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MANHATTAN — Kathrine Schlageck, senior educator at Kansas State University’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, is receiving the Governor’s Arts Award for arts in education.

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NEW YORK (AP) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster and said he hopes readers of all ideologies will be interested in his story. (more…)

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. consumers should avoid two brands of pistachios tied to a salmonella-related recall because they may have been repackaged and sold in airports and hotels, the Food and Drug Administration said. (more…)

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AP:

Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its “rubber rooms” - off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings. (more…)

NY Times:

The Justice Department may drop a closely watched legal case aimed at forcing the Swiss bank UBS to divulge the names of 52,000 wealthy American clients suspected of offshore tax evasion, a United States official briefed on the matter said Monday. The move, which would halt an unusually aggressive effort to force Switzerland to lift its veil of banking secrecy, could happen by mid-July.

Wired:

An American drone attack is suspected of killing at least 60 people at a funeral in Pakistan, the New York Times and others are reporting.

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TVNewser has learned the CBS Evening News has once again set an all-time low last week with 4.89 million Total Viewers and 1.42 million A25-54 viewers. But it was also the lowest (since records began in the 1991-’92 season) for ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson. The Gibson program drew 6.42 million Total Viewers and 1.77 million A25-54 viewers.

Both CBS’s Katie Couric and ABC’s Charlie Gibson were off last week.

Chronicle:

Arizona is set to become the first state in which a proposed ban on affirmative-action preferences will be put on the ballot by the legislature, rather than through petitions submitted by voters.

The Arizona Senate today passed a measure - approved by the state’s House of Representatives a week ago - calling for a proposed ban on the use of affirmative-action preferences by public colleges and other state agencies, to go before voters next year. Under the state’s Constitution, referenda approved by the Arizona Legislature go on the ballot without the governor’s approval.

Real Clear Markets:

The advocates of socialized medicine have insisted for decades that health care is a right. (more…)

IBD:

Free Trade: With unemployment at 9.4% and worse on the way, there’s no doubt the economy’s hurting. If the White House and Congress are serious about ending job destruction, they must open up new markets.

MANHATTAN — Beginning July 2, Kansas State University’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art will close at 5 p.m. on Thursdays.

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Daily News:

Calvin Klein has turned down the heat a tad in SoHo - replacing a giant orgy-themed ad with a dripping-wet model in a string bikini. (more…)

Chronicle:

Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit group focused on work-force development, released a report today on promising initiatives in 15 states to reduce the need for and to improve remedial education.

Source: Art DeGroat, 785-532-0369, degroata@k-state.edu Web site: http://consider.k-state.edu/specialevents/militaryvisit.htm

K-STATE HAVING FIRST MILITARY AND VETERANS CAMPUS VISIT DAY JULY 17

MANHATTAN — Kansas State University’s first Military and Veterans Campus Visit Day will be 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, July 17, at the K-State Student Union. (more…)

ABC:

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: A group of several dozen Republican House members has sent a letter blasting ABC News about its plans to televise a health care forum from the White House — and the president of ABC News fired back today.

The letter to ABC News, signed by 40 members of the newly formed “Media Fairness Caucus,” accuses ABC of “providing in-kind free advertising for President Obama.”

FT:

The US Treasury has just taken the historic step of proposing a new regulatory regime in which the Federal Reserve would become a systemic regulator. The plan raises three questions. Do we need a systemic regulator? Should the Fed be the systemic regulator? Are there dangers from this proposal for the Fed and its core mission of conducting monetary policy to control inflation and promote maximum sustainable employment? The answer to all three is yes.

WSJ:

Lucas Glover was the surprise winner when the much rain-delayed, waterlogged U.S. Open ended Monday afternoon at Bethpage Black. Glover, who hadn’t made the cut in three previous trips to the U.S. Open, shot a closing-round 73, just good enough for a two-stroke victory over Phil Mickelson, David Duval and Ricky Barnes.

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Congress now has sent its “Cash for Clunkers” bill to President Obama to sign into law, but most Americans oppose the plan to encourage people to trade in old cars for new, more fuel-efficient models. Few adults plan to take advantage of the program at this time. (more…)

NY Times:

NEW YORK STATE government is not working. This has been true for some time. But the paralysis and confusion that has overtaken the capital demonstrates the need to confront this dysfunction directly and take decisive steps to solve it once and for all. That’s why I’m calling on Albany to convene a state constitutional convention. (more…)

Extreme Tech:

Yes, I’d Do It Again

The eternal question of price/performance always crops up. Clearly, I’m saving money, but I also sank around $38,000 into the system. At $3,000 per year in savings (which assumes a constant rate for power cost and the same power usage pattern), that’s a 12.5 year payback. (more…)

Reuters:

BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University announced 275 job cuts on Tuesday, the latest cost-cutting measure at the world’s richest university after the financial crisis triggered big losses in its multibillion-dollar endowment. (more…)

Rasmussen:

John Oxendine, Georgia’s fire and insurance commissioner, holds a commanding lead over all other Republican gubernatorial hopefuls in an early look at next year’s stateGOP Primary. (more…)

Wired:

Former Republican Congressman Tom Davis, reportedly President Barack Obama’s top candidate for cyber security czar, voted repeatedly to expand the government’s internet wiretapping powers, and helped author the now-troubled national identification law known as REAL ID.

Citing White House sources, Time magazineon Friday identified the the former head of the Government Reform Committee as the president’s number one candidate for the new position. Davis’ reputation as a tech-smart moderate who knows his way around D.C. makes him an attractive pick for the administration, the magazine reported.

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Fifty percent (50%) of Americans believe hate is growing in America in the wake of the murders of a doctor who performed late-term abortions and a military recruiter and a shooting incident at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in which a guard was killed. (more…)

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When Gov. Tim Kaine started moonlighting as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he promised his night job would not hinder his day job in Richmond. He should prove it by releasing travel records and information about who is footing the bill for his trips. (more…)

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Some people ask me why I think we have a chance of living until rejuvenation therapies become available. I get the sense they feel that making the body young again sounds too much like science fiction. Well, stem cell therapies are no longer only in our distant science fiction future. Geron is running a spinal cord repair clinical trial with embryonic stem cells while ACT has applied for permission to try embryonic stem cells against age-related macular degeneration. (more…)

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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — On Wall and Main streets they call William Jefferson Clinton the “comeback kid,” but it’s not because of some election-day surprise. (more…)

CBS:

After talks of a power-sharing arrangement broke down, Democrats locked themselves in the Senate chamber, Republicans tried to conduct business on their own and none of the “people’s business” got done. (more…)

by Pete Lucas, a contributing author:

As a conservative, I’m not a fan of national healthcare. I believe the government should do a minimal amount of intervention - namely they should take care of the elderly, infirmed, and children who would otherwise not be taken care of. Ideally this care would be done by charities, but since the government taxes us to the tune of 30% a year, we can’t give nearly as much to charity as we otherwise would. (more…)

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Video at RCP.

Heritage:

A “market-oriented” cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon dioxide emissions proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives by Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) has had a difficult time gaining support as more people recognize that it is a significant tax on energy that will inflict a severe amount of economic pain. (more…)

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Washington - Four years after a federal study panel gave Congress a wish list for assisting American research universities, a group of leading lawmakers has decided it may not have gone far enough. (more…)

The Caucus:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has recruited one of her family’s staunchest political loyalists, Sidney Blumenthal, the journalist and former White House aide, to serve as a senior adviser in the State Department, an official there said on Tuesday. (more…)

Source: Susan Arnold Christian, 785-532-6152, susanac@k-state.edu News release prepared by: Mary Rankin, 785-532-6715, mrankin@k-state.edu

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SUMMER WORKSHOP FOR EIGHTH- AND NINTH-GRADE GIRLS JUNE 22-26 AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN — Five days of engineering, math and science exploration is the agenda planned for eighth- and ninth-grade girls June 22-26 at Kansas State University. (more…)

Slate:

Mitt Romney and Sen. Lamar Alexander recently proposed turning over the federal government’s 60 percent temporary stake in General Motors to the American people so that every household would own shares in GM. The company’s current market capitalization is just $800 million, but even at its June peak of $1 billion, America’s 120 million households would each receive GM stock worth $5. The Bush years may have wiped out your life savings, but the party of Lincoln will send you a five-spot to start over. (more…)

AP:

“The decades-long effort to protect our children from the harmful effects of smoking has finally emerged victorious,” Obama said during the sun-splashed Rose Garden signing ceremony. (more…)