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...City” brought high-society glamour to cupcakes when the show featured them in 2000. Back in 2003, The New York Times wrote articles touting the “swelling trend in cupcakes.” And even my hometown of Chicago repeatedly boasts “cupcake crawls” of the city. But negative attention has also come to these confections. Cupcakes have even become a symbol for controversy over the past few years, embodying the “the cupcake problem” of too much sugar served in middle schools, according to one professor...
...League school, I know what [the athletes] are going through mentally and physically...I’m coming into a blessed situation by joining a pretty experienced staff.” Frazier has shown versatility to this point in his career, interning with the NBA’s Chicago Bulls prior to his two years with Iowa’s football staff. In a short stint training the Hawkeyes, the two-time All-Ivy selection left a notable impression. “[Frazier] is very progressive and very intelligent,” fellow Iowa football strength and conditioning coach Chris...
...stimulus package will include increased funding (it will also provide money for improving the energy efficiency of existing homes). In Miami, the nonprofit Carrfour Supportive Housing is building the 145-unit Verde Gardens Apartment building; the project will use green modular wall systems and aim for LEED certification. In Chicago, the Resurrection Homes project offers affordable green housing, and the soon to be completed Victory Centre will include green apartments for low-income seniors. And nationwide, the nonprofit Enterprise Communities Partners has helped create or preserve more than 320 inexpensive green housing developments, from Portland to Jacksonville. The building momentum...
...best thing and the worst thing about Springfield is the same: the location. Middle of Illinois, which is not far from the middle of nowhere. The Illinois capital is about 100 miles from St. Louis, 200 miles from Chicago or Indianapolis. You can fly there, but probably not on a plane with much overhead bin space. More likely you will arrive at the end of a long car ride, having enjoyed wide vistas of flat prairies...
...populations adapt to their surroundings, they can gradually evolve into new species. "We now have, I think, a good understanding of how new species arise - that is, how biological diversity is created," says Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago and the author of the new book Why Evolution Is True. "Darwin made little inroad into the problem, despite the title of his magnum opus...