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Presence of asbestos in dorms sparks worries from some parents

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 1:05 a.m.

Mini fridge? Check. TV? Check. Asbestos? Check. Some parents were surprised to learn a carcinogen would be part of their child's dorm room this year. "It would be nice if they told us beforehand," said Maryanne Sides, who came from Brownsburg, Ind., to move her son Nick into McNutt and was not aware of the asbestos before Wednesday. "I wish they'd have someone take all of it out."

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Food for men

By Alyson Brodsy and Michelle Manchir · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 1:03 a.m.

Thank goodness for Hardee's. Without its consistent production of unnecessarily large meat creations and individual food items that provide all the calories the average human needs in a day, "some guys would starve." So they claim in their commercials, anyway.

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Beach Boys 'catch a wave' to IU Auditorium

By Andrea Alumbaugh · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 1:02 a.m.

If you love picking up 'Good Vibrations' while driving in your 'Little Deuce Coupe,' then you'll have 'Fun, Fun, Fun' celebrating Homecoming at the IU Auditorium with the Beach Boys, featuring original members Bruce Johnston and Mike Love with six members who have joined the group since Brian Wilson left in the 1960s.

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Not an accident

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 1 a.m.

The accidental war," the smart editors at The Economist called it in their first edition after the capture of two Israeli soldiers. But superior observers recognized that this war, initiated by Hezbollah with thinly veiled direction from Iran and support from Syria, was hardly accidental. It was an act of war carried out with malice aforethought.

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Academic regression

By IDS staff and Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:57 a.m.

The University of West Florida has decided to offer basic math and grammar tutorials on its Web site. The tutorials, broadcast on three- to 30-minute video clips, are an attempt to assist the student body and general public in these areas most likely last discussed in high school.

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Alumna explores bodies with photography, art

By Lindsey Landis · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:50 a.m.

A little girl raises her shirt to show a feeding tube protruding from her stomach. A nude woman embraces a tree and reconnects with nature. A single mother poses with her two young children. Twelve of alumna Yara Cluver's stirring portraits are displayed in the Rosemary P. Miller Gallery at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St., until Saturday.

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Manning uses preseason for charity

By Alyson Brodsy and Michael Marot · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:45 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Peyton Manning is all business when it comes to football. But since it's still the preseason, forgive Manning if this week has been devoted more to his second vocation -- helping others.

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A team is born

By Matt Dollinger · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:39 a.m.

Thousands of IU students moved into their places Tuesday afternoon, settling in for a relaxing week before class begins. But relaxation was the last thing on the minds of the members of the IU football team Tuesday as they prepared for their first big test of the season: Western Michigan.

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Dutch police arrest 12 passengers

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:28 a.m.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Dutch F-16s escorted a Northwest Airlines flight bound for India back to an airport here Wednesday after the pilot radioed for help, and police arrested 12 passengers who had aroused suspicions, authorities said.

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Off-the-wall art

By Paul Coover · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:27 a.m.

When Americans hear the word "wallpaper," many may think of The Brady Bunch or bad kitchen designs.

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"Brick" boldly reinvents noir

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Wisner · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:26 a.m.

Film noir has always been the genre most precious to me, so when I was informed of a certain "Brick" generating an appreciation that spread like wildfire at last year's Sundance Film Festival, I needed to get the lowdown. I'm not sure how writer/director Rian Johnson came up with the idea to take all the elements that make noir so great and place them in a high school setting, but the only word I can reply with is brilliant. The dark alleys of the city are transformed into dimly lit, locker-filled hallways. Heavies become jocks and the ever beautiful yet deadly femme fatale isn't a woman smoking a cigarette in some nightclub -- she is the head of the theatre and drama department.

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Stem cell process spares embryos

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:15 a.m.

NEW YORK -- In an innovative move, a biotech company has found a new way of making stem cells without destroying embryos, touting it as a way to defuse one of the country's fiercest political and ethical debates.

Madly in love with 'Sunshine'

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Wisner · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12 a.m.

Stop whatever you're doing this second -- even if it means not finishing this review -- and just go see "Little Miss Sunshine." This has been my advice to anyone who's asked me about it. Stirring up one of the fiercest bidding wars in Sundance Film Festival history, "Sunshine" sold for a cool $10.5 million earlier this year to Fox Searchlight. It was worth every penny. The story is rather simple. Young Olive (Abigail Breslin) loves beauty pageants and it just so happens that the winner of a regional competition lost her crown, allowing the once second-place Olive a shot at the top prize at the Little Miss Sunshine competition. The problem is her family lives in Albuquerque, N.M. and the competition is all the way out in Redondo Beach, Calif.

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'Accept' this movie

By Alyson Brodsky and Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12 a.m.

I must say I definitely underestimated this movie. Knowing that it was written by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, the writers of the Olsen twins' "New York Minute," I expected nothing from this movie and went in with the attitude that it would suck. To my surprise, this teen flick was nothing but hilarious. "Accepted" is a college version of the 1994 hit "Camp Nowhere". Bartleby "B" Gaines ("Dodgeball's" Justin Long) is a high school senior who's always able to find excuses out of every problem he gets himself into. The only problem Bartleby can't seem to fix is that he has been rejected from every college he has applied to. Upon telling the news to his parents, who are disappointed and insistent he attend college, Bartleby comes up with a master plan to get his parents off his back: getting accepted into the South Harmon Institute of Technology, a college he created himself.

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