Recently added articles from The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO):

Author describes an Iraq not found on nightly newscasts.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: John Mark Eberhart Ian Klaus' "Elvis Is Titanic" is subtitled "Classroom Tales From the Other Iraq." It's an apt description of what he saw when he spent part of 2005 as a volunteer teaching English in Arbil, a city in the Kurdistan region. The other Iraq: ...

Trends from Europe's spring fashion collections.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Jackie White KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Make way for long over-the-calf hemlines, quirky square patterns, off beat dark color mixes and haunted nymph faces. Prada's take for next spring seemed to touch down in fairy tale land. The fashion wheels keep turning. No ...

Versatile Nelson making Kansas St. and his rural hometown proud.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Howard Richman RILEY, Kan. _ This small town is changing with the times. Progress, though, can be sad and painful. They miss Flynn's, the old-fashioned drug store that's no longer in business. The same goes for the Calico Inn, a restaurant that could command ...

Missouri midwifery debate takes nation's stage.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Steve Rock KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ While Rachel Sims was in labor with her second child, she sat comfortably on her couch and watched movies. She played with her older son. She nibbled on steak. She enjoyed the company of her husband, her mother, her sister. ...

Nextel Cup driver Newman has a passion for fishing.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Brent Frazee KANSAS CITY, Kan. _ As a NASCAR driver, Ryan Newman works in a high-speed, high-decibel world. But he plays in a considerably more serene setting. When he isn't driving the No. 12 Alltel Dodge around the track, he often can be found ...

Do you know the Ten Commandments?

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Helen T. Gray More Americans can name the ingredients in a Big Mac than list the Ten Commandments. A recent survey done by Kelton Research in conjunction with the Oct. 19 release of the animated film "The Ten Commandments" showed 80 percent of the 1,000 ...

Voices of Faith: My spiritual life is stagnant; how can I increase my faith?

Oct 10, 2007 ... Voices of Faith: My spiritual life is stagnant; how can I increase my faith? (Religious scholars in the Kansas City, Mo., area respond.) ___ EXAMINE TEACHINGS Lama Chuck Stanford, Rime Buddhist Center & Monastery: Recently in the news, we have ...

UAW workers at Fairfax plant have approved new contract with GM.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Randolph Heaster Oct. 10--The Fairfax assembly facility in Kansas City, Kan., is among General Motors Corp. plants where union locals have already approved a new four-year contract with the automaker. A final companywide count is expected today from the United ...

Sooners' defense wary of Mizzou.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Blair Kerkhoff Oct. 10--NORMAN, Okla. -- Don't get Oklahoma coaches wrong. They'd love to control time of possession Saturday when 11th-ranked Missouri and its fast-break offense comes to town in a Big 12 showdown. But simply owning the ball isn't good enough ....

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Hearne Christopher, Jr. column.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Hearne Christopher, Jr. Oct. 10--Talk about smoking mad ... Word that freshman Kansas City Council grrrl Beth Gottstein is spearheading an effort to ban smoking in the Cowtown has restaurant and club owners up in arms. "Recall Beth Gottstein," says ...

Dow Jones reaches uncharted territory; Sprint falls.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Rick Babson and Jason Gertzen Oct. 10--While the Dow Jones and Standard & Poor's indexes were reaching records on hints of more rate cuts, Sprint Nextel Corp. slipped a day after its CEO stepped down. The Dow jumped more than 120 points Tuesday, setting ...

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Jeffrey Flanagan column: Seitzer still interested in how D-Backs are faring.(Column)

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Jeffrey Flanagan Oct. 10--Y ou might think former Royal Kevin Seitzer would be just ignoring the baseball playoffs, and in particular, the Arizona Diamondbacks games. Seitzer, after all, was fired as hitting coach by the Diamondbacks at the halfway point of ...

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Aaron Barnhart column: KMBC news director resigns, citing ?family obligations'.(Column)

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Aaron Barnhart Oct. 10--The news director at top-rated KMBC-9 unexpectedly resigned Monday, not long after the station completed a move from downtown Kansas City to its new studios. Michael Sipes, who had been news director since 2000, e-mailed his ...

Indians are AL Central's latest success story.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Dutton Oct. 10--Take heart, Royals fans, in the latest success story from baseball's land of opportunity. Horatio Alger would have loved the American League Central Division and its growing prince-from-a-pauper tradition. You should, too. The ...

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Mike Hendricks column: Sprint guy could ring off this hex.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Mike Hendricks Oct. 10--Two years ago, the top guy at Sprint fired that other Sprint Guy -- the one in the TV commercials. And now that CEO has himself been forced out. Connection? No, I'm not suggesting some crazy conspiracy theory. Geez, let's ...

NCAA looking into possible rules violations in K-State football program.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Howard Richman Oct. 10--What Kansas State athletic director Tim Weiser first learned in March became public on Tuesday -- the Wildcats' football program could be in hot water with the NCAA. K-State received a letter of inquiry in August from the NCAA, which ...

Bell leaving Royals to become White Sox's minor-league field coordinator.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Dutton Oct. 10--Former Royals manager Buddy Bell sure didn't last long in his new job as a senior advisor to general manager Dayton Moore. Bell plans to leave the Royals at the end of the month to become the minor-league field coordinator for the Chicago ...

Herm's terms.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10-------- On the injury situation: "(Offensive tackle Kyle) Turley is on the mend, (backup cornerback Benny) Sapp is on the mend, (backup linebacker Keyaron) Fox is on the mend, they should be able to participate in practice: (quarterback) Damon Huard is on the ...

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Paul Horsley column: Friends of Chamber Music: Zimerman is out, Groh is in.(Column)

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Horsley Oct. 10--A leg injury has forced Polish-born pianist Krystian Zimerman to cancel his entire North American tour, including a Folly Theater concert scheduled for Oct. 19. But Monday the Friends of Chamber Music, which sponsored the Zimerman ...

Macabre Cinema, KC's newest haunted house, gets thrills from classic horror movies.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Robert W. Butler Oct. 10--You reach his clammy haunt by walking down a long, official-looking corridor, past a bulletin board covered with FBI wanted posters and a uniformed guard sipping coffee at a desk, and enter the cellblock -- a line of cubicles constructed of ...