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...days before Christmas, and Fred, having exiled himself from the North Pole, is now in Chicago working as a repo man, a sort of sub-prime-rate enforcer. He enrages the people whose holiday he's ruining and exasperates his meter-maid inamorata with big ideas never fulfilled, dinner dates blown off. Plying a Salvation Army scam, Fred lands in jail and is forced to call his brother Nick, a.k.a. Santa, to go his bail. That brings him to the North Pole, the prodigal son carrying a grudge as big as Santa's sack of gifts...
...work hard to get an education during the Depression and World War II. In fact, a number of childhood coincidences seemed to destine him for greatness. Not only was Watson a not-too-distant cousin of Orson Welles, he also played handball on a field at the University of Chicago that covered the lab where researchers were developing the atomic bomb. In Watson’s adult years, he made good on his early promise, using his education to rise to the top of the American science scene and win the Nobel Prize. The book is relatively fast-paced...
Arrested. SHIA LABEOUF, in Chicago on Nov. 4, for refusing to leave a Walgreens store after police thought he was drunk...
...cleaning house" at her all-girls academy in South Africa after one of the dorm matrons was charged with physically and sexually abusing students. "This is one of the most devastating, if not the most devastating, experience of my life," Oprah said in a video news conference beamed from Chicago to Johannesburg...
Green roofs are by no means limited to the city, but it's in cities that they're needed the most. Chicago already has more than 2.3 million sq. ft. (214,000 sq m) of rooftops planted, and more are on the way. Other rapidly greening U.S. cities include Washington; New York City; Phoenix; Kansas City, Mo.; and Portland...