Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble began with what felt like a speck of grit in my left eye. I didn't think anything was seriously wrong--until three days later when the eye puffed up and turned weepy and red. I called Glen Ellyn Clinic near my home in west suburban Chicago, and a couple of hours later I found myself seated in a darkened room across from ophthalmologist Mary Mehaffey...
...second tier consisted of Northwestern, University of Chicago and Berkeley...
...best person to teach your child? What if your kid yearns to clamber up the school steps every day clutching her Hello Kitty lunch pail? "When people are trying to teach unwilling children," says Dorothy Werner, a 1970s "unschooler" from Chicago, "it doesn't work well. But home schooling is very affirming to children because they get a tremendous amount of attention...
...past several months the Chicago police have been scrambling to polish their image. Each week, it seems, there are new reports of everything from brutality to deficient officer training. Of late, though, the cops are showing a softer side. Even the Chicago Tribune, which had published a series of negative reports about the department, last week featured the men and women in blue waxing poetic about the beat under soft light at a South Side precinct...
Tired of frantically searching for your keys? Or of rushing into a room only to forget what you were looking for? If you're worried about memory lapses, just flick on the TV. There are Annie Potts, former star of Designing Women, and Hector Elizondo of Chicago Hope hawking dueling versions of the herbal supplement ginkgo biloba. Or click on the website www.braingum.com where you can read about a "delicious" supplement derived from the compound phosphatidyl serine. All offer hope for improving memory and brain function...