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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: Peace Corps, Colleges and Universities, Financial Planning, Wrigley Field, Lollapalooza
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Low-fat milk doesn't help toddlers' weight, study says UPDATED
This post has been updated to include comments from a researcher and an American Heart Assn. spokeswoman. Giving toddlers skim or 1% milk to keep them from growing overweight doesn’t seem to work, according to a study out Monday that gives pause...
Tags: Healthy Diet, Weight, Colleges and Universities, Overweight, Milk
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Health care law to spur need for doctors
The estimated 29 million people who are required by federal law to buy health insurance next year will spark a demand for more physicians and other primary care providers in some parts of the nation that won't be met quickly, according to a new study....Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, University of Chicago, Drugs and Medicines, Crime, Law and Justice
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Teaching compassion
Margie Huff, a second-year medical student at Northwestern University, picked up a drawing pencil and carefully sketched the upper border of an eye socket. Huff then peered at her own reflection in a small cosmetics mirror and made a couple of small...
Tags: University of Chicago, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Drugs and Medicines, Religion and Belief, Values
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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: Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment, Government Debt, Culture
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Low-fat milk doesn't help toddlers' weight, study says
Los Angeles TimesGiving toddlers skim or 1 percent milk to keep them from growing overweight doesn’t seem to work, according to a study out Monday that gives pause over the common advice to avoid whole milk from age 2. Researchers led by Dr. Mark DeBoer of the...Tags: Healthy Diet, Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Colleges and Universities, Overweight
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NU 'Grapes of Wrath' is justice delayed for composer Gordon
"The Grapes of Wrath," composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Michael Korie's operatic adaptation of John Steinbeck's sprawling 1939 novel about dispossessed Oklahoma sharecroppers during the Great Depression, has enjoyed a degree of instant success...Tags: Music Industry, Colleges and Universities, Music, Entertainment, France
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A woman's fantasies and fears take wing in 'Amelia'
It's heartening to see area college and university music programs taking up the slack with respect to significant recent American operas Chicago's professional opera companies have ignored. A little more than a week ago, student singers and orchestra...Tags: Roosevelt University, Colleges and Universities, Music, Amelia (movie), Frank Lloyd Wright
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An hundredweight of huzzahs
The Baltimore SunIn addition to the huzzahs for Jonathon Owen on the completion of his master's degree in linguistics, please lift your hats high for Professor Stacy Spaulding, who has just been granted tenure and promotion at Towson University. Professor Spaulding...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Colleges and Universities, Education, Towson University
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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: Junot Diaz, Andy Wachowski, England, Soccer, Tribune Tower
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Fewer schools will mean larger classes and more controversy for CPS
Change of SubjectFriday's print column Becky Carroll, a (Chicago Public Schools) spokeswoman, argued that big classes don't necessarily hamper learning. "It's the quality of teaching in that classroom," Carroll said. "You could have a teacher that is high-quality that... -
James Edward Farner, M.D., 90
James Edward Farner, M.D., father, physician, family patriarch, fisherman and bridge life master, died March 6, 2013. He was born in Akron, Ohio, on Jan. 5, 1923, the son of Daniel and Helen Farner. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Alice...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Fishing, U.S. Navy, Cleveland Clinic, United States Naval Academy
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