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Antibiotics in livestock raising concerns up the food chain
While Sam Spitz's friends were loading up on pizza for lunch, the Whitney Young High School sophomore opted for a chicken Caesar salad. Spitz was in training for a big sophomore baseball season — after having pitched on the school's varsity team...
Tags: Baseball, Salmonella Infection, Sports, Conservation, Food and Drug Administration
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Outside Opinion: 'Swipe fees' aren't so bad
Most Americans swipe their credit cards in the checkout line without thinking twice. But our ability to do so is under attack. Seven years ago, a group of stores launched a lawsuit alleging that credit card issuers unfairly dictate the so-called swipe...Tags: Credit and Debt, Walmart, Politics, American Express Company, PayPal, Inc.
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Century of Progress: The science and the sleaze
Chicago Tribune reporterThe Century of Progress opened on May 27, 1933, with about 12 million Americans — a quarter of the labor force — unemployed and many hungry Chicagoans seeking sustenance and solace at Al Capone's soup kitchen. The city's second world's fair...Tags: General Motors Corp., Colleges and Universities, Science, Automotive Equipment, McCormick Place
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When your laptop dies
It happened, as crises do, without warning. I was doing something essential, like trolling online for better and deeply discounted kitchen knives, when suddenly the image on my laptop went from hi-res to out-of-register. Most of the color fell away and...
Tags: IBM, Les Miserables (musical), FedEx Corporation, Electronics, Columbia University
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Indiana museum lets guests drive a locomotive
NORTH JUDSON, Ind. — As a kid at the controls of my Lionel electric train set, I dreamed of someday being at the throttle of a real train. Decades would pass, but eventually my dream came true only a couple of hours from my parents' Chicago-area...
Tags: Railway Transportation, Father's Day, Transportation, Trips and Vacations, Indiana Hoosiers
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Catasauqua may curtail tech ed in middle school for year
The Catasauqua Area School District wants to stop teaching technology classes to middle schoolers for one year as part of a plan to reduce class sizes for next year's eighth-graders. The school board approved the temporary curtailment Thursday as part of...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science, Budgets and Budgeting, Catasauqua, Students
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Are there too few great white sharks off California?
It's a mystery of the sea: How many great white sharks are prowling near California's surf lines? Some scientists say the population is large and healthy. Others say it is alarmingly small. No one has ever known for certain, but the question has...
Tags: Science, Conservation, Marine Science, Museum of Natural History, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Students who haven't mastered English are casualties of strict system
Time is running out for the kids in Melanie Gathers' English 3 class. The Dr. Phillips High students grew up speaking Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Portuguese and Arabic. And they have only one year left to demonstrate mastery on tests given entirely...
Tags: Orlando International Airport, City University of New York, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Seminole County, Arts and Culture
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Brown County land could be set aside for new wetlands
A new approach in protecting the environment is coming to South Dakota, and Brown County is at the front of the line. Wetland banking calls for setting aside acres of land in one area of a watershed for new wetlands to be created, in order to offset...Tags: Wetlands, Highway Transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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CHS grad 1 of 1,000 receiving Gates Scholarship
He's earned a scholarship that will assist with covering all of his college costs and graduate school, too, if he chooses. Recent Aberdeen Central High School graduate Andre Bieber has been named one of the 1,000 Gates Millennium Scholars nationwide....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Engineering, Financial Aid, Colleges and Universities, Education
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Hitting it out of the park: Softball community says Aberdeen needs new facilities
Local sluggers can no longer be contained by Aberdeen's softball fields. Bob and Brenda Lyke live on South Cochrane Street, just across the street from the Moccasin Creek complex. When Brenda is doing yard work, she often finds softballs in the bushes....
Tags: Gardens and Parks, Finance, Dwayne Johnson, Baseball, Economy, Business and Finance
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Farming: Where's my cow insurance?
It was evident from the hello that the South Dakota rancher had practiced his pitch before he dialed my office. “I’m (so and so),” he said in a clipped, clear voice, “an independent cow-calf producer west of the (Missouri)...Tags: Environmental Issues, Insurance, Elections, Politics, Conservation
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