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Chicago learns its Olympic fate on Oct. 2, when members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meet in Copenhagen to award the 2016 Games. Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are the other contenders, and boosters say the Second City has a fighting chance. First, it offers a compact proposal: about 90% of the athletes would compete within a 15-minute drive of the proposed Olympic Village site, not far from Chicago's downtown. Many events would take place in city parks, and most new facilities - including the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, scheduled for the South Side's Washington...
...never thought of this research as significantly funny, but apparently someone did,” Lieberman said. The crowd chuckled as he walked to receive his award with a his oxford shirt stuffed to look like a pregnant belly...
...Other award-winning projects showed that cows give more milk if named, created diamonds from tequila, and transformed a brassier into a gas mask...
...Economics prize was awarded to officials of four Icelandic banks. None of the award recipients came to receive the award—one of multiple jokes coming at the expense of the banking industry...
...first responders and public safety information officers. In 2006, he directed Three Days in September, a Julia Roberts-narrated documentary about the botched rescue of schoolchildren in Beslan, Russia, who were being held hostage by Chechen rebels. It was nominated for an Emmy and won an Edward R. Murrow award...