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UNLIKELY ENERGY PLAN

Rex Buchanan, associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey, was quoted in a recent Kansas City Star article about an unlikely energy plan. A video circulated on the Internet that shows celebrity heiress Paris Hilton discussing America's energy crisis while sunbathing. Her proposal has drawn favorable reactions for its sensible approach. "Now, I'm just speaking for myself and not the geological survey," Buchanan said. "But we are going to need almost anything you can think of -- all energy sources, alternatives and technologies -- to get us through. What Paris doesn't talk about is that the electricity to power those hybrid and electric cars is going to have to come from somewhere, too. See what you've done? You've got me analyzing Paris Hilton's thought process."

ROBODOCTOR

J. Brantley Thrasher, chief of urology at the KU Medical Center, was quoted in a recent CNN.com story about the use of robotics in cancer surgery. Robotic surgery is a growing trend in the treatment of prostate cancer, but it is not a panacea just yet. "The outcomes of robotic operations have been excellent," Thrasher said. "But to say we've seen a quantum leap in regards of one treatment being better than the other is premature."

KU HISTORY:

KU HISTORY: They're millions of years old, but they've been at KU for just over a decade. On Aug. 22, 1997, two 150-million-year-old camarasaur fossils arrived at KU on a flatbed truck. The fossils were unearthed during a summer-long dig in Wyoming. The fossils now reside in KU's Museum of Natural History. For more, visit www.kuhistory.com. For more, see www.kuhistory.com.