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Salmon: Put money back in education
Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Salmon voiced his support for the state universities' "Changing Directions" plan and made proposals to reduce the state budget shortfall while increasing funding to UA Friday.
Salmon said he would like to see the UA focus on its "niche," position in biotechnology, cancer research, health care and optics.
In 10 years, Arizona could be one of the top four institutions in the nation where research of this type is discussed, Salmon said.
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CatWalk rakes in bucks for cancer
Greek community raises $13,160 for foundation honoring the late Bobbi Olson
Members of the UA greek community came out yesterday afternoon to participate in the second annual CatWalk to benefit the Bobbi Olson Memorial Foundation.
Fraternities and sororities presented UA men's basketball coach Lute Olson with a check for $13,160 to benefit the Bobbi Olson Memorial Foundation, founded in memory of Olson's late wife to promote ovarian cancer research.
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Student lobbyist quits over revoked voting privileges
Jenny Rimsza, the student government appointee who lobbied at the state capital last year for more state Îfunding' and lower tuition formally resigned from her post on Friday, claiming she was robbed of her freedom to vote her conscience on student issues.
Rimsza's resignation came on the heels of a new operational style instituted by student body President Doug Hartz for how local Arizona Students' Association delegates, including Rimsza, would vote at statewide meetings.
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Tucson, students protest war on Iraq
About 1,500 students, professors and Tucsonans gathered outside Old Main on Saturday to march to De Anza Park in protest of the United States' anticipated war on Iraq.
Prominent speakers discussed why the United States shouldn't attack Iraq.
Former Tucson mayor George Miller, director of African American Studies Julian Kunnie, and director of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee Mohiedin Abdulaziz, gave anti-war speeches.
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ÎMillionare' puts student in hot seat
A UA "fruit fly pimp" will be in the hot seat tonight on ABC's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire."
Student Andy Nash said the show's producers deemed him a "fruit fly pimp" before taping began on Aug. 5.
"They give you a specific topic; they ask for anecdotes or what you're involved in. I worked in a lab with fruit flies when I was at UA, so that's what they called me," Nash said.
Nash completed commencement in May, has since moved to Michigan and will receive his bachelor's degree pending completion of the UA correspondence courses he is currently enrolled in.
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On the Spot
Business management junior likes chilling in bikini, golf, but stands out on Îmen's days'
WILDCAT: What type of business do you want to manage?
GUNVILLE: Actually, I want to be a general manager of a sports team.
WILDCAT: Really? You like sports? That's awesome. What's your favorite team?
GUNVILLE: Well, I like Notre Dame. Is that not what you want to hear?
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Campus Briefs
Chemist gets world recognition as 88th most-cited researcher
UA chemistry professor Jean-Luc Bredas has been named by the Institute of Scientific Information to the list of 100 most-cited researchers in chemistry for the years 1992ö2002.
ISI, a subsidiary of the Thomson Corp., has for more than 40 years indexed the world's scholarly literature from a wide range of subjects in science and social science. To be designated an ISI "Highly Cited Researcher" is an unusual honor that reflects an individual's impact in science and technology. It summarizes, across years, "the acknowledgement of a particular author's work by his or her peers," according to ISI information. ISI's top 100 most-cited scientists lists in chemistry, economics, physiology or medicine, and physics are headed by "Citation Laureates" who are regarded as possible Nobel Prize winners.
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Fast facts:
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The Super Ball was born in 1965, and it became America's most popular plaything that year. By Christmas time, only six months after it was introduced by Wham-O, 7 million balls had been sold at 98 cents apiece. Norman Stingley, a California chemist, invented the bouncing gray ball.
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Water is so scarce in the arid regions of China that in the grasslands, the people never take baths and sometimes must wash their faces in yak's milk.
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According to the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.
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Birth defects in Moscow are alarmingly high. The infant death rate stands at 15 per 1,000 live births, nearly twice the U.S. rate.
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The core of a upward lightning stroke is only a few inches across but can carry a current of 100,000 amperes, enough to run nearly 8,000 electric toasters at the same time.
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In 1908, an ad in the Saturday Evening Post offered the first chance to buy a two-sided record from the Columbia label.
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In 1918, Margaret Owen of New York City set a speed record for typing when she typed 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.
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In 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill taunted Adolf Hitler in a radio broadcast: "We are waiting for the long-promised invasion · so are the fishes."
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In 1954, Ian Fleming's aristocratic spy, James Bond, made his film debut when first portrayed by actor Barry Nelson in an episode of the television series "Climax," titled "Casino Royale" in 1954.
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In 1983, the Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
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Quotable...
"We demanded that North Korea faithfully honor all international agreements it has signed."
÷ Rhee Bong-jo, a South Korean spokesman, on South Korean demands that North Korea abandon it's nuclear arms program.
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