Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sensible and most enjoyable piece on gender issues I've seen in a very long time [THE SEXES, March 8]. Barbara Ehrenreich, in her delightful way with words, punctures stereotypes right and left, revealing new subtleties in the ever fascinating dual sexuality of our common humanity. RICHARD L. BRUBAKER Chicago...
RECOVERING. LOUIS FARRAKHAN, 65, controversial leader of the Nation of Islam; from prostate-cancer treatment and the flu; in Chicago. He plans to take a four-month sabbatical from the organization...
...then workplace, Chrysler Motors. The self-effacing Midwesterner soon took to shooting city streets, clouds, pedestrians and, most memorably, his wife Eleanor. Influenced by Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz, Callahan infused his images with stark lines and contrasts. After teaching at the Bauhaus-inspired Institute of Design in Chicago, he ran the photography arm at the Rhode Island School of Design (see Appreciation, below...
Hubble majored in science as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. A tall, powerfully built young man, he excelled at basketball and boxing (fight promoters reportedly tried to talk him into turning pro), and his combination of academic and athletic prowess earned him a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. In England, Hubble kept up his muscular pursuits: he fought, ran track and played on one of the first baseball teams ever organized in the British Isles...
...four basic forces known in nature (gravity, electromagnetism and, operating within the nucleus of the atom, the strong force and Fermi's "weak force"). He also co-invented and designed the first man-made nuclear reactor, starting it up in a historic secret experiment at the University of Chicago on Dec. 2, 1942. In the famous code that an administrator used to report the success of the experiment by open phone to Washington, Fermi was "the Italian navigator" who had "landed in the new world...