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Hopkins faults safety lapses
Sun StaffA Johns Hopkins panel investigating the death of a 24-year-old woman in an asthma experiment has concluded that she most likely died from a drug given to her in the test, and it faulted both the lead researcher and an internal oversight board for safety...Tags: Asthma, Research, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Physical Conditions
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Classical music: Heightened senses, economic challenges
Tribune music criticWhile the terrorist attacks certainly had an economic impact on the creators, producers and consumers of classical music, there is no evidence that 9/11 radically altered the cultural landscape beyond psychological damage. Ticket sales and attendance...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Tickets, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia Festival, Terrorism
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'The Sweet Hereafter'
Times Film CriticThe exquisite and overwhelming emotional tapestry that is "The Sweet Hereafter" plays its credits over the simplest and most primal of scenes. An infant and its parents, unclothed and drowsy under white sheets, share the same quiet bed. It's a pristine...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Ian Holm, Entertainment, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Polley
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Employers' aid varies in times of tragedy
Associated PressNEW YORK - The check covered Leora Sells' pay for the 10 days that followed April 19, 1995 - the time it took workers picking through the rubble of the Murrah Federal Building to recover and identify her body. That check was one of the few...Tags: National Security, Health and Safety at School, Employees, Aon PLC, Companies and Corporations
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Music that cried freedom
Times Staff WriterTrumpeter Hugh Masekela strides purposefully through South Africa's Apartheid Museum, breezing past exhibits on the elaborate racial classification system that relegated black people to the fringes of society, past photographs of bodies of unarmed...Tags: Entertainment, Dave Matthews, Music Industry, Colleges and Universities, Death
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Duty to serve
Sun StaffKathleen Kennedy Townsend sat scribbling notes at the funeral of Crystal Sheffield, a Baltimore police officer killed in a car crash while answering a call for help. The occasion marked another life cut short in its prime: A dedicated public servant,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Teen-agers, Harvard University, Arts, Colleges and Universities
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Child welfare head tries to improve agency's image
Sun StaffWhen Christopher J. McCabe stood at the microphone of a recent nationally televised news conference, Maryland's highest child welfare official mentioned his boss' name, introduced his colleagues and spoke vaguely about his agency's work. The secretary of...Tags: Society, Hospitals and Clinics, Interior Policy, Employees, Regional Authority
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Theater review, 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' at European Repertory
Special to the TribuneNearly 34 years have passed since a smart and youthful playwright called Tom Stoppard hit upon the brilliant idea of using two unimportant and seemingly interchangeable Shakespearean characters as a collective metaphor for the existential agonies of lives...Tags: Death, Tom Stoppard, Samuel Beckett, Steppenwolf Theatre
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It's Greek to them
In the view of Sean Graney of The Hypocrites, most productions of Greek tragedy are completely and utterly wrong-headed. "People get all hung up on naturalism and emotional identification with the characters," Graney said last week. "Greek tragedies...Tags: Death, Peter Weiss, Chicago Park District, Tom Stoppard
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NASCAR slow to learn from racing tragedies
of the Sentinel StaffMario Andretti awakens a split-second before dying. "I still wake up from dreams that I am crashing or that I'm upside down -- things I used to dread and fear." He is now 60. "Thank God I survived that era." In his time, he did it all: dirt-track...Tags: Automotive Equipment, England, Revlon Incorporated, Kentucky Derby, Science and Technology
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Recent openings: 'Scapin,' 'Front,' and 'Landscape of the Body'
Special to the TribuneA bawdy farce by Moliere that brims over with blues, gospel and rap music, along with slapstick and shtick? That kind of rambunctious revisionism marks Court Theatre's "Scapin," which opens Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts...Tags: Entertainment, Goodman Theatre, Celebrities, Assault, Israel Horovitz
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'Seabiscuit'
Life, it's been truly said, has more imagination than we do, and the astonishing story of Seabiscuit proves that absolutely.
No novelist or screenwriter would dare come up with the phenomenal incidents and flabbergasting twists of fate that marked the...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Entertainment, William H. Macy, Clark Gable, Gary Ross
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