Word: chicago
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...CHICAGO, Ill. – Its a buzz word, its hot right now—but, what does it really mean? What does public health actually look like? I was hoping to answer these questions as I arrived in Chicago, ready to work with children and families affected by HIV and AIDS on the north side of the city. I had imagined an environment somewhere in between a scene from ER (complete with someone convulsing on a stretcher), and a slow day in my elementary school nurse’s office, but what I got was quite different...
...head of the table. When he did break from his objective cadence, it was not trivial: there was his famous commentary on Vietnam and, later that year, his personal remarks from the anchor booth on the rough tactics of the security guards at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
...first daughter back in October 2003, physicians and fellow mommies alike gave Darcy Trzupek the same advice: If you need a breast pump, get the Medela. "I didn't want to mess around with something that was going to break," says Trzupek, 41, a stay-at-home mom from Chicago. Especially when a hungry, wailing baby is involved...
...neighbors thought so too. Over two months, Blocker-Stokes was repeatedly hospitalized for postpartum psychosis; prescribed a cocktail of antipsychotic, antianxiety and antidepressant drugs; and treated with electroconvulsive therapy. Despite her family's efforts to help, Blocker-Stokes leaped to her death from the 12th story of a Chicago hotel in 2001, when her daughter was 3½ months...
...after Brad Hawpe hit a homerun in the top of the sixth, the nearby fans started chanting “Thow it back! Throw it back!” to which another writer in the press box dismayed, “Come on numbnuts, this isn’t Chicago...