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Books Building Dreams reaches out to children

By Benjamin Kerns · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 10:04 p.m.

Most people satisfy their charitable urges by donating an extra dollar in the collection box at Walmart or volunteering at the local animal shelter, but for IU student Jordan Feldstein, that wasn’t enough. He decided to start his own charity.

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24-hour news torture

By Waddell Hamer · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:33 p.m.

Perhaps my favorite and most frequent form of self-torture is my cheapest. All it requires me to do is turn to either CNN, MSNBC or Fox News.

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God forgot earlids

By John Brown · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:21 p.m.

Imagine walking out of a movie theater on a bright summer day. There’s just too much light to handle, because your eyes are used to the dark. So you close your eyelids. But when there’s too much noise, you can’t close your earlids. It’s kind of a bummer, actually.

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Normal sexism

By Rachel Goldberg · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:20 p.m.

Now that women have the right to vote, birth control and (supposedly) equal rights in the workplace, the need for feminism might be called into question. Do gender inequalities truly affect us on a daily basis? I say absolutely yes.

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Like babies with pacifiers

By Matt Straw · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:18 p.m.

The more I see the way people rely upon their cell phones so incessantly for all tasks and can no longer remember seven digits, the more I stand by my decision not to own one. The more I see about tracking people by a triangulation of their cell signal on television, the better off I feel.

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A new academic roadmap

By IDS · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 9:17 p.m.

WE SAY Three of the 13 points proposed by the Provost’s Task Force are immediate needs.

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Guards at Ind. jail stabbed in escape attempt

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 7:05 p.m.

VERNON, Ind. – Three teenage inmates in a southern Indiana jail attacked three guards and briefly held them hostage early Tuesday during an escape attempt that left one guard hospitalized with a stab wound to the head, authorities said.

"The Invention of Lying"

We’d be lying if we said it was inventive

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 6:10 p.m.

Though “The Invention of Lying” claims to be a comedy, the laughs come to an abrupt halt within the first 10 minutes of the film, when blunt truths about appearance and sexuality quickly lose their comic edge and the scenario becomes much darker.

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Invasion of cinema

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 5:55 p.m.

Hollywood has been going to the alien-well for decades. Sometimes the results are good – “E.T.” for example – and other times audiences get “K-Pax.” After much deliberation, the WEEKEND staff compiled this list of the 10 best and five worst alien-centric films of all time.

"Black Gives Way to Blue"

Give way to Alice in Chains

By Thomas Miller · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 5:49 p.m.

As a band, Alice in Chains has been through a lot, chiefly the death of its lead singer, grunge god Layne Staley in 2002. After Staley’s death, there didn’t seem to be much of a future for the rest of the band. Yet here we are with a new Alice in Chains album – one that is possibly the best record the band has done.

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SPEA professor dies

By Alex Benson · Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 5:12 p.m.

School of Public and Environmental Affairs adjunct professor David J. Allen died yesterday at age 74 from an acute form of leukemia. He helped form SPEA in 1972, and is remembered as the school's strongest supporter.

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Connection problem plagues Internet on campus this afternoon

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 5:08 p.m.

Internet connectivity on the IU-Bloomington campus was interrupted Tuesday after the “core router” and backup systems both failed. Many departments lost connectivity at about 2:30 p.m., and some connectivity was restored as of 5 p.m.

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Connection problem plagues campus this afternoon

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 5:07 p.m.

Internet connectivity on the IU-Bloomington campus was interrupted Tuesday after the “core router” and backup systems both failed. Many departments lost connectivity at about 2:30 p.m., and some connectivity was restored as of 5 p.m.

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ID kits being sent to 162,000 Indiana children

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 4:32 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana officials are distributing more than 162,000 child identification kits to kindergartners and first graders across the state to help authorities locate the youngsters if they go missing.

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New CD features 12 unreleased Jackson 5 recordings

Tuesday, Oct. 6,2009 1:59 p.m.

DETROIT (AP) - The Jackson 5 was one of the greatest in a long line of legendary Motown acts. Now, 40 years after their single, "I Want You Back," debuted, the brothers from Gary, Ind., are returning with a CD of unreleased recordings.

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