Flip-flops may affect health

Flip-flops are a summer fashion staple among college students and Americans, but a recent study from Auburn University warns that the shoes could have a negative effect on health if worn too often. Researchers asked 39 college-aged individuals to wear either flip-flops or athletic shoes and walk on a platform that measured step force and stride length.

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UT employee sued for false Web story

An Oklahoma publishing company and one of its beat reporters have filed a lawsuit against a UT employee who allegedly published a fake news article using several of the company's copyrighted trademarks. The Oklahoma Publishing Company and Jacob "Jake" Trotter, a reporter for The Oklahoman newspaper, are suing James Conradt, a service manager for UT Information Technology Services, for copyright infringement after Conradt allegedly produced a false news story using The Oklahoman online news template with Trotter's byline, said Oklahoman editor Ed Kelley. Full Story

DT Weekend

Three Austin pubs offer trivia night competitions, prizes

How many cockroaches can a man eat in a minute? Thirty-six, it turns out. For as long as there has been alcohol and pubs to serve it in, there have been booze-fueled bets and arguments over obscure facts such as this. It was to settle such disputes that in 1951 Sir Hugh Beaver, director of the Guinness Brewery, comisssioned the now-iconic "Guinness World Records" book. Full Story

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University

Assistant prof gets $1.3 million

A UT assistant professor of nursing received $1.3 million dollars on Monday from the National Institutes of Health to research how women of different ethnic origins respond to disabilities. Tracie Harrison's four-year study will investigate why Latino women seem to suffer more than non-Latino women with the same disability. Full Story

UT collects genocide victim stories

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World & Nation

5 Lebanese men freed in exchange for 2 bodies

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Five Lebanese militants got a hero's welcome from tens of thousands of cheering Hezbollah supporters and kisses from the U.S.-backed prime minister Wednesday after being set free by Israel in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers. Full Story

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Opinion

VIEWPOINT: "The revolution may be digitized"

The biannual ritual of mobbing the University Co-op during the first week of classes to purchase piles of books (which will probably spend the semester unopened and dusty or propping up a mini-fridge) may soon be a thing of the past, and rightly so. We've grown up with easy online access to our favorite music, movies and TV shows. Full Story

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Sports

Hamilton makes recovery

ARLINGTON - In two weeks, Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton turned Yankee Stadium taunts of "Josh smokes crack" into awestruck cries of "Ham-il-ton." The former No. 1 pick with the remarkable story of recovery from drug addiction did it with a dazzling display of power during the All-Star Home Run Derby. Full Story