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David Barker ‘dodges bullets’ in true life play

By Jacque Donahue · Tuesday, Oct. 20,2009 12:01 a.m.

In a special two-day performance event, the Bloomington Playwrights Project organized David Barker’s one-man show, “Dodging Bullets.” The show chronicles the events leading up to when Barker’s brother in law attempted to murder him and his sister and what ultimately followed

UConn Stabbing Football

UConn coach discusses his player's death

Monday, Oct. 19,2009 9:51 p.m.

One teammate performed first aid while another comforted a University of Connecticut football player who was fatally stabbed during a fight outside a school-sanctioned dance over the weekend, their coach said Monday.

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Wooden a man for the game of life

By Frank Therber · Monday, Oct. 19,2009 9:48 p.m.

Last week marked not only the official return of college basketball, but the 99th birthday of one of college basketball’s greatest ambassadors.

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Climate change threatens Indiana dunes lakeshore

By Ben Kerns · Monday, Oct. 19,2009 9:40 p.m.

The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was listed as one of 25 parks most threatened by climate change in a report released earlier this month by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Ind. faces casino hit from Ohio, Ky. competition

Monday, Oct. 19,2009 9:33 p.m.

Indiana could lose up to $250 million in casino tax revenue if proposed casinos are approved in Kentucky and Ohio and planned expansions are made in Michigan, a fiscal analyst told lawmakers Monday.

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Gary airport plans $50M project to move tracks

Monday, Oct. 19,2009 9:32 p.m.

Officials hope that by spring work can start on a $50 million project to move railroad tracks so that the main runway at Gary/Chicago International Airport can be extended.

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Online only: Golden showers

By Chris Nelson · Monday, Oct. 19,2009 8:58 p.m.

You’re being green by making your shower golden. A Brazilian environmental group, SOS Mata Atlantic, says that if Brazilian citizens flushed just one less time during the day, they’d be saving 1,157 gallons of water a year. To put that in perspective, an Olympic swimming pool holds about 660,000 gallons of water. So if about 570 Brazilians just took a tinkle in a shower, they would save up enough water to fill that pool to the brim in a year’s time.

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Misunderstanding Iran

By Zach Ammerman · Monday, Oct. 19,2009 8:56 p.m.

Iran is perhaps the country most misunderstood and misrepresented by the American public, the vast majority of whom write it off as simply another crackpot Arab dictatorship. Besides being completely untrue, the situation is far more complex than that. A history lesson for most Americans would go a long way toward assuaging the tensions between our two (similar) nations. The comparisons that many Americans draw between Iran and the Arab world are almost entirely superficial.

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Marching for GLBT civil rights

By Sarah Wilensky · Monday, Oct. 19,2009 8:54 p.m.

My crusade for a bus began less than three weeks ago because of a surge of student interest in attending the National Equality March in Washington, D.C.

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Is it all worth it?

By Tyler Chernesky · Monday, Oct. 19,2009 8:51 p.m.

I’m dropping out. Who needs a degree anyway? Midterm papers are due and exams are approaching. The days are getting shorter and the nights longer. Seasonal depression has set in. It won’t stop raining. I haven’t done laundry, and nothing in the food court looks edible. I owe money to the bursar, the credit card company and my parents. This isn’t working out.

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Local non-profits receive grant money

Monday, Oct. 19,2009 4:33 p.m.

The Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County recently awarded $126,204 to 17 local non-profit organizations through their annual program, according to a press release.

IU-Illinois Football

Chappell named Big Ten Player of the Week

Monday, Oct. 19,2009 12:32 p.m.

With his career highs in passing yards and touchdowns against Illinois on Saturday, IU quarterback Ben Chappell has earned his first Big Ten Player of the Week award, as announced by the conference Sunday night.

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