Haven't you always suspected as much?
Consuming low-calorie drinks may increase the risk of putting on weight, according to scientists in the United States.
They have suggested that people who choose diet drinks containing artificial sweeteners tend to overcompensate and consume more calories than those who do not.
Another reason to be glad George Bush is leaving the White House -- it will make the punks happy:
Include me as one of them:
INDIANAPOLIS — Looking at a smart car from the outside, you immediately begin a mental list of people who wouldn't touch an 8.8-foot vehicle with a 10-foot pole.
I will be in line to buy "the tiniest car marketed in North America" when every other vehicle on the road is that size or smaller. I want a fighting chance out there.
Going for that trashy look in Muncie:
Come spring, employees of the Muncie Sanitary District will wear uniforms made from the same recycled soda bottles they collect each week.
With a $5,000 grant from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the district will purchase 100-percent recycled jackets, T-shirts and polo shirts for its 140 employees.
John McCain, the conventional wisdom goes, doesn't have a chance of winning the White House unless he shores up support among the conservative GOP base. One way to help do that, writes Pat Toomey in today's Wall Street Journal, is to choose a "true-blue fiscal conservative" ans his vice presidential running mate. Toomey, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania and the president of the Club for Growth, lists several possibilities, including Indiana's Mike Pence:
Hillary Clinton believes in her cause so much that she's willing to finance it herself:
Hillary Rodham Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million late last month as Barack Obama outraised and outspent her in the Democratic presidential race.
I'm a little backward in dealing with people and especially retarded when it comes to women. I tend to hang back until there's an umistakable sign that a woman might be interested in me, then I will possibly take a tentative first step like saying hello to her.
The removal of actual people from our transactions continues:
PokerTek Inc. says the Indiana Gaming Commission has approved a field trial for its tables at the state's 11 riverboat casinos.
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With all the back-and-forth over property tax reform, here's a piece of proposed legislation that I missed:
Legislation was introduced at the Indiana Legislative Session on January 8 that, if passed, will require a later school start date for all Indiana Public Schools.
Not in the running for mother of the year. First up, this Hoosier:
An Indiana mother was arrested and jailed this morning after her toddler son was found trapped and unconscious underneath the passed-out woman and was declared dead an hour later.
