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BOOK SMART - "Our Machinery" is a novel that features a machine that recycles human bodies into energy. Author Tha's Miller, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, says she got the book's idea from a "Trivial Pursuit" question.

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CAS senior authors book

By Carla Neuhaus | September 15

Tha's Miller, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has just published her first book and has already begun work on her second. She said she told her parents when she was four years old that she knew she would be a writer. It has been her passion ever since.

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National brief

September 15

A Deltona, Fla., dad chased his daughter's naked boyfriend from her room with a lead pipe Thursday morning, the Daytona Beach News-Journal Online reported. The father, 45, told authorities he didn't know his daughter had a boyfriend let alone that he had been sneaking into the house for more than a year, the News-Journal reported.

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Metro calendar

September 15

Monday, Sept. 15 Food - Paella Festival Kickoff 11 a.m.-noon WHERE: Taberna del Alabardero restaurant, 1776 I St. N.W. METRO: Farragut West (blue and orange lines) INFO: This Spanish restaurant will begin its annual Paella Festival with chef Dani Arrana's cooking demonstration, which will include complimentary paella samples.

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University promotes self-defense

By Julie Munro | September 15

As colleges across the country work to implement increased personal defense and emergency response training for staff and students, AU has maintained a consistent and comprehensive public safety program, said Lt. Rima Sifri, AU Public Safety's crime prevention coordinator.

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Most European colleges still tuition-free

By Carla Neuhaus | September 15

While U.S. students' college tuition continues to rise, many European countries continue to fund their universities and are experimenting with low tuitions. A 2008 study by the CESifo Group, a European research group, shows that many public universities in Europe do not charge their students any tuition fees at all.

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Campus calendar

September 11

Thursday, Sept. 11 FBI Volunteer Internship Program information session 4:30-5:30 p.m. WHERE: MGC 247 INFO: The FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO) offers several internship positions for qualified upperclassmen and graduate students who are interested in working for the bureau.

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Campus brief

September 11

Parvez Sharma, a 2004 graduate of the School of Communication, directed and produced an award-winning documentary that was shown in D.C. from Sept. 5 to 11. Sharma's film, "A Jihad for Love," received worldwide praise, including awards from the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and TRI Continental Film Festival in India, according to the movie's Web site.

GRAND OPENING - Von Gerik Allena, Angela Nagy and Chris Moody help cut the ribbon to unveil renovations in Centennial Tuesday evening.

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Centennial renovations debuted

By Tamar Hallerman | September 11

Students, resident assistants and Housing and Dining employees crowded Centennial Hall's first floor lounge for the brief ceremony, which gave residents the opportunity to hear about the renovation process from many of the individuals who helped plan the changes.

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Senate considers SUB director nomination

By Anna Tuman | September 11

The Undergraduate Senate heard the first reading Sunday of Tre Matthews' nomination to be the new Student Union Board director. Matthews will go before the senate on Sunday for further consideration.

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Low turnout in D.C. primary attributed to rain, disinterest

By Will Koper | September 11

Intermittent rain and uncontested races resulted in a low turnout citywide as former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry won the Democratic Party's re-nomination for his Ward Eight city council seat with almost 80 percent of the vote. A large number of write-in votes appeared on city ballots, muddying the results of the Republican at-large council seat in which challenger Patrick Mara claimed victory over five-term incumbent Carol Schwartz.

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International brief

September 11

A London jury found three men guilty Monday of participating in a plot to detonate bombs on trans-Atlantic airlines headed for the U.S. and Canada in 2006, CNN reported. The jury failed to reach a verdict on four other men charged in connection to the plot and found one not guilty on all counts.

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Metro brief

September 11

Police evacuated a dormitory at Gallaudet University Wednesday morning after finding what they believed to be bomb-making supplies, the Associated Press reported. A maintenance worker found six boxes of fertilizers and pesticides in an air duct in an unoccupied dorm room, fire department spokesman Alan Etter told the AP.

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National brief

September 11

Fresno, Calif., police arrested a man Monday after he broke into the home of two farm workers and proceeded to rub one with spices and beat the other with an eight-inch-long sausage before he fled, according to the Associated Press. Authorities found Antonio Vasquez, 22, hiding in a nearby field wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks, the AP reported.

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Tuition prices to go on Web

By Elizabeth Royall | September 11

The College Opportunity and Affordability Act signed into law in August requires the Department of Education to list the least affordable universities on its Web site. The Education Department will post the universities with the highest percentage increases in tuition and fees in a three-year period as well as the 5 percent of universities with the highest tuition by July 2011.

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Police blotter

September 11

Sept. 2 A female student approached an officer in the Letts-Anderson quad and reported that an unknown person struck her in the face on the 3300 block of New Mexico Avenue N.W. The student stated she was not injured and did not need medical assistance. The Metropolitan Police Department responded.

... FINALLY - WMATA reported that its Metrobuses arrive earlier or later than they are scheduled more than 25 percent of the time. WMATA recently installed software updates that tracks the progress of Metrobuses along their routes across D.C., Maryland an

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More than 25% of Metrobuses late

By Marisa Kendall | September 11

New technology allowed the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to report that more than 25 percent of its buses did not arrive on their scheduled times in July, according to data released recently on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's Web site.

BUILDING BRIDGES - Construction workers lay concrete in front of the entrance to Mary Graydon Center. The bridge between Mary Graydon Center, the main quad and Butler Pavilion will open this weekend. The university will close front entrance to MGC for two

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MGC bridge nearly complete

By Ethan Klapper | September 10

The new pedestrian bridge between the main quad, Mary Graydon Center and Butler Pavilion will open this weekend after unstable soil found over the summer forced delays in its construction, according to University Architect Jerry Gager. "We found some unsuitable soil, so we had to change some engineering aspects of the structure," he said.