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Tribune's 'Playing With Fire' garners 3 awards
Tribune reporterThe Chicago Tribune has won three national awards for its series “Playing With Fire,” an investigation of toxic flame retardants and the deceptive campaigns that two powerful industries waged to promote the chemicals. Among the awards is...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Chemical Industry, Chicago Tribune, Newspaper and Magazine, Newspapers
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Ambassador Caroline Kennedy?
If Caroline Kennedy were simply a lawyer and author, it's doubtful that she would be on any president's short list for a major diplomatic appointment. But Kennedy is also a member of a storied American political family and an early and valued supporter of...
Tags: China, Japan, Walter Mondale, Hillary Clinton, Tom Foley
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in the Florida Keys
ReutersKEY WEST, Fla (Reuters) - The Florida Keys are the end of the road, where the legendary U.S. Route 1 stops for the ocean at mile zero, a classic American road trip. For many, it did end here, a place where ships crashed and wreckers saved sailors and...Tags: Sandwiches, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Florida Keys Vacations, Dining and Drinking
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Rex Scouten dies at 88; longtime White House chief usher
Rex Scouten, whose 48-year career in the White House began with the Trumans and ended with the Clintons, and whose duties included helping first families transition to their oversized new home, died Feb. 20 at a hospital near his home in Fairfax, Va. He...Tags: U.S. Army, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Secret Service, Harry S. Truman
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Maj. Gen. John Borling writes poetry of survival
For the better part of four years, Air Force Maj. Gen. John Borling lived in a cell that was about 21/2 paces wide and 31/2 paces long. There were no windows and little ventilation, except for three small holes. One of the holes contained a naked light...
Tags: Libraries, Chicago Tribune, Book, Prisoners and Detainees, Prisons
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This week's best-sellers
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Six Years" by Harlan Coben (Dutton, $27.95). Six years after another man married the love of Jake's life, that man dies, and Jake gets a shock when he attends the funeral. Last week: — 2. "The Storyteller" by Jodi Picoult...Tags: Entertainment Events, Health and Medical Professionals, Clive Cussler, Murder, Michael Mosley
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'Star Wars' today: What would Reagan do?
President Reagan stunned fellow citizens and the world 30 years ago this month with a dramatic announcement that the United States would develop and deploy a system capable of intercepting and destroying strategic ballistic missiles. Like President...
Tags: Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Policy, North Korea, Military Equipment, Dmitry Medvedev
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National awards for Tribune's "Playing With Fire" series
If you read the Chicago Tribune's "Playing With Fire" series about the deceptive campaign by the chemical and tobacco industries to introduce toxic flame retardants into our homes -- and ultimately into our bodies -- you won't be surprised that it won...
Tags: Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, Newspapers
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Bay Theatre offers double bill of fear in 'Nightmare' and 'Sister Mary'
Satirical examinations of fear, experienced by an accountant-actor and young students confronting the consequences of sin, are on stage this month at Bay Theatre in two works by playwright Christopher Durang. The fears are revealed in Durang's one-act...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Christianity, Students, Celebrities, Education
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How we got into this mess
WASHINGTON -- Blame it on JFK. Fifty years ago, President Kennedy made a decision that, with hindsight, ranks as the biggest mistake of domestic policy since World War II. In many ways, it led directly to today's "sequester" debacle. What Kennedy...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Ronald Reagan, Labor Markets, World War II (1939-1945), Inflation and Deflation
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ANTIQUES: Unique furniture fits need
King Features SyndicateSmall rooms need small furniture, but large families need large tables. This problem has been solved in a variety of ways since the 17th century. Homes with long center halls, which were needed to keep the house cool, filled the space with several...Tags: Prices, New York City, Auction Service, Human Interest
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John F. Kerry embraces Europe
WASHINGTON -- When John Kerry’s political foes complained in 2004 that he “looked French” and ordered Swiss cheese on his Philadelphia cheese steaks, the Democratic presidential nominee began keeping his affinities for Europe bien...
Tags: Central Asia, Paris (France), France, Arts and Culture, Berlin (Germany)
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