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TOPEKA (AP) — Buoyed by spring victories in the Kansas Capital, anti-abortion groups are planning to push for more restrictive measures, including one that would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected. A petition being circulated by Mark Gietzen, board chairman of the Kansas Coalition for Life, calls for Gov. Sam Brownback, an antiabortion Republican, to convene a special session this fall to consider the so-called “heartbeat bill.” The Wichita Eagle reported that another group plans to introduce a bill calling for a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing the rights of personhood to every human being from the beginning of biological development, including fertilization. The measures, which have been considered in other states but never passed into law, could spark a challenge to Roe v. Wade. The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld a woman’s right to an abortion until fetal viability. A fetus is usually considered viable at 22 to 24 weeks. Fetal heartbeats can be detected as early as six weeks. “It is the same as all of the other anti-reproductive rights legislation,” said Julie Burkhart, founder and director of Trust Women, which hopes to open a clinic offering first-trimester abortions and other women’s health services in Wichita in about a year. “It’s about denying access to pregnant women
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Just because you have a governor that might sign it should it pass both bodies, there’s lots to be considered. Is it right for the long run? It’s going to be sued, so where are you going? You end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, where you’re still short a vote.” — Mary Kay Culp, executive director of the anti-abortion organization Kansans for Life, on anti-abortion groups’ push for more restrictive measures who are in need of reproductive health care. It’s a further step toward the re-criminalization of abortion services for women.” Even some factions of the anti-abortion movement said the measures go too far. “We want change to be lasting change, not try to throw the Hail Mary passes,” said Mary Kay Culp, executive director of the anti-abortion organization Kansans for Life, which has offices in Overland Park, Wichita and Topeka. The group urges incremental action, such as education and working to elect lawmakers who oppose abortion. “Just because you have a governor that might sign it should it pass both bodies, there’s lots to be considered,” she said. “Is it right for the long run? It’s going to be sued, so where are you going? You end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, where you’re still short a vote.” But Gietzen, who is pushing for the “heartbeat bill,” cited the numerous antiabortion measures that Brownback recently signed into law and said, “What else
can we do? We’ve got just about everything else covered.” Bills that have won passage set new licensing requirements for medical facilities that provide abortions; banned abortions after 21 weeks; required minors seeking an abortion to obtain the notarized written consent of both parents or a legal guardian; restricted private insurance coverage for abortions; and redirected federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood to other health care agencies. The new licensing requirements and the stripping of federal funds from Planned Parenthood already are in the courts. Rep. Randy Garber, a Republican from Sabetha who is sponsoring the personhood legislation, isn’t sure how that vote will turn out. “Some strong pro-life people think it’s the wrong way to go,” he said. “I think it’ll be a very close vote.” He said that he tells critics, “This is why God put me in the Legislature. I really prayed about it.”
Missouri biofuels ethanol company wins $48.4M verdict CLAYTON, MO. (AP) — A suburban St. Louis biofuels ethanol company has won a $48.4 million judgment against a title company whose 2006 mistake caused it to bypass building a plant outside Wichita, Kan., and instead build one in Illinois. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a jury returned the verdict this past week in St. Louis County Circuit Court, ending a trial that lasted about two weeks. The verdict was one of the largest ever in the county. Abengoa Bioenergy alleged in the suit filed in
2008 that Chicago Title Insurance Co. was supposed to notify property owners near the site of the proposed Colwich, Kan., plant so the company could acquire the proper zoning to build it. But Jim Dowd, an attorney for Abengoa, said the title company left seven property owners off the list. Property owners learned about the plant after zoning was granted and sued. Dowd said the company built a plant in Granite City, Ill., in 2010 but that the Kansas plant could have opened 15 months earlier,
The program, which is funded for three years through a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant, focuses specifically on biofuels and is centered on research being conducted with the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis and the Transportation Research Institute. Partnering with a broad spectrum of KU scientists, the teachers are researching ways to maximize the growth of algae so it can be more affordable to convert to biofuels, how to extract oil from algae, how to turn oil into biofuels, what to do with the byproducts and how biofuels work in engines. “We are getting to have an authentic research experience,” Sharp said.
New lessons As other teachers are researching ways to create fuels and burn them, Lawrence High School physics teacher Alan Gleue is at the other end of the spectrum. He’s spent the summer studying ways to reduce energy consumption. With a device that measures energy usage, Gleue created lesson plans that will have students look at the difference in cost, energy use and carbon emissions for running a traditional incandescent light bulb, compact fluorescent bulb and LED light. “I think it could really hit home for them,” Gleue said of how he hopes his students will receive the lesson. He’s also collected household appliances for students to measure their energy usage, has a mini solar panel that can charge a cellphone and a radio that runs off a hand crank generator. “We have the opportunity to really think about and develop new lesson plans over the summer. And we have the time and we have the resources,” Gleue said.
would have been less expenEngaging students sive to build and more profGleue not only anticipates itable. He said the company eventually got the go-ahead for the Kansas plant and may still build there. Grant L. Davis, another attorney for Abengoa, said Chicago Title wouldn’t admit it had made a mistake. “All this time, and they haven’t done anything to make it right,” he told the Post-Dispatch. Chicago Title didn’t immediately respond to an email request for comment Sunday from The Associated Press.
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SCOTT SHARP, A DE SOTO HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY TEACHER, LEFT, and Drew Ising, a Junction City high school biology and environmental science teacher, work on Wednesday on planning science experiments for their students involving algae as a fuel source. The two are doing research as part of the Research Experiences for Teachers program at Kansas University. taking those lesson plans into his classroom — the Webbased program is intended to be used by other teachers. As part of the program, the group of teachers spent two days at the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center in Greenbush to pass on their lesson plans to other Kansas high school science teachers. “Rather than a straight lab activity with a cookbook recipe, these guys are trying to create something that is engaging for students so they are doing more research in the high school setting,” said Claudia Bode, the education director for the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis. For the seminar in Greenbush, each of the teachers who attended received took kits worth about $100 that would help them implement the experiments in the classroom. In the case of Sharp and Ising, their kits included clear long plastic tubes that can be used to help determine how much algae is in water. They also are handing out small aquariums for growing algae. Ising plans to use the setup for students to study what happens to algae when fertilizer and other chemicals are added to water. “They are going to be held more accountable to actually
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NASA’s corps of astronauts shrinks down to 60 as shuttles stop Associated Press Writer
C APE C A N A V E R A L , F LA . — NASA’s mighty astronaut corps has become a shadow of what it once was. And it’s only going to get smaller. It’s down to 60 from an alltime high of 149 just a decade ago, with more departures coming once Atlantis returns this week from the very last space shuttle voyage. With no replacement on the horizon for the shuttle, astronauts are bailing fast, even though the International Space Station will need crews for at least another decade. The commander of Discovery’s last flight back in March, Steven Lindsey? Gone to a company whose proposed commercial spacecraft resembles a mini-shuttle; his last day at NASA was Friday. The skipper of Endeavour’s last mission in May, Mark Kelly? Retiring in another few months to write a memoir with his wounded congresswoman wife, Gabrielle Giffords. The captain of Atlantis, Christopher Ferguson, assured The Associated Press from orbit late last week that he’ll be sticking around after this final shuttle journey of them all. At least one of his crew, though, isn’t so sure. After spending her childhood wanting to be an astronaut — and achieving that goal in 1996 — Atlantis astronaut Sandra Magnus now has
to figure out what the next chapter holds. “Now that I’m an astronaut, the whole idea of what I want to do when I grow up comes back full circle,” said Magnus, a scientist and former space station resident who’s flown in space three times. What a difference a decade makes.
Down from the biggest group ever NASA’s fabled astronaut corps numbered 149 in 20002001, the biggest group ever. Then shuttles were zooming back and forth building the space station, and a crew was being groomed to fly aboard Columbia to the Hubble Space Telescope. Now the space station is finished, Columbia is gone and the 30year shuttle program is ending. These days, chief astronaut Peggy Whitson finds herself on overdrive, working hard to keep up the morale at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, astronaut headquarters, while trying to convince outsiders that America still needs a robust astronaut corps in the shuttle-less era. After all, she’s got a space station to staff. Two Americans usually are among the six people living on the orbiting lab at any given time, hitching rides up and down on Russian Soyuz capsules. Private U.S. companies hope to take over this taxi job in three to five years,
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answer questions. A lot of times we as teachers are in such a hurry to get through an activity so we can go to the next one that we don’t let our students go further to elaborate on another question,” Ising said. “A good science experiment creates just as many questions as it answers.” And soon, the teachers will get the chance to take those lessons for a dry run at KU’s engineering camp. Along with the opportunity to do research, the program includes a $8,000 stipend for participating high school teachers and another $1,000 to spend on equipment for the classroom. But the extra cash isn’t the only benefit to the program. “I’m a scientist too now. … I’m not just a teacher,” Ising said. “I’m now much more confident and comfortable acting as this expert to my students. You don’t have to know everything, you just have to have the experience.”
freeing NASA up to explore true outer space. First the goal was the moon, now it’s an asteroid and Mars. “It’s a very dynamic time, and a lot of folks aren’t real comfortable with all the uncertainties,” Whitson said. “None of us are.”
Not such a surprise Ferguson observed from space Friday that former military pilots make up about one-third of the astronaut corps, so he’s not surprised so many commander types are departing. “Pilots like to do what pilots like to do, and that’s fly airplanes,” the retired Navy captain told the AP. Whitson — herself a twotime space station resident — figures she needs 55 to 60 active astronauts “at a bare minimum and for pretty much the duration.” She said she has to account for absences due to injury, illness, pregnancy, even maxedout exposure to cosmic radiation. The National Research Council is evaluating just how many astronauts America really needs. A report by a committee of retired NASA leaders, ex-astronauts and others is expected next month. Depending on the findings, NASA may start taking applications soon for a new, albeit small, astronaut class. No matter the size, there will be plenty of applicants, all eager to join this exclusive club.
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