KU Coca-Cola deal bets $21 million on campus vending
Kansas University and Coca-Cola signed a 21 million dollar ten year agreement in principle for monopoly soft drink vending on KU campuses in Lawrence and Overland Park. An immediate seven million payment and seven point five million in sponsorships over the pact would fund scholarships and campus programs while sharing proceeds with KU Athletics Corp and Kansas Memorial Corp. Critics warn of growing corporate influence in education.
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Kansas University
Coca-Cola
Lawrence
Overland Park
Coke
David Ambler
Tom Rice
Coca- Cola Bottling Company
Mid-America
KU Athletics Corp
Kansas Memorial Corp
KUAC
Health agency warns of diseased prairie dogs in Kansas
Kansas health officials warn residents near Cimarron National Grasslands to avoid prairie dogs and keep pets away after fleas from dead prairie dogs in Morton County tested positive for Yersinia pestis. A Arizona teen died after walking through a prairie dog colony, and a Colorado teen died after contact with an ill cat. Cats appear more susceptible and can develop head abscesses, while no human or pet transmission from prairie dogs in Kansas is yet confirmed.
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Toreka
Cimarron National Grasslands
Kansas
Arizona
Colorado
Morton County
Grasslands
Elkhart
Department of Health and Environment
Gail Hansen
Office of Epidemiologic Services
Kdhe
Hansen
Plague Facts From Southwest States Highlight Bubonic Form
Plague cases peak in Arizona California Colorado and New Mexico with about one third being classic bubonic plague. Bubonic symptoms include swollen lymph nodes fever chills diarrhea and rapid heartbeat and breathing.
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Arizona
California
Colorado
New Mexico
Suspicious fires plague Baldwin and campus housing project
Investigators pursue causes of several fires in Baldwin and at a 20 unit Highpointe Apartments building under construction near Sixth and Town. A mobile home blaze caused by a short in an electrical cord cost about 1000. A Friday fire in a Winged Foot Court home stemmed from a short circuit with 80000 in damage. Police seek a suspect in a break‑in and arson at C and One Foods, Baldwin. Fire officials note several fires occurring close in time but refuse to call it an epidemic.
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Connie Tomlinson
Jim McSwain
Highpointe Apartments
Doug Compton
Compton
Kansas University
Winged
McSwain
City to approve new 14.2 million health facility plan
Lawrence city commissioners will review a site plan for a new 14.2 million community health facility across from Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The 6:35 p.m. meeting at city hall will likely approve the plan with minimal public input. The project, expected to open in early 1999 at 200, has built support despite requests for more trees.
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Lawrence
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Osborne
Parks and Forestry
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Sixth
Massachusetts
Rod Bremby
George Osborne
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