Three people were killed and 43 others sustained gunshot wounds during a Hezbollah-led protest that paralyzed Lebanon Tuesday.
Bloomington Police are still looking for a man who robbed the Circle K at 527 E. Third St., early Tuesday morning.
Two men from Park Hills, Mo., were questioned Monday in the disappearance of missing Purdue University freshman, Wade Steffey. But Purdue police came up with no evidence that the men were involved, after interviewing the former possible suspects.
When Amanda Shettlesworth sent the School of Public and Environment Affairs' students a mass e-mail last spring describing a competitive internship opportunity, she got an unlikely reply -- from a student's mother. "She called me up and asked that her son be given a leg up in the process," Shettlesworth said. Confused by the mother's involvement, Shettlesworth, an assistant director in SPEA's career-services office, said she couldn't do anything to help. "This is your son's responsibility," she told the mother, "and hopefully he will write the essay well and apply." But the mother fought back, arguing that the school should help him get ahead. "It's almost like she didn't hear me at all," Shettlesworth said. Some say her situation underscores a growing trend across the country. An upward trend In what's been called the age of the "helicopter parents" -- those who hover over their children's lives -- school officials say parents are becoming increasingly involved in their children's career searches, doing everything from writing students' resumes to accompanying them at career fairs.
Looking for a local coupon? John Evons wants to help. The senior entrepreneurship major recently created a Web site, www.iucoupons.com, that lets students and faculty access coupons from local businesses. "It's a kind of whole new industry," Evons said. "It's really an on-demand coupon system." On the site, which makes its official debut today, users can print coupons or have them sent electronically to a cell phone in the form of a text message. Nineteen merchants, from local sandwich shops to hair salons, are offering deals on the site.
As the sun sets over a brisk IU campus, junior Geoff Stewart begins his ascent over his next obstacle: the red, loopy statue outside the IU Art Museum. The fading light casts eerie shadows on his determined face as he mounts the statue and clambers down on the other side, finishing the stunt with a forward roll. While this is just a normal occurrence in Stewart's daily life, a group of passers-by stops in its tracks after seeing Stewart's stunt. But staring is something he is used to. A participant of Le Parkour, or a "traceur," Stewart has been finding his own way to maneuver around obstacles for a year. He first learned of the sport after it was featured in a Nike shoe commercial and decided to research the philosophy before practicing. Le Parkour -- a term derived from the French word "parcours" which translates as "course" -- is a physical discipline based on the idea of finding a creative way to move around obstacles.
IU professor Karl MacDorman can't replicate a da Vinci, but that doesn't mean he isn't interested in creating a masterpiece. It's just that in his "Mona Lisa," the enigmatic smile would come and go as you did. The psychology of human-computer interaction instructor is part of a team diving into the up-and-coming field of android science, a high-tech robotic-oriented answer to the study of human interaction.
After the Hoosiers finished a thrilling nonconference road win Saturday at Connecticut, IU junior forward D.J. White was asked to sum up the 77-73 victory's effect on his team. "Confidence," White said. "One word -- confidence."
The more than 4,200 women across campus who purchase their birth control at the IU Health Center face dramatic prices increases this year as a result of change in federal law and new pharmaceutical industry practices, health center officials said.
The Asian American Association sponsored a discussion, titled "Who Are Asian-Pacific-Americans?" on Friday to discuss how the efforts of civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and nonviolent protests have affected the Asian-Pacific American community. The discussion was the first installment of a series of similar presentations by the group.
Music, meaning and movement are three words that describe the conversations between a diverse group of about 20 students during a discussion about the link between hip-hop music and social struggles -- particularly civil rights. The CommUNITY Education Program hosted a discussion dubbed "The Meaning Behind the Lyrics" in the lobby of Read Center on Jan. 18. Participants talked about how hip-hop lyrics are linked to slavery struggles and the civil-rights movement.
WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans with traditional landline telephones has declined sharply over the past three years -- a trend with ramifications for phone surveys that inform policy and market research. About one in eight households did not have a landline telephone in the first half of 2006, according to data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected in its National Health Interview Survey. Three years earlier, it was about one in 20.
Imagine going for decades without a substantial meal. According to recent observations, it's been 50 years since the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way took a big gulp. This supermassive black hole, named Sagittarius A*, is equivalent in mass to 3 million suns -- and its appetite is proportionally as large. Astronomers estimate the gaseous "meal" ingested by the black hole tipped the scales at roughly the same mass as the planet Mercury.
A hormone that humans need for puberty has been found to play a role in seasonal reproduction in hamsters, say IU researchers. The hormone, kisspeptin, or "KiSS," is a recently discovered neuropeptide -- protein produced in the brain -- and appears to mediate the decline in libido that male hamsters experience as winter approaches and the days become shorter.
ver dream of achieving something great? Well, it's time to stop this bad habit. What I hear from people all the time is what they plan on doing. That's great, but if you're not taking any action toward that goal, the probability of achieving your goal is actually declining. It is my personal belief (no offense to Mr. Marx) that hope -- not religion -- is the opium of the masses. Hope alone has stolen the dreams of millions of people.
President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell, gringos!" and called Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "missy" on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday, lashing out at Washington for what he called unacceptable meddling in Venezuelan affairs. The tirade came after Washington raised concerns about a measure to grant the fiery leftist leader broad lawmaking powers. The National Assembly, which is controlled by the president's political allies, is expected to give final approval this week to what it calls the "enabling law," which would give Chavez the authority to pass a series of laws by decree during an 18-month period.
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Monday it has barred 38 members of a U.N. nuclear inspection team from entering the country, in what appeared to be retaliation for sanctions imposed last month over its contentious atomic program.
MADRID, Spain -- A Spanish fashion designer used illegal African immigrants as models in a Barcelona fashion show to draw attention to the plight of thousands of poor migrants who embark on dangerous sea expeditions for a chance at better lives in Europe. Eight Senegalese immigrants paraded down the catwalk in white and beige outfits Thursday as part of the show, which also featured a white wooden fishing boat -- the same type many illegal immigrants use to reach Spain's Canary Islands off west Africa.
IRVING, Texas -- Bill Parcells retired from coaching Monday, leaving the Dallas Cowboys after four years without a playoff win and just two weeks after a stinging wild-card loss to Seattle. During a 19-year career that also included coaching the New York Giants, New England Patriots and New York Jets, Parcells made it to three Super Bowls, winning twice with the Giants.
In the last few days of 2006, Google Video and YouTube were bombarded with searches for Saddam Hussein's hanging. Somewhere in the midst of the world's top secret execution, one of the attendants managed to capture the event on a cell phone, documenting perhaps one of the most defining moments of our time.
