Word: chicago
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...World Cup will be staged over the next three weeks in seven venues: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York/New Jersey, Portland, Ore., San Francisco/San Jose and Washington. The final will be played at the Rose Bowl on July 10. And if the U.S. is playing for the trophy, the 92,542-seat stadium could sell out, setting a new record...
Maldacena has also earned the respect of his peers outside of Harvard. At a 1998, conference at which he presented his work, a physicist from the University of Chicago turned his complicated theories into lyrics and convinced the 300 theoretical physicists at the conference to dance to a parody titled "Hey, Maldacena...
...Connor suggested that a less draconian approach--distinguishing gang members from innocent bystanders--might pass constitutional muster. New language could target loiterers "with no apparent purpose other than to establish control over identifiable areas, to intimidate others from entering those areas or to conceal illegal activities," she wrote. Chicago officials vowed to draft a new measure. "We will go back and correct it and then move forward," said Mayor Richard Daley...
...Chicago officials, along with the League of Cities and 31 states that sided with them in court, might do well to look at one state where anti-gang loitering prosecutions have withstood constitutional challenges: California. The state has two antiloitering statutes on the books, aimed at people intending to commit specific crimes--prostitution and drug dealing. In addition, a number of local prosecutors are waging war against gangs by an innovative use of the public-nuisance laws...
...have problems with HMOs gotten? Bad enough for doctors, at least, to start thinking about the unthinkable: forming a union. The idea of taking a cue from blue-collar-labor history is one of the hottest topics at this week?s convention of the American Medical Association in Chicago. Many doctors around the country are growing increasingly frustrated at the restrictions that HMO money-vetting procedures have imposed on the exercise of their medical judgment. And a growing number of them want to do something about...