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UF updates Webmail layout, adds more storage
By Alexander Klausner | Jan. 4, 2011It’s a new year and UF Webmail has a new look to go with it.
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Online escort service provides trade-off for customers: Part 3
By LYDIA ROSENFELDT | Jan. 4, 2011Still, Mel now describes her first weekend as a sugar baby as “the easiest money I ever made.”
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Online escort service provides trade-off for customers: Part 2
By LYDIA ROSENFELDT | Jan. 4, 2011Hannah, a 22-year-old model and actress in Tampa, calls herself an “accomplished magazine model” and a European Playboy model. She costs $5,000 - $10,000 a month.
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Online escort service provides trade-off for customers: Part 1
By LYDIA ROSENFELDT | Jan. 4, 2011A website provides a trade-off between older, affluent men and young, desperate women. The women get gifts including money and jewelry, and in return they give the men sex.
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Watering hole serves as small-town gathering place
By Alex Orlando | Jan. 4, 2011There is magic in crossroads. In folklore, places where paths meet have been the site of spells, life-and-death decisions and deals with the devil. Historically, they have been places to meet for public debates, announcements, hangings, weddings, wakes and dances.
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Dating site narrows field to college students, alumni
By Miguel Chateloin | Jan. 4, 2011Online dating just got less creepy for students.
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Final-ly Relaxed
By Max Reed | Dec. 7, 2010The semester is almost over, exams are in progress and "Club West" is now in session. Students are getting juiced up and strung out on coffee, cigarettes and amphetamines as they pull all-nighters and cram for exams.
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Student Government: No to block tuition
By Chelsea Hull | Dec. 7, 2010The Student Senate unanimously passed a resolution opposing the implementation of block tuition during a meeting Tuesday night.
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Researchers make liver transplant breakthrough
By Daniela Abratt | Dec. 7, 2010After a yearlong study, researchers have found that the production of an important genetic protein linked to liver function decreases with aging.
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Ad Society app makes information available on the go
By Amy Garland | Dec. 7, 2010UF’s Ad Society has taken advantage of the booming applications market for iPhones, iPods, iPads and the iTouch by creating its own free Ad Society app.
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Italian-language class performs Italian play in Florida Gym
By Rachel Raddatz | Dec. 7, 2010Students who attend a play in the Florida Gym tonight will feel like they’re in Italy for three acts.
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Gainesville alumni propose Gator Club
By Rachel Raddatz | Dec. 6, 2010In an effort to foster ties within The Gator Nation, the UF Alumni Association will soon have a new Gator Club in Gainesville.
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Professor debunks familial ideals
By Sara Solano | Dec. 6, 2010The idea that it’s “All in the Family” may seem like a notion abandoned in the golden age of the 1950s, but a UF professor is striving to teach Americans that the traditional family structure heralded as ideal doesn’t ensure picture-perfect families.
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Student balances school with animal care
By Jillian Kremer | Dec. 6, 2010It’s 4 p.m. on a Monday when Bret Denney gets a call from his boss. One of the pigs is in serious trouble.
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Engineering students show off flying, fetching robots
By Alexander Klausner | Dec. 6, 2010They are still a long way from C-3PO, R2-D2 and WALL-E, but over the course of the fall semester, the UF mechanical and electrical engineering students took cracks at creating their own robots.
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Cornhole tournament raises money for Zimbabwe
By Matthew Riva | Dec. 5, 2010Beanbags and sparks flew on the windy roof above Beef ‘O’ Brady’s at the Holiday Inn on Sunday afternoon.
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Senator admits ethics violations
By Shaneece Dixon | Dec. 5, 2010Florida Senate President and UF lecturer Mike Haridopolos admitted Friday that he made some ethical lapses over financial disclosures related to his employment at UF.
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Psychologist offers advice for ways to de-stress during finals
By JULIA JACOBO | Dec. 5, 2010These tips will help you study for hours while keeping that volatile mood at bay.
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UF grads hope ‘Dorito Pong’ video will be Super Bowl ad
By Liberty Bostwick | Dec. 5, 2010Theater graduates Nick Greene and Ryan George have entered a commercial in a contest to win a spot in the Super Bowl lineup of advertisements for Doritos.
