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SHAMANIC HEALING Spiritual practice growing in Lawrence MORE
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Healing approach both new, old Shamanic healing has a foothold in Lawrence, and followers of the practice say it seems to be growing here as it grows in Western culture as a whole.
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MICHAEL MARTIN, OF SIOUX FALLS, S.D., races through the first transition area with his bicycle while competing in the Ironman 70.3 Kansas triathlon, held Sunday at Clinton Lake State Park. See a list of winners in Sports, and a photo gallery at LJWorld.com.
Competition forges athletic power
Nikki Wentling David Frayer, a professor of nwentling@ljworld.com anthropology, was part of a group of researchers who found evidence Two years ago, Ben Postlethwait parof a tumor in a 120,000-year-old ticipated in the Ironman 70.3 Kansas triathNeanderthal skeleton. It is the oldest lon, but his race ended early when his bike malfunctioned in the middle of the course. evidence of a tumor ever found in At the time, he was suffering symptoms of the human history fossil record, by Hodgkin’s lymphoma — he just didn’t know more than 100,000 years. Page 3A it yet. Five months after that “frustrating� finish, Postlethwait was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s, a cancer that starts in the lymphoAllowing the U.S. govcytes. ernment to intimidate Although he its people with threats gained weight from mediof retaliation for recation and vealing wrongdoing is MEDALS LIKE THESE WERE his breathing contrary to the public GIVEN to all competitors who was impaired, interest.� finished the Ironman 70.3 Postlethwait Kansas. continued training — — National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, 29, who though not as rigorously — while undergoclaims to be the source of disclo- ing chemotherapy treatments. Now, he said, he is feeling “100 percent.� sures about the U.S. government’s And on Sunday, just over a year since his secret surveillance programs, risk- chemo ended, Postlethwait competed in his ing prosecution by the U.S. govern- first triathlon since being diagnosed. ment. Page 7A He met his goal, completing the same Ironman 70.3 triathlon in under 7 hours. His final time was 6 hours, 35 minutes and 22 seconds, and he enjoyed the experience more than ever before.
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A LIFEGUARD WATCHES OVER COMPETITORS as they compete in the swimming portion of the Ironman 70.3 Kansas triathlon. BELOW, participants in the running part of the triathlon pass a sign of encouragement on the last leg of the competition.
Thousands of Douglas County residents will continue to go without health insurance once the Affordable Care Act goes into effect next year unless Kansas decides to expand Medicaid as called for in the law. One of the ways “Obamacare� hoped to get America closer to a goal of universal health coverage was by easing the eligibility requirements for Medicaid. But after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government couldn’t force states to do so, 20 of them — all of but two of which, including Kansas, have Republican governors — have so far opted not to loosen the requirements; another eight are still weighing their options. Opponents in Kansas, including Gov. Sam Brownback, say they don’t trust the federal government to follow through on its commitments and that the costs of the program would take away from spending on core services like education. In Douglas County alone, it’s estimated that the measure could increase coverage to as many as 11,400 of the 16,000 residents who currently don’t have insurance. “Without the ability to expand Medicaid, that’s going to continue the plight of the uninsured in Douglas County and around the state,� said Lawrence Memorial Hospital CEO Gene Meyer, who estimated that without the expansion as many as 8,000 people in the county will continue to go without coverage. The broadening of Medicaid would cover practically the entire patient population at Lawrence’s Heartland Community Health Center, enabling the clinic to handle significantly more lowincome residents than the 12,000 to 14,000 a year it does now. Until then, the practice
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KU Med researcher mines clues from space mice By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
For nearly 24 hours, Joseph Tash and about 20 other American scientists worked continuously in a lab in Moscow last month to get everything they could out of the prize they’d been given. Their gift: six mice, just returned from 30 days in Earth’s orbit. Tash, a professor at the Kansas University Medical Center, and the other scientists had been building toward this moment for about five years, and now every move had to be executed just as they’d rehearsed, so they could learn as much as they could
from their examination of the mice. Tash, a reproductive biologist, works in the KU School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. Since 1996, he’s conducted research funded by NASA on sea urchins and mice, looking for clues about how space might affect humans’ reproductive systems. Last month he traveled to Moscow for the landing of an unmanned satellite, called Bion-M1, that carried a variety of animals in a collaboration between NASA and the Russian Institute of Biomedical ProbSpecial to the Journal-World lems. It was Nash’s biggest space re- WORKERS SURROUND THE BION-M1 SATELLITE shortly after it landsearch opportunity yet — and, he ed near the Russia-Kazakhstan border in late May. The craft carried animals that were used to study effects of space travel. Please see MICE, page 2A
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