Mr. Lamb, a journalism professor at Indiana University in Indianapolis, is the author of "Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training" (University of Nebraska, 2004).

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"It can be really tricky if it's something with a background that's associated with livestock, " says Jacquelynn O'Palka, chair of the department of nutrition and dietetics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

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It shows that he is willing to put an intellectual in charge of an important issue. (Stephen Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis, will play second fiddle to the university professor.) But it also shows that Mr Bush has a shrewd sense of how to use intellectuals to advance his agenda.

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Chelsea Clinton also got thrown into the middle of another controversy Tuesday while campaigning for her mother at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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"That led to the idea that one could give most or all of the radiation closer to the original tumor bed and that would solve the problem, " says George Sledge, a past president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and co-director of the breast-cancer program at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, in Indianapolis.

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