An Indiana University study has spent good money to discover something any man over the age of 16 could have told them:
Don't take flirtatious women for granted. They may not be be interested in you at all but are just being friendly, says a new study.
People of both sexes looking for romance are quite good at reading the male's interest, but equally bad at misjudging the female's interest.
If the mean old GOP was trying to intimidate the poor widdle Democrats into staying home on Election Day, it was a spectacular failure:
Miss America, the beauty pageant scholarship contest winner formerly known as Miss Indiana, is apparently no shrinking violet:
When it was clear she had emerged as a favorite of the judges, she and a group of other leading contenders were asked, "Why should you be Miss America?"
Stam, 22, boldly grabbed the bull by the horns in a manner rarely seen in the pageant world, where so much is riding on the right response.
Oops:
Southern Illinois University drafted a new plagiarism policy in 2007 after facing scrutiny for several high profile copying controversies, but now the school has another awkward problem: It appears the policy plagiarizes part of a document created by Indiana University in 2005.
New York may have had its Soup Nazi, immortalized in a few "Seinfeld" episodes, but Indiana had the Cone Nazi:
Elinor May Everett Stingley, who served up ice cream and admonishments to locals and celebrities alike during her half-century as the strict "Cone Lady" at a park-side ice cream shop, has died at age 101.
Everyone should have a mission in life:
John Dillinger was not a killer—at least among the wax figures of 1930s gangsters, fake tommy guns and "Most Wanted" posters in a Hammond museum.
As the economy continues to weaken, the toll of human tragedy continues to mount:
On the eve of the annual Wing Bowl, there is a nationwide chicken shortage that is driving up the price of chicken wings.
Like the feeling you get after an incomplete pass, a Super Bowl party without wings can leave you with a bad taste in your mouth.
Wing prices always go up before the Bowl, but this year, the cost of wings has taken flight thanks to a wing shortage across the country.
Even Richard Lugar falls under the spell of the Goracle:
Though some lawmakers tangled with Gore on his last visit to Capitol Hill, none did on the Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. Dick Lugar (Ind.), the ranking Republican, agreed that there will be "an almost existential impact" from the climate changes Gore described.
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I'm not sure if I like this or not:
BBB of Northern Indiana will introduce the ratings/letter grade system on Feb. 1 to the northern Indiana community.
The new ratings system, adopted by all BBBs in the United States and Canada, is one more step in our branding strategy. When consumers search reports on companies, they will no longer see just “Satisfactory” or “Unsatisfactory.” It will be a letter grade, A+ through F.
About two-thirds of the way through the story about the Shawnee Middle School student who took a gun and 13-round clip to school is this disturbing detail:
The incident stemmed from a group of students, including the one who brought the gun, being harassed outside the Boys & Girls Club on Fairfield Avenue last week by some boys, one with a gun, the report said.
I really like my Pontiac Bonneville, but it's paid for, so maybe I should considering buying a Ford:
Ford Motor Co. today reported its worst full-year loss on record, but reiterated that it has enough cash and credit available to survive the year without resorting to government funding and said it is ending its controversial jobs bank program.
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While we've been busy arguing over whether George W. Bush's policies have or have not kept America safe, it turns out that Berkeley, Calif., is the nation's true instrument of peace:
Berkeley's public library will face a showdown with the city's Peace and Justice Commission tonight over whether a service contract for the book check-out system violates the city's nuclear-free ordinance.
This sure ain't gonna hurt alcohol sales:
Men who worry about the effect drinking has on their sex life should raise a glass to the latest research.
Alcohol actually improves rather than damages male performance in the bedroom, it is claimed.
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So-called low-risk drinkers, those who have four drinks a day for up to five days a week, fared best.
The economic downturn may have accelerated the Post Office's difficulties, but it hardly seems fair to make it the sole culprit:
The U.S. Postal Service may be forced to eliminate a day of mail service because the economic downturn has led to plummeting volume and revenue, the postmaster general said Wednesday.
House Republicans discover their spines:
In contrast to the House, where Republicans complain that the $819 billion economic recovery package has been drafted without their input, the Senate is ramping up for a more open process. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed on Wednesday by a vote of 244 to 188, with no Republican support. Eight Democrats voted with 177 Republicans to oppose the bill.
Who'da thunk it? The IU Student Association is pushing for legislation that would produce an almost-conservative plan for getting folks to spend money and boost the economy:
The bill will provide a “sales tax holiday” at the beginning each school semester and will take the sales tax off school items such as supplies, textbooks, computers and clothing for three full days.
Omigod, it's the cops! Where'll I hide? I know, the closet:
This year marks the 50th anniversary (Monday will be the actual day) of the event that inspired the most tediously long song in rock 'n' roll history (with the possible exception of "Stairway to Heaven"):
It's way too late to even wish for this, but "doing nothing" is a lot better than being stupid:
Instead of fighting over what should go in the economic stimulus bill, pitting infrastructure spending against tax cuts and contractors against contraceptives, they say lawmakers should be fighting against the very idea of any economic stimulus at all. Call them the Do-Nothing Crowd.
If a certain actor named Patrick kept changing where he sat in his living room until he found the perfect place to sit that brought the greatest harmony to the room and the greatest feeling of peace within himself, could that be called Feng Swayze?
