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Master Plan we can be proud of

Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 11:49 p.m.

IU’s Bloomington campus has long been considered one of the most beautiful in the nation. With lush greenery and picturesque limestone buildings, it is a great thing to look at. But as any weathered student will tell you, it can be a hassle to navigate.

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Order up

By Sanjay Mohanty · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 11:47 p.m.

“For the first time ever, patients having genetic screening for abnormal chromosome conditions in their embryos will be able to elect expanded testing that can greatly increase the odds of achieving a healthy pregnancy with a preselected choice of gender, eye color, hair color and complexion ...” 

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Back to the future

By Christian Hines · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 11:46 p.m.

“A great university,” said Herman B Wells, “steadily develops its research institutes and facilities that will be needed no matter how the student population fluctuates.”

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Changing grassroots

By Nathan Dixon · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 11:42 p.m.

Activists stood side by side with “Obama” painted across their chests. An older man proclaimed that when it came to Barack Obama’s campaign, “this is different.” Pictures of campaigners standing next to visiting politicians were intercut with Joe Biden talking about how “this may be the last chance to reclaim the America we love.”

Assistant Professor of Textiles Rowland Ricketts at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts. He says that the color blocks behind him are a reference chart for screen printing with natural dyes on a variety of materials.

New threads of life

By Jackie Kochell · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:43 p.m.

Led by the late Budd Stalnaker, a former textiles professor, the IU textiles graduate program molded creative artists for more than 40 years. When Stalnaker died in 2006, the program did, too.

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4 U.S. soldiers wounded in attack by Iraqi police

Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:40 p.m.

Two policemen opened fire on U.S. troops visiting an Iraqi police station in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing an interpreter and wounding four American soldiers, officials said.

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Mardi Gras revelry just as fat

Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:39 p.m.

The economic downturn couldn’t overshadow the Mardi Gras revelry Tuesday as partiers jostled for beads on parade routes and the French Quarter swelled with boozy fun and masked crowds.

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Ex-Gitmo inmates acquitted

Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:38 p.m.

A Paris appeals court on Tuesday overturned terror convictions for five former Guantanamo inmates, ruling that French intelligence officials improperly questioned them while they were in U.S. custody.

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Former cops sentenced in botched raid

Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:37 p.m.

Three former Atlanta police officers who each pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in connection with the death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid were sentenced Tuesday to federal prison.

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5 BB bullet holes found at Hillel

Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:36 p.m.

IU police were called on Monday after BB gun holes were found in a window in the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center on 730 E. Third St.

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Booths focus on positive body images

By Rachel Krasnow · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:35 p.m.

Students can learn to appreciate their bodies through a day of events focused on positive self-image. Counseling and Psychological Services staff will have different booths today at multiple locations around campus as part of Celebrate Your Body Day. Activities include “fat talk,” which demonstrates how students criticize their bodies. Students will then be able express on notecards what they appreciate about their bodies. These notecards will be put up for a display. 

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Indiana lacks heart disease program

By Anna Schilawski · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:35 p.m.

Cardiovascular disease is Indiana’s No. 1 killer. However, the state is still one of the few that has not created a statewide education program about heart disease.

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Prof. shows environment work

By Kevin Doran · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:32 p.m.

All of FARMbloomington’s seats were filled Monday night with people who care about the environment and wanted to hear the words and works of IU professor Scott Russell Sanders.

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City host to economy talk

By Mehdi Ayari · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:30 p.m.

Bloomington was host to a forum Tuesday night in City Hall on the subject of economic justice for all on Tuesday.

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IU grad Micheal Woods follows footsteps of jazz

By Tyler James Perry · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:27 p.m.

Woods, a professor of jazz studies and electric bass at Hamilton University in New York, has released a CD called “The Tell All Book” that he is pitching to big record labels. He said his goal with the album was to get past many of the complexities that make music elitist by expanding the boundaries of his compositions.

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