Word: chicago
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Which leads to an obvious question: Are Boston's demographics such that it can support a major FM-urban station? Many of the cities which have two competing urban stations, like Chicago, New York, Washington and Baltimore, are largely minority, while Boston, to say the least, is predominantly white...
Still, some researchers make a case for elementary school homework. Carol Huntsinger, an education professor at the College of Lake County, near Chicago, compared the academic performance of local Chinese-American children with that of European-American kids. In the early grades, the Chinese-American students outperformed their white counterparts in math and mastery of vocabulary words. After examining a host of other factors, Huntsinger concluded that homework made the critical difference. In first grade the Chinese-American children were doing more than 20 min. of math homework a night, some of it formally assigned by their parents, while their...
...good week to be in Chicago: 23 inches of snow and Jenny Jones wasn't doing any makeovers. The best thing the city had going was the free Gatorade at Harry Caray's restaurant and some of that was probably the nasty blue flavor. Not much consolation for losing the best basketball player ever...
...that wasn't all Chicago was losing, as it will begin to realize this week. Though Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf and general manager Jerry Krause knew that Michael Jordan and head coach Phil Jackson were unlikely to return, they had held out hope. And they couldn't stem the player exodus that would follow Jordan's retirement. Suddenly, with the season starting on Feb. 2, the Bulls had only four signed players. If they didn't do something fast, it was going to be really easy for opponents to double team Toni Kukoc, now their premiere player. Here...
Detroit22 19 3 47 130 118 14-7-1 8-12-2 7-3-1 St. Louis 16 15 9 41 107 100 11-5-3 5-10-6 7-3-1 Nashville 16 24 4 36 102 1 40 12-9-3 4-15-1 2-7-1 Chicago...