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Skydiving passion leads to profession
What started out as a passion turned into an unexpected business for Luther Kurtz, owner of Capital City Skydiving. There are locations in Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, Harbor Springs, Mich., and Fowlerville, Mich.
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Web exclusive: Founding women celebrated in exhibit
The Lansing community is celebrating its 150th anniversary and the Michigan Women’s Historical Center & Hall of Fame’s current exhibit highlights the often-forgotten contributions of Lansing’s founding women.
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Gladiator sandals lend to Grecian trend
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” is a pretty apt description for the tough choices facing many women when selecting summer style. On one hand, there’s nothing easier in summer than slipping on a sundress, a pair of flip-flops and running out the door. It’s a season when comfort and convenience are at the forefront of fashion choices.
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Scarves becoming new summer fashion trend
The summer isn’t all about sundresses and tank tops. This season, scarves are taking center stage as they make a transition from a winter to warm weather trend. “I think fashion is becoming more about accessories and not necessarily about functionality for fashion in the summer,” said Mark Knight, manager for American Apparel, 115 E. Grand River Ave.
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Free-flowing dresses provide trendy option for summer
The hot, muggy days of summer call for looser fabrics, shorter hemlines and other design tricks to help beat the heat. Summer dressing presents unique challenges and opportunities because it’s the best time of year to try different looks. The goal is to look cute and stylish without sweating to death.
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Charm keeps Clara's chugging
It started with a vision. Thirty years ago, Peter Jubeck looked at the Union Depot in Lansing and saw a place that had potential. By taking a risk, Jubeck turned the 100-year-old building into Clara’s Lansing Station, 637 E. Michigan Ave.
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Ingham County sees syphilis increase
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned to rid Ingham County of syphilis, a bacterial sexually transmitted infection, by 2010, but recent cases have put those plans on the back burner.
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Capcakes simple way to wish '09 grads good luck
It’s that time of year again — graduation. Spartans are moving up and moving on and campus is losing a lot of winners. Personally, I’m saying goodbye to my best girlfriends and will have to trot around campus without their pretty faces keeping me company.
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Freshmen fifteen Q’s
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and their perspective on their new frontier.
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E.L. librarian has passion for young adult readers
Mary Hennessey loves her job. As teen services librarian for the East Lansing Public Library, Hennessey works with and puts on programs for about 20 local teenagers who are active in the program and almost 80 others who are signed up for the Listserv. Hennessey told The State News about her work as teen services librarian.
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Meeting special needs
Sometimes, they just need a break. And that’s just what the LAP Respite Center aims to do for local families looking for temporary relief — a weekend or two-hour-long break from seeing to the needs of their high-needs children or dependents.
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Chivalry in 2009
It was just one of those days I had too much to carry. Physically, I was lugging a messenger bag of books and daily essentials with a tote bag of food and beverages for the day slung over the other shoulder. Mentally, it was the middle of the week, and on top of the stress of school, balancing my three jobs and searching for post-graduation employment, I was less than enthused about heading to gym class.
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Moving out tougher on bad terms
As if worrying about finals isn’t enough, many students may be finding one more thing to be stressed about as the end of the semester approaches — roommates.
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Strategy may help you to keep your cool
I am not one to write, but it is 2 a.m. on a Saturday night and I am still working on a paper. I am graduating in two weeks, and I have four finals and three papers due. I need to do well in order to bolster my grade-point average for my application to medical school.
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SN style: Unisex boat shoes offer comfort, nostalgia as warm weather footwear
Deck shoes may be nautical in origin, but these casual shoes have left the world of sailboats and yachting to become a staple in the closets of both men and women. Deck shoes are manufactured by a variety of companies, with styles available at many different stores such as clothing retailer Banana Republic or outerwear company Orvis.
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Dairy-free dessert brings vegan baking in reach
I’ve been interested in doing a vegan recipe for a while now, but was afraid of all the ways that I could mess it up. Thanks to contributing confectioner, vegan extraordinaire and psychology junior Irida Mance, I was able to not only face my fear but learn some fun vegan cooking tips along the way.
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Sweet Little Party Palace in Lansing hosts very pink parties for girls
As a child, Deborah Allen always loved to dress up and be a princess. Now, she offers other young girls the chance to do the same: becoming a princess, movie star, fairy or glam girl for the day at Sweet Little Party Palace, 1134-B N. Washington Ave., in Lansing.
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Sow far, sow good
They’re not much to look at now — maybe just a few clusters of daffodils, nondescript greenery and an unassuming pavilion. But give the MSU Horticulture Gardens a couple months. That’s when they’ll come alive and that’s when they’ll be full of the perennial plants and the estimated 40,000 flowers and plants that are planted each year.
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Starting career tough for '09 MSU graduates
I don’t really have a question. I just need to vent. I am about to graduate in three weeks, and I have no idea what I am going to do with my life. I have spent four years here studying (a subject) and now I am not sure if there are even any jobs out there in (this) field. Michigan is my home and I am not sure I want to leave. Just not sure it was all worth it.