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Chicago police put more feet on street
Tribune reporterRookie Chicago police officers have started to patrol on foot on some of the city's most dangerous blocks in a move that Superintendent Garry McCarthy said reinforces the department's "return to community policing." After six months in the Police...Tags: Philosophy, Crime, Law and Justice, Religion and Belief, Garry McCarthy
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Seven candidates are vying for 4 seats on the D230 board
Seven candidates are running for four, four-year terms on the Consolidated High School District 230 Board of Trustees in the April 9 election. The Tribune asked the candidates to share some biographical information and to answer this question: What is...
Tags: Students, Academic Progress, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Illinois State University
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Highland Park artist interprets beauty
For artist Polina Reisman, the idea of beauty is far from media portrayals of the tall, thin model walking the runway. In fact, she believes beauty is quite the opposite: It's in the imperfections and quirks that make people unique. To try to convey...
Tags: Fine Artists, Israel, AIDS, Personal Income, Artists
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Bright Minds: Sheri Lewis, global disease surveillance
When Sheri Lewis joined APL in 2001 as a public health analyst, an electronic disease surveillance system was just being developed at the lab. The impetus, she recalls, was Sept. 11 and the letters containing anthrax bacteria spores that were mailed the...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Biology, Science and Technology, Education, Ellicott City
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Triffon Alatzas named top editor of Baltimore Sun Media Group
Triffon G. Alatzas, who has served The Baltimore Sun as head of digital media and also led the sports and business departments, was named top editor of the 176-year-old news organization Wednesday. As executive editor and a senior vice president of...
Tags: University of Illinois Springfield, Newspapers, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newspaper and Magazine
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James L. Barrett dies at 86; pioneering Napa vintner
James L. Barrett, a pioneering Napa Valley vintner who stepped onto the world stage in a big way in 1976 when his Chateau Montelena Chardonnay won a prestigious Paris tasting, has died. He was 86. Barrett died Thursday in San Francisco, according to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Bottle Shock (movie), Justice System, Korean War (1950-1953), U.S. Navy
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Sometimes touching base yields compelling stories
I was looking for stories to write when a colleague recommended I’d check in on Sarah Bauer, a northwest suburban woman born with spina bifida who’s in medical school. We wrote about Bauer in 2009, just as she was preparing to attend...
Tags: Spina Bifida, Colleges and Universities
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Study explores why some families return to poor neighborhoods
When it was introduced in 1994, the federal housing experiment Moving to Opportunity was, to some, a means to rectify poverty. To others, it was a way for cities to dump their poorest residents on the suburbs. Many deemed it a failure, and officials...
Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy
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'Book of My Lives': Aleksander Hemon's remarkable tale
Aleksandar Hemon landed in the United States two decades ago, January 1992. He was 27, a young Bosnian journalist from Sarajevo arriving on a one-month visa, arranged through a cultural exchange program sponsored by the State Department. Just after he...
Tags: Saul Bellow, Book, James Joyce, England, Jhumpa Lahiri
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Student from South Bend views history in Rome
South Bend TribuneEmily Polovick was a witness to history. The South Bend native was one of more than 150,000 people to pack St. Peter's Square on Wednesday. She was there as Pope Francis was introduced to the world. Admittedly, the enormity of what she saw hasn't sunk in...Tags: Students, Rome (Italy), Teaching and Learning, Education, Papal Conclave (2013)
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More than a dozen cases of mumps suspected at Loyola
A dozen or more cases of mumps have been reported among Loyola University Maryland students over the past month, prompting officials to alert the campus community to signs of the rare virus that has spread rapidly across college campuses in recent...
Tags: Students, Headaches, Meningitis, Disease Prevention, Preventative Medicine
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A Baltimore County native and two friends take on the first all-disabled ascent of El Capitan
El Capitan is an intimidating granite formation in California's Yosemite National Park, popular with climbers because its 7,573-foot vertical face presents such a challenge. Pete Davis has done the four-night, five-day ascent twice, which is an...
Tags: Timonium, Festive Events, Healthy Diet, Catonsville, Education
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Mar 15, 2013
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