Census workers collect KU student census forms in housing
Census Bureau staff hand delivered and collected census forms from Kansas University students in all EU residence and scholarship halls and most Greek houses except Delta Chi and Alpha Tau Omega. Fraternity members voiced concerns over late or missing forms while local officials push for an accurate count ahead of personal visits after May 1.
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U.S. Census Bureau
Kansas University
Census Bureau
Journal- World
Delta Chi
Alpha Tau Omega
Jayhawker Towers
Ben Hiss
Bureau
Jean Milstead
Lawrence
New Lawrence city manager embraces public servant role
Mike Wildgen talks of serving the public as Lawrence's fifth city manager. He plans a five to ten year tenure but aims to survive weekly commission meetings, acknowledging political pressures and the need to keep the board satisfied while learning from Buford Watson. He stayed in Lawrence despite offers elsewhere.
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Mike Wildgen
Lawrence
Wildgen
Commission
City Commission
Buford Watson
Watson
Buford
City
State court told life begins at conception in Kansas case
The Kansas Supreme Court heard that life begins at conception, not birth or viability, in a wrongful death suit over a non viable fetus linked to an IUD and abortion. Bennie and Brenda Humes seek damages for personal injuries, emotional distress, income loss, and fetal death at 16 weeks after a January 1985 abortion at KU Medical Center.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
John McClelland
Kansas City, Mo
Lawrence
Kansas
Bennie
Brenda Humes
Dale L
Clinton
Alza Corp
Humes
Kansas University Medical Center
Kansas City
Kan
Douglas County
Michael Malone
Humeses
Alia
Hutchinson transfer adds Zimmerman to Kansas roster beat
David Johanning a 6-10 center from Hutchinson Community College will transfer to Kansas. Cortez Barnes, at 6-7, remains undecided as parental pressure keeps him from a March signing. Wholesale prices fell 0.2 percent in March, first drop in seven months. Quotation notes Barbara Boxer praising tuna canners not to deal in dolphin captured tuna.
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David Johanning
Hutchinson Community College
Kansas
Cortez Barnes
Charlie
U.S
Barbara Boxer
D-Calif
Census forms go unfilled by a quarter of Americans
Nationwide informal sampling finds about 25 percent of adults reluctant to complete census forms citing length intrusiveness and complexity. Participants from Los Angeles to Boston report delays and nonresponse while Census Bureau officials in Washington urge returns past the April 20 cutoff, signaling a public relations push led by director Barbara Everitt Bryant.
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Los Angeles
Des Moines
Boston
Pat Tiller
Atlanta Public Library
Jeff Epstein
Washington
Census Bureau
Barbara Everitt Bryant
Bush welcomes arms statement in Bermuda talks
President Bush on a Bermuda trip welcomed Mikhail Gorbachev s pledge to start a nuclear arms accord with the United States next month. He backed Gorbachev s stance on Lithuania lectures and prepared for talks with Margaret Thatcher during a five day summit.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Bush
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
United States
Gorbachev
Washington
Lithuania
Atlantic Ocean
Margaret
Cher
Europe
Mrs. Thatcher
Bermuda Regiment
Oceanside Government House
NASA memo warns of space tomatoes
NASA seeds sent to schoolchildren allegedly exposed to cosmic radiation over six years in space, possibly producing poisonous fruit. NASA scientists dispute the claim as unfounded and remote, noting no hazard to children. The Los Angeles Times published an unsigned memo from a NASA contractor.
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Washington
NASA
William H. Kinard
LDEF
Los Angeles Times
Park Seed Co
the Times
Nelson Ehrlich
Aerospace Education Services
Oklahoma State University
Students told not to eat fruit experiment seeds space
Deerfield Elementary School sixth graders in a tomato seed space experiment were warned by teacher Tom Christie not to eat the seeds. Christie noted a NASA contractor memo stating seeds had been exposed to space and should not be consumed.
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Deerfield
Tom Christie
Christie
NASA
Memo Warns Of Possible Plant Mutations In Space
A memo notes a remote possibility that radiation in space could cause mutations making plants produce toxic fruit. It contrasts with higher space radiation levels and states no such warning was sent to about 180,000 teachers involved in the experiment.
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Space
Earth
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