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...Left corporate law after the birth of her only child, Laura, to take a job in 1987 in the office of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington. Unlike many of her colleagues, she chose to stay on when Richard Daley took over after Washington's sudden death...
...many as 10 percent of Caucasian infants—mostly girls—develop the benign tumor after birth. Made up of proliferating blood vessels, the tumor generally appears in the upper neck or head...
Seniors' Moment. Starwood is offering a Pay Your Birth Year promotion at select hotels in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada through Dec. 30. On the second and third nights of your stay, you pay a rate equal to the last two digits of your birth year. So if you were born in 1973, you pay $73. It certainly favors the older generation, so maybe this is an excuse to treat your parents to a romantic getaway...
...exams, which have yet to be developed. But to achieve the goal of sending kids to college at 16, Tracy and his colleagues recognize preparation will have to start early. Nearly four years ago, New Hampshire began an initiative called Follow the Child. Starting practically from birth, educators are expected to chart children's educational progress year to year. In the future, this effort will be bolstered by formalized curricula that specify exactly what kids should know by the end of each grade level...
...Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair once enjoyed such popularity Stateside that Americans bemoaned the accident of birth that made him ineligible for a White House run. Westminster is far less diverse than Washington, but if Obama's birth certificate were unexpectedly to reveal him as a Brit, opinion polls suggest he could romp into Downing Street without breaking a sweat. In the green room of a London TV studio, David Lammy, Minister for Higher Education and one of Britain's most prominent black politicians, watched mute and damp-eyed as Obama's family joined him onstage at Grant Park...