Westar Energy plant smokestacks billow behind a windmill in North Lawrence against the backdrop of a Kansas sunset Nov. 26, 2007.

Photo by Mike Yoder

Kansas University freshman Katie Williams, center, celebrates her second goal with teammates in the second-half of a game against Missouri on Nov. 3, 2007. From left are Emily Strinden, Monica Dolinsky, Rachel Morris, Williams and Shannon McCabe. In KU's last game of the season before the Big 12 Championships, the soccer team defeated Missouri, 2-1.

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Kansas University students pass through campus as sunshine reflects off a glaze of ice on a nearby hillside. Students were back to school Jan. 19, 2007, for the first day of the spring semester.

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Bekah Keys, 6, left, takes a break to warm up while her mother, Lisa Keys, right, takes shelter under a towel during light rain at the Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center. The pool opened May 26, 2007.

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Meredith Cummings, 4, center, finishes up her broccoli Sept. 21, 2007, while sitting near a "Flat Daddy" of her father, Major Brent Cummings, who is serving a 15-month tour of duty with the 216th Infantry in Baghdad through May 2008. In the kitchen is Meredith's mother, Laura Cummings, and her older sister Emily, 8, and their dog Travis. The Cummings enlarged a photo their father sent from Iraq and had it made into a Flat Daddy in February 2007.

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A Kansas University student does a flip during his walk into Memorial Stadium during KU's 135th commencement ceremony May 20, 2007, at Memorial Stadium.

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A jewel beetle is positioned with pins to allow the insect's wings to dry and maintain its shape to use in a piece of "Bug Art" by Lawrence artist Katie Jennings. To shape and dry a jewel beetle to use in her artworks, Jennings uses pins and a piece of Styrofoam.

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Mary Files, left, takes a call on the business phone at her Selighoff Bakery & Deli as her daughter, Katherine, 15, looks in. The family, who are members of the Amish-Mennonite community in Lyndon, are among 125 Amish-Mennonites who have moved to Osage County in the past five years.

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Martha Kelley Smith, left, 101, and her two sisters, Katharine Kelley, center, and Anne Hemphill, right, sit together at the back of the exhibition barn at the 1998 Vinland Fair.

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Kennedy Elementary first-grade teacher Kelly Holtz, left, introduces herself to student Micah Cullison, foreground right, on the first day of school Aug. 15, 2007.

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