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(WILL MOELLER/Daily) ABOVE The Life Science Institute and Palmer Commons are overshadowed by incoming storms on Monday morning. (Chris Dzombak/Daily) RIGHT Cavendish, the only edible strain of bananas, are predicted to become extinct in the next five to 10 years, according to CNN.com. The Cavendish bananas originated from a seedless strain of bananas in Southeast Asia that once pos- sessed resistance to Panama Disease. Mutations have developed in the leaves that have caused the strain to lose its resistance. (ARIEL BOND/ Daily) CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Sign swiped Student falls ill Ctools teaching Annual NPHC WHERE: East Arbor Medical Center WHEN: Wednesday at about 2:30 p.m. WHAT: A sign valued at $50 was stolen from a parking place at the Medical Center, University Police reported. Subject slips on wet floor WHERE: Biomedical Science Research Building WHEN: Wednesday at about 3:45 p.m. WHAT: A University patron slipped on a wet floor and left the area after receiving assistance, University Police reported. WHERE: Pierpont Commons WHEN: Wednesday at about 10:15 a.m. WHAT: A female student was treated and taken to the hospi- tal after falling ill in Pierpont Commons, University Police reported. Bike lifted from Law Library WHERE: Smith Law Library WHEN: Thursday at about 1:30 a.m. WHAT: A student's electric bike was stolen and later found with several parts missing, University Police reported. chigandaily.com/blogs/the wire workshop Week party WHAT:A workshop to teach students and faculty how to upload images to Ctools. A basic familiarity of the site is expected. WHO: Teaching and Tech_ nology Collaborative WHEN: Today at 9:30 a.m. WHERE: Room 206, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Tennis team practice WHAT: A practice for the Table Tennis Team. The ses- sion is open to members and non members. WHO: Michigan Union Bil- liards WHEN: Today at 5 p.m. WHERE: Tap Room, Michi- gan Union WHAT: An ice breaker for the National Panhellenic Council. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Tonight at 10 p.m. WHERE: Ballroom, Michi- gan Union Film screening WHAT: A screening of Michael Moore's film "Capi- talism a Love Story," with Reverend Bob Roth, who was interviewed for the film. WHO: First United Method- ist Church WHEN: Tonight at 6:15 p.m. WHERE: First United Meth- odist Church CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to cor- rections@michi- gandailycom. "And Tango Makes Three," the true story of gay pen- guins living in New York's Central Park Zoo, has the most requests to be banned of any book in the United States, BBC. com reported. Since 2001 there have been 3,736 requests to ban books and other materials. In 1987, Merck, a large pharmaceutical company, invested millions of dol- lars at a financial loss to invent a drug to treat river blindness. >FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4 A U.S. Capitol Police offi- cer was arrested on Sun- day when he was by an Arlington, Va. woman passed out drunk in her bed, The Washington Post reported. The officer, Thomas Patrick McMahon, and the woman had never met before. 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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he'd appeal the rul- ing, which he labeled an attempt to strike downthe ban approved by voters in 2005. "The laws and constitution of the State of Texas define marriage as an institution involving one man and one woman," Abbott said in a written statement. "Today's ruling purports to strike down that con- stitutional definition - despite the fact that it was recently adopted by 75 percent of Texas voters." Abbott has argued that because the state doesn't recognize gay marriage, its courts can't dissolve one through divorce. District Judge Tena Callahan's ruled yesterday, however, that the court "has jurisdiction to hear a suit for divorce filed by persons legally married in another juris- diction." Jennifer Pizer, marriage proj- ect director for the New York- based gay rights group Lambda Legal, said it is too early to pre- dict the ultimate implications of the lawsuit, in which neither man is identified. 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