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Calif. takes aim at 'cancerous' french fries, potato chips

Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:53 a.m.

Potato chips and french fries could soon come with a warning label in California if the state's top attorney prevails in a lawsuit filed Friday against nine fast food chains and snack-food makers.

Study says coffee high in antioxidants

By Associated Press · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:51 a.m.

Coffee not only helps clear the mind and boost energy, it also provides more healthful antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet, according to a study released Sunday.

IU scientists debate alien existence

By Hannah Schroder · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:48 a.m.

Ten years ago, senior Adam Pollard thought he encountered aliens. He was camping, and one night he walked down to a lake. When he looked up in the sky, he saw lights moving from side to side. "It looked like something was floating around in the sky," he said. "I thought they were aliens because I'd formed an opinion of how it would look after I'd seen it on TV and read books about alien encounters." Most likely, Pollard didn't encounter aliens, but the mysterious lights in the sky made him wonder, "Do aliens really exist?"

Welcome Week arrests total 60, down fom 2004

Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:48 a.m.

IU Police Department reports show Welcome Week arrests decreased slightly from last year.

Official warns of terror attack in Philippine city

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:48 a.m.

MANILA, Philippines -- Police installed more closed-circuit cameras in Manila malls, sent out guards with dogs and set up checkpoints on roads Monday as a senior official warned of a possible major attack in the capital following a ferry bombing that injured 30 people. The military said an initial investigation concluded that Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaida linked terror group, was behind Sunday's attack. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo promised to hunt down "and cripple, if not decimate," those responsible.

Sharon: Not all settlements stay

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Lavie · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:47 a.m.

JERUSALEM -- Not all Israeli settlements in the West Bank will remain in place in a final peace accord with the Palestinians, but there will be no pullbacks comparable to this month's evacuations, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday.

Sigma Alpha Mu chapter picks up national award

By Michelle Manchir · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:46 a.m.

IU's Sigma Zeta chapter of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity recently placed its biggest prize yet in its already-impressive trophy case.

Violence erupts following Israel's Gaza withdrawal

By Alyson Brodsy and Steven Gutkin · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:46 a.m.

JERUSALEM -- A lethal arrest raid, a suicide bombing, fresh land expropriations, a threatening Hamas video: So far, that's the follow-up to Israel's historic Gaza pullout. Rather than seize the moment to jump-start negotiations, Israelis and Palestinians appear to be falling into a familiar pattern of violence and rhetoric. Still, the withdrawal from Jewish settlements in Gaza is of such significance that even the latest spasms are unlikely to torpedo all momentum for peace.

Offshore rigs evacuated; energy market rattled

By Alyson Brodsy and Brad Foss · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:45 a.m.

WASHINGTON - Hurricane Katrina disrupted Gulf Coast petroleum output and rattled energy markets Monday, sending oil and natural gas prices soaring and setting the stage for a spike in the retail cost of gasoline. By the end of the day, more than 700 offshore platforms and rigs had been evacuated, two rigs had drifted away and authorities in Alabama were forced to close a bridge over the Mobile River after it was struck by a runaway platform. Oil futures briefly climbed above $70 a barrel for the first time.

Policy saved tree in Chemistry Building

By Gavin Lesnick · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:43 a.m.

IU's policy aimed at maintaining the beauty of its campus is never to remove a tree unnecessarily during renovations, expansions or construction projects. That proved a daunting challenge when the Chemistry Building addition began in 1986. University administrators sat down with the architect of the project to see how to build it without compromising the large American Beech perched at the southern end of its foundation.

Katrina batters New Orleans; oil prices soar

By Alyson Brodsy and Allen G. Breed · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:31 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS -- Gail Henke could think of no better way to celebrate the French Quarter's survival of Hurricane Katrina than to belly up to a bar on Bourbon Street with a vodka and cranberry juice. Call it a libation to the storm gods.

Stock market rebounds as hurricane fears ease

By Associated Press · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:31 a.m.

Wall Street rallied Monday after Hurricane Katrina weakened, easing concerns about refinery outages along the Gulf of Mexico and pulling oil prices back from record highs.

Red, white and Wal-Mart

By Precious Sanders · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:24 a.m.

Less than a week after arriving in Bloomington, I was advised to stock up early on items for my apartment because this town becomes reminiscent of the Soviet Union as 30,000 students move in and head to various stores, particularly Wal-Mart, to furnish their new homes.

Snacks steal spotlight

By Alyson Brodsy and Megan Robb · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:23 a.m.

If you cater, they will come. Food is a classic technique used by any and all organizations, speakers or departments at IU to attract college students. The Welcome Week programs last week were only acting according to this well-known fact. But tasty snacks stole the spotlight from the valuable information offered during Welcome Week.

Enough is enough

By Kirk Nathanson · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:23 a.m.

Twice a year the jet stream and the promise of a decent education bring a seasonal hurricane of U-Haul trucks and trailer hitches that batters Bloomington and reduces the functioning and accessible college town into a gridlocked chaos so overwhelming that only the supremely brave or supremely ignorant attempt to navigate it. Last Wednesday, that hurricane descended on us and gave the Midwest a touch of New York City at rush hour.

Brushing off IU's elitist ambitions

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Aug. 30,2005 12:22 a.m.

An intellectual rift is breaking up the IU-Bloomington community: administrators, faculty members, trustees, parents and students. Major players on all sides are in disagreement, arguing about raising admission standards -- an idea that could critically change IU's future. IU has always been in the precarious position of being both University of Michigan and Michigan State University or Ohio University and Ohio State University. We have had to bear both responsibilities: leading Indiana economically with research and educating students.

Hurricane Katrina plows into Gulf Coast but spares New Orleans its full fury

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 9:19 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hurricane Katrina plowed into the Gulf Coast at daybreak Monday with shrieking, 145-mph winds and blinding rain, submerging entire neighborhoods up to the rooflines in New Orleans, hurling boats onto land and sending water pouring into Mississippi's strip of beachfront casinos. At least two highways deaths in Alabama were blamed on the storm, and an untold number of others were feared dead in flooded neighborhoods.

Finding the right fit

By Chris Engel · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 2:47 a.m.

IU coach Mike Freitag used his second different starting lineup in two games as the Hoosiers ended their preseason schedule by defeating University of Illinois-Chicago 2-1 Saturday. After a year of consistency in the Hoosier lineup, Freitag experimented with several different combinations of players throughout Saturday's match. "I just want to find the right starting 11, the right chemistry," Freitag said. "I've kind of been jerking the guys around a little bit because I've been making so many changes."

Hurricane hits home for campus

By Gavin Lesnick · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 2:42 a.m.

Freshman Nicole Album spent the night before her first day of college thinking about home. Specifically, she wondered if it would be standing when she returns. Album is from New Orleans, where she lives a block away from Lake Pontchartrain, beneath sea level and directly in the eye of Hurricane Katrina's projected path.

Dorms empty for Midnight Madness

By Mike Wilson · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 2:42 a.m.

Sales associates hurriedly handed over carts with wheels already spinning, raffle tickets and maps to busloads of students at Wal-Mart Friday night. Midnight Madness, an orientation program that is part shopping spree, part festival, was underway, and teams of freshmen with dorm keys strung on lanyards swinging on their necks sprinted around the store grabbing pillows, beanbag chairs and 15 cent packets of Ramen noodles. The event lasted from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. as packed buses stopped at eight locations on campus to shuttle the shoppers to and from the late-night shopping mecca.