ISU has become one of the universities selected to participate in the trial phase of a campus sustainability-rating program by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. The evaluation system known as STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System), launched last Monday, Feb.… Post the First Comment

A team of Canadian medical researchers has discovered what could be a major revolution in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The team was originally examining how stimulating areas of the brain could quell hunger in obese patients when the experiment took an unexpected turn.… Post the First Comment

As if sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome do not endure enough already, a new study finds the condition may be directly linked to increased stress levels. The study, found in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, said women with chronic fatigue syndrome may be subject to lower levels of the hormone cortisol when they wake up.… 2 Comments

Barack Obama closed the gap between himself and Hillary Clinton on Saturday by winning all three states at stake for the Democrats. The Illinois senator edged Clinton in Washington, Louisiana and Nebraska to bring himself neck and neck with the former first lady.… Post the First Comment

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -Police arrested a suspect in a fire that destroyed a 610-year-old landmark atop a gate considered to be South Korea's top national treasure, local news reports said Tuesday. The 70-year-old man, identified only by his family name Chae, was arrested Monday night on Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed police officer.… Post the First Comment

LONDON (AP) - Arriving separately and saying little, Paul McCartney and Heather Mills went to court Monday to reach a financial settlement in their acrimonious, high-stakes divorce. The High Court hearing, called to divide up the former Beatle's fortune of as much $1.… Post the First Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Tom Lantos, who, as a teenager, twice escaped from a Nazi-run forced labor camp in Hungary and became the only Holocaust survivor to win a seat in Congress, has died. He was 80. Spokeswoman Lynne Weil said Lantos, a Californian, died early Monday at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in suburban Maryland.… Post the First Comment

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - It lived up to its name: the temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation." It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't even get his car trunk lid to close after he got out his charger to kick-start his dead battery.… 4 Comments