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Sing a song with the "Piano Man"
8:31 PM 5/9/2008 — The sign outside the Canopy Club boasts "Piano Man" each Tuesday, and a growing number of students now can say they have experienced the show.
Shay Thiele, 26, is the Canopy Club's newest phenomenon, as he sits on the stage with his keyboard each Tuesday night in front of an enthusiastic and growing crowd.
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Collaboration between UI professors may identify new cause of reading problems in children
1:01 AM 5/6/2008 — How hard would - well - anything be if you couldn't read? Woot ef it all ztarted drom tha birst sound you heerd?
For the past three years, UI professors Jont Allen and Cynthia Johnson have been looking to see if a child's reading disability may stem from their problems with speech perception.
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New Registered Organization to bring runway fashion to UI
1:03 AM 5/6/2008 — When Pooja Desai and Aramide Odusanya came to the University, they knew they wanted to be involved in fashion. But among the hundreds of Registered Student Organization booths they visited on Quad Day, not one was dedicated to the production of a high-fashion runway show.
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Study: teachers' pay lags behind coaches'
1:10 AM 5/6/2008 — After conducting a 1,400-school survey at the end of last year, the American Association of University Professors found that the incomes of professors at public colleges and universities are being forced to compete with the salaries paid to football coaches, the lack of state funding and inflation.
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Texas Instruments CEO speaks highly of UI engineers
1:10 AM 5/6/2008 — For the first time ever, Rich Templeton, chief executive officer of Texas Instruments, leading electronics manufacturer most known for its line of "TI" calculators, chose the University as a venue for one of his annual speaking events.
Templeton spoke in a seminar titled "Engineer the Future: Making an Impact Through Innovation.
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Wind energy growing as a power source
1:11 AM 5/6/2008 — Wind power is one of many options when it comes to finding alternative sources of energy. Some people are now able to power their homes through residential wind turbines, which not only saves electricity costs but can also benefit the environment.
Although wind energy only makes up for about 1 percent of the electricity used in the U.
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UI conducts 'field' research
1:10 AM 5/6/2008 — Anyone who watches baseball has seen it - an infielder running back and forth, trying to get under a relatively easy infield pop-up, only to lunge back at the last second in order to make a catch.
According to physics professor Alan Nathan, some of these pop-ups may be difficult to catch because of the path they follow in the air.
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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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Applying late for internships
12:59 AM 5/6/2008 — The majority of students have already figured out their plans for summer: Some are keeping their backpacks on for summer school, and a lucky few are vacationing in a foreign country. But most are heading home with either the same job as years past or interning for a company.
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Odds and Ends: Dinosaur dung sells at NYC auction for nearly $1,000
1:03 AM 5/6/2008 — NEW YORK - A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old sold at a New York auction Wednesday for nearly $1,000. The prehistoric deposit fetched $960, said a spokeswoman for Bonhams New York. Its pre-auction estimate was $450. The fossilized dung is from the Jurassic era, the auction house said.
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Police report
1:07 AM 5/6/2008 — Champaign A 31-year-old woman reported residential burglary at the 400 block of Briar Drive on Tuesday afternoon. According to a police report, an unknown offender stole cash from the victim's bedroom. No arrests had been made at the time of the report. Roland Realty reported criminal damage to property at the 800 block of South First Street early Wednesday morning.
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