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My Plate or Yours: Confessions of a Popcorn Addict

First Posted: 4/26/13 05:12 PM EDT Updated: 4/26/13 05:12 PM EDT
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Food Column

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR I am a popcorn junkie. I love it, I crave it, I fantasize about it. Sometimes, after a long, hard day, when I am too tired even to slice a vegetable, make a sandwich, or, indeed, lift a fork, I will have a big (big!) bowl of popcorn for dinner. Sprinkled with salt, or jalapeño seasoning, or maybe a little sugar, or, what the heck, all three—it is comfort food extraordinaire. Which is odd because really, when you get right down to it, popcorn is mostly air. Still, it is the crunchiest, saltiest, corniest air you will ever eat. If anyone in the house is having popcorn, I am too, seduced by that buttery hot aroma that [...]

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Butterfly Road: Jewelry Made from Real Wings

First Posted: 1/24/13 01:37 PM EDT Updated: 1/24/13 01:37 PM EDT
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Butterfly Road

BY LIBBY PETERSON Looking for dead insects may be an unusual undertaking, but jewelry designer Julie Gootee makes it an integral part of her craft. Gootee finds butterfly wings on roadsides and gives them new life as pendants for her jewelry company, The Butterfly Road. These wings are not only beautiful, she says, they also carry an environmental message. “Look at how many dead butterflies I can find along a two-mile stretch in Bloomington. Think of how many miles of road there are in the country,” she says. “The Butterfly Road is a good reminder of the beauty that exists on the side of the road and of our impact on the world.” Gootee’s livelihood depends on a thriving population [...]

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Indiana Limestone: Still the World’s Best

First Posted: 1/23/13 02:40 PM EDT Updated: 1/23/13 02:40 PM EDT
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Schnatzmeyer

BY JANET MANDELSTAM The building material that likely has had the greatest effect on American architecture is found in just three counties in southern Indiana. Monroe, Owen, and Lawrence counties provided the Indiana limestone that was used in the rebuilding effort after extensive fires in Chicago and Boston in the late 19th century and in such 20th-century landmarks as the Empire State Building, the Pentagon, the buildings of Indiana University, Rockefeller Center in New York, the National Cathedral in Washington, and 35 state capitols, including the Statehouse in Indianapolis. “From an architectural point of view, limestone played a truly big role in the building of the country,” says Todd Schnatzmeyer, executive director of the Indiana Limestone Institute of America, based [...]

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Giving Back to Africa: Teaching Leadership to Congo Kids

First Posted: 1/18/13 04:13 PM EDT Updated: 1/18/13 04:14 PM EDT
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Giving Back to Africa

BY JEREMY SHERE Since 2007, the Bloomington-based nonprofit Giving Back to Africa has worked to improve education for school children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The organization’s efforts recently took a major step forward when, in 2011, Congolese physician and community-development expert Dr. Jerry Kindomba got on board as project manager to help create a new curriculum focused on experiential learning in Congolese schools. “In my previous community work, I had realized that one of the main issues in the DRC is leadership,” says Kindomba, who had worked with a USAID-funded health initiative. “I was attracted by Giving Back to Africa’s goal of investing in young people to help them become community leaders.” Working with Giving Back [...]

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Area Dentists Sound Alarm About Rise in Oral Cancer

First Posted: 1/17/13 02:30 PM EDT Updated: 1/17/13 02:30 PM EDT
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Oral Cancer

BY JANET MANDELSTAM You may not see many ribbons or bracelets or hear of any 5K walks to raise awareness of oral cancer, but a group of Bloomington-area dentists nonetheless wants to make sure that the local population knows how to recognize and possibly prevent this increasingly prevalent form of the disease. The National Cancer Institute predicts that more than 40,000 people will receive a diagnosis of oral cancer in the U.S. this year, and that 7,850 will die. Who are they? Periodontist Mark Sutor says that while some people may be genetically susceptible to oral cancer, “two classes of people are most likely to get the disease: smokers, who smoke more than a pack a day, and chronic alcohol [...]

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