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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.

IU-Notify now texts to alert students

Out of the 66,000 people registered to receive alerts from IU-Notify, only 7,900 have signed up for the text-messaging feature.

IU officials debate renewing Coke contract

IU’s exclusive contract with Coca-Cola expires June 30, and University officials are debating whether renewing it is the most ethical option.

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.

Why so little controversy about Phelps’ bong hit photo?

Michael Phelps, it seems, actually can do wrong.

Saturday marked first GLBT alumni homecoming

Psychology experiments a way to get fast cash

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.

IU’s enrollment increases by 3.3 percent in spring

Spring enrollment increased by 3.3 percent compared to last spring on IU Bloomington’s campus.

Asian Culture Center serves up cooking demo

Students learn about Chinese culture and cuisine through the Asian Culture Center's cooking demonstrations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Emptying your pocket

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.

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.

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.

Ringling Bros. cruelty-to-elephants case heads to U.S. District Court

After more than eight years of legal skirmishing, a trial is scheduled to open Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by animal welfare groups alleging that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus routinely abuses its performing elephants.