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...Life expectancy calculators are] just a repackaged way of telling you what you already know, and that is, 'Eat less, don't smoke,'" says S. Jay Olshansky, a professor in the school of public health at University of Illinois at Chicago. "But what they're really meant to do is encourage people to lead healthier lifestyles, and that's a good thing...
...runs, have already been in the state, as has Obama. And that's just his challenge in Iowa. As the Washington Post reported this week, Vilsack isn't even guaranteed the support from people who have been close advisers in his earlier runs for office. One former top adviser, Chicago-based strategist David Axelrod, is likely to join Obama's team if he runs...
...ability to assess risk, so he figured himself the last person to fall into the same trap. But when his teenage daughter planned a long-distance swim last summer, Sunstein found himself dwelling on the remote possibility she would drown. "It's crazy," says Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor specializing in risk regulation. "But I couldn't counteract my brain's rapid, intuitive emotional system for evaluating risk...
...reauthorization next year, testing critics are quick to point to the extensive delays. "Nowhere have schools stopped functioning because of the missing test scores. But they also don't know if they've moved up or down the performance ladder," said education advocate Julie Woestehoff, executive director of the Chicago-based non-profit Parents United for Responsible Education. She hopes snafus like Illinois' may actually help in rethinking the law's parameters to include other forms of assessments in evaluating schools. "These testing errors show the need for multiple measures like student grades and performance portfolios which...
...retailers move into the black and start earning a profit, has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year in recent years. On Friday, Americans nation-wide doled out $8.96 billion on purchases—a six percent increase from the same day last year, according to Chicago-based consumer data collection firm ShopperTrak. Yet some view the consumption frenzy encouraged by Black Friday sales as problematic. Lama Surya Das, a Buddhist leader who heads the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, views after-Thanksgiving sales as a “surfeit of materialism,” and instead advocates...