Word: chicago
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...meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Chicago this spring, they showed their prize spectrum to other scientists and asked for their opinion. No one had seen anything like it, and few would hazard a guess about what message it might convey. Stymied at every turn, Djorgovski is pinning his hopes on investigating the object's invisible infrared emissions, which have wavelengths slightly longer than the red light at one end of the visible spectrum. Within the next few weeks, astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii will train a telescope equipped with an experimental infrared spectrograph on the quarry...
Later life lived this way doesn't come cheap. The Del Webb company, which made its name building luxury spas and retirement communities in the Sun Belt, last year opened a Sun City retirement community in Huntley, near frost-belted Chicago, an acknowledgment that seniors increasingly prefer to locate near longtime friends and family and not move to far-off sunny climes. Prices range from $130,000 for a single-level fourplex to $750,000 for customized estate homes that include home theaters, Jacuzzis and wine cellars, where an eminent Bordeaux can age along with its owners...
DIED. NATHANIEL KLEITMAN, 104, pioneer sleep expert at the University of Chicago and discoverer, with associates, of REM sleep in 1953; in Los Angeles. Kleitman's studies--on dream-sleep deprivation, the effect of sunlight on slumber--established sleep research as a separate, significant medical field...
...keep guns for their self-protection, hunting and total commitment to constitutional rights. But we want to keep guns away from children, criminal lunatics and other undesirable or dangerous elements. Then why would anyone oppose gun control? Tough gun control can benefit all, including the N.R.A. BEN H. KIM Chicago...
...East of Chicago Pizza, a 116-store chain, says its peanut-butter-and-jelly pizza topping is more popular than ever