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Soda ban would target heavy youth, not poor: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A cap on soda size - such as the one New York City regulators are trying to pass - would have the biggest impact on overweight kids and young adults, a new study suggests. When limited to drinks sold in restaurants and event...Tags: Food Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Columbia University, Obesity, New York City
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Bolingbrook business owner named Champion of Change
The head of the University of Illinois at Chicago's microphysics laboratory and founder of a Bolingbrook tech company was recently named one of the White House's 11 national "Champions of Change," a distinction that honors immigrant innovators in America....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Research, Human Interest, Immigration, Bolingbrook
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What would the world be like if life span were to increase dramatically?
Imagine, for a moment, what might happen if science succeeds in eradicating disease and people live far longer than they do today. Do we toast to the extra years spent embracing loved ones and traveling the planet (maybe other planets?) and learning new...
Tags: Global Expansion, Research, Arts and Culture, Columbia University, Physical Conditions
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Local Voices, Jun. 05
My smoking ride On a drive to work recently, I started to smell smoke and quickly realized it was from a cigarette. A guy who was two cars ahead of me had his cigarette dangling out of his window. All I could think of is he didn't want to stink up his...Tags: Interior Policy, Genetics, Food and Drug Administration, Politics, White House
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Schools' effort to shift to Common Core faces a difficult test
The passage for the seventh-grade lesson was blatantly offensive — an excerpt from a 1938 anti-Semitic children's book. But that was the point: to provide students in the Santa Ana school district with a perfect illustration of insidious...
Tags: Students, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Teaching and Learning, Arts and Culture, Teachers
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Democratic whip visits suburban factory to tout manufacturing policy
As he toured a suburban Chicago factory on Thursday, U.S. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer touted his "Make It In America" campaign, which aims at creating ideal conditions for manufacturing companies to innovate and add jobs. To do that, legislators...
Tags: Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Lobbying, Companies and Corporations, Personal Income, Employment Opportunities
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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: Aetna Inc., Teaching and Learning, Minority Groups, Health and Safety at Work, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois)
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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: Aetna Inc., Minority Groups, Teaching and Learning, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Medical Procedures and Tests
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Cal State trustees appoint new Cal State L.A president, others
William A. Covino, a veteran Florida and California administrator, was named Wednesday as the new president of Cal State L.A., becoming the first new leader of the El Sereno campus in 33 years. Covino’s selection was among a slate of...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Arts and Culture, Science, Teachers, Columbia 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: Teaching and Learning, Media Industry, Mount Prospect, New York City, Wheeling
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Are college presidents worth their eye-popping salaries?
Change of SubjectEvidently not. The Chronicle of HIgher Education has posted a list of the top 100 salaries of public-university presidents (by total compensation package: Graham B. Spanier Pennsylvania State University at University Park $2,906,721 (1st) Jay Gogue Auburn... -
Mary Novotny Jeffries advocates for amputees
Mary Novotny Jeffries was 11 when she lost her right leg, from the hip down, to bone cancer. When she returned to the home she shared with her parents and eight siblings on Chicago's South Side, everything — and nothing — had changed. "I...
Tags: Education, Haiti, Environmental Issues, Colleges and Universities, Orthopedic Surgery
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