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Paralympian's 71-day journey from L.A. to New York stops in Baltimore
When you set out to push 3,000 miles across the country in a racing wheelchair, you expect a few challenges along the way. Ryan Chalmers had his share, that's for sure. Hands that blistered and cracked and turned the color of eggplant from punishing...
Tags: Spina Bifida, 2012 Summer Paralympics
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2013 — for beekeepers, there's nothing sweet about it
Commercial beekeeper Tim May has worked 16-hour days, six or seven days a week for the past month to get more than a thousand hives with millions of honeybees settled in the countryside of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Spring has not been...
Tags: Hobbies, Droughts, Farms, Lifestyle and Leisure, Wadsworth
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Badminton becomes passion
Originally, all Shannon Pohl wanted was fill up her afternoons and weekends during the spring. What she discovered became her life's passion. After playing tennis for Prospect High School, Pohl was convinced to give badminton a try. She became one...
Tags: Badminton, Sports
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3 charged in fatal Chicago shooting
Thirty minutes before he was fatally shot at a family gathering Friday night on the Far South Side, Dionte Maxwell told his cousin to come over. Then, some uninvited guests showed up, according to police and Maxwell's cousin, T'Shonda Davis. "He...
Tags: Murder, Jackson Park, Shootings, Colleges and Universities
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Researchers say they can hack Apple devices via charger
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionThree computer security researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are rattling Apple Inc.'s cage, reporting that they have figured out how to hack into mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads through a USB charger. Chengyu Song and Yeongjin...Tags: Science, Science and Technology, Education, Georgia Institute of Technology, Apple iCloud
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Northbrook students share success at state science fair
Three Northbrook Junior High School students who qualified for the state science fair recently presented their projects on student stress, a stock exchange risk simulation and various parachute shapes to the District 28 School Board. Sarah...
Tags: Science, Students, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning
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Public colleges are often no bargain for the poor
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Many public colleges and universities expect their poorest students to pay a third, half or even more of their families' annual incomes each year for college, a new study of college costs has found. With most American students enrolling in...Tags: Education, University of Southern Mississippi, Awards and Prizes, University of Missouri , U.S. Department of Education
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Trustees OK sex-change surgery for UIC student health plan
University of Illinois trustees Wednesday approved a student health insurance plan for the Chicago campus that for the first time covers gender reassignment surgery, a move that about three dozen other colleges have made in recent years. The insurance...
Tags: Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago, Health and Safety at School
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Sex-change operations to be covered by UIC health insurance
Tribune reporterUniversity of Illinois trustees this morning approved a student health insurance plan for the Chicago campus that for the first time covers gender reassignment surgery, a move that about three dozen other colleges have taken in recent years. The...Tags: Science and Technology, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago
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Mitch Johnson
Age: 49 Residence: Western Springs Writing letters since: The Tribune has published about 60 of his letters since 2000. Life story in 100 words or less: Raised in a union household in the western suburbs "when life was simple," he said; graduated...
Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, University of Chicago
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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: DePaul University, Merchandise Mart, Art Institute of Chicago, Science and Technology, Argonne National Laboratory
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Chance the Rapper leaves little to chance
Chance the Rapper is going to make sure he gets this right: rap music, a pop-star ascent from Chicago, a record deal, that whole fame thing — and on his own terms. Chance, whose full name is Chancelor Bennett, has been drawing increasingly large...
Tags: Entertainment, Music Theater, Music Industry, Artists, Muddy Waters
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