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  1. Will Republicans Oppose James Comey as FBI Director?Read the original story

    10 hrs ago | PerrSpectives

    ... respected choices. Lisa Monaco, the White House's top counterterrorism official, is a Harvard and University of Chicago-educated former prosecutor whose fraud and corruption cases included Enron. The other is James Comey, the former Bush ...

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  2. Welcome to Indiana-ville: Center of the Racing UniverseRead the original story

    17 hrs ago | Motorsport.com

    ... disappeared to the track or spent hours at the computer working on photos. A college friend from the University of Chicago used to say "You're such a f-king Hoosier" in his Bronx accent, and I'm about as Hoosier as it gets every May. When my family ...

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  3. Chicago college campuses improve securityRead the original story

    Friday | ABC7 Chicago

    ... is a key thing," said Alan Cubbage, vice president, Northwestern University. And on the South Side, University of Chicago students are testing a new smart-phone security app. It's called Pathlight. And it uses GPS technology to allow campus police ...

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  4. Wrong Like It's Their JobRead the original story

    Friday | The Big Picture

    ... to war-continuing containment of Saddam. Such an examination was done recently by economists at the University of Chicago's business school. Steven Davis, Kevin Murphy and Robert Topel added up the military expense of containment. The direct costs ...

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  5. Childup Bestof: Most Math Being Taught in Kindergarten Is Old News to StudentsRead the original story

    Friday | Child Up

    ... with Amy Claessens, assistant professor in the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, and Maida A. Finch, PhD'12, assistant professor in the Department of Education Specialties at Salisbury University. The ...

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  6. Cory Booker takes in over $1.3M from 90 speeches Cory Booker takes in ...Read the original story w/Photo

    Friday | USA Today

    ... launched last year. The mayor made paid speeches in 2012-13 at colleges such as Ohio State University, University of Chicago and West Virginia University, as well as to groups such as the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and Equality Virginia, a ...

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  7. Ancient Geodynamics Indicate Earth's Ice...Read the original story w/Photo

    Friday | RedOrbit

    ... Global warming is adding to this fear. Led by David Rowley , CIFAR Senior Fellow and professor at the University of Chicago, the research team used the east coast of the US as their laboratory. They found that the Earth's hot mantle pushed up ...

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  8. Girl Scout Camp and Outdoor Summer FunRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday May 16 | Patch.com

    ... to Mars! Build a space craft for your mission! Work with NASA trainers and astronomers from the University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory! Learn programming for your space craft! Do all of this while spending a week at camp! Grab your Naturalist Hat! ...

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  9. Heims-KunzRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday May 15 | Elm Grove

    The bride-to-be earned her bachelor's degree in finance from Drake University and her master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago.

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  10. Kocherlakota on Fed stimulus: Don't stop 'til you get enoughRead the original story

    23 hrs ago | Reuters

    ... its most dovish. In line with this transformation , Kocherlakota told a conference sponsored by the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business that the Fed, despite its extensive bond-buying over the last few years, has not done enough to spur ...

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  11. The acerbic Bertrand Russell wanted people to thinkRead the original story w/Photo

    Yesterday | The Tennessean

    ... morally unfit to teach at City College of New York, an appointment he had taken after lecturing at the University of Chicago and UCLA. He was initially opposed to World War II but modified his pacifism to accommodate "relative political pacifism," ...

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  12. SouthtownStar Athletes On Campus: Dom Quaranta honored ...Read the original story w/Photo

    Yesterday | The Southtown Star

    ... period ending April 30. In earning that particular honor, Quaranta pitched a shutout against the host University of Chicago. The sophomore right-hander gave up just two hits against the Maroons, who were leading NCAA Division III in batting average ...

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  13. Keep rates low until jobless rate normalizes: Fed's KocherlakotaRead the original story

    Yesterday | International Business Times

    ... been reached. "Our communications remain a work in progress," said Kocherlakota, who was speaking at a University of Chicago Booth School of Business conference with Swedish Riksbank Governor Stefan Ingves.

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  14. Fed's Kocherlakota Sees No Benefit to Financial Stability From Tighter PolicyRead the original story

    Yesterday | Wall Street Journal

    ... what he called a "not-so-great recovery," in prepared remarks Friday. In the comments made before a University of Chicago conference, he warned that tightening monetary policy to improve financial stability would yield "tangible and significant" ...

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  15. Know the basics before you buy your next mattressRead the original story w/Photo

    Yesterday | Lansing State Journal

    ... shape for summer, don't spare a sagging mattress, especially if you're losing sleep over it. Recent University of Chicago research concluded that without adequate sleep, fat cells don't properly metabolize insulin, which is key for weight ...

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  16. Topography of Eastern Seaboard muddles ancient sea level changesRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday | R & D

    ... 60 meters variation. Nathan Simmons of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and colleagues from the University of Chicago, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Syracuse University, Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin modeled the ...

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  17. Fed has not lowered interest rates enough: KocherlakotaRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday | Reuters

    ... as safe dwindles, Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota told a group convened by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "The increase in asset demand, combined with the fall in asset supply, implies that households and firms ...

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  18. US Department Of Labor's OSHA Establishes Partnership To Protect...Read the original story

    Friday | Safety Online

    ... Program of the Illinois Department of Labor is also participating in the partnership, which covers the University of Chicago William Eckert Research Center Project. "This voluntary strategic partnership is focused on identifying and controlling ...

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  19. Is Sex Still Sexy?Read the original story w/Photo

    Friday | The Atlantic

    ... But, reflecting on the vast majority of the young people who came through his lecture hall at the University of Chicago following the Sexual Revolution, he wrote: Young people, and only young people, have studied and practiced a crippled eros that ...

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  20. Badminton state tournament notebook: Mang, Lurie enjoy memorable runsRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday | Glenview Announcements

    ... reflect on the events of this past Saturday. The badminton teammates, who both plan to enroll at the University of Chicago, had memorable afternoons on the second day of the state tournament in Charleston. The day included a match against one ...

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