Baseball outfielders follow curved paths to catch fly balls
Researchers from Kent State University and NASA profiled how outfielders reach the landing spot. The batter hits the ball in a high arc and the fielder runs along a curved route to appear as if the ball travels straight. The piece notes funding for the study and questions who paid for it.
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Kent State University
Ohio
NASA
Research Center
California
Jim Hitch
No News Is Good News Legislature Gridlock Seen as Needed
Guest editorial argues the 1995 Kansas Legislature faltered but stalled radical party aims. It notes House shifts, abortion and concealed weapons debates, Senate resistance, and upcoming 1996 elections. Calls for moderates to retake the House, hold Senate, and end gridlock by fall 1996.
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Herald
House
Senate
Kansas
Tax appraisal puzzle at Franklin County Annex in Topeka
Readers question why the Franklin County Annex renting 30 000 square feet from a Topeka family shows a shrinking market value for home and business property. From 1989 to last year values declined from 1 207 100 to 835 040 despite remodel spending raising doubts about exemptions and tax treatment. Call 242 4700 for the community forum It s Your Quarter is on.
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Franklin County
Topeka
Herald
Alco
Ing
Kansas
Notable Press Leaders Share Weekend Convention Highlights
Verland Park hosts the Ones Press Association convention at the Doubletree, with Kansas Senior Press Service writer Betty Gibb seeking more senior issue questions and writers. Prominent journalists George Pyle and Hugh Mulligan discuss media openness, democracy, and war stories, while Herington’s editor Larry L. Byers recalls CNN and NY Post scoops on the Oklahoma City bombing and Mulligan reflects on humor in journalism.
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Verland Park
Ones Press Association
Doubletree
Ottawa
Ottawa Herald
Fe ‘l Hotes
Quo
Kansas Senior Press Service
Gibb
Kansas Department of Aging
Franklin County
Kansas Senior Press Services
Betty Gibb
S. Clairborne
Clathe
Larry L. Byers
Times
Osawatomie
Kansas
Gretchen
New York Post
CNN
Herington
Byers
Terry Lynn Nichols
Oklahoma City
the Times
Hugh Mulligan
Mulligan
Associated Press
Vietnam
Berlin Wall
Diana
Prince Charles
Egypt
Syria
Sharon
Terry Anderson
Germans continue fighting as Berlin surrender orders stand
Fifty years ago German troops in Berlin are ordered to surrender while pockets resist. The U.S. 9th Army halts attacks in Germany and digs in along the Elbe. In Italy the German commander accepts surrender terms. Australian troops seize Tarakan oilfields northeast of Borneo and Gurkha paratroopers near Rangoon prepare for a British landing.
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Berlin
U.S. 9Th Army
Germany
Elbe
Italy
Tarakan
Borneo
Rangoon
Burma
Fisherman and Joyce Bond Over Bass On Campbells Point
In Shell Knob Missouri near Table Rock Lake, Joyce and I stay at Campbell Point Resort and fish from Campbell's Point Marina. We rent a Bass Tracker and chase bass in Big Creek as Thad teaches casting, rediscovering luck with a Zebco rod.
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Hell Knob
Joyce
Table Rock Lake
White River
Shell Knob
Branson
Campbell Point
Mark Twain National Forest
Campbell’s Point Marina
Bob
Janelle Freeman
Hutchinson
Ozark
Freemans
Big Creek
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Karl A. van Asselt
Tina Turner
Goldie Hawn
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Reba McEntire
Joanna Kerns
Disneyland
Marx Brothers
World Features Syndicate
U.S
Bob Dole
Hart
Washington, D.C
Telephone
Fox
George Pyle
The
Pyle
Bill Tellier
Salina Journal
EPA
Herington Times
David Bartkoski
Mallard Fillmore
Nancy Kassebaum
Russell Senate
Sam Brownback
Longworth
Washington
D.C
Carla Stovall
Judicial Center
Kansas Ave
Kathleen Sebelius
Southwest
Bill Graves
State Capitol
Wiese MU Turd
Rees
Fire Department
Freeman
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