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This New Year's, no punishing resolutions
Got those New Year’s resolutions ready? After a month or more of indulging at holiday parties and splurging on gifts, the time has come to get back on track. Lace up your sneakers and lock up your credit card or face constant reminders from bossy...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Holidays
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Writer Attica Locke on America's woven, tangled history
Attica Locke's latest thriller, "The Cutting Season," explores a murder mystery and the tangled history of a Louisiana plantation-turned-event venue, managed by a descendant of its slave population. The book, which hits bookstores Sept. 18, follows her...
Tags: Literature, Social Issues, The Help (movie), Sundance Film Festival, Movies
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Cravings could be defeated with two little words
Why is it that we crave chocolate chip cookies rather than chard? Or bread instead of broccoli? Take heart: It's biological. "Our attraction to sweets — and salt, carbohydrates and fat — is hard-wired from the Stone Age," says Dr. David Katz,...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Science and Technology, Recipes, Apple Pie
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James Franco signs publishing deal with Amazon
Tribune NewspapersJames Franco, the actor-writer-producer-graduate student, has signed a publishing deal with Amazon's fledgling publishing house, the Observer reports. It will be Franco's first novel, tentatively titled "Actors Anonymous," and said to be loosely based on...Tags: Charles Bukowski, Golden Globe Awards, Celebrities, Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities
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Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.” He has written for the Wall Street Journal,...Tags: Poetry, Chicago Restaurants, Music Theater, DePaul University, Lollapalooza
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Are you ready for law school?
CareerBuilderEntering law school can create many opportunities for your career, but if you aren’t prepared for its demands, it can create just as many problems. Whether you’ve always assumed you’d go to law school or you’re just now considering...Tags: Students, Employment Opportunities, Separation of Church and State, Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Flight (movie), Music, Human Interest, Pilsen
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Errant Plays, Bad Calls Leave UConn Sidelined
The Hartford CourantNo living person could explain what happened to the sports programs of the University of Connecticut in the last six months. It would take John Milton, who was so good with rebel angels being "hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky / With hideous...Tags: Virginia Tech, College Sports, University of Connecticut, Jim Calhoun, Atlantic Coast Conference
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Morgan State football coach Donald Hill-Eley working to rebuild his program after firing that wasn't
Donald Hill-Eley has always told his Morgan State football players that life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond. Now, after enduring as strange a few months as any college coach could fathom, Hill-Eley is striving to live...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Sports, Jerry Rice, Radio
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Hopkins team explores the dark side of light
Scientists who study sleep understand that light has a dark side, because it can interrupt natural rhythms, causing the mood and learning problems that go with lack of rest. Johns Hopkins University researchers have taken the understanding a step...Tags: Howard Hughes, Brown University, Biology, Pharmaceuticals, Science and Technology
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Will bogus bio unmake self-made leader of Abbott spinoff?
Richard Gonzalez, it turns out, is more of a self-made man than a lot of us knew. The Abbott Laboratories veteran of more than 30 years, who is pegged to serve as chief executive of the pharmaceutical company spinoff that the North Chicago-based medical...
Tags: Abbott Laboratories, Biology, Mark Zuckerberg, Pharmaceuticals, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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Two arrested, charged in U of H campus robbery
KIAHSwift justice for a University of Houston student who was robbed at gunpoint last week in a campus parking lot. Campus police say they have arrested two men for the September 19th armed robbery. Police say Ricardo Jamel Tangarife, AKA 'Pretty Rickey',...Tags: Theft, Credit and Debt
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