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Leo Branton Jr. dies at 91; civil rights lawyer defended Angela Davis
Leo Branton Jr., a civil rights and entertainment lawyer whose stirring defense of '60s radical Angela Davis brought him his most celebrated victory in a six-decade career often spent championing unpopular cases, died of natural causes Friday in Los...
Tags: U.S. Army, Celebrities, Summer Olympics, University of California, Los Angeles, Martin Luther King Jr.
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New Trier principal named to NU post
Special to the TribuneTim Dohrer, principal of New Trier Township High School’s Winnetka campus since 2009, will step down in July to take a position at Northwestern University. Dohrer, who has been at New Trier for 23 years, has been named director of the teacher...Tags: Science and Technology, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Science
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Northwestern to probe founder's link to Indian massacre
Responding to pressure from a student alliance, Northwestern University has established a committee to investigate the history of John Evans, a university founder connected to one of the worst massacres of Native Americans in the country's history. The...
Tags: Yale University, Regional Authority, Colleges and Universities, Government, Executive Branch
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Legal battles hidden from public view
A Northwestern University student filed a lawsuit against the school in 2008, alleging top administrators failed to discipline a student who raped her. But what happened in the case is a secret. The student's complaint, filed under a pseudonym to...
Tags: Sports, College Basketball, Personal Data Collection, Crime, Law and Justice, Illinois Supreme Court
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Hungry for reliable information
One of the things that was clear from reaction to this week's front page story on good nutrition (and how little it is taught in medical schools) is that readers are hungry for clear, reliable information. The story was shared on social media hundreds...
Tags: Nutrition, Low Fat Diet, Health and Medical Professionals, Education, Cardiologists
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Double mastectomy: A pre-emptive strike against breast cancer
At age 23, Lindsay Avner took charge of her genetic fate by electing to have her healthy breasts removed before cancer could strike first. Six years later, the North Side woman has zero regret, she said. "I feel so fortunate to have had this opportunity...
Tags: Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Health and Medical Professionals, Mastectomy, Washington, DC, Miss America Pageant
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Prescription for nutrition
Despite a growing consensus that cardiovascular disease is a "food-borne" illness, many physicians are ill-prepared to advise patients on what they should eat to best protect them from heart attack or stroke. One provocative new study found that a...
Tags: Nutrition, Heart Disease, Health and Medical Professionals, Overweight, Internists
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Remarkable Woman: Amy Little
In a ceiling-high, greasy tangle of wheels, fenders, handlebars and derailleurs, Amy Little sees hope. She's the co-founder with her husband, Lee Ravenscroft, of Working Bikes Cooperative (2434 S. Western Ave., workingbikes.org), a nonprofit...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Oak Park, Colleges and Universities, Rentals, Wrigley Field
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Straddling the worlds of high finance and community activism
In 1972, Jim Reynolds was less than two months shy of graduating from Chicago Vocational High School, with plans of becoming a television repairman. Raised in Englewood on the city's South Side, he had been studying the trade for two years when his...
Tags: South Shore, Pat Quinn, Banking, Illinois Governor, Initial Public Offerings
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New artistic chief charts daring new directions for Chicago Opera Theater
In contrast with the greatest hits programming Lyric Opera has announced for next season, the alternative opera schedule with which Chicago Opera Theater is inaugurating the Andreas Mitisek era, beginning this weekend, promises to be anything but safe and...
Tags: The Grapes of Wrath (movie), Philip Glass, Colleges and Universities, Edgar Allan Poe, Amelia (movie)
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Low-fat milk doesn't help toddlers' weight, study says UPDATED
This post has been updated to include comments from a researcher and an American Heart Assn. spokeswoman. Giving toddlers skim or 1% milk to keep them from growing overweight doesn’t seem to work, according to a study out Monday that gives pause...
Tags: University of Virginia, Family, Overweight, American Heart Association, Colleges and Universities
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The 1% aren't like the rest of us
Over the last two years, President Obama and Congress have put the country on track to reduce projected federal budget deficits by nearly $4 trillion. Yet when that process began, in early 2011, only about 12% of Americans in Gallup polls cited federal...
Tags: Barack Obama, Vanderbilt University , Career and Workplace, Unemployment, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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