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Photos for May 8, 2009
Cem Basoflas
Nathan Patterson, 12, and dad Bob stand in front of an airplane at Lawrence Municipal Airport. The Pattersons came to the airport for information on how Nathan could become a pilot.
Nathan Patterson, 12, and dad Bob stand in front of an airplane at Lawrence Municipal Airport. The Pattersons came to the airport for information on how Nathan could become a pilot.
Nathan Clukey, left, and Edwin Roque-Rivera talk while waiting in line to see the first public showing of "Star Trek" in IMAX at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 7, 2009. "Star Trek" opens in theaters Friday, May 8 but some theaters began showing the film as early as 7 PM Thursday.
Kudan Elementary School children touch a cheek of Japan’s robot teacher Saya after a special class Thursday by Saya in Tokyo. Unlike more mechanical-looking robots like Honda Motor Co.’s Asimo, the robot teacher, developed by Tokyo University of Science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, can express six basic emotions — surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, sadness — because its rubber skin is being pulled from the back with motors and wiring around the eyes and the mouth. Saya, remote-controlled by a human watching the interaction through cameras, called out children’s names, casted them preprogrammed phrases and questions as “What sort of robots would you like to be with?” and gave a lecture about robots while showing a video of various types of robots including Asimo, industrial and toy robots.
The Kansas Soccer Academy Enforcers compete in the recent rainy and muddy Kansas City Champions Cup soccer tournament at Heritage SoccerPark in Olathe. The team is coached by Pat Watkins. Colleen Harrell, Lawrence, submitted the picture.
The new “i-house” is shown in this Oct. 28, 2008, image released by Clayton Homes Inc. The solar-powered, energy efficient prefab house features decks on the ground level and on the roof of the detached “flex room.”
Flags attached to angels in memory of the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93 who perished on Sept. 11, 2001, are seen in Shanksville, Pa., in this Sept. 11, 2006, file photo.
People cross a flooded road with canoes Thursday in Rosario, in the northeast state of Maranhao, Brazil. Floods have killed at least 36 and left more than 200,000 homeless across a vast region stretching from the Amazon jungle to the northeastern Atlantic coast, and meteorologists predict the bad weather could last for weeks.
Pedestrians walk by a Bank of America ATM in Charlotte, N.C., near the bank’s corporate headquarters. The bank needs to raise $33.9 billion in capital.
The Sin Sisters earned their nickname during a Halloween night in 1990. From left, Tanya Haller McNeely, Jackie Denning and Nicki Geist.
Buffy Barton Davis performs at the 1992 River Valley Music Festival with her band Baghdad Jones.
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