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My hero

By Michelle Manchir · Wednesday, July 19,2006 9:02 p.m.

Last Saturday I had a sandwich I will never forget. It was the bread that really did it for me: It was soft pretzel-esque, moist and almost sweet. There was turkey breast, melted cheese and just the right amount of Dijon mustard -- none dripped out as I held it to my mouth. It was an enjoyable eating experience on a number of levels. I've no groundbreaking argument here, other than sandwiches have been an integral part of my diet all my life, and I've been fortunate enough to consume a variety of delicious ones. It runs in the family. My dad and sister are also huge sandwich fans. My sister and I frequently have conversations about sandwiches; I call her when I've had a fantastic one so we can talk about it. Meanwhile, my dad has been an effective role model when it comes to sandwich-making -- after a large meal, notably Thanksgiving, his custom is making mini-sandwiches by placing bits of turkey meat in a dinner roll. No matter how much was eaten already, there's always room for the mini-sandwich.

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Fund-amental flaw

By IDS staff and Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:57 p.m.

Regarding the effect that the PeopleSoft-crafted OneStart registration system has had on the IU Student Association Rape Crisis Fund, the IDS once wrote: "The ... (fund) has suffered significantly since the registration program switch. The fund provides the primary source of support for the Middle Way House rape crisis services, including the On-Scene Advocacy program and the 24-hour crisis line. Because of the switch to PeopleSoft, fewer students are checking these boxes (on the fund-raising screen), which means organizations are receiving less money ... Dean of Students Richard McKaig said the logistics of the new program could cause the decrease in the number of people checking boxes. He said in the past, the registration program forced each student to click 'yes' or 'no' for each box, making students think about whether they wanted to donate money. Now the software simply lists each program and allows students to continue through the program without checking any boxes. 'We're making it too easy to ignore the check-offs,' McKaig said." That was in November of 2005.

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Islamic militia deploys outside Somalia government base

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:56 p.m.

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The Islamic militiamen holding most of southern Somalia deployed hundreds of fighters outside the base of the U.N.-backed interim government Wednesday and said they planned to seize it. Seizing Baidoa would make the Islamic militia -- which the United States has linked to al-Qaida -- the uncontested authority over most of the country. The interim government was on high alert and ready to defend itself from an attack, Deputy Information Minister Salad Ali Jelle told The Associated Press.

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12 Palestinians die in Israeli raids in Gaza and the West Bank

By Alyson Brodsy and Sarah El Deeb · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:54 p.m.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in fighting in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday as the army pressed a wide-ranging offensive against militants. The raids were the latest in a three-week operation that began after Hamas-linked militants captured an Israeli soldier. The fighting has persisted even as Israel waged a second battle with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon after they seized two soldiers last week.

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Lebanese prime minister says 300 killed from Israel's week of bombardment

Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:53 p.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's prime minister said Wednesday that 300 people have been killed, 1,000 have been wounded and a half-million displaced in Israel's week-old onslaught on Lebanon. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said he would seek compensation from Israel for the "unimaginable losses" to the nation's infrastructure and he appealed for an end to hostilities on a humanitarian basis. In a swipe at the international community, particularly the United States, which said Israel was acting in self-defense, Saniora said: "Is this what the international community calls the right of self-defense? Is this the price to pay?"

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2 people killed in rocket attack in Nazareth

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:53 p.m.

NAZARETH, Israel -- Hezbollah rockets Wednesday slammed into this Arab-Israeli town revered as the place Jesus grew up, killing two young brothers as they played outside and wounding 18 other people, Israeli authorities said. The attack on Nazareth -- the first by the Lebanese guerrillas to reach near important holy sites -- came hours after Israeli troops engaged in a fierce firefight with Hezbollah inside Lebanon, a clash that killed two soldiers and one militant. Nazareth residents ran to a building in flames from one of the airstrikes to help firefighters unwind hoses. Another strike killed brothers ages 3 and 9, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said. Television footage showed a large crater in the middle of the road. It also is a key site in Christian tradition. The Galilee town of 70,000 people is filled with churches, including the Basilica of the Annunciation, the largest basilica in the Middle East, which towers over the town center.

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Barnstormer planes have rich history in Indiana

By David A. Nosko and Tara Morris · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:41 p.m.

About 20 barnstormers flew over the Bloomington skies Tuesday, but each pilot and each biplane had a story to share if willing ears stood nearby to listen. The 2006 American Barnstormers Tour provided community members an all-day visual feast and other "Golden Age of Aviation" fun at the Monroe County Airport. Both children and adults flocked to the airport to get a glimpse of living history from the 1920s through the 1940s.

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Sexual assault reported in Arboretum

By Trevor brown · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:38 p.m.

A victim reported she was inappropriately touched Monday while walking from the Student Recreational Sports Center to the Health, Physical Education and Recreation building, said IU Police Department Sgt. Craig Munroe reading from the police report. He said the victim was walking on 10th Street when she noticed a man looking at her strangely. After she turned onto the sidewalk to the arboretum, she reported the suspect came from behind her and "slapped her on the buttocks," Munroe said. The victim called IUPD following the incident.

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Lobbying for IU

By Julie Mahomed · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:36 p.m.

An entire department at IU is responsible for representing the University's position on higher education issues to the government. The IU Office of Government Relations maintains University connections with state and federal lawmakers, and the alumni group, Hoosiers for Higher Education, provides easy access for those interested in legislative issues pertaining to Indiana education. "State Relations serves as the primary liaison between Indiana University and the legislative and executive branches of Indiana government," reads the State Relations' Web site. "The state relations team also works closely with other universities and higher education groups in Indiana."

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IU research sizes up bacteria

By IDS staff and Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:35 p.m.

A recent study on the relationship between function and forms of bacteria has been published by IU scientists. "We've found the bacteria can take up nutrients with their stalks," said microbiologist Yves Brun, in a statement. "This is the first example that we know of in which a major feature of a bacterium's shape can be tied to a specific function." Burn, who led the study, was unavailable for comment by press time as he currently is taking sabbatical in Canada.

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Trustees to select search firm Friday

By Carrie Ritchie · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:32 p.m.

The IU board of trustees will interview search firms at its meeting Friday at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis, when they hope to be able to select the firm they will use to find IU's next president. The board will be meeting with the principles of AT Kearney, Academic Search Consultation Services and Witt/Kieffer, the final three firms the trustees chose from a pool of seven proposals, said IU trustee and presidential search committee chairwoman Sue Talbot. The trustees will then determine which firm will be the best fit for IU.

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Matt Gold Rush

By Alyson Brodsy and Michael Reschke · Wednesday, July 19,2006 4:22 p.m.

Local musician Matt Gold has blended the styles of mainstream musicians and combined that sound with lyrics inspired by human emotion and feelings. Beginning his music career when he was 17, his style has grown with him. He's created his own coffee shop style niche. "It's not the top 40 and not the mainstream," Gold said. Friday, July 21, the singer, songwriter, and pianist is be performing at the John Waldron Art Center Auditorium.

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Matt Gold Rush

By Alyson Brodsy and Michael Reschke · Wednesday, July 19,2006 3:48 p.m.

Local musician Matt Gold has blended the styles of mainstream musicians and combined that sound with lyrics inspired by human emotion and feelings. Beginning his music career when he was 17, his style has grown with him. He's created his own coffee shop style niche. "It's not the top 40 and not the mainstream," Gold said. Friday, July 21, the singer, songwriter, and pianist is be performing at the John Waldron Art Center Auditorium.

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Revelatory musings

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Green · Wednesday, July 19,2006 3:17 p.m.

I'm sensing a reoccurring theme here: England tends to put out some damn good music. This summer has seen some great Brit-rock releases. First Keane, and now Muse, who hit it massive in the US in 2004 with their epic, hugely successful album Absolution, accompanied by hundreds of major performances across America. Muse is back in action with Black Holes and Revelations, a more politically-driven, harder rocking and varied album than their previous three efforts have seen. If you're not familiar with Muse, they can roughly be described as Radiohead, Queen, Rufus Wainwright and Black Sabbath rolling down a hill, fighting to the death. Regardless of their influences, Muse has a sound of their own; and this sound is very hard to channel into one coherent label, so I'll spare you that.

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Women on Wheels

By Alyson Brodsy and Michael Reschke · Wednesday, July 19,2006 2:28 p.m.

The dusty ground is being turned into mud by a truck designed for such a purpose. Strings of spit turned brown from chewing tobacco shoot from the mouths of several spectators. Methanol fumes fill the nostrils of everyone in the area. Wrenches clank and crank on cars. Engines crack and pop so loud you can feel it in your chest. This is what it's like in the pits at the Bloomington Speedway on a Friday night. This is also a place where two teenage girls prepare their sprint cars to race. Miranda Throckmorton, 14, races sprint cars against competition that is often more than twice her age. The age requirement for sprint cars is 16, but teenage drivers can be emancipated from their parents by a judge as young as 14. Throckmorton began racing when she was four and a half years old. She first raced quarter midgets, which is a racecar that is one fourth the size of a midget, with a midget being slightly smaller than a sprint car. Throckmorton has racing in her blood and began to race close to the time her father stopped racing. July 7 was her sixth sprint car race overall and first at the Bloomington Speedway. She felt nervous before her first race at Bloomington. "Bloomington is going to be a lot different for me," she said. "I think it's going to be a little bit faster and different to get used to," Throckmorton said. The Speedway continually wets down its quarter mile dirt track.

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200,000 Facebook Friends Can't Be Wrong

By Alyson Brodsy and Zack Teibloom · Wednesday, July 19,2006 2:21 p.m.

Steve Hofstetter said Paris Hilton being famous shows us that nothing is truly important anymore. He has a reoccurring dream in which a press conference is being held and the human race is being rounded up, and someone will say, "oh, shiny!" The head writer for college humor.com who hosts a show, "4 Quotas," on Sirius Satellite Radio, in addition to writing for ESPN and Maxim is hitting it big. His comedy album, "Cure for the Cable Guy," is enjoying 14 straight weeks on the comedy charts. And he has way more facebook friends than you.

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The long and Winey road

By Alyson Brodsy and Zack Teibloom · Wednesday, July 19,2006 2:13 p.m.

Agigantic bottle filled with red wine, equivalent to over 300 regular sized bottles is the ultimate party starter. Unfortunately it costs over $3,000 and is more of a novelty, but it shows a side of the creativity that has Oliver and Butler Winery squeezing new life into the booming wine business. With free daily wine tasting, and home kits to make your own wine, Bloomington's wineries are appeasing wine lovers and creating new ones every day. Customers aren't getting drunk, but visitors to Bloomington's two wineries, Oliver and Butler, are provided with half a dozen samples of homegrown Indiana wines with expert help to guide them to their new favorite wine and a nice afternoon buzz.

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Arcades, back from the dead

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Freiberg · Wednesday, July 19,2006 2:10 p.m.

The surest sign you're addicted to something is when, even when you stop truly enjoying it, you can't stop doing it. I've been playing a lot of "Frogger" lately. I don't particularly enjoy it, being that it's a game that's needlessly difficult because of sloppy programming that still hasn't been cleaned up in 25 years of technological achievement. I can get brand spanking new free porn on my computer in 10 seconds, but Frogger is still getting run over by cars that are already long past him. But I still go back to "Frogger." Am I masochist? The vast collection of pornography on my hard drive points to a solid "maybe." But the real reason I play "Frogger" is for points. Achievement points, more precisely, the newest form of crack the CIA… er, I mean, Microsoft has unleashed on an unsuspecting public to keep them glued to their gaming systems. Achievements are the "points" you earn for performing certain feats in a game.

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Roll out the Cannons

By Alyson Brodsy and Derek Kagemann · Wednesday, July 19,2006 2:09 p.m.

In 1995, Renny Harlin sunk the pirate genre. His movie, "Cutthroat Island," was a valiant effort with little true merit. The $120 million production flopped at the box-office with a meager return of around $11 million dollars. Hollywood did the math, and expectations remained low for eight years until "Pirates of the Caribbean" sailed into harbor and blew every notions of the genre's demise out of the water. The truth is . . . bad movies can't kill a genre. This has been proven time and time again whenever talented writers and directors have taken the helm to resurrect a struggling franchise. Following the 1960 production of "Spartacus," Italian directors cranked out an endless stream of B-grade sword and sandal productions.

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Splat!

By Alyson Brodsy and Fryburg84 · Wednesday, July 19,2006 1:54 p.m.

George Costanzas of the world rejoice! The classic game "Frogger" is now on Xbox Live Arcade, so the entire world can see your high score with no worries of ever having it reset. This latest incarnation of the 1981 arcade classic features the option to update the graphics, but this update merely improves the graphics from God-awful to crap. In fact, if you've never heard of "Frogger" before, the first time you watch someone play this game with the updated graphics, you'll probably wonder why a game about a half-melted down RC racing car crossing the street is named after an amphibian. Sure the original game is no looker, but I can't quite understand why Konami felt the need to include such a half-assed graphics engine when porting the game to a console where there is virtually no limit to what can be done graphically. And to top it all off, the collision detection is still horribly off. You'll be alternately scratching your head and cursing the designers at how easy it is to bungle a move to what appears to be a perfectly safe spot only to be run over by a truck or eaten by an alligator.

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