Offense earns weekly honors Pujols, Suzuki named top rookies IU-Purdue game time set
The Sept. 11 attacks have curbed many travel plans for the holiday season. The airline industry has lost billions of dollars and laid off more than 200,000 workers since the terrorist attacks, while passenger travel has dropped by more than 30 percent. With Monday's crash of American Airlines flight 587 passenger levels stand to drop even more, as the American Automobile Association is forecasting a six percent drop in the number of holiday travelers. Of those who plan to travel this year, 87 percent will go by car, the highest percentage AAA has ever recorded.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban military forces appeared to have deserted the capital of Kabul at dawn Tuesday, after a series of stunning military victories by opposition forces over the past four days, witnesses said. Sporadic small arms fire from hills overlooking the city could be heard but the streets were empty of the Taliban soldiers, who had been there hours earlier. From the rooftop of the Intercontinental Hotel on a hill overlooking the city columns of Taliban vehicles could be seen heading south beginning at Monday night. The exodus continued after sun rise.
Just two months after hijacked airliners collapsed the World Trade Center towers, an American Airlines jetliner crashed into a neighborhood in Queens, N.Y. yesterday while it was on its way to the Dominican Republic with 255 people on board. People have been on edge since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, but investigators suggested the cause of the crash was mechanical failure and not an act of terrorism.
Approaching "Ground Zero" early Monday morning, Red Cross volunteers and IU students Chris Gilbert and Ryan Todd expected what has come to be another routine day. The two are aiding New York fire and police units who are sifting through tons of metal that use to be World Trade Center. As members of an Emergency Response Vehicle Team, their vehicle was loaded with water, particle masks, and first aid materials to bring to rescue workers.
"The problem with long introductions is that they make you sound too important," said Professor S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation and neurophysiologist at Harvard Medical School.
The Political Science Graduate Student Association sponsored a panel discussion, "September 11 and the American Public," Monday in Woodburn Hall. Political science professors Gerald Wright, Robert Huckfeldt and Marjorie Hershey served as panelists.
In celebration of Cubafest, IU students and faculty gathered Friday at La Casa, IU's Latino Cultural Center, to create a community mural project. "We had quite a turn out," said graduate student John Morriberon.
Three professional newspapers might soon be available free to students in the Indiana Memorial Union if the IU Student Association implements the Gannett College Readership Program on a trial basis.
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On Sept. 29, I was in Evanston, Ill., for Northwestern's first home game of the 2001 football season. Like in every other sports arena in America, we sang "God Bless America," held a moment of silence, and fans were given small American flag stickers. I immediately put one on the brim of my visor, and one on the back of my car. I'm not sure what my purpose was, aside from that I felt unified with the rest of the country.
Words. As the simplest constituents of every human language, they are the most basic element of our communication. Yet right now, Americans should be having some of the most eventful and important public discussions in our history, with opinion writers and public speakers operating at peak performance -- and we're fumbling all over the words.
On Jan. 27 of this year, freshman Seth Korona attended a party at Theta Chi fraternity. While there, he was one of several people who did a keg stand -- a headstand on top of a keg while drinking through the nozzle. Afterwards, Korona fell and hit his head on a metal door frame. Korona was hospitalized two days after the party and remained in a coma until he was taken off life support.
A vote-by-vote review of untallied ballots in the 2000 Florida presidential election indicates George W. Bush would have narrowly prevailed in the partial recounts sought by Al Gore, but Gore might have reversed the outcome, by the barest of margins, had he pursued and gained a complete statewide recount.
DOHA, Qatar -- With a deadline looming, movement on two issues important to the United States raised hopes Monday that the World Trade Organization would clinch a deal allowing a new round of global trade talks to get under way.
INDIANAPOLIS -- It was never supposed to be a review to determine whether Indiana should have the death penalty, and it isn't going to end with any such conclusion. Not officially. Indiana's capital punishment statute and system got a stamp of approval, however, and it's likely to last for years. When Gov. Frank O'Bannon took the dormant Criminal Law Study Commission from his shelf of available boards and commissions and committees and councils, and blew the dust off in March 2000, he gave the panel that hadn't met for a year a sort-of mission: Take your time, no hurry, but take a close look at Indiana's death penalty law and determine whether it's being used fairly and has adequate safeguards to keep innocent people from being executed.
LANSING, Mich. -- As the only American manufacturer of an anthrax vaccine prepares for an inspection to decide whether it can be used, people who have long opposed giving the vaccine to U.S. troops are trying to call attention to what they say are its potential dangers.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Sitting hunched in a wooden chair outside his bicycle parts store in north Kabul, Saeed Abbas said he feared war would soon land on his doorstep.
Going into their meet against Iowa, IU women\'s swimming coach Dorsey Tierney was looking for senior Susan Woessner and junior Anne Williams to step up for the Hoosiers.
