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  • UA Recognizes Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers

    Undergraduate Research TUSCALOOSA, Ala. --Thirteen University of Alabama undergraduate researchers have received recognition through the Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Program. The program recognizes the best research activity conducted by UA undergraduates, who are nominated by faculty and staff research directors. In 1997, the Randall Publishing Co., now Randall-Reilly ...

  • Dear friends in Oklahoma Hope will find you

    In Alabama, we have an idea of what you are going through in the Oklahoma community of Moore. We continue to recover from the tornado that destroyed much of our city, Tuscaloosa, in 2011. If there's one thing we learned, it's that hope will find you, even when you can't find ...

  • Your Health 5-22-13 Americans health

    Birmingham, AL - Americans' overall health is not improving much. A new government report shows about six in 10 people are either overweight or obese and large numbers are engaging in unhealthy behaviors like smoking, heavy drinking or not exercising. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only one in five adults met federal guidelines for both aerobic activity and ...

  • BSA voting on change to openly gay Scouts policy

    Grapevine, TX - Boy Scouts of America leaders are meeting in Texas to vote on whether or not to change the long standing ban on openly gay Boy Scouts. The two day meeting of 1,400 local Boys Scout leaders begins Wednesday and will conclude Thursday with the vote. Scouting officials have proposed allowing openly gay Scouts while keeping the ban on gay adult Scout leaders. The first of ...

  • Tuscaloosa mayor elected to municipal league post

    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox has been elected president of the Alabama League of Municipalities. The Tuscaloosa News reports ...


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Movie Review

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) [DVD]

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) [DVD]

Ever since its publication in 1959, many thought Gnter Grasss fantastical novel The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) was unfilmable. The story of a three-year-old boy who spites the idiocies of the world around him by refusing to grow up, making him into a sort of political Peter Pan ... ...

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  • UA’s Creative Writing Camp Lets Teens Express Themselves

    Teens TUSCALOOSA, Ala. --The University of Alabama invites local high school students -- rising freshmen through graduating seniors -- to participate in the summer 2013 Creative Writing Camp. The campwill meet from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday from Monday, June 3, to Friday, June 14, in 301 Morgan Hall on the UA campus. No previous creative writingexperience is required. The instructors will ...

  • Birmingham man found shot to death

    Officers responded to a call around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday of a man in the street who had been shot. They found 27-year-old Lederious Peoples of Birmingham with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to UAB Hospital, where he died a short time ...

  • 4 teens shot at high school graduation party

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities say four teenagers were shot at a high school graduation party in Huntsville, and authorities were searching for the gunman early Wednesday ...

  • Class ring missing for decades returned

    Lola Fossett of Florence holds a photograph of her late husband, Rick, and his high school class ring that recently was returned to her by a Florida couple who found it in 1977. / ...

  • Alabama court system facing layoffs chief justice says

    'In the Constitution of Alabama, we are the only branch that is guaranteed reasonable and adequate funding, and we are not getting it,' Chief Justice Roy Moore said Tuesday. / AMANDA SOWARDS/ADVERTISER ...

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