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Family friend chooses her own charity - August 13, 2009 - Dear Amy: Recently I lost a member of my extended family. In lieu of flowers, we requested charitable donations to that family member's favorite charity.
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Work-from-home scams cite reputable news organizations - August 7, 2009 - Jerald Marshall was searching for jobs online when he came across an ad for a Google work-at-home business. The ad featured a "Chicago Tribune News" story about Mike Steadman, a college drop-out from North Carolina, who was earning buckets of money placing links on the Google Web site.
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Fun facts about the Palos preserves - August 13, 2009 - It's PAY-liss
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Even sex tough to sell in this recession - August 10, 2009 - Whoever invented the marketing maxim "Sex sells" must not have been thinking literally.
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Democracy without elections - August 13, 2009 - The British Parliament consists of the House of Commons, which is elected by the people, and the House of Lords, which is not. How different that is from our Congress. We have the House of Representatives, which is elected by the people, and the Senate, which is ... well, mostly elected by the...
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A few tips from the ATHLETE security team - August 12, 2009 - I want to start up a security agency that protects athletes from themselves. Celebrities have managers, publicists and agents to protect them. Plus, in most cases bad publicity is good for them. Athletes normally have just an agent. Celebrities don't play in leagues that profess to hold everyone...
Mother and son, fish and wine - August 12, 2009 - Evan Goldstein, president of Full Circle Wine Solutions, in San Francisco, did the original wine pairing suggestions for "Kitchen Conversations," a cookbook by his mother, Joyce Goldstein. Now, 13 years later, he revises his opinions and gives new pairings for her Moroccan fish recipe with a...
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How to Eat Breakfast - August 12, 2009 - Breakfast comes at a terrible time of day to make a rational decision. We're rushed. We're groggy. And we're famished.
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Hostage to hospitality - August 9, 2009 - Overwrought and underappreciated are tough characters. They can conspire to kidnap you and your sweetheart, remove you to a secure compound and subject you to 21 hours of non-stop indulgence. Hard to believe, but true.
Can Collinsworth fill Madden's shoes in 'Sunday Night Football' booth? - August 10, 2009 - Four Tribune Newspapers sportswriters weigh in on a topical issue every weekday.
So far, story lines in majors have fallen short - August 13, 2009 - CHASKA, Minn. -- Your 2009 PGA champion will not be someone who overcame whooping cough as a child or used his 7-iron to thwart a robbery attempt at his grandmother's house or recently had to put down his favorite golden retriever.
Public on hook deserves look into Chicago's Olympics bid - August 11, 2009 - For Chicago 2016, the Olympic organizing committee, the long march through Chicago's 50 wards is nearly done.
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Michael Vick in Chicago? Nothing to do with Bears, team says. - August 13, 2009 - Michael Vick arriving in Chicago had as much to do with him playing for the Bears as LeBron James being in town had to do with James signing with the Bulls in 2010.
Itasca's Sarah Zelenka goes from Grand Valley State to US Rowing team - August 7, 2009 - Her eventual boat mates came from the big-time Division I programs, the ones with the tradition, facilities, training staffs and equipment that have made Harvard, Wisconsin and Michigan among the best rowing programs in the country for decades.
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Are 110-m.p.h. trains on the right track? - August 10, 2009 - A Milwaukee Road rail line coal-burning locomotive was clocked going 124 m.p.h. on a stretch between the Twin Cities
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Shuffle that's not so random - August 13, 2009 - My shuffle function and I are having a disagreement.
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Lincoln Park punches felt down at City Hall - August 13, 2009 - The Lincoln Park Marauders story isn't just a crime story. It's a political story.
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Swashbucklers report nation's temperature - August 12, 2009 - You know it's going to be a difficult day when you wake up with "Guantanamera, Guajira Guantanamera, Guantanamera, Guajira Guantanamera" going around and around in your head and it won't stop. You know that probably you should not tackle health-care reform today, though...
Unpublished Graham Greene mystery appears in The Strand - August 9, 2009 - Like a wily villain, The Strand (strandmag.com) always seems to have something new and tricky up its sleeve. In the issue of the mystery-themed quarterly magazine now on newsstands, you'll find the first installment of a newly discovered work by Graham Greene -- a publishing coup that has...
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As CDs slide, search is on for safe havens - August 9, 2009 - In September, the rush was on.
Bigger and better is Kia's Forte - August 9, 2009 - A wave of the magic wand, and the compact Spectra sedan is replaced by the longer, wider, beefier Forte.
Michael Vick in Chicago telling kids about evil of dog fighting - August 13, 2009 - Some Bears fans became anxious and perhaps a bit nervous when they spotted Michael Vick at O'Hare International Airport on Wednesday.
Chicago Cubs in a dive, and it's not a good one - August 12, 2009 - This is what I thought Aramis Ramirez said Tuesday when I asked him whether he was concerned about further injuring his already sore shoulder:
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Readers remember their favorite 'What Ever Happened To...' spots - August 7, 2009 - If you have worked at a well-known local attraction, the memories to stay with you. That's been made clear by several readers who have written in with stories of being on the clock -- or in a melee -- at various "What Ever Happened to..." locations. Here are their recollections.
Could health care be Obama's Iraq? - August 12, 2009 - This is the August of President Barack Obama's discontent. His proposed health-care overhaul is taking a beating in the polls. Town hall meetings have been disrupted by angry voices, some of whom were paid to be there.
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Sometimes the slopes really are slippery - August 12, 2009 - WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin was right, the second time.
'Stranger danger' a real issue for agents - July 31, 2009 - If a real estate agent seems to size you up the next time you walk into an open house, don't take it personally.
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Michael Vick's talents a poor fit with Chicago Bears offense - August 13, 2009 - BOURBONNAIS -- Michael Vick and I have two things in common. We both passed through O'Hare International Airport the other day. And neither one of us should be taking snaps from Olin Kreutz any time soon.
Landing Alex Rios has pluses, minuses for White Sox - August 11, 2009 - It's hard to get excited about a hand-me-down.
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Leno factoring new equation - August 13, 2009 - For 17 years, it was all about being No. 1 -- taking over a No. 1 show, slipping for a time from No. 1, regaining and holding onto No. 1. Then NBC told Jay Leno it wanted him to turn over "The Tonight Show" to Conan O'Brien when it was still late night's No. 1 talk show.
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So, kids, you want to be my 'friends'??? - August 2, 2009 - One of the pleasures of my life is having the children of my friends as friends. We're not soul-baring friends -- no soggy revelations shared in bars or at slumber parties -- but I've cherished the chance through the years to watch their minds sharpen and their lives take shape.
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Indiana corner a mecca for shoes - August 10, 2009 - Steve Kil grew up in Hanover Township, Ind., down the road from 109th and Calumet Avenues. He admits that the four-way intersection would be fairly nondescript, no more than a footnote in most conversations, if not for one thing: the pile of shoes that sometimes grows as fast as the corn and...
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A return to living within our means - August 9, 2009 - Stop the presses: Home buyers say they intend to live within their means.
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More folly with sports league's trying to control athletes' 'tweets' - August 9, 2009 - When a history about the decline and fall of Western civilization is written, it will not be done in 140 characters, although those with shockingly short attention spans would wish it so.
Times change; Les Nomades does not. And that's a good thing. - August 13, 2009 - Six years have passed since my last visit to the magical little house on East Ontario Street. In that time, Chicago's culinary landscape has changed dramatically.
A post-purchase discount is worth asking about - August 6, 2009 - Dear Answer Angel: I recently bought a fabulous dress I'd had my eye on for months. (It was 40 percent off at a major department store.) Great deal, I thought -- and was elated. Now I see the same dress has been reduced to 75 percent off at the same store. I love it (and...
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$600 for brake job has dad Benz out of shape - August 9, 2009 - QMy daughter drives a 2007 Mercedes C230 with 27,000 miles that is going to need front brakes. Her Mercedes dealer told her it would cost about $600.
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Airlines offer cheap Twitter fares -- $9 to Vegas, anyone? - August 4, 2009 - Tech-savvy fliers who are members of the microblogging site Twitter have a new way to find last-minute fare deals.
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Beauty school won't salute GI Bill; Marine 'in disbelief' - August 13, 2009 - Ryan Vaia was stationed in Iraq when she first contacted Regency Beauty Institute earlier this year.
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