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Review: "A Curious Man" by Neal Thompson
In 1933, Robert Ripley crash-landed into Chicago, opening his first "Odditorium" exhibition at the World's Fair. At the showing, writes Neal Thompson in “A Curious Man,” a fascinating and fun biography of the "Believe It or Not!" creator,...Tags: Entertainment, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The New York Times, General Motors Corp., Social Sciences
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Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: Chinese Restaurants, Sesame Street (tv program), Literature, China, Entertainment Events
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Pakistan expels N.Y. Times reporter on eve of historic elections
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani government ordered the Islamabad bureau chief for the New York Times to leave the country on the eve of landmark parliamentary elections, according to the newspaper’s website. Declan Walsh, 39, was told...
Tags: Islamabad (Pakistan), Politics, Elections, Interior Policy, Parliament
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Voice of the People, May. 10
Union business This is in response to "My challenge to Karen Lewis" (Perspective, April 26), by Tanya Saunders-Wolffe, a counselor at Jesse Owens Community Academy on the Far South Side. Why is the Chicago Tribune newspaper a venue for proselytizing...Tags: Teachers, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Public Schools, Education, Mother's Day
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U.S. newspaper circulation down slightly
Newspaper circulation numbers released Tuesday show The Morning Call, the Lehigh Valley's largest news organization, had a sharp drop in daily circulation, which the newspaper attributes to subscription price increases in 2012 and a decrease in e-editions...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Marketing, The Wall Street Journal, Staten Island (New York City)
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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Susan Hahn Susan Hahn was editor of TriQuarterly for 14 years. She is author of a recent novel, “The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter”; nine books of poetry, including “Self/Pity&...Tags: Science and Technology, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Tribune, Roosevelt University
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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} 826CHI 826CHI is a nonprofit writing and tutoring center dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students....Tags: Philosophy, Jane Austen, Chicago Tribune, Libraries, Dining and Drinking
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Noel Greenwood dies at 75; former L.A. Times senior editor
Noel Greenwood, a former senior editor at the Los Angeles Times who helped shape local and California coverage as the newspaper outgrew its modest local ambitions and transformed itself into one of national stature, died Sunday at his Santa Barbara home....Tags: Prostate Cancer, Rodney King, Los Angeles Times, Media Industry, Los Angeles Riots (1992)
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What, me worry?
Change of SubjectMichael Wolff in USA Today on rumors that the "ultrarich and ultraconservative Koch brothers might like to build a conservative media empire from the old Tribune Co." -- includiing this newspaper: Curiously, most of the papers they are proposing to...... -
Al Neuharth dies at 89; newspaper mogul created USA Today
Al Neuharth, the newspaper mogul who in 1982 made a $1-billion gamble called USA Today that earned derision for its emphasis on brevity, flashy graphics and upbeat stories but endured to become the nation's largest-circulation newspaper, died Friday in...
Tags: Detroit Free Press, CBS Corp., Washington, DC, Des Moines Register, Chicago Tribune
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Stop dissing the humanities
If any line item in the state or federal budgets cries out for more resources, or even just a little more respect, it's the arts and humanities. Never mind that many writers, artists and scholars have the fresh ideas that our times so desperately need....
Tags: Science and Technology, Nelson Algren, Government, Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Is the media to blame for the brain injuries of hockey players?
Why is hockey such a violent and dangerous sport? Medical researchers from Canada have an answer: Blame the media. “Media reports of an issue such as TBI in sport can contribute to an altered culture,” they write in a study published...
Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Research, Ice Hockey, Toronto Star, Breast Cancer
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