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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1997
Page
3
President Clinton, cleared by doctors to resume light golf after knee repair, heads to the White House south grounds following a welfare event. White House spokesman Mike McCurry notes he will gradually work up from putts to light chips as spectators watch him greet the Green Bay Packers at the portico.
Edward Kosner departs Esquire magazine after 3 1/2 years at the helm. Hearst Magazines cites declines in ad revenue and newsstand sales as factors. Randall Rothenberg named acting editor, effective immediately, until a successor is named.
A booby-trapped beeper mailed to Jason Zukas’ sister Tara exploded at the Five Burro Cafe in Queens as she inserted a battery. Tara lost a finger, Jason had previously received the beeper during a dispute over a woman. Tara was hospitalized in stable condition. no other injuries or suspects reported.
Wilson F. Bill Minor, long time Mississippi civil rights and politics reporter, named Tuesday as the inaugural John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism recipient. The $25,000 prize stems from a endowed gift by a businessman who aided Chancellor on desegregation reporting at Little Rock Central High School. Kathleen Hall Jamieson lauds Minor as a courageous and tenacious journalist for civil rights, Mississippi politics, race and corruption reporting.
Argentine paleontologist Fernando Novas unveiled 90 million year old winglike forearms from Unenlagia comahuensis, a flightless dinosaur with birdlike shoulders, suggesting modern birds evolved from a common dinosaur ancestor. The find, reported in Nature, supports birds as living dinosaurs and notes Archaeopteryx as an earlier related form.
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