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The Garden Conversations

Jamie Kalven | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wendell Berry, Leed, Invisibile Institute, University of Chicago, South Side of Chicago, Sustainability, Community Gardens, Wallace Stegner, Green Politics, Chicago News

For the last few weeks, I've been talking with gardeners at an imperiled community garden on the South Side of Chicago. Last spring, the University of Chicago informed us it wants its land back.

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Obama Presidential Library: University Of Chicago Already Angling For It?

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Barack Obama University of Chicago, Barack Obama Presidential Library, Obama-Presidential-Library, Barack Obama, Uchicago Barack Obama, Presidential Libraries, University of Chicago, Obama Library, Chicago News

Less than a year into President Obama's first term, his former employer -- the University of Chicago -- is making it clear that it wants his president...

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Former Israeli PM Olmert Shouted Down at University of Chicago (Video)

Ali Abunimah | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: University of Chicago, Ehud Olmert, Palestine, Israel Lebanon War, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Chicago News

Recording and photography were officially banned at Olmert's request, but we had a camera anyway as protester after protester rose to make a statement before police forced them to leave.

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Quick! Ted Williams Is Defrosting!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Baseball, Cryogenics, Ted Williams, University of Chicago, Future Technology, Alcor, Comedy News

There are claims that a technician took baseball-like swings at Ted Williams' frozen head with a monkey wrench. Since I'm interested in the whole concept of cryogenics, I have certain questions.

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Heartland: Smart Art

Paul Klein | Posted 10.01.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Andy Warhol, Chicago Cultural Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Van Abbemuseum, Smart Museum, Tony Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago, Mca, Wesley Kimler, Chicago News

For any museum to mount two original, innovative and relevant shows in a row is rare. The Smart Museum has done precisely that.

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Malcolm Casadaban, University Of Chicago Professor, Dies After Contact With Plague Bacteria

Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Plague Bacteria Research, Malcolm Casadaban, Yersinia Pestis, University of Chicago, Health, U of C Plague, Plague Bacteria, The Plague, Chicago News

A University of Chicago molecular genetics professor studying the origins of harmful bacteria died last weekend after contracting an infection linked ...

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Education in Chicago: Reason to Cheer: Common Sense About Schools From Thinking Observers

Bill Sweetland | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Urban Schools, Arne Duncan, Lincoln Smith, University of Chicago, Helicopter Parents, Remedial Instruction, Two-Year Colleges, Barack Obama, College Admissions, School Reform, Admission Essays, Joseph Bauers, Jim Edgar, Bill Daley, College Essays, Chicago News

Get rid of the college admissions essay. We'll thwart those odious helicopter parents. We know they're helping their pampered offspring cheat their way into Princeton.

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Renaissance 2010 Gets A Solid 'B'

Paras Bhayani | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Arne Duncan, Chicago Public Schools, Charter Schools, University of Chicago, Green Dot, School Choice, Renaissance 2010, Chicago News

New University of Chicago findings pour cold water on both the most ardent critics and most ardent proponents of both Ren10 and the charter schools it has created.

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Health Care Reform: Still An Original And Simple Proposal

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: University of Chicago Medical Center, Senator Max Baucus, Dr. Paul Toffel, Usc, Gang of Six, Health Insurance, Senate Finance Commitee, Healthcare, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Health Insurance Industry, Insurance Industry, Politics News, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Geico, Warren Buffett, Los Angeles Times, Health Care Reform, University of Chicago, Health Action, Keck School of Medicine, Paul Toffel, Politics News

Whose plan gets my nod, for bipartisan reality and feasibility, to save and improve our unique, innovative American health care system and not saddle our country with unsustainable debt? I vote for Senator Max Baucus.

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Edward Lighthart, Mysterious Seattle Amnesiac, Was University of Chicago Grad

Chicago Sun-Times | PostChronicle.Com | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: University of Chicago, Edward Lighthart, Amnesia, Seattle Amnesiac, Chicago News

A dehydrated man who wandered out of a Seattle public park last month with no ID, $600 stuffed in a sock and amnesia has a Chicago connection. It t...

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An Open Letter to Warren Buffett on Health Care: We Need You!

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Mr. Buffett, you're not in the health insurance market, but this might be the opportunity to bring your successful Berkshire companies to the table, to help solve the major issue of our time.

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Health-Care Reform: An Original And Simple Proposal

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dr. Paul Toffel, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Usc, Obama Health Care, Insurance Industry, Geico, Keck School of Medicine, Health Care Reform, Los Angeles Times, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare, Paul Toffel, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Medical Center, Health Action, Politics News

Recently, when an old friend asked me if I had a simple solution for the medical insurance and access problems on the front pages of America's newspapers, I told him: "Yes, I do."

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Odd News

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment

Odd News and a new play: watch the preparatory video for Strauss at Midnight by Jeff Dorchen.

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Students, Activists Rip University Of Chicago Over Hospital Agenda

Chi-Town Daily News | ALEX PARKER | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: University of Chicago Medical Center, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Urban Health Initiative, Health, U of C Hospital Charity Care, Chicago News

Hours after a U.S. Congressman announced he was requesting a federal investigation into allegations of patient dumping at the University of Chicago Me...

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University Of Chicago Students Start "Men In Power" Club

Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Steve Saltarelli, University of Chicago, Reverse Sexism, Men, Men-in-Power-Club, Politics News

A group of University of Chicago students think it's time the campus focused more on its men. A third-year student from Lake Bluff has formed Men in P...

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Column In University Of Chicago Paper Calling Students 'Tramps' And 'Skanks' Prompts Retraction, Debate

Chi-Town Daily News | PETER SACHS | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: University of Chicago Newspaper, University of Chicago, College Newspapers, Chicago Maroon, Luke Dumas, Chicago News

A column in the student newspaper at the University of Chicago offended enough readers that the paper not only apologized for running the opinion piec...

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University Of Chicago Closing Women's Health Center

AP | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: U of C Women's Health Center, University of Chicago Medical Center, Mishka Terplan, University of Chicago, Health, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- The University of Chicago Medical Center says it's closing a women's clinic that serves thousands of people each year. Medical center...

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Obama's Legacy: The Death of the GOP

Alex Abella | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Linguistics, Congress, Rand Corporation, Ronald Reagan, University of Chicago, Barack Obama, Politics News

After Senator Arlen Specter's stunning switch in party affiliation, the Republicans in Congress will be reduced to a sputtering stump group of grumpy old white men who just don't get it.

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The Internet Is Absolute Democracy -- Be Very Afraid!

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Like Guttenberg's printing press, the Internet has created radically new opportunities and systems that have put us at the beginning of a seismic cultural shift and yet, something is terribly wrong.

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Global China Connection: From Columbia to Stanford and McGill

Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Hundreds of Chinese studies majors at top universities in North America have recently formed a network dedicated to forging new economic, cultural, and political links between East and West.

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Obama Gets Real and So Should You

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Russia, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Hugo Chavez, University of Chicago, Iran, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Education, Venezuela, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, Cuba, Rolling Stones, Health Care, Neo-Realism, Obama Transition, Politics News

For those of us who have waited 8 years for good news, Obama's pragmatism can be frustrating, but it's the right strategy for a realistic president confronted with difficult times.

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Dr. Eric Whitaker, Obama Friend And University Of Chicago Hospital Executive, Defends Controversial ER Policy

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Emergency Care, University of Chicago, Health, Eric Whitaker Obama, University of Chicago Er Policy, Eric Whitaker, U of C Hospital Urban Health Initiative, University of Chicago Hospital, Health Care, Low Income Healthcare, Barack Obama, Obama Health Care, Chicago News

Dr. Eric Whitaker, a close friend of President Obama's and an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center, defended the South Side hospital'...

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Community Garden At Risk

Jamie Kalven | Posted 04.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Milton Friedman Institute, Chicago Theological Seminary, University of Chicago, Woodlawn, Community Gardens, Experimental Station, 61st Street Community Garden, Hyde Park, Chicago News

The garden has remained a border institution: common ground shared by residents of Woodlawn and Hyde Park

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Daniel Biss: Math Professor Who Gave Up Career To Run For Office Offers Lessons On Progressive Movement

Progress Illinois | Daniel Biss | Posted 03.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Progressive Candidates, Progressive Movement, University of Chicago, Daniel Biss, Progressives, Chicago News

As you probably know, math professors don't usually up and run for office. And yet, starting in the spring of 2007, I - an assistant professor of math...

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Michelle Obama and the Covert Influence of First Ladies

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, First Ladies, Congress, Michelle Obama First Lady, Philippines, Spanish-American War, Mary Lincoln, East Wing, Kennedys, Curtis LeMay, Obama Advisers, New York State Governor, First Lady, Former Presidents, Chicago, Abraham Lincoln, Rosalynn Carter Inauguration, Fdr, Financial Planning, Florence Harding, Benjamin Montgomery, Great Depression, Michelle Obama South Side, Michelle Obama, Calvin Coolidge, University of Chicago, Rosalyn Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida Mckinley, U.S. Presidents, Barack Obama, Presidents, Barack Obama and David Axelrod, The West Wing, Clinton First Lady, David Axelrod, South Side of Chicago, Robert Lansing, Jimmy Carter, Edith Wilson, Jackie Kennedy, Roosevelt, Jfk, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tough Decisions, Politics News

As memories of Inauguration Day 2009 begin to fade in and the new administration ensues, speculation will only increase about how politically influential Michelle Obama will be as First Lady.

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