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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 2013
Page
7
Editorial lauds planning of the 150th Lawrence commemoration with exhibits talks and Twitter reenactment. It highlights community gatherings at South Park the Watkin Museum exhibit and a walking tour mud fort and lectures showing the raid's legacy and Lawrence's rebuilding spirit.
George Will argues the Brain Initiative could reveal how 100 billion neurons and their 10,000 connections create thoughts memories and decisions. He contrasts brain mapping with the genome and notes ethical legal and philosophical questions about responsibility and free will as brain circuitry and consciousness are better understood.
Jacob House, aged eighty, longtime Lawrence merchant and founder of J. House and Son, died at his home in Lawrence on Tennessee street. Born August 1913 marked his eighty years, his clothing business began in 1862 and continued for fifty one years under his personal care at 729 Massachusetts street.
Leonard Pitts Jr. argues that the promised tomorrow King spoke of was never a finished state. He notes enduring racial injustice and calls for present action to confront police brutality, voter suppression, and mass incarceration. He urges readers to see what is in front of them and work to make it right.
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