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Exploring the job market
The job market is beginning to improve for MBA graduates as global companies start to focus on growth following a few years of hiring caution. To be sure, this isn't the job market of the early 2000s, when the jobless rate held between 4 and 6 percent,...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, University of Illinois at Chicago, Health and Safety at Work, Business, Startups
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Getting an MBA: Your business. Your decision.
Chicago TribuneAdmissions consultant Andrea Sparrey uses two numbers to startle prospective business school applicants. She tells them the average price of a home in the United States in 2010 was $273,000. And then she tells them the average price of an MBA from a...Tags: Services and Shopping, Chicago Tribune Columnists, University of Illinois at Chicago, Consumer Confidence, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Should seniors qualify as living donors?
Robert Brown was healthy, willing and a good match: So why not give a kidney to his wife, who otherwise would need dialysis? There was just one potential obstacle: Brown was 74, an age once unthinkable for a kidney donor. For this retired psychologist...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Mayo Clinic, General Practitioners, Kidney Disease
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Northwestern students design penguin bootie
The Shedd Aquarium had a problem: From time to time, its penguins did not have happy feet. The birds, particularly the older ones, developed bumblefoot — uncomfortable lesions that can be caused by standing too long on a rough surface. The Shedd...
Tags: Procedural Sedation, Students, Teachers, Medical Procedures and Tests, Education
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Northwestern receives $12 million grant to aid research on aphasia
More Americans suffer from aphasia — a brain disorder in which a person loses the ability to understand or express words — than Parkinson's disease or muscular dystrophy. But few in the public have heard of the disease. Thanks to a major...
Tags: Physical Conditions, Muscular Dystrophy, National Institutes of Health, Science and Technology, Medical Research
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Hungry for reliable information
One of the things that was clear from reaction to this week's front page story on good nutrition (and how little it is taught in medical schools) is that readers are hungry for clear, reliable information. The story was shared on social media hundreds...
Tags: Internists, General Practitioners, Education, Diets and Dieting, Nutrition
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Prescription for nutrition
Despite a growing consensus that cardiovascular disease is a "food-borne" illness, many physicians are ill-prepared to advise patients on what they should eat to best protect them from heart attack or stroke. One provocative new study found that a...
Tags: Diabetes, Consumer Goods Industries, General Practitioners, Diets and Dieting, Nutrition
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Naperville Central honors notable alumni
When Dave Linne graduated from Naperville Central High School he couldn't wait to leave the western suburbs. But years later looking back at his career writing ads for McDonald's, Kraft, Disney, Pepsi, Nintendo, Hallmark and more, he realized the impact...Tags: Naperville Central High School, Entertainment, Colleges and Universities, Nintendo Company Ltd., ConAgra Foods Incorporated
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U. of C.'s fashion magazine makes Teen Vogue list
For RedEyeMODA, University of Chicago's student-run fashion magazine -- yes, you read that right, University of Chicago has a fashion magazine -- isn't just any college fashion magazine. According to a recent Teen Vogue list, the university's 10-year-old fashion...Tags: Students, Periodicals, Columbia University, Education, New York University
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IUSB employees urge purchase of former natatorium
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Some Indiana University South Bend employees are urging Chancellor Una Mae Reck to seek the purchase of the city's former natatorium, which houses IUSB's Civil Rights Heritage Center. The university currently leases the historic building at...Tags: Civil Rights, Heritage Foundation, University of Notre Dame, Indiana University South Bend, Colleges and Universities
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Remarkable Woman: Amy Little
In a ceiling-high, greasy tangle of wheels, fenders, handlebars and derailleurs, Amy Little sees hope. She's the co-founder with her husband, Lee Ravenscroft, of Working Bikes Cooperative (2434 S. Western Ave., workingbikes.org), a nonprofit...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Rentals, Oak Park, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities
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The 1% aren't like the rest of us
Over the last two years, President Obama and Congress have put the country on track to reduce projected federal budget deficits by nearly $4 trillion. Yet when that process began, in early 2011, only about 12% of Americans in Gallup polls cited federal...
Tags: Public Finance, Government, Unemployment, Budgets and Budgeting, Science and Technology
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