rather than traffic flow.
- GM: Asian, Latin sales boost global dominance
- January 8, 2006
- Despite General Motors Corp.’s problems in its home market, the automaker’s worldwide sales were at their highest level in 27 years in 2005 thanks to growth in Asia and Latin America, GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said.
- Hotel tries to evict 100 Katrina victims
- January 8, 2006
- A judge blocked the eviction Saturday of about 100 people from a New Orleans hotel, which had ordered tenants displaced by Hurricane Katrina to move out to make room for new guests.
- Displaced dolphins moving to Bahamas
- January 8, 2006
- A resort in the Bahamas will be the new home for 16 dolphins rescued from a Gulfport marine park that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
- Retired officer’s death linked to 9-11 cleanup
- January 8, 2006
- A retired 34-year-old New York City police detective who spent hundreds of hours searching for Sept. 11 victims at ground zero died Thursday of a respiratory disease related to the cleanup, union officials said.
- U.N. peacekeepers’ leader found dead
- January 8, 2006
- The Brazilian commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti was found dead on the balcony of his hotel room Saturday in an apparent suicide, authorities said, a blow to the 9,000-strong force and efforts to restore democracy in Haiti.
- WHO confirms spread of bird flu to Turkey
- January 8, 2006
- Teenage siblings who died of bird flu in Turkey were the first humans outside East Asia to succumb to the deadly H5N1 strain that has apparently been spread by migratory birds, the U.N. health agency said Saturday.
- Two are injured fighting wildfires
- January 8, 2006
- A fast-moving wildfire burned about 100 acres Saturday, and two volunteer firefighters were injured after they were thrown from the back of fire trucks trying to escape the flames.
- Small towns featured in photography exhibit
- January 8, 2006
- The documentary photography exhibit “Small Towns in Northeast Kansas,” produced by Washburn University art students, captures small towns in the state in black and white photos, along with stories collected from people in the different towns.
- Terrific service
- January 8, 2006
- To the editor: Recently, I’ve been reading about the Lawrence Community Shelter and the discussion of how long to extend their permit but haven’t seen much written about the many important services the shelter provides for homeless people in Lawrence.
- LHS matmen second at SM South Invite
- January 8, 2006
- Chris Coons and Cameron Reschke won their weight classes, and four other Lawrence High wrestlers made it to the finals as LHS placed second Saturday at the Shawnee Mission South Invitational. Coons (14-5 on the year) won at 119 pounds and Reschke (13-4) at 160.
- Leader list?
- January 8, 2006
- To the editor: Regarding the article naming the top ten people in Kansas for 2005: The only thing I can say is, “God, no, Lord, no, someone help us as a state,” if they are the best we can produce.
- Historians offer perspective on current terrorist threat
- January 8, 2006
- Bill Mauldin was, like many cartoonists, a lot smarter than many commentators and columnists. In the last year of World War II, he produced a sketch for Stars and Stripes that shows two GIs looking at a newspaper in a trench in France. The caption captures the timeless remarks of one of the soldiers: “Th’ hell this ain’t th’ most important hole in th’ world. I’m in it.”
- Alito has some convincing to do
- January 8, 2006
- The two names uppermost on the minds of official Washington at this moment represent polar extremes of reputation. Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff is an admitted felon and certified sleaze. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is an upright, ethical and highly respected jurist, as modest in his habits as Abramoff is flamboyant.
- Iraqi leaders say coalition government almost in place
- Drawing disaffected Sunnis into political process expected to curtail violence
- January 8, 2006
- Iraq’s fractious political groups could form a coalition government within weeks, the country’s president said Saturday, as U.S. officials have increased post-election contacts with disaffected Sunni Arabs linked to the insurgency.
- Russia’s gas cutoff triggers old reflexes
- January 8, 2006
- National character remains a force in world politics despite the prophets of globalization and one-size-fits-all economic integration. For better, and for worse, humans still see themselves as products of shared experiences and common territory and act accordingly.
- Ward leads Baker men
- January 8, 2006
- David Ward scored 27 points, including four three-pointers, as Baker University slipped past Culver-Stockton, 64-61, on Saturday in men’s college basketball. Free State High product Dain Dillingham chipped in 10 points for the Wildcats (10-4 overall, 2-2 Heart of America Athletic Conference).
- Poll: Most say warrant needed to snoop on Americans’ calls
- January 8, 2006
- A majority of Americans want the Bush administration to get court approval before eavesdropping on people inside the United States, even if those calls might involve suspected terrorists, an AP-Ipsos poll shows.
- Physicians advise against using sleeping pills
- January 8, 2006
- In the ads for the new sleep drug Lunesta, a pale green luna moth - they’re nocturnal - floats peacefully across the TV or computer screen, hoping to lure you into asking your doctor to prescribe the medication.
- DeLay gives up leadership role in U.S. House
- Texan faces criminal charges stemming from redistricting scandal
- January 8, 2006
- Rep. Tom DeLay, the defiant face of a conservative revolution in Congress, stepped down as House majority leader on Saturday under pressure from Republicans staggered by an election-year corruption scandal.
- Commentary: Young’s decision should be easy one
- Longhorns’ standout quarterback needs to enter NFL Draft, and Texans need to take him
- January 8, 2006
- Having elevated the University of Texas to a national championship, Vince Young can check that off his list and move on to the next task.
- Tempting Teas
- ‘Miracle’ brew steeped in flavor and health benefits
- January 8, 2006
- Suffering from anxiety? You might want to have some chamomile tea. Having trouble concentrating? Your distraction might be fixed with a bit of rosemary tea. Marigold in tea can help eliminate bad breath, peppermint tea may ease arthritis and chrysanthemum in tea can alleviate pressure behind your eyes.
- Wildcat women roll
- January 8, 2006
- De Soto product Allie Heinen had 12 points and 12 rebounds as Baker’s women (7-7, 3-1 HAAC) walloped Culver-Stockton, 78-62.
- Keegan: KU made top ‘Cat disappear
- January 8, 2006
- It was easy to find Kentucky’s star player in the layup line. He was the real cool customer with the blue towel hanging over his left shoulder. He was the one the ESPN cameraman came nearly nose-to-nose with on the court until being shooed away by an assistant coach.
- Trapped miner recorded deteriorating conditions
- January 8, 2006
- In the darkness of the Sago Mine, one of 12 trapped coal miners scrawled a timeline detailing how he was alive but losing air at least 10 hours after an underground explosion, his daughter said Saturday.
- KU professors get firsthand look at Mideast as Sharon exits politics
- January 8, 2006
- It was a regularly scheduled research trip to the Middle East. Little did Kansas University professors Deborah Gerner and Phil Schrodt know they would find themselves in a unique position to observe the historic departure of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from the political scene.
- Olmert may give peace better chance
- January 8, 2006
- Ehud Olmert’s immediate test as Israel’s acting prime minister - and a harbinger of his stand on Mideast peacemaking - will be whether he will allow Palestinians to vote in Jerusalem in their upcoming parliamentary elections.
- Jazz continue Motown mastery
- Utah earns second victory over Detroit this season
- January 8, 2006
- Andrei Kirilenko had 24 points and 11 rebounds, and former Piston Mehmet Okur added 13 points and 17 rebounds as the Utah Jazz beat Detroit for the second time this season, 94-90 in overtime Saturday night.
- Bush strategy alters balance of power
- January 8, 2006
- President Bush agreed with great fanfare last month to accept a ban on torture, but he later quietly reserved the right to ignore it, even as he signed it into law.
- Short-term bonds, CDs best bet during curve
- January 8, 2006
- You may have seen that the yield curve inverted recently, as short-term interest rates became higher than long-term ones for the first time in five years. What’s that mean to us?
- School cost study holds key to session
- Never has so much ridden on a single report, state leaders say
- January 8, 2006
- When the Legislature was last in town, it ended a raucous summer special session by approving a $290 million increase for public schools.
- UK beats hasty retreat
- January 8, 2006
- Kentucky basketball coach Tubby Smith spoke to reporters for exactly five minutes about his team’s dismal play Saturday, before abruptly announcing, “I gotta go, that’s it,” and dashing back into the locker room and out of the spotlight.
- Handwritten thank-yous mean more
- January 8, 2006
- Two weeks have passed since you tore through all your Christmas presents. You might have had time to wear your new sweater, shoot pictures with your new camera or listen to fresh downloads on your new iPod.
- UNC won’t die, drills N.C. State
- January 8, 2006
- One team scored the first 11 points, the other had the final 13. In between, No. 25 North Carolina did just enough to continue its recent domination of North Carolina State.
- Washington wins in Gibbs’ playoff return
- January 8, 2006
- Joe Gibbs’ teams have a knack for peaking at the right time, and these Washington Redskins are no different.
- Fish no small matter at lake’s public salvage
- Two boats capsize Saturday at recently drained reservoir
- January 8, 2006
- By Saturday afternoon, the whole back of the black pickup was slopped full of flathead catfish.
- The Motley Fool
- January 8, 2006
- ¢ Stocks vs. Bonds ¢ Bank Foolishly ¢ The Jury Is Out ¢ Foolish trivia ¢ Amgen Keeps Profits
- What a Rush!
- Freshman sparks KU, catches actress Judd’s eye
- January 8, 2006
- Focused intently on basketball most of the game, Brandon Rush let his mind wander for a moment Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse. The Kansas University freshman guard - who burned Kentucky for a career-high 24 points and 12 rebounds in the unranked Jayhawks’ 73-46 rout of the No. 19-rated Wildcats - rewarded himself for his hard work.
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