<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Kansas</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/ks?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><description>Kansas</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In Kansas, A Sharp Debate on Evolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41615-2005May6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41615-2005May6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TOPEKA, Kan., May 5  --  Debating a question that the scientific establishment considers settled, Kansas education authorities put evolutionary theory on trial Thursday in a hearing marked by sharp exchanges over  Earth's origins and what students should be taught in science class.]]></description><author> Peter Slevin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers, Scientists Vow to Fight Challenge to Evolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38465-2005May5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38465-2005May5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TOPEKA, Kan., May 4  --  Alarmed by proposals to change how evolution is taught, scientists and teachers are mobilizing to fight back, asserting that educational standards are being threatened by what they consider a stealth campaign to return creationism to public schools.]]></description><author> Peter Slevin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Urged to Set Aside Politics to Give D.C. Vote]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35392-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35392-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bipartisan backers of legislation to grant the District a vote in Congress yesterday urged House leaders not to allow political divisions to thwart efforts to give representation to 550,000 U.S. citizens in the nation's capital.]]></description><author> Spencer S. Hsu</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is for the  Many Meals She Made]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35272-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35272-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ My grandmother's hands are wrinkled and buttered and floury.]]></description><author> DeNeen L. Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[District Warned on Gay Marriage]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6007-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6007-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The mayor acknowledges that the city could jeopardize its budget agenda and domestic partner benefits if it mishandles the issue.]]></description><author> Spencer S. Hsu and Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Planking, Candidates Skewered]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6006-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6006-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's the Shad Planking, Virginia's long-standing political ritual, where governors were once crowned by a small group of white, male Democrats.The state and the tradition have evolved. But the twin essences of the Shad Planking remain: politics and fish.]]></description><author> Michael D. Shear  and Chris L. Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biotech Company Bets On Cattle's Future]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61203-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61203-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MetaMorphix and a few other biotech entrepreneurs have developed DNA tests to tell with near certainty which beef cows in a herd will produce the juiciest steaks.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Michael S. Rosenwald</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Executives Take a Turn As Pr. George's Principals]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55089-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55089-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fifteen minutes before classes began yesterday, businessman Al Porter reported for duty as the honorary principal of DuVal High School in Lanham. Thomas Anderson, the real principal, whisked him into a closed-door meeting to hear a mother's concerns about her son's low grades.]]></description><author> Nick Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Touch of Fame for Three Teachers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47827-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47827-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's the first time any Virginia teacher has been inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame and the first time two teachers have been selected from the same district, Arlington, in the same year.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[N.Y. Votes Against Capital Punishment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47871-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47871-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bill aimed at reinstating the state's death penalty, which a court had suspended last year, is thrown out after concerns about accidental execution of the innocent.]]></description><author> Michael Powell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negroponte Stresses 'Mandate' for Change]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47077-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47077-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bush's choice to be first director of national intelligence promises to correct leaders who mischaracterize intelligence and plans to use his new authority to make the 15 agencies more cooperative.]]></description><author> Dana Priest  and Walter Pincus</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob Dole's 60-Year War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45452-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45452-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["One Soldier's Story" is an account of Dole's boyhood in Kansas, his service in World War II, the terrible wounds he suffered in combat and his courageous recovery.]]></description><author> Jonathan Yardley,</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dole Shares War Story in Memoir]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40497-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40497-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  On Christmas Day 2004, former Senate majority leader Robert J. Dole had a chance encounter at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with Craig L. Nelson, a 21-year-old soldier who had been seriously wounded by a bomb in Baghdad.]]></description><author> Eric Pianin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SUNDAY]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38813-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38813-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Sports <br>   Auto Racing.  NASCAR Advance Auto Parts 500 (Channel 5, 12:30).]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Kansan With Conviction]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50242-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50242-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Making headlines with his subpoena of abortion records and his closed-door discussions of evolution with state education board, Kansas attorney general sees abortion records fight as matter of principle.]]></description><author> Peter Slevin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kaine Begins Campaign For Va. Governor Post]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38194-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38194-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Democrat will formally announce his candidacy  with a call for tax relief and a promise to improve the state's transportation system.]]></description><author> Michael D. Shear  and Chris L. Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telecom Chiefs Defend Proposed Mergers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38649-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38649-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Four top telecommunications executives Tuesday defended two major proposed industry mergers as good for U.S. consumers and the economy before a Senate panel studying possible anticompetitive impacts of the deals.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Mike Musgrove</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forum Withdraws Support of Bush Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35424-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35424-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Another major Wall Street player has dropped out of a business coalition that supports President Bush's restructuring of Social Security.]]></description><author> Jeffrey H. Birnbaum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kansas Abortion Clinics Fight Data Request]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35009-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35009-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two Kansas clinics are opposing efforts by the state's attorney general to obtain the medical records of more than 80 women who received late-term abortions in 2003.]]></description><author> Peter Slevin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives Draft a 'Bioethics Agenda' for President]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15569-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15569-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ks</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 5:03:55 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Frustrated by Congress's failure to ban human cloning or place even modest limits on human embryo research, a group of influential conservatives have drafted a broad "bioethics agenda" for President Bush's second term and have begun the delicate task of building a political coalition to support it.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item></channel></rss>