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David Platt was chosen teacher of the year at Lawrence High School in May 2014.
LHS teacher reorients points of view Over the past 20 years, Platt has taken students on more than 30 international trips. Despite For David Platt, teaching stu- the contrast in the two environdents extends beyond his class- ments, Platt said he sees the goal room at Lawrence High School — Please see PLATT, page 3A thousands of miles beyond, actually. By Rochelle Valverde
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BEN AND HANNAH HARING, center, dance at the monthly English Country Dance on Sunday at the White Schoolhouse, 1510 North Third St.
heads right between the storms. Then it flies circles around them. “Everybody is trying to get away. Kansas City, Mo. — The radar We’re going towards it,” flight navigascreens in the jetliner show massive storm tor Walter Klein says. “They’re thinksystems around Wichita and Dodge City ing, ‘What’s wrong with these guys?’” growing and beginning to merge. No thrill-seekers here. These storm Any commercial aircraft in the area Please see STORMS, page 8A have already diverted. But this DC-8 By Alan Bavley
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What’s at the heart of Kansas’ most powerful storms?
NASA RESEARCH PILOTS Greg Slover, left, and Bill Brockett fly a modified DC-8 jetliner over Kansas on July 13. NASA scientists spent June 1 through Wednesday flying above sections of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas collecting data on severe thunderstorms.
High: 88
After 11 years working for other people’s companies, Ryan Swenson decided he wanted to be his own boss. With most of those years spent in cities where he couldn’t see the stars at night, Swenson made another decision: He wanted to go home. Swenson, a Kansas KANSAS UNIVERSITY State University mechanical engineering graduate who grew up on a Concordia farm, wasn’t sure how he was going to do both. Concordia, population 5,200, wasn’t exactly flush with mechanical engineering jobs.
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Race for fiber Baker University’s Baldwin City campus expects to have gigabit Internet service working by mid-August. Page 3A
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