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FACTBOX-Tornado damage and the Enhanced Fujita scale
ReutersMay 20 (Reuters) - The tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 50 people with winds up to 200 miles per hour (320 kph), was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the...Tags: Passenger Cars, Natural Disasters, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, House Building
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Chicago's GrubHub to merge with Seamless
One company was founded in Chicago by hungry software engineers, the other in New York by hungry lawyers. Both were looking to replace restaurants' paper takeout menus with Web-based technology. Now the two rivals are joining forces. GrubHub, one of...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Software Industry, Corporate Officers, Financing and Stock Offerings, Tribune Company
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Fewer than 5 CPS schools expected to be spared
Pressured for months by teachers, community leaders and aldermen, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked school board is nonetheless expected on Wednesday to approve closing all but a few of the 53 elementary schools the administration wants to shut down....
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning, Northwestern University, Separation of Church and State, Judges
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YOUR MONEY-Should you skip Obamacare and keep your old plan?
Reuters(The author is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are her own.) By Kathleen Kingsbury BOSTON, May 20 (Reuters) - When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, starts rolling out in October, it will overhaul how Americans...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Employment, U.S. Congress
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More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows
Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...
Tags: South Holland, Frank Lloyd Wright, Brookings Institution, Dolton, Northwestern University
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High school students turn to internships to help plot future
This summer, teenagers will canvass in support of politicians, help nurses in hospitals or tweet as part of a company's social media effort. They're still in high school but they are working unpaid internships — sometimes even paying thousands of...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Teaching and Learning, New York University, Buffalo Grove, Chicago Public Schools
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9 holes with: Alexi Giannoulias
A golf day with Alexi Giannoulias does not begin at the driving range or Sportmart. If you're going to make him suffer on the links, he will burn you on the hardwood. His preferred round ball has no dimples. Bill Murray's Caddyshack character yelled,...
Tags: Bill Murray, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Basketball, Christianity, Politics
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Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team
Scott Beck By John P. Huston,Tribune reporter Scott Beck's brain isn't the only instrument he uses to help him excel at math and science. Beck, a Highland Park High School senior, turns to the French horn to "kind of keep me balanced and keep me...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Technology, Health and Safety at School, Northwestern University, Music
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Goldman Sachs wins even when muzzled by the feds
Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex...Tags: Elizabeth Warren, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Prosecution, Parties and Movements, Politics
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Hedda Bolgar dies at 103; renowned psychoanalyst
Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Psychologists, Philosophy, Health Treatments, Nazi Party
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Kids at risk from tippy instant soup cups
On a typical June day last year, 3-year-old Jolan Jackson was sitting at the dining room table in his booster chair waiting for his meal. Having just boiled a cup of water in the microwave, Jolan's teenage sister poured the hot liquid into a Cup...
Tags: Morphine (drug), Hospitals and Clinics, Loyola University Chicago, Consumers, Newspaper and Magazine
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Emanuel not getting the jobs done?
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has rolled out a stream of what he's billed as pro-business initiatives and stood with dozens of corporations making jobs announcements during his first two years in office, but a clear majority of voters in a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Unemployment Rate, Employment, Polls, Politics
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May 13, 2013
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