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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 2012
Page
3
The Arab League demanded Syria’s government halt all violence and allow more monitors, as activists reported at least 10 civilians killed including two teenagers. Clashes in the south left 11 soldiers dead. Qatari and other ministers discussed U.N. involvement and training in Cairo.
Allyson Stone and her husband Christopher Stone were hospitalized with burns after a bomb in a paper bag left beside their car exploded as they prepared to drive. The ex-husband of Allyson is a person of interest. about 20 homes were evacuated and later allowed to return.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his government should withdraw from the World Bank affiliated arbitration center ICSID and will not recognize its decisions. Exxon Mobil faces ICSID cases as part of more than a dozen disputes. Analysts warn the move could hurt Venezuela’s access to credit and oil investment and may trigger asset freezes on assets like refineries in the United States.
Mexico's social development secretary Heriberto Felix Guerra reports about 600000 households faced property damage or crop losses in 2011 amid floods drought and freezing weather. He notes 2.6 million people in 1650 northern villages lack drinking water and many southeast communities suffered persistent floods. He links the extreme weather to climate change and warns of worsening disasters ahead.
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking was too ill to attend a Cambridge conference honoring his 70th birthday. A recorded message was played, in which Hawking urged humanity to colonize other worlds to ensure long term survival.
Airtight Energy Audits owner Robert Coffman reports 25 to 30 homes checked for energy efficiency showed dangerous CO levels. He cites at least 10 Lawrence homes with potentially fatal readings of 1,600 to 2,000 parts per million, underscoring sudden deadly risk.
KU anthropology assistant professor Bart Dean and graduate students rewrapped a roughly 450 year old Aztec mummy bundle in Peru to aid preservation and support native culture. Dean, on a Fulbright to Tarapoto, supervises the anthropology division at the regional museum of Universidad Nacional de San Martin. The mummy, part of the Peruvian museum’s collection, was a burned or broken funeral bundle wrapped and placed in a vessel.
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