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Experiment to reduce energy, water usage

By Ben Kerns · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 10:45 p.m.

Many people can’t go a day without creating trash. Now some are trying to go a whole week. Beginning Sunday, participants in the No Impact Experiment will be cutting back on their use of energy, water, transportation and trash creation in an attempt to test how much they really need these “creature comforts.”

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Ind. hospital included in top 50

By Allison Tyra · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 10:41 p.m.

 America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2009 have been calculated, and Indiana is home to one of them. The honor went to the Community Hospital in Munster, across the state border from Chicago, according to the HealthGrades health care rating organization.

Hate Crimes

Too little, but never too late

By IDS · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 9:40 p.m.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the fiscal year 2010 Defense Authorization Bill last week by a vote of 281 to 146 after voting last July to attach the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act to the bill. It speaks to the Democratic leadership’s dedication that they attached the legislation, which expands the definition of hate crimes to include crimes against victims selected for their sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Darwin’s inheritors

By Joshua Held · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 9:39 p.m.

Maybe you were one of those people, like me, who did not get to hear Richard Dawkins speak Monday. But this wasn’t the first time people have been turned away from a public discussion involving evolution.

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Putting NBC on trial

By Cory Barker · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 9:38 p.m.

New York, 2019 – The compelling civil suit, Barker v. NBC Universal/Grand Cane took another exciting turn today. Defense attorneys questioned former members of the massive media conglomerate in front of the jury about their part in the dismantling of the once-great NBC television network that fell to pieces in the early part of the 21st century.

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Old dogs, new tricks

By Kenneth Field · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 9:36 p.m.

The inner corruption of the Republican Party was necessary, if they stood any chance of reinventing the conservative image. The reason Republicans become so synonymous with greed is because they recognize that it takes a healthy amount of American greed to stabilize an economy of our capacity.

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Executive office removes Sigma Pi leadership, alumni reorganize chapter

Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 2:32 p.m.

The campus undergraduate leaders of Sigma Pi have been removed from their positions, all official campus activities have been halted and the fraternity has been placed in an alumni trusteeship, according to a press release from the Sigma Pi Fraternity Executive Office.

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Season tickets guaranteed now through Mon.

By Sean Morrison · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 12:54 a.m.

IU Athletics Director Fred Glass learned the strength of IU’s student body during the University’s last home football game, when IU students bought 11,000 student seats – an expansion of more than a third of the normal seating for students.

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Somewhere over the rainforest

By Julianne Clifton · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 12:27 a.m.

LAKE SANDOVAL, Peru - Gold miners dump mercury into the Madre de Dios River five kilometers from some of the most intensely protected rainforests in Peru.

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