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UT professor cooks up new dieting program

Paxton Thomes March 8, 2012

On-the-go eating can lead to more weight gain than cooking at home does, but some of that weight gain can be spared by eating out smartly. Gayle Timmerman, associate professor in the School of Nursing,...

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Jalah Goette to serve as TSM acting director

Kayla Jonsson March 8, 2012

Texas Student Media assistant director Jalah Goette will serve as interim TSM director until someone is selected to permanently fill the position, the TSM Board of Trustees decided Wednesday. Goette’s...

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Wildflowers give hope after drought

Rachel Thompson March 8, 2012

After months of brutal drought in Texas, a seed of hope is finding its way through cracked soil during the upcoming wildflower season. Wildflowers are fairly well adapted to drought and germinate based...

Colbert’s super PAC surprises with popularity

Andrew Messamore March 8, 2012

Unhappy with the influence of super political action committees in the 2012 election season, Texans — and especially young people — have turned to satire for political expression. By January,...

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Warm, moist winter to spur population of mosquitoes

Samuel Liebl March 8, 2012

The unseasonably warm spring weather may spawn larger than normal insect populations, surprising visitors to South By Southwest next week and alerting Austinites to the changing climate. After a historic...

Romney, Santorum split Super Tuesday victories

The Associated Press March 7, 2012

WASHINGTON — Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney split six states and dueled in an almost impossibly close race in Ohio on a Super Tuesday that stretched from one end of the country to the other in the most...

Truck driver strike has Brazilians lining up at empty gas stations

The Associated Press March 7, 2012

SAO PAULO — Sao Paulo’s 2,000 gas stations are rapidly running out of fuel as a strike by truck drivers who haul gas in South America’s largest city entered a second day Tuesday, according...

After Anonymous-LulzSec split, some leading hackers arrested

The Associated Press March 7, 2012

NEW YORK — Top members of the computer hacking group LulzSec have been arrested and will face charges in New York, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. Five people with the group were either...

US, China finalize agreements to bring food aid to North Korea

The Associated Press March 7, 2012

BEIJING — U.S. envoys are finalizing arrangements for the first U.S. government food aid shipment to impoverished North Korea in three years. Special envoy Robert King and senior aid official Jon...

Houston financier sentenced to 20 years for Ponzi scheme

The Associated Press March 7, 2012

HOUSTON — Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford spent more than 20 years charming investors, who handed him billions of dollars they had spent their lives accumulating. Stanford promised them safe investments,...

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Eastern Libya pulls away from central government

The Associated Press March 7, 2012

BENGHAZI, Libya — Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a “dangerous”...

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Teenage cancer researcher breaks barriers for young science enthusiasts

Jody Serrano March 7, 2012

Seventeen-year-old Shree Bose can trace her passion for science back to her first science fair in fourth grade, when she suggested parents dye their vegetables blue to make them more appetizing. Her interest...

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