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Kansas University architect Warren Corman, pictured here in a file photo from 2001, plans to retire after 63 years of working in architecture.

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Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra throws out Baltimore's Tony Batista.

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San Francisco pitcher livan Hernandez is congratulated by manager Dusty Baker after scoring on Barry Bonds' three-run homer. Bonds's 50th home run overshadowed Hernandez's red-hot hitting. On Saturday, Hernandez went 4-for-4 with a homer and now has 12 hits in his last 13 at-bats.

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KU's Brandon Lacy (72), Tony Strickland, second from left, and David McMillan, right, surround Jayhawk assistant coach Clarence James during practice on Saturday.

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KU Receiver Roger Ross catches a pass during practice.

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Washington coach Marty Schottenheimer watches his players stretch before a recent practice. The former Chiefs coach returns to Kansas City tonight with his new team for an exhibition game at Arrowhead Stadium. In addition to Schottenheimer, the Redskins have six former Chiefs assistants on their staff and two former Chiefs players on their roster.

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Lawrence Police officers escort to a patrol car a man who led them on a chase through downtown streets after police tried to pull him over for playing his stereo too loudly.

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"The big z adventure," a takeoff on "The Wizard of Oz," was the third installment of Backyard Theater written and performed by four friends ages 11 and 12. Pictured are, from left, the Wizardess/President (Johanna Mehl), Dottie (Kate Falkenstien) and Scarecrow Girl (Stephanie Jian). Jordan Williams, not pictured, provided voices for three other characters.

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Kansas University architect Warren Corman says the Lawrence campus has been "deteriorating" for decades, necessitating a 10-year, $22 million plan to re-landscape the campus.

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The Z-Bar pens got crowded in a hurry as cowboys, from left, Tim Meiser, Vern Starkey, Don Matile and Norm Wilson push a group of calves toward the loading chute.

B.J. Matile, left, and Norm Wilson move the cattle through pens toward the loading chute during sorting at the Z-Bar Ranch.

Young steers leave the Flint Hills the same way they arrived, loaded one at a time. Gene Matile, right, encourages a calf to keep moving up the ramp. Darwin Bailey is on horseback in the background.

With a light rain falling, a herd of young steers heads through the lush greenery of the Flint Hills on the way to the cattle pens at Chase County's Z-Bar Ranch. Born in Mexico and wintered in Texas, the cattle spent the last 90 days in the Flint Hills. Their next stop is the feedlots in Greeley, Colo.

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In May, cattle trucks filled with young steers from Texas eased their way across the Hymer-Lipps pasture northwest of Strong City to deposit their loads into the fertile Flint Hills grasslands. Last week 90 days later 31 trucks were needed to haul out what 20 trucks hauled in.

In April, pastures owned or leased by National Farms in the Flint Hills near Strong City were burned to eliminate the dead grasses from the previous year. Chase County firefighters created a back fire behind the controlled burn.

Lightning bolts poke holes in the pre-dawn sky during a recent storm over the Flint Hills.

A HERD OF more than 1,200 YOUNG STEERS moves toward the cattle pens on Chase County's Z-Bar Ranch after being "gathered" by 11 cowboys. National Farms caretaker Gene Matile rides in the foreground and cowboy Ty Wilson is at the left rear. The Z-Bar Ranch is about 5 miles northwest of Strong City.

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The Marjorie Powell Allen Chapel is a popular wedding site.

Attendance is up at Powell Gardens, and officials there attribute part of that to a group of giant metal bug sculptures on display through Aug. 19.

A butterfly and a wasp share a Summersweet Clethra blossom.

Visitors pass by the "living wall" at Powell Gardens, a 915-acre botanical garden 30 miles east of Kansas City, Mo. The 600-foot-long limestone wall has nearly 200 species of plants growing in its cracks.

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IBM's prototype of a core computer concept. This design will be a full function computer.

Personal Computers have evolved during the past 20 years. An Apple II computer, is shown at the Personal Computing Museum History Center.

Eriko Ikeda, of Hitachi, displays a wearable personal computer that the Japanese electronics maker plans to put on the Japanese market by the end of this year in a partnership with U.S. wearable computer maker Xybernaut Corp. The unit has a head-mounted display and the user sees the image through a display equivalent to a 13-inch monitor at 2 feet. The head-mounted display and CPU weigh less than a pound.

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Scottish kilt designer Howie Nicholsby wraps on a Chinese-pattern kilt made of silk viscose that retails for $700. Nicholsby sells kilts from the 21st Century Kilts division of his family's company, Geoffrey (Tailor) Kiltmakers and Weavers.

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This punched-cardboard-and-needlework motto from the 1870s is unusual because it includes a photograph of a deceased family member. The appropriate motto reads "Absent But Not Forgotten." It is worth about $150.

Grand champion Kobe flies down the track en route to winning his crown.

Contestents wriggle their dogs into colored racing jerseys before a heat.

LaRue and Lisa Linson, Kansas City, Mo., hold their dog Kobe and the ribbon he won for placing first in his heat. Kobe went on to become grand champion.

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"Man, Spirit and Mask," a 1999 work by Willie Cole, is among the lithographs, drawings and etchings in "Sum of the Parts: Recent Works on Paper" at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art on the Kansas University campus.

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Brooklyn resident Yuko Kawase looks at a piece in the exhibit "My Reality: Contempor-ary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation," at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York.

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Writer Joseph McBride explores the many incongruities in the life of filmmaker John Ford in his latest book, "Searching for John Ford." McBride also wrote biographies of Frank Capra and Steven Spielberg.

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Ray's Liquor second baseman Dennis Hadl, left, soars for a throw while Great Western's Jim Mohan safely reaches second base at the Class D State Men's Slow-Pitch tournament. Great Western won, 15-3.

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Anjanette Kirkland, left, of the United States celebrates with compatriot Gail Devers. Kirkland won the 100-meter hurdles Saturday at Edmonton, Alberta. Devers placed second.

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A member of the Protestant group Apprentice Boys of Derry, right, speaks to a British soldier in North Belfast, Northern Ireland. The loyalist Apprentice Boys were blocked Saturday from marching through a Catholic area.

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Astronaut Patrick Forrester, right, reaches over commander Scott Horowitz as he exercises on the ergometer, a stationary bicycle, in this televised image Saturday from space shuttle Discovery.

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A bearded former Vice President Al Gore, left, and former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander answer questions while on their way to lunch during a bipartisan workshop for young people interested in politics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. About 100 people from the Democratic and Republican parties who are interested in running for office or working in campaigns were invited to Saturday's workshop.

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The bodies of two members of the militant group Hamas are carried out of a morgue in Gaza City. Hundreds of Palestinians marched Saturday through the streets of Gaza City in a joint funeral for two men who died from injuries sustained in clashes with Israeli troops a day earlier. Palestinians also continued to protest the seizure early Friday by Israeli troops of the PLO headquarters in east Jerusalem.

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