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John Cheney Wood, artist
John Cheney Wood, a Baltimore artist who worked in a variety of media, died July 20 of advanced Parkinson's disease at his summer home and studio in Ithaca, N.Y.
The Mount Washington resident was 90.
The son of a master carpenter and an executive...Tags: Arts, Concord (Staten Island, New York), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Parkinson's Disease, Syracuse University
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Drawing insight into Google's Doodles
SAN FRANCISCO — Google.com is the most visited online front door in the United States. According to Alexa, a longtime Internet statistics firm, it is also the second most visited home page in the world behind Facebook.com; roughly 40 percent of...
Tags: Arts, Computer Science, Conservation, John Bowers, Star Wars (movie)
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For valedictorian, an emotional culmination to hard-won education
Brittney Bratton made it only partway through rehearsing her high school graduation speech before she had to stop. "Stay strong," called Danita Allen, school counselor at Youth Connection Leadership Academy as Bratton tried to collect herself. "If...
Tags: Graduation, Teaching and Learning, Back to School, Students, Awards and Prizes
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Judy Blume discusses the joys of writing at Lit Fest
Flannery O'Connor once observed that, "Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay." One can imagine quite a few poets, playwrights, memoirists and other nonfiction authors nodding their heads at...
Tags: Literature, China, Emmett Till, Music, Awards and Prizes
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How I Made It: SpaceX exec Gwynne Shotwell
The gig: Gwynne Shotwell, 49, is president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, the Hawthorne company that builds rockets and space capsules to resupply the International Space Station for NASA. Shotwell is No. 2 at the pioneering company behind founder...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Manufacturing and Engineering, Science, Satellite Technology, Technology
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2 students' dream leads to Logitech deal
When Derek Tarnow and Zahra Tashakorina launched a campaign on crowd-funding website Kickstarter to raise money for their iPhone case-cum-earbud cord organizer, they were worried about reaching their $10,000 goal. Instead, the two graduate students at...
Tags: Iran, New York City, Apple iPhone, Computer Hardware, Corporate Crime
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Camp Douglas effort stirs ghosts of the Civil War
If you are among those who believe in ghosts, you've got it made. According to various surveys and studies, something in the neighborhood of 45 percent of adults in this country believe in ghosts. That number is almost certainly higher here, since we have...
Tags: Chicago Police Department, Wars and Interventions, Malaria, U.S. Senate, St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)
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Meet Patrick Kane's mullet barber
RedEyeWalk past a row of four shoe-shining chairs raised on a wooden stage. Take a right. Front and center, a fireplace flickers. A leather ottoman sits next to it, shelving everything from Playboy, Fortune and Sports Illustrated magazines. Within an arm&...Tags: Bleep (euphemism), Dining and Drinking, Technology, Patrick Kane, Sports Illustrated
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New study, bill puts focus on senior fraud
New efforts are underway to combat what aging experts say has become one of the top threats facing elders: losing their savings to con artists and financial predators. Gerontologists at a Detroit university have created, for the first time, a...
Tags: Social Sciences, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Labor Legislation, Nova Southeastern University, Culture
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Arts, Emmett Till, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Elizabeth II, Marshall Field
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Taking the less-known route
If you can't get in — or can't afford — a top business school, is an MBA from a lesser-known school worth it? The answer depends largely on the student. Those gunning for the top of the organizational chart, and without the networking...
Tags: Employment, University of Illinois at Chicago, Manufacturing and Engineering, Realty, Finance
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Getting an MBA: Your business. Your decision.
Chicago TribuneAdmissions consultant Andrea Sparrey uses two numbers to startle prospective business school applicants. She tells them the average price of a home in the United States in 2010 was $273,000. And then she tells them the average price of an MBA from a...Tags: University of Illinois at Chicago, Realty, Finance, Loyola University Chicago, Roosevelt University
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