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Can food cure a hangover?

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You’ve just finished a wild night of drinking, and you’re starting to feel it. But can greasy pizzas and hot breadsticks, or any food for that matter, cure those hangover blues?



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The anatomy of a donut

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Homer Simpson craves them, police officers munch on them, and America apparently runs on them — but do we actually know anything about donuts?


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Tickets issue new complaints

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Less than two weeks after the Kirkwood ticket clinched the IU Student Association elections, new information regarding the complaint filed by the Big Red ticket has been released.  PODCAST:  Hoosier Headlines


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'It's not good'

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Shortly after IU freshman Eric Gordon declared his intention to enter the NBA Draft, Crean told a small group of reporters that some members of the team are struggling with academic issues. “It’s not good,” Crean said.  BLOG:  Basketblog





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Concert brings chance to ‘Get Low’

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Loud music, boisterous parties and countless events will permeate the IU campus this week, and now a new event has been added to the schedule. The Ying Yang Twins will perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.




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Stores work to stop new gift card scam

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The balance on people’s next gift card could read $0 before it even reaches their hands. The National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association, recently brought attention to a new gift card scam and detailed how consumers could lose money from gift cards if criminals steal the card numbers from the back of the card.


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FreeRice.com builds vocabulary, feeds hungry around the world

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With only a few minutes and 10 correctly answered vocabulary questions, 200 grains of rice could be donated to the United Nations World Food Programme. FreeRice.com, created by Bloomington programmer John Breen as a sister site to his Web site Poverty.com, will donate 20 grains of rice for every correctly answered vocabulary question.


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Nowhere to run(away)

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The young caller’s voice is high-pitched and trembling. Her mother’s been drinking, she says. They got into a fistfight, so the girl grabbed her backpack and a cell phone and bolted, with little thought about where a 13-year-old could go on a cold night.


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Changing 100 lives in 100 minutes

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On Wednesday, a nationwide promotional event will take place at 100 eye-care offices around the country for 100 minutes. “Changing 100 Lives in 100 Minutes” is sponsored by Bausch & Lomb, the manufacturers of the crystalens needed for the cataract correction surgeries the 100 patients will receive.


“Caffeine can be classified as a drug because it is toxic.”

Pitfalls of an energy boost

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A typical energy drink such as Red Bull has about 76 milligrams of caffeine, and local dieticians say this popular stimulant is too easy to abuse. Caffeine is being added to more products, and dieticians say the amount some people are consuming is excessive and could cause health problems.


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As Crean comes, Greenspan needs to go

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At around 5:30 April 1, I walked from campus to my house to check in for the evening and caught word that Tom Crean had been elected God of Bloomington with his hiring as the newest IU men’s basketball coach.


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IU senior transfer wins heptathlon in Texas Relays

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It didn’t take long for senior Abbie Stechschulte to make her mark on IU. Stechschulte, who suited up for the Hoosiers for the first time in competition, was the collegiate heptathlon champion in the 81st running of the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays this past weekend.