Safari Leaders Call of the Wild Kenya Tour
Daniel A Baffa recalls leading a Kansas Zoo safari group to Kenya for ten days. The trip featured wildlife including elephants rhinos lions leopards and numerous antelope species around Maasai Mara Samburu and Nakuru with visits to the Norfolk Hotel. The program drew participants from Sedgwick County and smaller Kansas cities pooling resources to enable the expedition.
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Africa
Sedgwick County Zoo
Manhattan
Salina
Emporia
Garden City
Kansas Zoo
Lee Richardson Zoo
Kenya
Maasai Mara
Samburu Game Reserve
The
Ark
Lake Nakuru
Norfolk Hotel
Jambo and Safari Reflections Across Kenya and Kansas
A travel memoir fragment recounts Kenya’s landscape and Maasai cattle tallies, contrasting with Kansas. The narrator notes water hauling by Kenyans, English-speaking locals, left-drive vehicles, and crossing the equator, with trivia on toilet water flow patterns. Names include a Rolling Hills Wildlife Refuge volunteer couple and zoo director Baffa.
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Kenya
Kansas
Emporia
Rolling Hills Wildlife Refuge
Salina
Natalie
George Armantrout
Carolyn
Carl Meyers
Lincoln's last address sells for nearly $3.1 million
A 12 page handwritten manuscript of President Abraham Lincoln's last address sold at auction for nearly $3.1 million. Christie's called it a world auction record for an American historic document while Sotheby's contested the claim. Lincoln delivered the address from the White House window on April 11, 1865.
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New York
Abraham Lincoln
Christie’s Auction House
Sotheby's
Lincoln
White House
Teens who watch TV linked to later violence study
A 17 year study of 700 youths finds that watching more than one hour daily in early adolescence correlates with higher aggression later. Violence rises sharply when daily TV exceeds three hours, with a five fold jump from under one hour to three or more hours.
TV Violence Links to Adolescent Aggression
A study finds adolescents who watch more TV show higher later aggression. Boys watching one to three hours or more than three hours at age 14 have greater aggression at ages 16 or 20, with the highest rates among those over three hours. Girls show smaller increases. Researchers and critics weigh the findings and note prior work and context from other experts.
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Washington
Jeffrey G. Johnson
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Johnson
New York
Science
Man found dead amid painkiller patches in Pleasant Hill
Jamey Phillip Sheets, 32, former co owner of Doc's Pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak, was found dead with six skin patches containing a powerful painkiller glued to his body. Authorities say no foul play suspected as his license was suspended over tainted injectable steroids from a June batch. The investigation notes poor sterilization and substandard practices. partner Robert Horwitz and two technicians faced license suspensions. The pharmacy was shut down and sold.
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Pleasant Hill
Calif
Jamey Phillip Sheets
Doc
Michelle
Michelle Sheets
Sheets
Robert Horwitz
Horwitz
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Lee Richar
Zoo
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Paul Bergensen
E. Mary, Ste
Mar
Ehresman Packing Co
E. Fulton
Mark I. Singer
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Dennis Wharton
National Association of Broadcasters
Craig A. Anderson
Brad _ J. Bushman
Iowa_ State University
IS “Urs
Sandy Keller
Pape
Euler
Wirele
Alltel
Dodge City
N. 14Th Street
Industrial
W. Mary St
Great Bend
10Th St
Cee Pn
Hutchinson
N. Main
E. 11Th St
N. State St
Junction City
E. Chestnut
Fort Riley
Blvd
Ottawa
S. Main
Motorola
Pittsburg
W. 4Th Street
S. Ohio St
Winfield
Main
Wal-Mart
Goodwill’s
Ang Nignt
Nokia
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