When the new seven-member Tribune Co. board officially convenes for the first time in the next few weeks, the group of media...
Dec
31
Bears fire Lovie Smith after 9 seasons; search for new head coach begins
Label: WorldChicago Tribune sports columnist Steve Rosenbloom on the Bears firing Lovie Smith. The epitaph for Lovie Smith's tenure as head...
List: No love for ‘fiscal cliff,’ ‘spoiler alert’
Label: LifestyleDETROIT (AP) — Spoiler alert: This story contains words and phrases that some people want to ban from the English language. “Spoiler alert” is among them. So are “kick the can down the road,” ”trending” and “bucket list.”A dirty dozen have landed on the 38th annual List of Words to be Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. The nonbinding, tongue-in-cheek decree...
The Boss: For Kathryn Giusti, Two Wars Against Multiple Myeloma
Label: HealthMY identical twin sister, Karen, and I have two older brothers. We were raised in Blue Bell, Pa., where my father was a family physician and my mother was a nurse. We spent summers on Long Beach Island, N.J., where both of us were waitresses at a busy seafood restaurant. Kathryn E. Giusti is the C.E.O. and co-founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Founda- tion in Norwalk, Conn. ...
Tribune Co. emerges from bankruptcy
Label: Business The last day of 2012 is the first of a new era for Tribune Co.After spending more than four years embroiled in a contentious...
Dec
30
Urlacher out for fourth straight game
Label: World Bears quarterback Jay Cutler arrives for Sunday's game. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Tribune...
NASA Sets Record with Ion Thrusters Test
Label: TechnologyNASA has completed a 43,000 hour stress test — a record for ion thrusters — on a new rocket propulsion system that could extend future space travel to farther reaches of the solar system.Developed by NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster Project, the 7-kilowatt ion thruster can burn 10-12 times longer than the conventional chemical thrusters used today. Though not practical for manned-spaceflight, the...
Hot spots draw believers, but not doomsday
Label: LifestyleAs the sun rose from time zone to time zone across the world on Friday, there was still no sign of the world’s end — but that didn’t stop those convinced that a 5,125-year Mayan calendar predicts the apocalypse from gathering at some of the world’s purported survival hot spots.Many of the esoterically inclined expected a new age of consciousness — others wanted a party. But, in some places said to...
Elwood V. Jensen, Pioneer in Breast Cancer Treatment, Dies at 92
Label: HealthTony Jones/Cincinnati Enquirer, via Associated PressElwood V. Jensen in 2004. Elwood V. Jensen, a medical researcher whose studies of steroid hormones led to new treatments for breast cancer that have been credited with saving or extending hundreds of thousands of lives, died on Dec. 16 in Cincinnati. He was 92. The cause was complications of pneumonia, his son, Thomas Jensen, said. ...
Airlines' plans for 2013 up in the air
Label: Business Airfares will be on the rise in 2013, and those niggling airline fees will metamorphose into optional bundles of services.Meanwhile, onboard...
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