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    Dec 24, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. This New Year's, no punishing resolutions

    Got those New Year’s resolutions ready?
    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: Holidays, Fiscal Cliff

  2. Sep 9, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Writer Attica Locke on America's woven, tangled history

    Attica Locke's latest thriller<span class="runtimeTopic">, "</span>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 debut novel, "Black Water Rising," set in Locke's native Houston, which was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. She lives in Los Angeles with her public defender husband and daughter.
    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: Barack Obama, Sundance Film Festival, Social Issues, Arts and Culture, Slavery

  4. Jul 21, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. 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.
    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: Breads, University of California, Los Angeles, Weight, Education, Pies and Tarts

  6. Jan 4, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. James Franco signs publishing deal with Amazon

    James Franco, the actor-writer-producer-graduate student, has signed a publishing deal with Amazon's fledgling publishing house, the Observer reports.
    Tribune Newspapers
    James 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: Hart Crane, Book, Academy Awards, Education, Colleges and Universities

  8. May 24, 2013 |Story| South Bend Tribune
  9. UPDATE: Notre Dame women's basketball: Irish land top recruit Turner

    Manvel (Texas) High School girls basketball coach Bryan Harris was at an open gym when he saw 6-foot-3 Brianna Turner on a side court with his 12-year-old son, Gregory.
    South Bend Tribune
    Manvel (Texas) High School girls basketball coach Bryan Harris was at an open gym when he saw 6-foot-3 Brianna Turner on a side court with his 12-year-old son, Gregory. “Gregory called out to her, ‘I dare you to dunk it,’”...

    Tags: West Virginia Mountaineers, Atlantic Coast Conference, High School Sports, Connecticut Huskies, Miami Hurricanes

  10. Apr 22, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  11. Authors R-Z

    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: Cornell University, Human Rights, Columbia College Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre, Entertainment Events

  12. Apr 26, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  13. Are you ready for law school?

    Entering law school can create many opportunities for your career, but if you aren&rsquo;t prepared for its demands, it can create just as many problems. Whether you&rsquo;ve always assumed you&rsquo;d go to law school or you&rsquo;re just now considering it, how can you determine if you&rsquo;re up to the challenge?
    CareerBuilder
    Entering 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: Graduation, Separation of Church and State, Teaching and Learning, Employment Opportunities, Colleges and Universities

  14. Mar 3, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune
  15. 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: Human Interest, Teaching and Learning, Roosevelt University, Students, Vietnam War (1955-1975)

  16. Mar 29, 2013 |Column| Hartford Courant
  17. Errant Plays, Bad Calls Leave UConn Sidelined

    The Hartford Courant
    No 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: Rutgers University, Atlantic Coast Conference, Louisville Cardinals, Colin McEnroe, Big East Conference

  18. Feb 18, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  19. 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.
    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: Morgan State University, Teaching and Learning, Students, Jerry Rice, Entertainment

  20. Dec 7, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  21. 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 further and to a cellular level, finding that exposure to bright light at night appears to create these problems by itself, even apart from sleep patterns.
    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: Depression, Biology, Chemical Industry, Science, Drugs and Medicines

  22. Sep 30, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune
  23. 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.
    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: Chemical Industry, Biology, New Year's Day, University of Miami, Economy, Business and Finance

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