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Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and linebacker LaMarr Woodley celebrate the team's 27-23 win over the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL Super Bowl XLIII football game, Sunday in Tampa, Fla.

Super Bowl XLIII: A look back

The Steelers’ 27-23 win Sunday night over Arizona was another classic in an era of great games – “a game for the ages,” commissioner Roger Goodell called it.


Fans paint their faces with the  color of Iran's national flag in attendance of a freindly match between Iran and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Tehran May 31, 2006.

US team sent to Iran for culture swap

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is sending a women’s badminton team to Iran this week as part of a broad bid to engage the Iranian people through educational and cultural exchanges, the State Department said Monday.


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Track and Field pole vaulter Jeff Coover received a Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week honor, and the IU men's basketball team had two games previously "to be determined" on their schedule set.



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US Soccer to place bid for World Cup

Sunil Gulati, president of U.S. Soccer, announced Monday that the U.S. Soccer Federation has officially declared interest in hosting either the 2018 or 2022 FIFA World Cups.




Lab assistant Amanda Favata lends a hand to assistant Thomas Smith as they calibrate an eye tracker headset at the Psychology building Monday afternoon. Favata and Smith were preparing for a psychology experiment run by Dr. Chen Yu, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

Psychology experiments a way to get fast cash

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The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences constantly conducts experiments for undergraduate and graduate students. Flyers on bulletin boards throughout the psychology building advertise experiments about drinking, drug use, attention problems and more.




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Consumer spending, incomes fall; savings rise

WASHINGTON – Consumer spending fell for a record sixth straight month in December as recession-battered households, worried about surging layoffs, boosted their savings rates to the highest level since May.


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Bank lending policies become more strict

WASHINGTON – Many banks have made it harder for borrowers to obtain all kinds of loans over the past three months despite a $700 billion federal bailout program and a flurry of other bold moves to stem the worst financial crisis to hit the country since the 1930s.


Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi joins other Senate Republicans in opposition to President Barack Obama's financial stimulus package as he displays a newspaper advocacy ad during a news conference at the Capitol Thursday in Washington.

Senate debates stimulus package

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Monday that “very modest differences” over a massive package to revive the economy should not delay its swift passage, making a fresh appeal to Congress as the nation dealt with another dose of dire financial news.


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Seamen trained against pirates

With an alarming number of tankers and cargo ships getting hijacked on the high seas, the nation’s maritime academies are offering more training to merchant seamen in how to fend off attacks from pirates armed not with cutlasses and flintlocks but with automatic weapons and grenade launchers.


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As many as 26 million rural migrant workers unemployed in China

The global economic crisis has taken hold deep in China’s impoverished countryside, as millions of rural migrants are laid off from factory jobs and left to scratch a living from tiny landholdings – creating unsettling prospects for a government anxious to avoid social unrest.


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Emptying your pocket

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This semester alone, each full-time student will dish out a hefty $431.52 in mandatory student fees. Divided between the bus fee, the health fee, the technology fee and the activity fee, the money that is collected through fees goes to support services and organizations that benefit IU-Bloomington students. But in these tough economic times, $400-plus is a lot of money to hand over blindly to the powers that be.


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Gadhafi to lead African Union

Moammar Gadhafi of Libya was elected Monday as leader of the African Union, a position long sought by the eccentric dictator pushing his oil-rich nation into the international mainstream after years of isolation.


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Bones could be of Muncie man missing since ’62

Bone fragments found in a decayed box in a bank building are being subjected to DNA tests to determine whether they might be the remains of a man who vanished in 1962.