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Low-fat milk doesn't help toddlers' weight, study says
Los Angeles TimesGiving toddlers skim or 1 percent milk to keep them from growing overweight doesn’t seem to work, according to a study out Monday that gives pause over the common advice to avoid whole milk from age 2. Researchers led by Dr. Mark DeBoer of the...Tags: Healthy Diet, Overweight, Medical Research, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Milk
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An hundredweight of huzzahs
The Baltimore SunIn addition to the huzzahs for Jonathon Owen on the completion of his master's degree in linguistics, please lift your hats high for Professor Stacy Spaulding, who has just been granted tenure and promotion at Towson University. Professor Spaulding...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Education, Colleges and Universities, Towson University
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'Book of My Lives': Aleksander Hemon's remarkable tale
Aleksandar Hemon landed in the United States two decades ago, January 1992. He was 27, a young Bosnian journalist from Sarajevo arriving on a one-month visa, arranged through a cultural exchange program sponsored by the State Department. Just after he...
Tags: England, U.S. Department of State, Jhumpa Lahiri, Greenpeace, Tribune Tower
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Fewer schools will mean larger classes and more controversy for CPS
Change of SubjectFriday's print column Becky Carroll, a (Chicago Public Schools) spokeswoman, argued that big classes don't necessarily hamper learning. "It's the quality of teaching in that classroom," Carroll said. "You could have a teacher that is high-quality that... -
James Edward Farner, M.D., 90
James Edward Farner, M.D., father, physician, family patriarch, fisherman and bridge life master, died March 6, 2013. He was born in Akron, Ohio, on Jan. 5, 1923, the son of Daniel and Helen Farner. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Alice...Tags: General Practitioners, U.S. Navy, Alzheimer's Disease, Indiana University, Annapolis
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Northwestern gears up for 39th annual dance marathon
For RedEyeNorthwestern's students are putting on their dancing shoes and getting ready for the school's 39th annual Northwestern University Dance Marathon), which begins at 7 p.m. Friday and doesn't end until 1 a.m. Sunday. More than 1,000 dancers and 500 student...Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Students
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A degree in funny in the town that takes comedy seriously
You can imagine the scene in thousands of family rooms: "Mom and Dad, I want to major in comedy." Silence. "Comedy? Not on our dime, you don't." To some parents, the notion of heading to Columbia College Chicago for a full-on degree program in matters...Tags: Ethics, NBC (tv network), Values, Columbia College Chicago, Entertainment
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Love of Chicago history fuels Paul Durica
The first time I met Paul Durica, he was Ben Reitman. This was a few summers ago at the annual Bughouse Square Debates, held by the Newberry Library in the small Washington Square Park across the street and celebrating the bygone era when that park...
Tags: University of Michigan, Haymarket Riot (1886), Arts and Culture, Television Industry, Tourism and Leisure
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Sam Zell's wife donates $50 million to Michigan creative writing
In my book, donating money to support creative writing programs is generally a good thing. But I'm -- hmm, let's call it conflicted -- over a $50-million donation to the University of Michigan's MFA program in creative writing from Helen Zell, wife of Sam...
Tags: Social Media, Google+, Human Interest, Television Industry, Los Angeles Times
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TribU: Smart Negotiating -- get what you want
At Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, course registration is a case in economics. Every student is allotted a bag of points and must spend them bidding against each other for seats in classes. The more popular the class, the more...
Tags: Chicago Gourmet, General Electric Company, Millennium Park, Merck & Company Incorporated, Richard M. Daley
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'Straight shooter' Dawn Clark Netsch dies at 86
Tribune reporterAs word spread that her health was worsening, Dawn Clark Netsch got a call last week from an old colleague in politics. It was Saul Shorr, the media consultant who made a famous campaign ad of Netsch winning a game of eight ball to sell her image as a...Tags: Ethics, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Values, Politics, Religion and Belief
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'Noble Savages' looks at one anthropologist's life of controversy
In 1998, just before Napoleon Chagnon retired from the University of California at Santa Barbara, he signed a contract to write a book about his life as an anthropologist among the Yanomamö people, who live in the forests of Venezuela and Brazil. It...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Human Interest, Genetics, Culture, University of Michigan
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