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EDWARD LAUMANN, University of Chicago sociologist who led an international study that found relationships based on equality led to more sexual satisfaction for both genders...
...hours and hours on this work, and then send it to me?” Smuts’s artists must sign away all rights to their work; there is no financial compensation, and little recognition.Smuts recounts an anecdote relating to one set of tiles he received from a Chicago comic-book artist that seemed to get at the driving feeling behind participation in the project. The package containing the tiles was covered in comic panels (themselves pixels of a larger work), and the artist had included a copy of one of his self-published comic books. The title...
There is no indication outside the old brick building on Chicago's north side that would tell visitors that they've come upon the home of a devout religious order - merely a sign on a green awning that reads "Midtown Center." Yet this place is the center of activity for a dozen numeraries, between 40 and 50 supernumeraries and about 25 associates. Set on a residential block in a gentrifying neighborhood, the Opus Dei center is made up of a residential unit, offices and classrooms that are all adjacent to the huge church of St. Mary of the Angels...
...Opus Dei teachers) math, reading and science. The tutoring program was started by Opus Dei and is run by a nonprofit foundation and separate board. Its executive director, Glenn Wilkie, is an Opus Dei associate numerary. The tutoring program is a big part of the work associated with the Chicago center, and its success in boosting scores of students has been widely recognized in the city...
...Many of the fellows are highly educated and well trained. Associate numerary Gil Kaufman is a retired Ph.D. chemist. Calixto Maso is a pathologist. Peter Anglada is an MBA. Francisco Ruiz teaches engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology. Art Thelen is a structural engineer who supervised bridge building in Chicago. Glenn Wilke was an executive at Conagra for twenty years. "We all have an apostolic assignment," explains Anglada, "whether it be in a school, a parish or someplace else." So on a typical day, many of them are out of the center and away at their jobs...