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New Baltimore Police Commissioner Batts seeks fresh start
Baltimore's next police commissioner is walking through a west-side neighborhood with some of the community's most engaged residents, but that's not enough for Anthony W. Batts. He wants to talk to a teacher sipping coffee on her porch. He jogs across...
Tags: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department, Cocaine, Local Elections, Anthony Barksdale
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Hyatt leader wowed Pritzkers early, then fell for hospitality
Tribune staff reporterMark Hoplamazian was a freshly minted MBA graduate when consummate dealmaker Jay Pritzker hired him to work on new investments and acquisitions in 1989. Almost immediately, the 25-year-old grandson of Armenian Christian immigrants found himself in an...Tags: Passover Seder, University of Chicago, Manhattan (New York City), Millennium Park, Chicago Real Estate
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Curiosity rover sticks the landing
They called it the "seven minutes or terror" for the complex maneuverings and rocket blasts conducted in the final moments of a 354 million mile journey from home, but the Curiosity rover executed its landing flawlessly. Those who doubted U.S. preeminence...Tags: Technology, Science and Technology, Usain Bolt, Satellite Technology, Science
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Indian-born adviser to Leo Burnett, colleagues navigates digital world
Tribune staff reporterOn a warm September day in Chicago, Rishad Tobaccowala counseled a roomful of Leo Burnett executives on how to sell high-tech gadgets -- told in terms of hot dogs. Tobaccowala, who has spent 30 years at Leo Burnett and affiliated agencies,...Tags: David Foster Wallace, Literature, Science and Technology, Chicago Restaurants, University of Chicago
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Dr. Eric Whitaker leaving University of Chicago Medicine
Dr. Eric Whitaker, a nationally prominent expert in minority health issues and one of President Barack Obama's closest friends, is leaving his post at the University of Chicago Medicine in March to pursue opportunities in the private sector. His decision...Tags: Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich, Politics, Elections
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Fl’s 3rd-grade retention/remediation plan helped students, new review finds
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelFlorida's law requiring struggling readers to be held back and then given intensive reading lessons has helped third graders subject to that policy, according to a new review by a Harvard University education professor. The review was released and... -
George A. Miller dies at 92; pioneer of cognitive psychology
George A. Miller, an iconoclastic psychologist who played a crucial role in shifting his field from the study of behaviors to the direct examination of thought processes, died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 92 and died of complications...
Tags: Pneumonia, World War II (1939-1945), Science and Technology, Psychology, Networking
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Two young Democrats square off over East L.A. Assembly district
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FAMU appoints longtime dean as its interim provost
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelLast week, FAMU trustees appointed the university's provost, Larry Robinson, to fill in as president while FAMU seeks a permanent replacement for embattled former President James Ammons. Yesterday afternoon, Robinson announced that he has chosen an... -
Attacks flying in Coachella Valley congressional race
PolitiCalRepublican Rep. Mary Bono Mack of Palm Springs has sharpened her attacks against her Democratic challenger, emergency room doctor Raul Ruiz, in a race that’s attracting money and attention from across the country.... -
Hampton takes flak for title of black history program
Officials at the Hampton National Historic Site in Towson this week officially changed the name of a black history program planned for next month after controversy erupted over its original title — "Slave for a Day." The July 8 event, which park...Tags: Baltimore County, Black History, Travel, National Parks, Human Interest
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New L.A. teachers too often placed with neediest students, study finds
L.A. NOWA new study has found that inexperienced teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are disproportionately more likely to be assigned to lower-performing math students, perpetuating the achievement gap....
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