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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 2010
Page
3
In the USA Today Gallup survey Barack Obama is the top admired man for the third straight year among Americans. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most admired woman for the ninth year, edging Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey. rankings reflect total mentions.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he is forced to write an autobiography to keep the organization afloat. Alfred A. Knopf and Canongate have agreed to pay over 1 million dollars, with 800,000 dollars from Knopf and 325,000 pounds from Canongate, amid financial pressure and legal costs.
In a Moscow court, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and partner Platon Lebedev were convicted of embezzling about $27 billion in oil from Yukos. Prosecutors said they created schemes to manipulate prices and conceal illegal deals. Supporters outside waved portraits calling for freedom.
Israeli archaeologists at Tel Aviv University report teeth in a central Israel cave dated to about 400,000 years old resemble Homo sapiens remains found in the region. If confirmed, the find would challenge current timelines of human evolution and alter theories about the origin of modern man. Further research is planned to solidify the claim.
A package bomb delivered to the Greek embassy in Rome was defused by a bomb squad. It follows blasts at Chilean and Swiss embassies four days earlier, with no injuries reported due to heightened security. An anarchist group linked to Greek radicals claimed ties to the earlier attacks.
Kansas University senior basketball player Mario Little had his municipal court date delayed from January 5 to May 19 after his attorney entered an appearance. Little faces four counts of battery two counts of criminal damage to property and one count of criminal trespassing. He was arrested December 15 after an incident on Ohio Street and accused of battering four people including pushing his girlfriend into a sink. No hospitalizations were reported.
Overbrook Spirits greeted more than a dozen locals as its doors opened in a former garage after the town repealed its long-standing prohibition. Scott Bronoski invested about 80 thousand dollars in the venture drawing residents and nearby motorists to stock shelves and buy beer wine and spirits, with mayor Don Schultz noting the store as a standard modern business in Kansas communities.
Lawrence resident Marla Welch leads Pieces a local children s quilting group formed after MS forced her from work in 2006 The group volunteers through Lawrence Memorial Hospital pediatrics sewing quilts for children their first red and green ladybug quilt presented to Chloe shows growing demand with donors from Kansas Oregon and Washington DC helping drive the effort
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