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Will iPad be iHit or iFlop?
By NATALIE CERABINO | Mar. 31, 2010Apple is hoping cell phones, laptops, digital cameras, iPods, PDAs and Kindles just won’t be enough.
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Ratemyprofessors.com rates good teachers, good looks
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 31, 2010The end of the semester is just on the tip of the horizon. It’s so close you can almost taste your celebration drinks. But, hold up! There’s some major housekeeping that needs to be done, and that my friends, is registration. Whether registering for summer or fall courses, ISIS has been bombarded with many trying to sort out their lives—at least for a semester. Although tailoring your schedule to what you may think is an acceptable time to get out of bed, other factors obviously have to be taken into account—like the professor. Boosting help with your research for a Cinderella-fit of a schedule is the ever so reliable Rate My Professors Web site.
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On-campus gym offers classes for everyone
By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 31, 2010Standing on a squishy purple bubble about 3 feet around, you raise one foot in the air and twist your torso while keeping your balance. By the instructor’s command, you flip over the half-shaped ball and start doing push-ups with the bubble side on the floor and the hard plastic side facing up. The unique half-ball/half-platform wobbles while you push up and down engaging your core and pushing your abs to the limit.
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Party poolside with sun, drinks
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 24, 2010Welcome back, Florida. It’s been about four months since we’ve been graced by your usual, bright and shining self. Our long-awaited warm weather is finally upon us, and the forecast for upcoming weeks is looking mighty delicious. Highs will be topping out in the 70s and lows, just on the brim of the 50s. So sayonara Jack Frost. It’s time to party poolside.
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Atten-tion! Bootcamp pushes students to new levels
By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 24, 2010For 30 seconds, you and a partner are shoulder- pressing a 30-pound tire together over your head. Just when your shoulders can’t take it anymore, you’re running 40 yards at full speed. Your jog to the next station is your break, only to throw a 10-pound medicine ball as hard as you can to your partner after squatting and then lunging forward with it. You throw back and forth with your partner for 50 seconds.
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Andy Samberg makes waves
By AMELIA MARTY | Mar. 17, 2010Mr. Pibb and Red Vines? Crazy delicious.
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Don’t bake, fake to keep tan
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 17, 2010You may be freshly bronzed from those Spring Break fiascoes in the sun, but soon the honeymoon will be as done as your reputation from that night out in Cabo. However, your tan (existing as your one bit of dignity from that vacation) will soon disappear—causing you to resemble more of a “Twilight” vampire than Jessica Alba’s doppelganger.
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Local spring break tips
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Mar. 3, 2010Stuck in Gainesville over Spring Break? We’ve got you covered. Here are some fun things to keep you occupied throughout next week:
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Effortless ways to avoid packing on the pounds this break
By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 3, 2010Editor’s Note: How much you weigh and how long you exercise will determine how many calories you will burn.
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Fitness: Cardio is Key
By LANCE FULLER | Feb. 24, 2010With more students going to the gym to get in shape for Spring Break, they may be hitting the weights hard but could be neglecting one of the most important muscles in the body -- the heart. When it comes to getting in shape, cardiovascular exercise is king.
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Students take over blogosphere
By Benjamin Evans | Feb. 24, 2010It’s no secret that blogging can put you on the fast track to success. But how much you achieve out there on the Web depends on the amount of work you’re willing to put in.
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Celebrity column
By Alex Orlando | Feb. 24, 2010Forget Mary Lou Retton. We have found our classiest Olympian yet, snowboarder Scotty Lago, who was caught putting his bronze medal in the wrong place.
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Litl gadget, big world: Netbook makes Web surfing too easy
By Jon Silman | Feb. 24, 2010The litl is a big idea from a small computer company based in Boston. In its purest form, it’s a computer so simple to use that you don’t have to spend an irritatingly long hour explaining the way it works to your grandmother - she can (gasp) figure it out on her own right out of the box.
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Chatroulette takes Web by storm
By AMELIA HARNISH | Feb. 17, 2010Connected, feel free to talk now. Anticipation, hilarity, disappointment. Next. Disgust. Next. Repeat.
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Shhhhh...This is a library!
By GABRIELLE FALCONEIRI | Feb. 17, 2010It’s that time again. Midterms are upon us, and Gators flood Library West in desperate attempts to cram a half of a semester’s worth of information into three all-night study sessions.
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Dance like a Pussycat Doll
By ALLISON BANKO | Feb. 10, 2010When flipping through music videos, it is difficult to keep your mouth from dropping at the sight of a Pussycat Dolls music video. Whether you are a boy or a girl confronted with the spectacle is irrelevant. The Dolls’ sultry demeanor and flawless stomachs causes most guys to contain themselves in their inseam and turns girls green with envy.
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Screen Actors Guild
By Alex Orlando | Jan. 27, 2010I'd like to start out this column by posing a question to you, readers, and the entire Screen Actors Guild: What the hell is a female actor?
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Haiti fundraisers get fun
By Jon Silman | Jan. 27, 2010Sometimes extraordinary things come from ordinary people - in ordinary places. Will Thomas, 33, a common man with sharp blue eyes, works prep at The Top and plays the drums in local band Grabass Charlestons. He gets up early enough to listen to the birds on his way to work and NPR when he gets there. On this particular Tuesday morning, while working in the silver, cluttered kitchen behind shelves of clunky metal pots and pans, the UF grad knew something was wrong.
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Chris Brown deserves a second chance
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Jan. 13, 2010We’re all familiar with the classic celebrity catastrophe: Celeb is clean-cut. Celeb makes fatal mistake. Celeb apologizes. But what comes after that is a bit hazy. As the adoring fans, we either hold our grudges until the celeb morphs into a has-been, or we forgive and forget. I’m here today to make a case for a current crossroads the public has arrived at: Either forgive Chris Brown or condemn him to Pop Culture Hell.
