For white boys, "regardless of what show you're watching ... things in life are pretty good for you, " Martins, an assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University Bloomington, said in a statement.

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Meanwhile, Keith Clay, of Indiana University in Bloomington, is studying the idea that periodical-cicada broods are getting bigger over the decades.

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"'Kicking ass' is acceptable vulgarity, " says Michael Adams, professor of English language at Indiana University-Bloomington and author of Slang: The People's Poetry.

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At the University of Illinois he studied environmental sciences, but later, after he had met Mr Hale, he went to the University of Indiana in Bloomington and switched to criminal justice in a department specialising in crimes against minorities.

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In another law review article, Leandra Lederman, a professor at the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, argues that different virtual games should in fact be treated differently.

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Indianapolis, a city of 790, 000 with its own large black population, is also Democratic territory, as is Bloomington, home to the University of Indiana's flagship campus.

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