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Pornography leads to lack of real emotion

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:53 p.m.

In generations past, pornography was a dirty magazine in a brown paper bag. The Internet revolution has turned every computer into a discreet paper bag, making pornography more accessible and removing the stigma once attached to it.

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Learning the cinemas of the world

By Clare Krusing · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:48 p.m.

The Chilean film "Fernando Has Returned" features the workings of Chile's Identification Unit as it attempts to identify all the bodies of the "disappeared" persons during the Pinochet dictatorship. The movie is one of many Latin American films that professor and Director of Portuguese studies Darlene Sadlier features in her communication and culture class, C398: National Cinemas: Latin American Film.

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Journalism, Kinsey join to teach sex reporting

By Ryan Gregg · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:45 p.m.

Journalistic reporting requires an effective relationship between reporter and source to relay important information to the reader. This is especially true when reporting on the issue of sex research.

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Class connects music to AIDS epidemic

By Kaitlin Shawgo and Kailtin Shawgo · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:45 p.m.

Sitting with their desks in a circle in a small room in the IU School of Optometry, a group of seven graduate students, one auditor and a professor discuss the musical "Rent." Although the graduate seminar, provided by the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, might appear like a music course, it looks solely at -- as the name suggests -- "Musical Responses to the AIDS Pandemic."

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Club plans full-length film

By Jordan Cohen · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:43 p.m.

The Business Careers in Entertainment Club is out to show students and faculty why the group was recently voted IU's "Best Student Organization" by WEEKEND readers. The club is preparing to produce a full-length film, and although it will not be "coming soon to a theater near you," the script might be written by a student near you.

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Duo combines guitar, opera-style vocals

By Maggie Conner · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:32 p.m.

The audience fell silent after Daniel Bolshoy and Julie Nesrallah struck the last chords of a passionate, Spanish-influenced guitar ballad. The crowd waited for the duo to say something insightful about the song.

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Senior shows fashion with photography

By Shannon McEnerney · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:29 p.m.

A little girl stood on the ice, ready to skate across the arena and perform in front of the audience. What this little girl was showing off, besides her talent in the rink, was her outfit. When she was young, fifth-year senior Lauren Feldman designed her own skating outfits.

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15 venomous snakes seized from man's home

By AP Reports · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:24 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Conservation officers who entered the home of a man who sought treatment for a poisonous snake bite found 15 venomous vipers, including cobras and rattlesnakes.

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5 killed in plane crash

By AP Reports · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:23 p.m.

ROLLING PRAIRIE, Ind. -- Federal and local authorities worked Tuesday to recover the remains of four employees of an Iowa marketing company and a pilot killed in a small plane crash in a rural area of northern Indiana, officials said.

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Same-sex marriage bill passed in South Africa

By Clare Nullis · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:02 p.m.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The South African parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday recognizing gay marriages -- a first for a continent where homosexuality is largely taboo.

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Around the World

By AP Reports · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11:01 p.m.

Iran's president boasted that his country will soon have mastered the production of nuclear fuel, but he added the country was far from producing enough fuel to power its Russian-built reactor. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed the world had finally accepted that Iran has the complete cycle of fuel production -- from mining uranium to enriching it to the level required for consumption in a nuclear power plant.

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Senate Democrats waste no time gathering to choose new leaders

By Laurie Kellman · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 11 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats picked two women for senior posts Tuesday and appointed former U.S. Capitol police chief Terrance Gainer as sergeant at arms. Their choice as majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid, said a top priority is getting a new secretary of defense confirmed.

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Online Only: Confidentially revolting

By Alyson Brodsy and Abram Hess · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 10:53 p.m.

In 1948, IU zoology professor Alfred Kinsey published a book broaching all social taboos surrounding the sexual activity of American men. That same year, renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead reviewed Kinsey's work, which became known as "The Kinsey Report," and commented, "In every society, sex patterns depend on a careful and meticulous balance between ignorance and knowledge, sophistication and naivete ... between the things we don't mention and the things we do."

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Digital dependence

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian McFillen · Tuesday, Nov. 14,2006 10:51 p.m.

On Tuesday, the Washington Post published an extensive piece on the debate about the existence of Internet addiction. It placed particular emphasis on a recent study published in the neuropsychiatric journal CNS Spectrums that, having employed a telephone survey of more than 2,500 adults, is being touted as "the first large-scale look at excessive Internet use."

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