Jewish students usher in spiritual New Year this week
For a great number of fans and competitors, IU athletics are an escape from the strain of everyday life.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – The Buffalo Bills’ Kevin Everett sustained a “catastrophic” and life-threatening spinal-cord injury, and his chances of regaining a full range of body motion are very small, an orthopedic surgeon said Monday.
CHICAGO – The Cubs made the most of a brief stopover at Wrigley Field.
A model shows Sony Corp.’s new rolling egg-shaped digital music player swivels in Tokyo on Monday. The $354, 11 ounce Rolly, set to go on sale in Japan on Sept. 29, comes with stereo speakers, one gigabyte of internal flash memory and a battery good for about five hours of music. Overseas sales are still undecided. The smooth white gadget, small enough to sit on a palm, has sensors that recognize which way is up, allowing volume to be controlled by turning the player clockwise or counterclockwise, and tunes to be switched by pushing or pulling it on the floor.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple Inc. sold its millionth iPhone over the weekend, days after it slashed the price by a third to spur sales.
With Oncourse CL fully operating and a new OneStart in the works for the end of September, IU is already seeing a broader focus on technology under President Michael McRobbie’s administration.
CHICAGO – It’s been a year since Marshall Field’s vanished to make way for Macy’s. To mark the occasion, dozens of protesters gathered outside Macy’s huge State Street store, suggesting shoppers boycott the retailer and demanding a return of the Field’s imprint.
WASHINGTON – Next month, General Mills Inc. and Kellogg Co. will begin emblazoning their breakfast cereals with symbols that summarize complex nutritional information, part of the growing use of logos to steer harried grocery shoppers toward healthier choices.
INDIANAPOLIS – A surge in testing children for lead poisoning prompted by toy recalls likely will have the unintended but greater benefit of revealing lead paint in homes and other household sources, Indiana’s health commissioner said Monday.
After seeing a man on a street holding a gun, people remember the gun vividly, but they forget the details of the street.
The fantasy could be one all college students have, especially when their stomachs are rumbling in the middle of a biochemistry
Amid crisis, IU’s Bradford Woods was in need of a makeover.
Christopher Durang’s new play “Miss Witherspoon” had audience members laughing out loud within the first two minutes of Saturday night’s performance at the John Waldron Arts Center.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A U.S. museum returned the tattooed head of a Maori and bones from 13 others Monday, the latest repatriation of indigenous remains from overseas museums, a Maori expert said.
BOLOGNA, Italy – Italian men are terrible dancers.
LAS VEGAS – Somewhere, Kevin Federline is laughing. An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears delivered what was destined to be the most talked about performance of the MTV Video Music Awards – but for all the wrong reasons.
BAGHDAD – Nine American soldiers died in Iraq on Monday – all but one killed in vehicle accidents in and around Baghdad, the military said.
WASHINGTON – Gen. David Petraeus told Congress on Monday he envisions the withdrawal of roughly 30,000 U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next summer.
Anna Billings, left, and Kailieg Adams have varying reactions to a story read to them during “Put Your Nose In a Book Day” at Southside School Friday in Columbus, Ind.