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Girl Scouts add butterfly garden to Hinsdale park
A peaceful, tree-shaded park with a wooden gazebo in Hinsdale has barely drawn the notice of children walking or riding past on their bikes. "We'd eat in the gazebo. But then we'd leave because we thought it was somebody's lawn," said Catherine Dolan,...
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U. of C. to link up with marine lab
Add one more laboratory to the list of world-class facilities to be overseen by the University of Chicago. The internationally renowned Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., will be brought under the university's financial and...
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Robert Lee Lyles Jr. of Annapolis, former Md. Health Care Commission member
Robert Lee Lyles Jr., who had two careers in his 69 years and excelled at each, died May 27 at his home in Annapolis. A scientist, physician and state policy adviser, Dr. Lyles "was a modern renaissance man with a tremendous curiosity," said Gene Ransom,...
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Gerard Pawlicki, 1921-2013
Gerard Pawlicki was just out of DePaul University when he joined Enrico Fermi, Walter Zinn, George Weil and other seasoned scientists as they lifted their paper cups filled with Chianti wine, celebrating the first controlled nuclear chain reaction under...Tags: University of Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul University, Science and Technology
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North Central president has big plans
Raising $50 million to $60 million and then building a modern science facility is one of the first plans on tap for Troy Hammond, the new president of Naperville's North Central College. In his inaugural address this month, Hammond said the college...
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Obama to visit Argonne
— President Barack Obama will travel to Argonne National Laboratory in the western suburbs Friday to promote his energy policies, according to White House officials. Aides would not say whether Obama also plans to talk about the sequester cuts...Tags: White House, Barack Obama
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7 seek school board seats in Batavia
The Batavia School District 101 School Board will have plenty of new faces after the April 9 election since only one incumbent is running for four open seats. Departing are board vice president Jack Hinterlong, president Ron Link and member Joseph...
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Obama announces $2B alternative fuel research proposal
Tribune reportersPresident Barack Obama returned to Chicago Friday to push an energy policy aimed at weaning the country off of oil by using revenues from increased oil and gas production. In a roughly 20-minute speech at Argonne National Laboratory, Obama touched on...Tags: State of the Union Address, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Keystone XL Pipeline, Research, White House
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Obama touts new energy trust at Argonne National Laboratory
With Washington in political gridlock over spending, President Barack Obama traveled Friday to Argonne National Laboratory to announce an energy proposal that would secure money for advanced vehicles by diverting federal revenue from offshore oil and...
Tags: Government Debt, State of the Union Address, John Boehner, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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Obama to visit Argonne next Friday
Tribune NewspapersWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will travel to Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago's western suburbs next week to promote his energy policies. The Friday trip to Argonne, near Lemont, is to "focus on American energy," according to an...Tags: Washington, DC, Barack Obama
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Fallout of fear
Chicago Tribune reporterHalf a century ago, the unthinkable became all too thinkable as the Soviet Union and the United States engaged in a game of chicken, played with nuclear bombs. On Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy went on television to announce that the Soviet...Tags: Jackson Park, Grant Park, Science and Technology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Emergency Incidents
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Head of Clean Energy Trust working to change world
Tribune staff reporterAmy Francetic was at a child's birthday party in 2004 when she decided it was time to leave Silicon Valley. "I was sitting there listening to 6-year-olds talk about IPOs and whose house was bigger and how much a wedding dress cost," she said. By...Tags: Business, Invention and Innovation, Science, Tesla Motors, Inc., Social Sciences
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