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FDA considers food labels to promote healthy eating habits

By Abisalom Omolo and Andrew Bridges · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:26 a.m.

WASHINGTON – Next month, General Mills Inc. and Kellogg Co. will begin emblazoning their breakfast cereals with symbols that summarize complex nutritional information, part of the growing use of logos to steer harried grocery shoppers toward healthier choices.

Indiana health chief: Lead testing will likely show other home hazards

By Abisalom Omolo and Ken Kusmer · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:25 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – A surge in testing children for lead poisoning prompted by toy recalls likely will have the unintended but greater benefit of revealing lead paint in homes and other household sources, Indiana’s health commissioner said Monday.

Study shows negative memories remembered better than positive

By Alisha Chaudhary · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:25 a.m.

After seeing a man on a street holding a gun, people remember the gun vividly, but they forget the details of the street.

Scrumptious studying

By Maggie Hames · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:24 a.m.

The fantasy could be one all college students have, especially when their stomachs are rumbling in the middle of a biochemistry

IU adds nature preserve

By Ben Homrig · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:23 a.m.

Amid crisis, IU’s Bradford Woods was in need of a makeover.

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(L to R) Ben Gougeon, Diane Kondrat and Carmen Meyers in "Miss Witherspoon" at the Waldron.

Afterlife confronted in witty ‘Miss Witherspoon’ comedy

By Sara Deuser · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:20 a.m.

Christopher Durang’s new play “Miss Witherspoon” had audience members laughing out loud within the first two minutes of Saturday night’s performance at the John Waldron Arts Center.

Chicago’s Field Museum returns Maori remains to New Zealand

By Ray Lilley · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:17 a.m.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A U.S. museum returned the tattooed head of a Maori and bones from 13 others Monday, the latest repatriation of indigenous remains from overseas museums, a Maori expert said.

Dance, dance evolution?

By Lindsey Landis · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:17 a.m.

BOLOGNA, Italy – Italian men are terrible dancers.

MTV awards bounce back after Britney bombs in performance

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:16 a.m.

LAS VEGAS – Somewhere, Kevin Federline is laughing. An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears delivered what was destined to be the most talked about performance of the MTV Video Music Awards – but for all the wrong reasons.

9 American soldiers killed in Iraq, including 8 in Baghdad

By Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:10 a.m.

BAGHDAD – Nine American soldiers died in Iraq on Monday – all but one killed in vehicle accidents in and around Baghdad, the military said.

Gen. Petraeus suggests troop reduction

By Alexandra R. Moses and Anne Flaherty · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:09 a.m.

WASHINGTON – Gen. David Petraeus told Congress on Monday he envisions the withdrawal of roughly 30,000 U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next summer.

Clowning around

By IDS staff and Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 1:04 a.m.

Anna Billings, left, and Kailieg Adams have varying reactions to a story read to them during “Put Your Nose In a Book Day” at Southside School Friday in Columbus, Ind.

2 report assault Saturday

By Sara Amato · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 12:54 a.m.

Two Bloomington women reported that they were assaulted Saturday morning after asking residents to lower

5-month sexual misconduct case convicts only 1; man gets 1-year home detention

By Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 12:53 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – Sexual abuse and misconduct allegations levied against 10 workers at the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center have led to just one conviction.

IU encourages students to receive meningitis vaccine

By Heather Haemker · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 12:53 a.m.

Only 12 percent of teens received a U.S. Health Department-recommended meningitis shot this year, according to a government survey released Aug. 30.

Congress votes to increase student aid by $20 billion

By Ab D. Phillip and Daniel Strauss · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 12:49 a.m.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Congress passed a bill last week that will increase financial aid for college students.

IU’s endowment market value surpasses goal

By Heather Haemker · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 12:48 a.m.

The IU Foundation recently broke its benchmark endowment earnings for the fiscal year, which earned 21.5 percent and took IU’s endowment market value to $1.6 billion, according to a press release.

All aboard!

Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 12:29 a.m.

Even with a nickname like Crossroads of America, Indiana is not particularly well-known for its great public transportation system. In fact, outside of most large cities and college towns, public transport barely exists, and is mostly intended for seniors who cannot drive. The reasons for this are plentiful: our state is composed of small towns situated far from one another, making public transportation too expensive to implement, while car culture drives our nation.

Signs of the time

By Scott Leadingham · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 12:28 a.m.

"Home is where your heart is, ain’t that what they always say? My heart lies in broken pieces scattered on the way.” – Steve Earle There’s nothing quite like home. It’s a place of family, liquor cabinets and so much more. For many of us in Bloomington, however, there are multiple homes – one that we return to in the summer or for holidays and one that we destroy between the end of August and early May.

Rest in peace

By Grace Low · Tuesday, Sept. 11,2007 12:26 a.m.

Generally, philosophical musings on the topic of dignity in death surface during debates about assisted suicide and hospice issues, but today it seems vital to me as an anthropologist and a humanist to question its place in museum ethics.

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