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Commission named for immigrant scholarship program
Tribune reporterGov. Pat Quinn today named seven people to a state commission that will oversee a privately funded scholarship program designed to help undocumented immigrants pay for college. The scholarship fund was created by the Illinois DREAM Act, which Quinn...Tags: Students, Lawyers, DREAM Act, East Garfield Park, Arlington Heights
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Data analysis continues to grow in universities and job market
Do you wonder how businesses know your buying habits or your driving record? They mine for data. Data mining is sifting through large volumes of information that could not otherwise be done manually, explains Bamshad Mobasher, professor in the school of...Tags: Finance, Health, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Metal and Mineral, Students
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Pizza guy who gets it whets appetites on the Internet
If anyone embodies the Domino's corporate cheer, all about selling more pizza and having more fun, it would seem to be Ramon De Leon, a prominent but unsanctioned ambassador for the company.
Having started 25 years ago as a delivery driver, De Leon now...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Students, Economy, Business and Finance, Facebook, Companies and Corporations
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October 2011 Program Guide
Staff reporterSUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 POLAND A look at the history, culture and religion of Poland (and how those dimensions interpenetrate) with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor Neal Pease and former UWM political science professor Don Pienkos. TUESDAY,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Health, Thomas Jefferson, Obesity, Social Issues
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UIC officials warn of armed robbery near campus
Officials at the University of Illinois at Chicago sent out a crime alert to students today after a male student was robbed for his backpack at gunpoint off campus.
About 11:25 p.m. Wednesday a male student was walking on the 700 block of South Laflin...Tags: Crimes, Theft, Colleges and Universities
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Lake in the Hills man pleads guilty in fish-toxin case
Tribune reporterA north suburban man pleaded guilty Tuesday to posing as a doctor to buy a deadly neurotoxin that comes from sources including puffer fish, which he intended "to use as a weapon," according to the U.S. attorney's office. Edward T. Bachner, 38, was...Tags: Crimes, Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, FBI
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Research conflicted on benefits of soda tax in fighting obesity
Drinking soda is linked to obesity, but new research shows it may be in ways that complicate attempts to tax sweetened drinks as a weapon in the fight against bulging waistlines.
Ketan Patel, a doctoral student in economics at Northwestern University,...Tags: Health, Diabetes, Physical Conditions, Obesity, Overweight
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German-born 'moneymaker' a world apart
Tribune staff reporterThyra Zerhusen was browsing the magazine rack at a cafe in San Francisco this year when she picked up a German-language magazine. The cover profiled the world's most influential Germans, naming politicians, athletes and celebrities -- even the pope....Tags: Finance, Warren Buffett, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Economy, Business and Finance, Apple Inc.
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Behind our story about medical errors, and resources to help prevent them
No one likes to make mistakes.
But in the meticulous world of medicine, making a mistake can be especially serious – potentially fatal. A medical error resulting in death is probably every patient's and health professional’s worst nightmare....Tags: Heart Failure, Parenting, Facebook, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals
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Occupy Chicago protesters march to Grant Park again
Tribune reportersA day after about 175 of them were arrested for staying past Grant Park's closing time, a few hundred Occupy Chicago protesters were marching again. Just after 7 p.m., protesters who had gathered at LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard began marching...Tags: Michigan Avenue, Chicago Board of Trade, Demonstration, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Police Arrests
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Few arrests, convictions in campus sex assault cases
Women who report sexual violence on college campuses seldom see their accused attackers arrested and almost never see them convicted, according to a Tribune survey of several Midwestern universities.
The survey of six schools in Illinois and Indiana...Tags: Students, Social Issues, Northwestern University, Family, University of Notre Dame
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Sweetened beverages come under fire in new reports
Tribune reporterThe soda wars (aka sugar sweetened beverage debates) are erupting in so many different directions, it's hard to know where to start in our update. So we'll give you little sips of them all. First: Today the Illinois Alliance to Prevent Obesity released a...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economy, Business and Finance, Health Insurance Cost, Obesity, Michael Bloomberg
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