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Cookbooks look back to basics for cooking novices

By Michele Kayal · Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:57 p.m.

With households watching every penny, a growing number of Americans are ditching their takeout menus and heading into the kitchen to cook dinner at home. The trouble is, many don’t know how.

Homeless Holocaust survivor leaves university 100K

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:56 p.m.

JERUSALEM – Hebrew University has received a surprise donation of more than $100,000 from an unexpected benefactor – a woman who survived the Nazi Holocaust and appeared to be destitute, a university official said Sunday.

Around the Arts

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:55 p.m.

A selection of arts events around the area.

Typhoon Morakot forces evacuation of 1 million Chinese

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:54 p.m.

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Typhoon Morakot churned toward China forcing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people Sunday, a day after lashing Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the worst flooding on the island in 50 years.

A musical sport

By Sara Amato · Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:53 p.m.

What I expected was a glorified marching band. What I got was so much more.

Health-care outbursts foreshadow a hot August

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:52 p.m.

DES MOINES, Iowa – Loud outbursts, hot tempers and pleas for civility at town hall meetings around the country Saturday foreshadowed a long, hot August as Democratic lawmakers returning home faced resistance to proposals to reform the nation’s costly health-care system.

The nerd pack

By Carrie Schedler · Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:52 p.m.

After learning that John Hughes, who brought us the Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy perfection that was “The Breakfast Club,” died Thursday at the age of 59, my inner 14-year-old self sighed.

Etherington valued on, off court

By Frank Therber · Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:39 p.m.

Austin Etherington is the kind of recruit that could bring others to IU.

Summer recruiting wrap-up

By Sean Morrison · Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:36 p.m.

A summary of IU football's recruitment successes throughout the summer.

Woman angry after tear gas fired into her home

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 6:32 p.m.

A central Indiana woman said she was left homeless after a police SWAT team fired tear gas into her house, trying to force out a fugitive who wasn’t inside.

IU opens lab devoted to study of rare diseases

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 6:32 p.m.

IU has opened a new super-secure laboratory devoted to the study of rare diseases such as the pathogen that causes plague.

New dorm gives Purdue students hotel-style living

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 6:31 p.m.

Purdue University students will experience hotel-style living when they move into a $52 million dormitory that is the first built on campus since 1993.

Indiana surgery center sued over hidden cameras

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 6:30 p.m.

A woman who owns a tanning business is suing a Carmel plastic surgery practice, claiming the office pointed hidden cameras at undressed women as part of its security system.

Purdue, Notre Dame receive $38.5M for energy research

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 6:30 p.m.

Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame are getting $38.5 million in federal stimulus funds to study and develop new energy technologies.

Health group says adults should have whooping cough shots

By Ken Kusmer · Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 6:29 p.m.

A booster vaccine that provides protection against whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria will be required of all students attending Indiana schools in grades 6 through 12 beginning next year, said Kristen Ryker, a preventable disease immunologist with the Indiana State Department of Health.

Long lines of clunkers await scrapyard deaths

By Don Babwin · Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 6:27 p.m.

They were waiting down at Gibson Chevrolet near Chicago for a couple of five-gallon cans of sodium silicate – liquid glass, they call it – to poison and kill the clunkers when the latest condemned car pulled up.

Holding a bill hostage

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 6:03 p.m.

WE SAY A deeper look at the senators’ climate change proposal reveals a flaw in logic.Perhaps the best of which is for First-World countries to pay for emissions reduction in developing countries, which have yet to implement many of the cheapest (and most effective) technologies.

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