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Israel hands over 2nd of 5 towns

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TULKAREM, West Bank -- Israel completed the handover of the West Bank town of Tulkarem to Palestinian control Tuesday, ceremonially unlocking a gate that had blocked traffic between the town and main points in the West Bank.


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Schiavo's parents file appeal

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Warning that Terri Schiavo was "fading quickly" and might die at any moment, her parents begged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted.


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Kyrgyzstan's president attempts to restore peace

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Opposition supporters and police formed joint patrols to keep order in a southern city of Kyrgyzstan where protesters have seized government offices. President Askar Akayev pledged Tuesday he would not impose a state of emergency despite demonstrations about alleged election fraud.


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Swatting a state insect

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Something was bugging Lisa Conrad, so she did what any warm-blooded American schoolteacher might do. She wrote a poem to the State Congress.


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Athletics department: Davis stays

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IU coach Mike Davis will return next season to coach the Hoosiers, a source in the athletics department said Monday. The official announcement will come today in the form of a press release, IU Athletics Director Rick Greenspan said. However Greenspan refused to comment further.



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Trustee to step down

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Jamie Belanger, considered to be the youngest non-student ever to serve on the IU board of trustees, has decided he will not seek a second term when his present term ends this summer.


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IU selects Hamm for dean of journalism

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It's taken two different search committees and a two-year nationwide hunt to find someone to replace Trevor Brown, the outgoing dean of the IU School of Journalism. It won't take three.


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Catholic Bishops preach an end to death penalty in Indiana

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana death penalty opponents received a boost Monday when the national body of the state's largest church denomination began a renewed push to abolish government executions throughout the United States. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops marked the start of Holy Week, when Christians observe the death of Jesus Christ, by announcing it would step up lobbying against capital punishment at both national and state levels and increase education in parishes.



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Autism center fosters awareness

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For years Janice Barnett took care of her son like any mother would -- she fed him, clothed him and watched him go to school. She felt proud when Jim attended space camp in Alabama. When camp ended, Barnett said her son had developed a love for space exploration. But there was a setback.


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Around The Campus

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The band The Roots will perform at IU during this year's Little 500, the Union Board announced Monday. Tickets for the event will go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday. The concert will take place April 14 at the IU Auditorium. For more information see Wednesday's Indiana Daily Student.



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IUSAA gives students chance to honor professors

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Awards are given to IU faculty often, but the IU Student Alumni Association does something unique: It gives IU students a chance to give faculty awards in the annual Student Choice Awards.


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Laundry: an inescapable duty

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It's the inevitable weekend party and sleep buster: laundry. It piles into clumps in certain places of the room and sooner or later, it can begin to smell. But it must be done, and the ultimate question is when and who is going to do it?



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Planting seeds of doubt

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Through the first weekend of this year's NCAA Tournament, one thing is clear: The underdogs and lower seeds weren't going to lie down.


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IDS columnists 0-11 -- ouch!

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The questions rolled through my head as I watched team after team lose. Why did we even try? Why would we do that to ourselves and our readers? How could we possibly have been so far off? A week and a half ago, fellow columnists Ryan Corazza and Matt "Cakes" Glenesk teamed up with me to predict the NCAA's major conference tournament champions. Evidently we're pretty bad at it.