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Building bridges between Mexican and Mexican American art
Mexican art and Mexican American art often have treated each other more like strangers or distant cousins than like the fraternal twins they really are. In the United States, apart from in California and the Southwest, many museums and art professionals...Tags: Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Colleges and Universities, Museum of Modern Art, Education
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Letters: Coping with North Korea
Re "North Korea raises global alarm," April 3 The United States, in its role as world policeman, is constantly on the brink of conflict. Now we face the possibility of another war—this one nuclear. It's argued that nuclear arsenals act only as a...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Entertainment Events, Barack Obama, Kim Jong Un
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Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...
Tags: University of Chicago, Melissa Harris, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Colleges and Universities, Education
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Martin Luther King Jr. brought the fight to Chicago
Chicago Tribune reporterTwo years before his assassination, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rented an apartment in Chicago. At the time, blacks and whites here lived lives as firmly separated as in the Deep South, where his civil rights crusade had begun. African-Americans faced...Tags: NAACP, Chicago Apartments, Politics, Entertainment Events, Crime, Law and Justice
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Windy City blowback
"I wouldn't read the book review. I would read the book, make your own judgment, No. 1. No. 2 is, you know, it didn't note that the city of Chicago has the most Nobel Prize winners of any city in America. And they think we shouldn't be proud of ourselves?...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, The New York Times, Entertainment Events, Chicago Mayor, NBC (tv network)
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Britain to honour Winston Churchill on new banknote
ReutersLONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Britain is set to honour its revered wartime leader Winston Churchill with a banknote featuring his portrait and famous declaration "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat". The governor of the Bank of...Tags: Executive Branch, United Kingdom, Nazi Party, Politics, Government
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Dr. Francois Jacob dies at 92; Nobel-winning biologist
When James Watson and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA in 1953, their discovery answered a crucial question in biology: How is genetic information passed down from parent to child? Their work also created conundrums, however. They and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Paris (France), Culture, Viral Diseases and Infections, E. coli Infection
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Elie Wiesel, history's witness
It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free to walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the...
Tags: Politics, Freedom of the Press, Entertainment Events, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Crime, Law and Justice
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Lugar adds American Academy of Arts and Sciences to resume, is 1 of 198 chosen this year
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lugar is one of 198 people whose selection was announced Wednesday by the Cambridge, Mass., policy group. Lugar is Indiana's...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Richard Mourdock, Richard Lugar, Entertainment Events, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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Hubble spots distant supernova from early universe
Description: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a supernova that exploded more than 10 billion years ago, the most distant of its kind ever spotted. It was 4 percent farther away and 350 million years older than the previous record-holder, a...
Tags: NASA, Adam Riess, Woodrow Wilson, Science, Johns Hopkins University
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Robert Swan donates shoe to East Jordan Shoe Club
EAST JORDAN -- Matt Hamilton's Shoe Club at East Jordan Middle School is dedicated to helping students learn to set goals and a mission for their lives. Hamilton, a history teacher at the school, has collected shoes from people who excel at what they do...
Tags: Antarctica, Lifestyle and Leisure, Health and Medical Professionals, Students, Hobbies
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It's Earth Day! Here are 7 ways to honor the planet
Happy Earth Day! It’s been 43 years since Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson celebrated the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. It’s not yet a federal holiday, but Earth Day is celebrated by schoolkids from coast to coast (along with many...
Tags: An Inconvenient Truth (movie), Google Inc., Environmental Politics, Ecosystems, Al Gore
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