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Free class teaches women self-defense

Any woman who feels unsafe at times or simply wants to learn how to better defend herself will have the opportunity to do so this month. Starting Monday, the IU Police Department will offer a Rape Aggression Defense course that will be taught by certified instructors in the Activity Room at Campus View Apartments.


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Life sciences conference to take place Friday in Indianapolis

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The Kelley School of Business has teamed with key life science organizations to host a series of four conferences. For the second year in a row, business executives and students alike will have the chance to learn about the impact life sciences have on the business world today.


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Trojan condoms teams up with IU to conduct research

For the next three years, the Center for Sexual Health Promotion will join forces with Church & Dwight Co., the makers of Trojan brand condoms, to do in-depth research on how people protect themselves from disease.

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Exhibit of family photos to open

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The “Bridgewaters Family Photographs” exhibit opens Friday at IU’s Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, celebrating the famous local family and its influence on the community.




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Around the World

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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut a key interest rate for the second time in just more than a week, reducing the federal funds rate by a half point. It signaled that further rate cuts were possible.



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Edwards ends presidential campaign in La.

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Democrat John Edwards bowed out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, saying it was time to step aside “so that history can blaze its path” in a campaign now left to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.



The Audition needs more flannel.

Champs of chumps

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With its debut Controversy Loves Company, The Audition garnered mild success as a simple, carbon copy of emo-scene brethren such as Fall Out Boy.


Yee (Tony Leung) is strictly a Dapper Dan man.

Caution: seduction

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The explicit sexual nature of Ang Lee's newest film, which earned it an NC-17 rating, may make or break many theatergoers' opinions of it.



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Sweet satisfaction

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It was a dark time in Bloomington when both Jiffy Treet and Cold Stone Creamery abandoned their downtown locations, leaving Kirkwood Avenue devoid of any after-dinner desserts.


Diane Lane and Colin Hanks (center) star in Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems' thriller UNTRACEABLE.

LOL horror

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Because of the times we live in, I expected a movie about cyber crime to dwell on the moral and legal aspects of such crimes.




Rambo only uses real Cutco knives.

Rambone-headed

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Hot on the heels of 2006's "Rocky Balboa," the film that resurrected Sylvester Stallone's signature character 15 years after the series' last installment, Stallone's new picture "Rambo" breathes life into traumatized Vietnam veteran John Rambo after an almost-20-year hiatus.