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Exploring the job market
The job market is beginning to improve for MBA graduates as global companies start to focus on growth following a few years of hiring caution. To be sure, this isn't the job market of the early 2000s, when the jobless rate held between 4 and 6 percent,...
Tags: Career and Workplace, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Illinois at Chicago, Health and Safety at Work, Employment
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Englewood teacher wins Golden Apple Award
Tribune reporterKatherine Dube is the teacher students turn to when they need help and support. Among her colleagues, she’s known as the educator who invents creative ways to keep those fickle and energetic freshmen interested in literature. And although Dube,...Tags: Teachers, Illinois Governor, University of New Hampshire, Pat Quinn, Teaching and Learning
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Getting an MBA: Your business. Your decision.
Chicago TribuneAdmissions consultant Andrea Sparrey uses two numbers to startle prospective business school applicants. She tells them the average price of a home in the United States in 2010 was $273,000. And then she tells them the average price of an MBA from a...Tags: Finance, Realty, Education, Services and Shopping, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Scholarship Awards Breakfast: Newport Harbor
Rachel Anne Barney GPA: 4.4384 School Activities/Clubs: IB drama production of "Dear Brutus," Field Studies Club, IB History HL, IB English HL, IB Theatre HL, IB French SL, IB Environmental Science SL, IB Theory of Knowledge, IB diploma candidate, AP US...Tags: Environmental Issues, Basketball, Psychology, Polo, Europe Sailing
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Antronette Yancey dies at 55; advocate of short bursts of exercise
For Dr. Antronette K. Yancey, a UCLA public health professor, exercise could be fun and done in short bursts in the workplace, schools and even places of worship. Her campaign to urge people to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives led to...Tags: Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Duke University, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diseases and Illnesses
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Leo Branton Jr. dies at 91; civil rights lawyer defended Angela Davis
Leo Branton Jr., a civil rights and entertainment lawyer whose stirring defense of '60s radical Angela Davis brought him his most celebrated victory in a six-decade career often spent championing unpopular cases, died of natural causes Friday in Los...
Tags: Trials, Teachers, Movies, U.S. Supreme Court, University of California, Los Angeles
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Museums, Artists, David Letterman, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Should seniors qualify as living donors?
Robert Brown was healthy, willing and a good match: So why not give a kidney to his wife, who otherwise would need dialysis? There was just one potential obstacle: Brown was 74, an age once unthinkable for a kidney donor. For this retired psychologist...
Tags: Dialysis, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Genetic Condition, Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins University
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Carol Honigberg
For as long as she can remember, Carol Honigberg wanted to be a professional musician. "I started the piano at 6. I just always loved to perform," she says, sitting a few feet from the Steinway grand piano in her Highland Park home. Born in Chicago...
Tags: Entertainment, Steinway Concert Grand Piano, Arts and Culture, Music, Music Industry
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Double mastectomy: A pre-emptive strike against breast cancer
At age 23, Lindsay Avner took charge of her genetic fate by electing to have her healthy breasts removed before cancer could strike first. Six years later, the North Side woman has zero regret, she said. "I feel so fortunate to have had this opportunity...
Tags: Washington, DC, Celebrity Surgery, Mastectomy, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Entertainment Events
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NU students lead charge for university to divest from coal
For RedEyeNorthwestern University's Associated Student Government passed a resolution at the end of January urging the school's administration to divest from the coal industry. Since passing the resolution, the student government and Northwestern's Responsible...Tags: Elections, Metal and Mineral, Coal, Education, Columbia College Chicago
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Northwestern to probe founder's link to Indian massacre
Responding to pressure from a student alliance, Northwestern University has established a committee to investigate the history of John Evans, a university founder connected to one of the worst massacres of Native Americans in the country's history. The...
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