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Five Apps That Give Your Health a Boost
By Leila Milgrim | Oct. 27, 2012Between our business and social lives, our cell phones have become as attached to our hands as the skin on our palms.
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Madagascar 3: Friends’ Most Wanted
By Jing Jin | Oct. 27, 2012This October, “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” was released on DVD.
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What to Watch this Halloween
By Craig Kissoon | Oct. 27, 2012If you intend on spending Halloween at home, consider the following horror films to celebrate the holiday.
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Political Pinpoints: Candidates’ Personalities Overshadow the Issues
By Valerie Crum | Oct. 26, 2012Horses. Bayonets. Whoppers. Since when did the President of the United States become a sassy little girl?
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Wine and Dine: First-date options for those who like a good drink
By Caitlyn Finnegan | Oct. 26, 2012Burned out on dates that involve overpriced meals or mindless movie watching? Switch up your date routine with a spot that will offer fun conversations, a casual setting and a chance to test your drink IQ.
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Grenade found at apartment complex was not explosive
By Chris Alcantara | Oct. 26, 2012Gainesville Police confirmed that suspicious materials found Friday morning in a condominium complex southeast of Sorority Row are not explosive.
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Gators' Cody Larson leaves basketball program
By KATIE AGOSTIN | Oct. 26, 2012After saying that Florida was the “perfect” place for him on Oct. 10, sophomore forward Cody Larson decided to leave the men’s basketball team on Friday.
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Darts & Laurels
Oct. 25, 2012Take a whiff. Is that something in the air? It has a distinct smell, that’s for sure, but we can’t quite exactly put our finger on it ... Oh, right, how silly of us! Fest is here. That’s why the air feels so foreboding and dirty.
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Whole Florida ballot should be understood
Oct. 25, 2012For those voting for the first time in this presidential election, it may come as a surprise when you walk into the voting booth or retrieve your absentee ballot from the mailbox, the ballot is not simply two large boxes with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney’s names next to them.
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Ann Romney greets supporters at brief barbecue shop visit
By Meredith Rutland | Oct. 25, 2012With 12 days until her husband faces Barack Obama for the presidency, Ann Romney stopped for some Gainesville barbecue.
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Local businesses prep for today’s flood of Fest attendees
By Colleen Wright | Oct. 25, 2012As about 300 bands gear up for Fest 11, about 8,000 people will flood into the city with empty stomachs and full wallets for a weekend of music.
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Hurricane Sandy not expected to affect Florida-Georgia game
By Kathryn Varn | Oct. 25, 2012While Hurricane Sandy is brewing in the Atlantic, a different type of storm will be stewing on EverBank Field between the Florida Gators and Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday.
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Students get slaughterhouse experience through exhibit
By Audreyanna Loguerre | Oct. 25, 2012Peta2 held a Glass Wall Slaughterhouse Exhibit on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Filipino Student Association to host talent contest
By Cara Chiaramonte | Oct. 25, 2012Kingsley Barte is Filipino. Kevin Tsai is not.
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Gator grabber featured at county fair
By Mark Patrick Kelly | Oct. 25, 2012Bert Lucas hops into a pit of water with a natural born killer every chance he gets.
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Student responds to circulated photos
By Erin Dickerson | Oct. 25, 2012I am absolutely disgusted and disappointed by a picture I saw on my Facebook feed today.
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Zora Neale Hurston honored in campus event
By Carina Seagrave | Oct. 25, 2012Zora Neale Hurston will be honored in a different ‘ville today.
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Picks: Georgia
Oct. 25, 2012This season has been downright scary for the rest of the alligatorSports crew when Adam Pincus is at the wheel. Whether it’s agitating 18-wheeler drivers on our way to College Station, Texas, or almost driving off a hill in Knoxville, Tenn., something always seems to happen on Southeastern Conference road trips. With Halloween six days away, the gang is getting ready for another road trip — this time to Jacksonville for the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. This de facto SEC East championship game will surely spur several intense Will Muschamp facial expressions. Those, my friends, are the scariest things of all.
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Fallen tree traps woman, shuts down West University Avenue
By Chris Alcantara | Oct. 25, 2012At about 1:40 p.m. Thursday, a massive oak tree in front of Fisher’s house, located in the 2800 block of Northwest 27th Terrace, tipped over and landed on West University Avenue, damaging two cars, injuring one person and shutting down the road for about three hours.
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UF soccer clinches SEC regular-season title
By ADAM LICHTENSTEIN | Oct. 25, 2012Florida entered Thursday night’s matchup with South Carolina in control of its finish in the Southeastern Conference. But, for the first two-thirds of the game, the Gators passed on their opportunity to seize control.
