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KCUR Morning News 5-18-09

By Maria Carter

Kansas City, – Kansas will likely lose another top official to the Obama Administration.

Wichita State University could learn tomorrow whether it will receive a 27 million dollar grant to invent medical devices from the same lightweight, flexible material used in airplanes.

Banks in Kansas seem to be doing well.

Kansas State University has a new green approach. The university has been involved in a pilot project that takes food waste from two dining halls, turns it into compost and uses it on a garden.

The Army Corps of Engineers will go ahead with a planned spring pulse on the Missouri River to help the endangered pallid sturgeon.

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