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What is the Fujita scale?
Tribune wire reportThe tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 50 people with winds up to 200 miles per hour, was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The...Tags: National Weather Service, Tornadoes, Joplin, Missouri Tornado (2011), Passenger Cars, Natural Disasters
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Fewer than 5 CPS schools expected to be spared
Pressured for months by teachers, community leaders and aldermen, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked school board is nonetheless expected on Wednesday to approve closing all but a few of the 53 elementary schools the administration wants to shut down....
Tags: Students, Chicago Teachers Union, Willie Cochran, Justice System, Judges
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Chicago's GrubHub to merge with Seamless
One company was founded in Chicago by hungry software engineers, the other in New York by hungry lawyers. Both were looking to replace restaurants' paper takeout menus with Web-based technology. Now the two rivals are joining forces. GrubHub, one of...
Tags: Finance, Consumers, Chicago Tribune, Groupon, Inc., Financing and Stock Offerings
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FACTBOX-Tornado damage and the Enhanced Fujita scale
ReutersMay 20 (Reuters) - The tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 50 people with winds up to 200 miles per hour (320 kph), was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the...Tags: National Weather Service, Tornadoes, Joplin, Missouri Tornado (2011), Passenger Cars, Natural Disasters
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More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows
Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...
Tags: Social Services, Blue Island, Chicago Tribune, Northwestern University, Poverty
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Should you skip Obamacare and keep your old plan?
ReutersBOSTON (Reuters) - When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, starts rolling out in October, it will overhaul how Americans get healthcare coverage. Yet many workers will feel little immediate impact. That's because almost half...Tags: U.S. Congress, Flu, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Policies, Labor Legislation
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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: Health and Medical Professionals, Students, Chicago Public Schools, Mount Prospect, New York University
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Hedda Bolgar, renowned psychoanalyst, dies at 103
Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Psychotherapy, Sigmund Freud, Psychology
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9 holes with: Alexi Giannoulias
A golf day with Alexi Giannoulias does not begin at the driving range or Sportmart. If you're going to make him suffer on the links, he will burn you on the hardwood. His preferred round ball has no dimples. Bill Murray's Caddyshack character yelled,...
Tags: Scottie Pippen, Bank of New York Company, Basketball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Bill Murray
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Paul L. Foster School of Medicine graduates urged to make mark beyond medicine
El Paso Times, TexasOriginally a medical school hopeful himself at Baylor University, Paul L. Foster joked Friday at a medical-school convocation that he switched majors after being weeded out as a pre-med major by chemistry and biology classes. At a ceremony for the first...Tags: Students, Transportation, Gynecology, Graduation, Howard University
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Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team
Scott Beck By John P. Huston,Tribune reporter Scott Beck's brain isn't the only instrument he uses to help him excel at math and science. Beck, a Highland Park High School senior, turns to the French horn to "kind of keep me balanced and keep me...
Tags: Technology, Students, Finance, Mathematics, Chicago Tribune
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Goldman Sachs wins even when muzzled by the feds
Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex...Tags: Finance, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Justice System, Trials, Mary Jo White
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