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Student-athletes help their mentor with expensive recovery

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The IU Athletic Department creed, “The Spirit of Indiana: 24 Sports, One Team”, seems to hold true as Hoosier athletes rally around Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Tom Morris, who is recovering from a C6 spinal cord injury he sustained from a mountain bike accident on May 17.




Professor Elinor Ostrom wins Nobel prize for economics

Elinor Ostrom, 78, dies of cancer

IU's distinguished Professor Elinor Ostrom died of cancer at IU Health Bloomington Hospital early Tuesday morning, according to a press release from the University.



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Column: 'Girls': Voice of a New Generation

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Lately I’ve been giving film a lot of attention and seeing as this is a film and television column, I thought I would talk about TV for a change.  I’m going to share with you my recent TV obsession: “Girls” on HBO.



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City energy report shows inefficiencies

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The City of Bloomington recently issued the Local Government Operations Energy Use and Emissions Inventory, which catalogued energy use between individual city departments.


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IU Junior Andy Bayer wins 1,500m NCAA title

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Bayer finished the race in 3:43.82, crowning him the champion against Brigham Young University’s Miles Batty by just .01 seconds. It was Bayer's first NCAA title and the first outdoor champion from IU since 1993.


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U.S. House passes bill ending tax on medical devices

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The United States House of Representatives passed the Health Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012 on Thursday by a 270-146 vote. The bill, co-sponsored by Indiana Representatives Todd Young and Mike Pence, intends to repeal a 2.3-percent tax on medical devices imposed under President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.




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Athletic performance amnesia

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At that moment, it was impossible to think of the scandalous and unfaithful Woods. He made spectators ask the same question he had been making everyone ask for years: “How the hell did he do that?” As long as he has played, he has shown an ability to make a small white ball do things that no one else in the world can seemingly make it do.


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What the frack?

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Under Pennsylvania’s Act 13, drillers are required to tell any doctor who asks what chemicals they are pumping underground — but doctors are prohibited from sharing this information with anyone else. What’s more, there is no standard confidentiality agreement form, so each drilling company drafts its own terms.