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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 2001
Page
2
President Bush honors more than 40 Baseball Hall of Famers and announces monthly youth T-ball games on the White House South Lawn. Stan Musial plays harmonica in the East Room as Ernie Banks cheers. observers include Juan Marichal Duke Snider Lou Brack and Al Kaline.
President Bush hosts a baseball themed White House lunch and announces monthly T-ball games on the South Lawn with local Little League teams. He envisions potential federal involvement to revive Major League Baseball in the area. Notables Hank Aaron Sparky Anderson Sandy Koufax and Yogi Berra attended.
Charles Mottley's family has farm roots near Boonville Indiana but risks losing their land after a $300,000 debt and failed bids. Census data show rural Americans fleeing to cities amid low prices, drought, and high costs across multiple states. Extension agent Howard Person notes farmers are selling out to minimize losses and abandon farming, a shift from the 1980s.
The Agriculture Department reports farmers will sharply increase genetically engineered crops this year with about 63 percent of soybeans, 48 million acres, biotech. Cotton acreage about 64 percent and corn around 24 percent also biotech. Farmers cite Roundup ready benefits amid domestic consumption and overseas resistance.
A federal judge ruled Indiana cannot require in-person counseling a day before an abortion as it blocks access to information on alternatives. The decision notes two clinic trips are needed for the 18 hour preprocedure contact, outweighing the state's argument that personal contact aids communication with providers.
Ronald Hunlock, a Sing Sing correctional officer, is charged with cruelty to animals for dropping five kittens into a trash compactor after finding them in an inmate cell. The kittens mother Midnight escaped during a prison yard flight as officials reported the March 11 incident. Hunlock, employed five years at the Ossining facility, was arrested and suspended without pay.
Cosco Inc recalls about 170 000 Bungee Baby Jumpers due to a detachable clasp that can cause a child to fall. Columbus based Casco and the Consumer Product Safety Commission report 82 clasp detachments and 15 minor injuries from the jumper that suspends a baby in a doorway by a bungee cord.
In Washington, researchers blocked a protein aiding the immune system to delay a mad cow disease onset in mice. Scrapie emerged in the test animals but the study, reported in Nature Medicine, may guide future efforts against prion illnesses linked to human Creutzfeldt Jakob disease from contaminated meat.
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