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4-H dog show highlights agility of man’s best friend

By Sara Amato · Sunday, July 29,2007 7:35 p.m.

Despite heavy rains and low crowd attendance Friday evening, Leighann Edwards, a 4-H organizer, set up obstacles for the Monroe County Fair’s 4-H Dog Agility Show.

Study says women’s drug use increasing

By Ab D. Phillip · Sunday, July 29,2007 7:32 p.m.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A recent national survey found that men have more sexual partners in their lifetimes and are more likely to do drugs, but women are catching up.

Pageant draws county’s cutest babies

By Sara Amato · Sunday, July 29,2007 7:31 p.m.

Asher Nicholson, a 27-month-old dressed in plaid shorts, a tan hat and T-shirt and black Converse sneakers, ran around the auditorium during the Monroe County Fair Baby Contest on Saturday afternoon.

Rodeo gives fairgoers thrills

By Nadia LaMantia · Sunday, July 29,2007 7:29 p.m.

The Monroe County Fair received its share of excitement Wednesday night when the Rafter 4T Rodeo Company came to town. The crowd watched two action-filled hours of cowboys on bucking horses and bulls, ladies doing stunts and riding fast on horses and children riding sheep.

Celebrity slam

By Mike Abrams · Sunday, July 29,2007 5:10 p.m.

What do Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Drew Carey, Britney Spears, Usher and Ja Rule have in common?

Greer Fellowship deadline extended

By Zachary Osterman · Sunday, July 29,2007 5:06 p.m.

The Bloomington Area Arts Council announced Thursday that the application deadline for the Greer Artist Fellowships has been extended through Aug. 31, according to a Bloomington Area Arts Council press release. Four $1,000 fellowships are available to artists working in the fields of creative writing and ceramics.

Jacobs School of Music presents student opera production, ‘The Elixir of Love’

By Kelly Cochran · Sunday, July 29,2007 5:06 p.m.

Graduate student Betsy Uschkrat breathes a sigh of relief as a tight blonde curl falls from underneath her brown wig. What has been for most students a night no different than any other, has been Uschkrat’s escape to another world.

Drum Corps International to hold world competition in Indianapolis

By Mike Abrams · Sunday, July 29,2007 5:01 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – Before the Indianapolis Colts kick off their 2008 season in the new Lucas Oil Stadium, thousands of young adults will step on the field first for their own competition.

Anglo-reality

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Sunday, July 29,2007 3:58 p.m.

SALAMANCA, Spain – Never before in my life have I been as jealous of a 6-year-old as I am now of my Spanish host family’s daughter. Sometimes at dinner, when “Rosita” is whining about not wanting to eat her peas, I will hear her throw in a Spanish word conjugated perfectly in the subjunctive mood without even pausing to think about it.

Born country

By Jacob Stewart and Jake Stewart · Sunday, July 29,2007 3:57 p.m.

I‘ve lived in or near two Indiana cities in my life: Lafayette and Bloomington. Both cities provide an aspect of our home state that isn’t necessarily representative.

Academic roosting of chickens

By Edward Delp · Sunday, July 29,2007 3:56 p.m.

Last week, the battle for academic freedom took an interesting turn. The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted 8-1 to fire Professor Ward Churchill. A committee concluded he had engaged in research misconduct that included fabrication, falsification, improper citation and plagiarism.

Banking on a BA

Sunday, July 29,2007 3:54 p.m.

It’s no secret that Kelley students think oh-so-highly of themselves, nor is it any secret that the University’s liberal arts students consider them money-grubbing consumerist whores (or so it’s rumored), but do the differences in expected salaries make these common misconceptions true?

Minimum wage increased to $5.85

By Erin Riley · Saturday, July 28,2007 1:29 p.m.

The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 took effect Tuesday, raising the federal minimum wage for the first time since 1997, tacking on 70 cents to the federal minimum rate. Now workers must be paid at least $5.85 per hour.

Study: IU researchers may have found cure for testicular cancer

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, July 27,2007 10:08 a.m.

Researchers at IU’s School of Medicine may have discovered a way to cure testicular cancer in patients who do not respond to initial chemotherapy, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The treatment calls for high doses of chemotherapy followed by infusions of the patients’ own peripheral-blood stem cells.

Law suit could shut down Facebook

By Ab D. Phillip · Friday, July 27,2007 10:08 a.m.

The founders of a social networking Web site are suing Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, and they want to shut his site down.

Simpson Edumacation

By Brian J. McFillen · Thursday, July 26,2007 12 a.m.

But despite the admonishment of the genius mind behind Flaming Moes, moon waffles and Skittlebrau, academics have sought to probe into what lies behind "The Simpsons" -- the show's significance, that is, not Homer's crack.

'This things I believe': WEEKEND's favorite Simpsons video games

By Chris Freiberg · Thursday, July 26,2007 12 a.m.

Though it's taken nearly two decades for the Simpson family to hit the big screen, Springfield's favorite family has had a strong presence in the world of video gaming since the days of the NES. Unfortunately, there is an unmistakable cone of suckiness surrounding most of these games. Still, the following three games are perfectly cromulent pieces of Simpsons software.

Live from Springfield

By Ryan Corazza and Zack Teibloom · Thursday, July 26,2007 12 a.m.

the best songs from "The Simpsons"

Prince conjures up rain with help from his chest hair.

Planet Prince: B+

By Joe Livarchik and Juliana Barbassa · Thursday, July 26,2007 12 a.m.

Amazingly still relevant, it's hard to believe a 49-year-old Prince can still sound so well -- and look so good.

The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse

By Brian J. McFillen and Mike Smith · Thursday, July 26,2007 12 a.m.

Throughout Dark Horse, honeyed voices drip lyrics vaguely hinting at apocalypse, disillusion and betrayal (espionage and war appear as major themes) and are accompanied by complex chamber pop orchestrations that, in turn, give way to sweeping guitars, drums and choruses.

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