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Teen dating violence leaves scars, experts say
Sheela Raja remembers treating a victim of teen dating violence who at first felt too ashamed to talk about the experience. Instead, the victim buried the trauma in alcohol until she finally opened up during therapy. Raja, a licensed clinical...
Tags: HIV, Health and Safety at School, Drugs and Medicines, Abusive Behavior, Cornell University
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4 running for 3 Homer library board seats
Four candidates are running for three four-year terms on the Homer Township Public Library Board of Trustees in the April 9 election. The Tribune asked the candidates to share some biographical information and to answer this question: What is the...
Tags: Libraries, Northern Illinois University, Science, Arts and Culture, Education
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Focus on the Arts
If it wasn't for Focus on the Arts, Natalie Sereda may not have fallen in love. On a whim, and out of the dozens of demonstrations, forums and performances that are offered as part of Highland Park High School's signature semi-annual artistic festival,...
Tags: High Schools, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Music, Arts and Culture
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College intramural sports cultivate, reward female players
Kellie Holpuch capped her intramural basketball game at Naperville's North Central College by firing a 21-foot bomb that dropped straight through the center of the hoop. Boom. Four points. That is not a typo. Under the rules adopted by the college,...
Tags: Basketball, Northern Illinois University, LeBron James, Sports, College Basketball
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Strike planned at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tribune reporterA union that represents 775 staff members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign plans to start a three-day strike on Monday. Members of the Service Employees International Union Local 73, whose duties include food service and custodial work,...Tags: Food Industry, Unions, Union (McHenry, Illinois), Education, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
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Looming budget cuts at Field concern curators
Pushing back against a cost-cutting plan to overhaul scientific research at the Field Museum, curators are meeting this afternoon with museum president Richard Lariviere. Several said they hope to share concerns about his planned restructuring of the...
Tags: Anthropology, Science, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Education
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UIC students respond to anti-immigrant graffiti
For RedEyeFriday wasn't just the first day of March, it also was the first day of National Coming Out of the Shadows Month, a series of events celebrating and urging individuals to be unafraid to publicly identify themselves as undocumented immigrants. The...Tags: Minority Groups, Vandalism, Employment Opportunities, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture
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Study to test benefits of dance for Latin seniors
A group of Latino seniors soon will be stepping out on the dance floor in the name of medical research. A study being coordinated by a University of Illinois at Chicago professor will see if doing traditional dances such as salsa and cha-cha-cha can...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Medical Specialization, Social Issues, Teaching and Learning, Nursing Homes
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Chicago State finally heading in right direction
Seven straight road games representing the roughest part of Chicago State's Great Westward Ho of a schedule had taken the Cougars' men's basketball team from Oregon to Texas to Ohio to Las Vegas and, finally, New Jersey. On the bumpy flight home after a...
Tags: Basketball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Western Athletic Conference, Sports, College Basketball
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ADHD research seeks reasons for diagnosis rate increase
Ten-year-old Francisco Steib rarely sits through an entire dinner at home. There's still food on everyone's plate when he starts to get fidgety and has to get up. Francisco, a Lakeview resident who was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medical Specialization, Pharmaceuticals, ADHD, Learning Disability
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Special needs for special siblings
Growing up with a severely disabled brother, Abby Brown felt less like a sister than like a "third parent." Nigel, two years her junior, was born with a rare disease called linear sebaceous nevus syndrome that left him non-verbal and needing assistance to...
Tags: Human Interest, Cerebral Palsy, Health and Safety at School, Physical Disabilities, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Doubts surface about safety of common food additive, carrageenan
Sara Baker says the light went on in her head after a cup of hot cocoa set off a storm in her stomach. "I went back and looked at the package, and there it was: carrageenan," said Baker, a career services coordinator from Bloomington, in central...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, United Nations, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Lifestyle and Leisure, Consumer Goods Industries
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