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Pilaf dish serves up opportunity to educate people about Central Asian culture

By Sandra Arao Ameny · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

It was the first time that a cook-off was held in Bloomington for a famous Central Asian and Uralic dish. Seven countries competed but only one would take home the trophy for best pilaf – a rice and meat dish.

UPDATE: 3:02 p.m.: Facebook pictures result in fight at Dunnhill Apartments

By IDS staff and Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

A 20-year-old IU student was punched by another woman early Tuesday morning during a fight that stemmed from pictures on Facebook, Bloomington Police said.

IUAM honors talented youth

By Kyle Meehan · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

More than 100 students from 11 elementary schools were honored at the Youth Art Month awards presentation Saturday. There was standing room only as the students and their families packed the lecture hall in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts to its maximum capacity of 300 people. The IU Art Museum hosted the event with the Monroe County Community School Corporation to honor the students whose artwork their teachers selected to be displayed in the atrium of the IU Art Museum.

Three 6 Mafia to play Little 500 weekend

By Shannon McEnerney · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

During Little 500 weekend, students will have the opportunity to attend a Three 6 Mafia concert, in addition to performances by Yellowcard and O.A.R.

34-year-old man arrested for hitting BPD officer with mug

By Michael Reschke · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

A Bloomington man was arrested after trying to hit a police officer with a coffee mug Sunday, police said. Dan L. Schoolcraft, 34, was arrested for battery on a police officer, resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct, Detective Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report.

IU to face in-state rival Sycamores

By Lee Hurwitz · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

After playing its first six games in the relatively warm weather of Memphis, Tenn., and Dothan, Ala., the IU baseball team heads to Indiana State today to compete in the slightly cooler temperature of Terre Haute. Fresh off a 4-2 win Sunday against Northern Iowa, the Hoosiers enter today’s contest against the Sycamores – a team that started the season with a 4-1 record and averages almost eight runs per game.

Daylight saving dates change; energy conservation remains

By Abdullah AlShihri · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Benjamin Franklin, while a minister to France, first suggested the idea of daylight saving time in an essay titled “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light.” That was in an essay published in the Journal de Paris in April 1784. But it was more than a century before an Englishman, William Willett, suggested it again, in 1907.

Fantastical ‘Cirque Dreams’ showing at IU Auditorium tonight

Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

With ultraviolet colors, contortionists and aerialists, Neil Goldberg’s “Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy” will morph the IU Auditorium into a whimsical dreamscape tonight. Taking place in a magical forest, performers from around the world bring the jungle to life using special effects and creative choreography on a multi-million-dollar set. The 90-minute show features gravity-defying aerial acts, vine swinging and puppeteering.

Waitress shot in head by boyfriend in Marion restaurant Monday

By Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

MARION, Ind. – A waitress remained in critical but stable condition Monday after being shot in the head over the weekend by her estranged boyfriend inside the restaurant where she worked, authorities said.

Why not me?

By Scott Leadingham · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Life has a funny way of crapping on us when we least expect it. (So do birds, but a little shotgun action takes care of that problem. It’s much harder to punish life for taking a big No. 2 all over our aspirations.)

Miami’s Wade will try comeback this season

By Aaron Beard · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

MIAMI – Dwyane Wade’s dislocated left shoulder is so fragile there’s a risk of aggravating the injury when he sleeps. But come April, Wade figures he might be up to the rigors of the NBA playoffs. The All-Star guard said Monday he has decided to delay surgery and rehabilitate his shoulder with the goal of returning to help the Miami Heat defend their league title.

Impressed with blood

By Aparna Venkatraman · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Scantily clad women. Arson. Average Joes beating the crap out of each other. Characters urinating on cop cars. No, this isn’t just your run-of-the-mill weekend debauchery. This is the content of many of today’s video games, which lawmakers fear might influence the behavior of the impressionable young people who take in these images day after day.

Community organizations will receive money from Feinstein Challenge

By Erin Riley · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

$1 million will be distributed nationwide to hunger-relief organizations participating in the 10th annual Feinstein Challenge this spring.

Mobile home park gives weather radios to its owners Saturday

By Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

EVANSVILLE – The owners of a southwestern Indiana mobile home park have given each of its 120 residents weather radios to help give them adequate warning in the event of an approaching tornado like one that killed 20 people at another trailer park.

Online Only: Excuse my French

By Matt Peyton · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Amid the always-busy week leading up to spring break, it has dawned on me that I don’t speak a lick of French. Usually this wouldn’t be a problem (it also occurred to me that I don’t speak Arabic), except I’m going to Paris for spring break.

Prior yanked after getting 4 outs, allowing 3 runs

By Aaron Beard · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

PEORIA, Ariz. – Mark Prior’s return didn’t answer as many questions as it created. Prior, who missed most of last season because of injuries, started, allowed three earned runs and got just four outs before Chicago manager Lou Piniella pulled the Cubs’ former ace from Monday’s exhibition game against the Seattle Mariners.

Students a no-show to question executives at RHA election forum

By Shannon McEnerney · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

The Willkie Auditorium appeared empty Monday evening, as three candidates waited in suits for students to come and ask questions about the future of the Residence Halls Association.

Anna Nicole: death of a corporate scam

By Ryan Brown · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

One night, as I flipped through the channels, I came across what I assumed was an entertainment-based network showing clips and up-to-date info on the death and burial of Anna Nicole Smith. I was shocked to find out the late Smith, 27 days since her death, is still receiving headline coverage on one of America’s most powerful news stations: CNN.

Obama’s ‘audacity’

By Brian Stewart · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Politics is not the nursery, as the philosopher Hannah Arendt always liked to say. But a glance at today’s retail politics shows this maxim to nontrue, if not exactly untrue.

Media menagerie

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

In my years of working at a veterinarian’s office, I saw pet owners exploit their animals to no end. Some clients would enter towing schnauzers in miniature Hawaiian shirts, while others dyed their pets pastel colors for Easter. Still, I don’t think I ever saw any situation worse than that of Ebony, a high-fashion furball, though not by choice.