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Republicans finalize $24 billion state budget

INDIANAPOLIS -- Republicans finalized a deal Wednesday on a two-year, $24 billion state budget they said would eliminate Indiana's budget deficit over two years and provide some new money for schools and Medicaid without raising state taxes.

Council discusses sustainablity

Ensuring the future prosperity of Bloomington might involve drastic community improvements in global environmental attitude and industrial resource usage.

Sculptor includes 'flaws' in work

CHICAGO -- Sculptor Ruth Duckworth has been creating and selling art for more than half a century, but each piece still holds a place in her heart.

Musician tries out songs for kids

LOS ANGELES -- Even on an eclectic stretch like the Sunset Strip, it's hard to miss the Mutato Muzika office. The building is squat and round, painted lime green. It looks like a flying saucer about to lift off. Mark Mothersbaugh always had his eye on it, and when the tenant left, he bought the property.

Taking a look back at IU fashion

Around The Arts

Three IU Master of Fine Arts students present their works at 6 p.m. Friday in the Thomas T. Solley Atrium of the IU Art Museum.

Exploring the computer-animated CAVE

Virtual reality lives in Lindley Hall. Its locked room becomes another world inside the 8-foot cubed square known as the Computer Automated Virtual Environment.

IU belts out 16 runs in victory

IU coach Bob Morgan spoke to his team Tuesday afternoon and stressed the importance of the 16 games remaining in the season. After inclement weather postponed the Hoosiers' match-up with Marian College Tuesday, IU faced the IU-Southeast Grenadiers Wednesday afternoon.

Women's team to participate in nation's oldest meet

Very rarely does a track and field meet make the pages of Sports Illustrated on Campus, but that is exactly what happened in the April 20 issue.

4-by-1 mile squad expected to lead Hoosier effort

Most of the time, the focus of outdoor track and field is on individual performances and championships. April, however, serves as relay season. The month starts with meets like the Texas, Florida and Kansas Relays and finishes in grand fashion. The nation's top talent splits to Pennsylvania or Iowa, the sites of the Penn Relays and Drake Relays.

Are the White Sox for real?

Something's happening on the south side of Chicago -- and it's making me happy. Some dub it 'Ozzieball' or 'smartball;' others think 'luck' might be a more accurate description for it.

No. 2 seeded team awaits rough road to finals

It almost doesn't matter what road the Hoosiers take through the Big Ten Tournament this weekend -- it will likely be a bumpy one.

High-seeded Hoosiers head to Big Tens

Three months ago, the IU men's tennis team planned on a top Big Ten finish. Tomorrow, at the Big Ten Championships in Champaign, Ill., the Hoosiers will get their last chance to fulfill those expectations and take home the conference crown.

Graduate students enjoy annual garden party despite bad weather

Not even an April shower could dampen the Graduate and Professional Student Organization Garden Party -- it just had to be moved indoors.

SAA gives class of 2005 final send-off with Senior Salute

The IU graduating class of 2005 has nearly made it. Soon-to-be grads have less than two weeks to turn in final papers and projects and study for exams before they don their caps and gowns and make that momentous march into the real world.

Business in Brief

MATTOON, Ill. -- The Lender's Bagels bakery is closing down a production line because of declining sales, a company executive said.

$2.7 billion Las Vegas hotel-casino finally opens doors

LAS VEGAS -- For five years, casino developer Steve Wynn has labored over his latest creation, the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas, forbidding photographs of the interior and keeping most of its design aspects a secret.

Carbs recharge

Freshman Courtney Carnevale finished eating a balanced lunch of sushi, pita and humus in the Indiana Memorial Union's cafeteria around 1 p.m. one afternoon.

GOP tries to end ethics deadlock

WASHINGTON -- The House prepared to end an ethics committee stalemate Wednesday night as Republicans backed House Speaker Dennis Hastert's abandonment of new rules that brought the GOP months of political grief.

Iraqi Cabinet nominees named

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's new prime minister said Wednesday he submitted a complete list of 36 Cabinet members, including seven women, a critical step before the National Assembly votes on a new government drawing in the main ethnic and religious groups and ending a three-month stalemate.