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Chief Illiniwek issue steps closer to vote by students
11:02 PM 2/10/2008 — Students for Chief Illiniwek has collected the required number of student signatures to add a referendum question regarding the issue of Chief Illiniwek to the student elections ballot.
The election will take place later this month.
"I wanted to present a question about the Chief to the campus," said Roberto Martell, an officer of Students for Chief Illiniwek and sophomore in LAS.
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I 'heart' Relay concert kicks off Relay for Life
1:08 AM 2/11/2008 — Colleges Against Cancer kicked off its Relay for Life season this weekend with the "I 'heart' Relay" concert Friday night at Foellinger Auditorium.
"We just wanted a big turnout and for people to get excited for the events and learn more, and we think we accomplished that," said Jeremy Rose, senior in LAS and Colleges Against Cancer Relay for Life co-chair.
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Lost of printing contract may hurt Champaign newspaper
1:53 PM 2/11/2008 — CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The publisher of The News-Gazette says the newspaper will cut at least seven jobs and maybe more because it will no longer print certain editions of the Chicago Tribune.
For 25 years, The News-Gazette has printed the Tribune's Midwest edition for distribution south of Chicago.
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Obama to start ads in Ohio, Texas
3:44 PM 2/11/2008 — COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Democrat Barack Obama, riding a tide of momentum that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to stem somewhere, somehow, announced Monday he is launching TV ads in Ohio and Texas, which hold crucial primaries in three weeks.
Having swept all five Democratic presidential contests over the weekend, Obama also was counting on wins in Tuesday's primaries in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
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Company recalls canned beans with possibly fatal toxin
11:01 PM 2/10/2008 — Illinois residents have been warned not to eat cans of green beans and garbanzo beans recalled by New Era Canning Company because they may cause botulism.
All canned green beans and garbanzo beans that have been distributed by New Era Canning Company - based in New Era, Mich.
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International Scientology protest has no immediate success
1:40 PM 2/11/2008 — More than 7,000 anonymous Web users worldwide gathered outside of churches of Scientology on Feb. 10, at 11 a.m., including the Church of Scientology at 312 W. John St., Champaign.
The goal was to protest peacefully against the organizations' actions, tactics and behaviors.
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UI professor does notable research on climate change
11:24 PM 2/10/2008 — Some children want to be firefighters or astronauts when they grow up, but Don Wuebbles, professor of atmospheric sciences and interim director of the School of Earth, Society and Environment, said he has wanted to be a scientist since he was a child. Even as an adult, he refers to his job as playing.
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Fire destroys centuries-old Seoul gate dubbed SKorea's top national treasure
1:51 PM 2/11/2008 — SEOUL, South Korea - An overnight fire destroyed a 610-year-old landmark that was considered the top national treasure, officials said Monday. Police said the cause of the blaze was unclear but officials said arson was suspected.
The fire broke out Sunday night and burned down the wooden structure at the top of the Namdaemun gate that once formed part of a wall that encircled the South Korean capital.
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Rate of younger college students increasing
1:07 AM 5/6/2008 — A new trend has begun to emerge with high school students: going to college early. Click on the icon to hear The Daily Illini's Sydney Langford bring you more on the story.
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SLIDESHOW: Refugee center holds first fundraiser
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Former landfill to be remade into public park
10:18 PM 2/10/2008 — The city of Champaign is in the process of developing a plan to turn a local landfill into a park.
The Champaign Landfill Reuse Park Plan was designed to redevelop the Former Champaign Municipal Landfill, a 90-acre area on the north side of Route 150 between the city of Champaign and the village of Mahomet.
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Neighbors mourn lives lost as recovery process begins
11:08 PM 2/10/2008 — ATKINS, Ark. - On Southeast Fourth Street, everyone steps outside as the storms come. When no one saw the Cherry family this time, people assumed they weren't home.
And for as long as he lives, James Dillion will wish he'd checked.
Strong thunderstorms aren't uncommon as the seasons change in north-central Arkansas, but last week's storms gave Dillion enough pause to call his wife and tell her to come home.
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Superdelegates fuel Clinton's narrow lead
11:23 PM 2/10/2008 — WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton retains her lead among suddenly critical Democratic Party insiders even as Barack Obama builds up his delegate margin with primary and caucus victories across the country, according to a survey by The Associated Press. Of the 796 lawmakers, governors and party officials who are Democratic superdelegates, Clinton had 243 and Obama had 156.
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Odds and ends: All the presidents' hair on display at science museum
8:39 PM 2/10/2008 — PHILADELPHIA - It might be the strangest way to spend Presidents Day. For the first time, The Academy of Natural Sciences is displaying a scrapbook that has locks of hair from the first 12 U.S. presidents. It will be on view Feb. 16-18. The presidential "hair album" was assembled by Peter Arvell Browne, a Philadelphia attorney and scholar of the natural sciences who collected thousands of samples of animal fur and human hair in the 1840s and 1850s and organized them in a dozen leather-bound volumes.
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Police report
8:35 PM 2/10/2008 — Champaign A 23-year-old Rantoul, Ill. woman reported disorderly conduct at the 900 block of West Marketview Drive Tuesday afternoon. According to a police report, a 36-year-old Tuscola, Ill. woman was upset after a short argument and threw a cigarette into the victim's vehicle then hit the vehicle with her hand.
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