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Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo.Michele Haider-Markel plays with her eighteen-month-old son Jesiah along with his father Don Haider-Markel, not pictured, Friday, May 9, 2008 at their Lawrence home.

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Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo.A miniature dachshund named Millie passes through the shadows cast by the trees as she patrols the area around her owner Alan Martin as he pulls weeds from the brick sidewalk outside his Old West Lawrence home Monday, May 12, 2008. Alan and Millie took advantage of Monday's sun and wind to get some work done outside.

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Pinckney School third-graders, from left, Dakota Elms, Sam Kendrick and Tucker Wilson visit with reading specialist Bitsey Patton’s registered therapy dog, Maggie. The boys had been reading a true story about a therapy dog. Patton, at right, submitted the photo.

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Picher firefighter Josh Stillwell frees a dog trapped in tornado debris in Picher, Okla., on Monday. Six people were killed and more than 100 homes destroyed by a tornado Saturday night.

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A rainbow is visible behind an array of wind turbines in this Jan. 28 file photo from Palm Springs, Calif. By the year 2030, Americans may get as much as 20 percent of their electricity from wind power, the Energy Department says.

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Tracy Williams is the Lawrence school district’s new staff wellness coordinator. Friday at school district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive, she joined other district employees in a variety of activities and a healthy luncheon.

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A student helps his schoolmate stranded in the ruins of a high school in Beichuan county, in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The death toll from a powerful earthquake climbed today to at least 10,000 as rescue efforts entered a second day.

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Wheat grows in an otherwise empty field at the northwestern corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive that is the site of a planned Wal-Mart store. The city has granted a building permit to the retailer, and construction is expected to begin soon. “We’re looking at a grand opening of around mid-to-late spring of 2009,” Wal-Mart spokeswoman Angie Stoner said.

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Ezra Huscher, a Kansas University junior from Salina, took advantage of Monday’s sunny weather to refine his juggling skills. He practiced behind the Spencer Museum of Art on the KU campus. Today’s high is expected to be 71.

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Cleveland’s LeBron James, right, drives on Paul Pierce. Cleveland edged Boston, 88-77, on Monday in Cleveland.

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Free State junior Seth McCauley tees off from the first hole. McCauley, along with Lawrence’s Jon Cohen, advanced to the Class 6A state tournament by firing rounds of 83 on Monday at Eagle Bend.

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