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Todd M. Beamer, 32
Todd M. Beamer, 32, an account manager for Oracle, a computer software company, left his Cranberry, New Jersey home on September 11 for a one-day business trip to San Francisco. Beamer was raised in the Chicago area and graduated from Wheaton College...Tags: New Jersey, Travel, Oracle Corp., Business Trips, Trips and Vacations
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Plane crash in Chesapeake Bay left mother and son adrift
Lanny Ross struggled to push his 78-year-old mother through the surf toward shore.
On a cool, cloudy October afternoon, his two-seater plane had smacked into the Chesapeake Bay, stranding them both amid five-foot waves.
His mother's right eye was...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Music Industry, Energy Resources, Diseases and Illnesses, Conservation
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Lady Eagles hire new softball coach
Jon Sanders has been named the head coach of Asbury University’s softball program athletics director Mark Perdue said Wednesday July 20. Sanders becomes the second coach of the program since it was resurrected in 2009 following a five-year hiatus....Tags: High Schools, Softball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Schools, Multi-Sport Events
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Wheaton College student among plane crash victims
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Officials say a Wheaton College student was among the four people killed in a small plane crash in suburban Chicago. College spokeswoman LaTonya Taylor tells The Chicago Tribune that the student is 21-year Ramie Harris...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Colleges and Universities, Transportation Industry
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Wheaton College community prays for Billy Graham
News that Evangelist Rev. Billy Graham has been admitted to the hospital has captured the attention of his alma mater Wheaton College, where a campus leader said today she is praying for the famous alum. “He is an amazing man,” said Marilee...Tags: Billy Graham, Education, Colleges and Universities
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Linking religion and culture
Roger Chapman
Title: Associate professor of American history, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach.
Other job experience: Former reporter for weekly newspaper in Maryland; Former Bible and social science teacher at Inter-American School,...Tags: Norman Mailer, Social Sciences, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Science
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PASSINGS: Richard J. Dorso, Elisabeth Sladen, Roy Edward Burris
RICHARD J. DORSO
Talent agent, TV exec, boutique owner
Richard J. "Dick" Dorso, 101, whose lengthy Hollywood career ranged from talent agent to television writer and producer to haberdasher, died April 6 at his home in Los Angeles, his family said....Tags: University of Chicago, Patty Duke, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Tools and Hardware
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PASSINGS: Poly Styrene, Huey P. Meaux, Morty Jacobs, Nawang Gombu
Poly Styrene
Singer in the punk band X-Ray Spex
Poly Styrene, 53, the braces-wearing singer who belted out "Oh bondage, up yours!" with the punk band X-Ray Spex, died Monday, according to a statement on her website.
Styrene, whose real name was...Tags: University of Chicago, Music Industry, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Music
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Different lists can help you pick a school
It's college application season, when those famous lists of college rankings really start to matter. But do they? Sure, the traditional lists can help you choose a strong academic program with national cachet. But what about all those 101 other things...Tags: University of Chicago, Health and Safety at School, Dominican University, Schaumburg, Awards and Prizes
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Ride the rails to suburban fun
Tribune staff reporterThe suburbs of Chicago are like people: Each one has a unique personality with its own appeal and claim to fame. The problem is that (many) city-dwellers balk at the idea of going to the suburbs, and (lots of) suburbanites think first of Chicago —...Tags: Children, Halloween, Chicago Fire, Brookfield Zoo, Chicago Blackhawks
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Ruth Graham, 87; had active role as wife of famed evangelist
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRuth Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, who supported her famous husband as he spread the Gospel to millions but dispelled the notion of the demure preacher's wife with her humor, spunk, poetry-writing and motorcycle riding, died Thursday at her...Tags: Children, Billy Graham, Death, Crimes, Poetry
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Billy Graham Is Frail, but Mission Is Strong
Times Staff WriterHe is 86 now and suffering from Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous disorder that makes it difficult for him to write by hand. He is using a walker as he recuperates after two falls earlier this year that broke his pelvic bone in three places....Tags: Billy Sunday, Children, Charlotte, Politics, Government
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