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Different lists can help you pick a school
It's college application season, when those famous lists of college rankings really start to matter. But do they? Sure, the traditional lists can help you choose a strong academic program with national cachet. But what about all those 101 other things...Tags: Science, Science and Technology, Financial Aid, School Examinations, Education
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Students rock their free iPads at IIT
A few select schools across the country have embraced the iPad, and it's easy to see why. The smart-looking tablet computer can do everything a laptop can do -- even more -- with thousands of available apps. Plus it's compact, connected, fast, user-...Tags: Education, Microsoft Corporation, Apple iPad, Facebook, Entertainment
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Digging for information gold with data mining
The old image of looking for a needle in a haystack doesn't even come close to the realities of modern life. Simply put, the world is drowning in data. Every item scanned at every grocery store, every keystroke made on every website, every transaction...Tags: Science, Computer Science, Science and Technology, Career and Workplace, Business
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Living for the Weekend College
In her capacity as a representative of Harper College, Nancy Wajler often gives talks to groups of unemployed adults. The message she imparts centers on the wisdom of returning to college to retrain and retool for new occupations. In recent talks, she...Tags: Science, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Chicago, Colleges and Universities
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Metra Breaks Ground For New 35th Street Station
(WGN-AM)- More than a year behind schedule, Metra broke ground Monday on a new station at 35th Street on the Rock Island District Line to serve White Sox fans and college students while giving neighborhood residents another mass-transit option. The...Tags: Travel, Death, Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois, U.S. Cellular Field
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Venice couple builds a modern home on top of a Venice cottage
Venice is home to a lot of extravagant architecture, whether it's Frank Gehry's playful deconstructions or Franklin Israel's experiments in postmodern collage. Yet even in such environs, Robert Choeff and Krystyan Keck's home on Cabrillo Avenue stands...Tags: Building Material, Rem Koolhaas, Education, Arts and Culture, Chicago
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What happened to the U.S. Air Force lesbian who `told'? Don't ask
Change of SubjectAir Force Lt. Robin Chaurasiya (right) recalls being summoned to a meeting with her commanding officer at Scott Air Force Base near downstate Belleville last year. He read to her a copy of an e-mail that had come to his...... -
Update: Lesbian USAF officer honorably discharged
Change of SubjectIn case you missed it, this story -- Air Force, in reversal, will discharge lesbian officer -- updates my April 6 column What happened to the U.S. Air Force lesbian who `told'? Don't ask. Reversing an earlier decision, the Air...... -
Mies arrives in Chicago
Tribune staff reporterLudwig Mies van der Rohe, former head of the Bauhaus School of Design and a recent emigrant from Nazi Germany, was to be honored this evening on his appointment as director of the Armour Institute of Technology's department of architecture. But at a...Tags: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Death, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arts and Culture, Education
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Cancer risk from cellphone use is still a matter for study
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCALIFORNIANS who use hands-free cellular devices while driving may be doing themselves a favor in the long run. That's because scientists still can't say with certainty that placing a cellphone against the head is completely safe, especially for heavy...Tags: Health, Science and Technology, Education, Children, Cancer
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Influx of Indian students finds secure community at USC
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAt the Manas grocery store and restaurant on Vermont Avenue near USC, graduate students from Mumbai and New Delhi stop by late at night to pick up a batch of malai kofta, vegetable dumplings, to fuel their engineering study sessions. Or they may sit down...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Travel, Science and Technology, Financial Aid, Arts and Culture
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