Word: chicago
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...University of Chicago professor who was researching the bubonic plague died two and a half weeks ago, most likely from the plague...
...Chicago and President Obama compete for the Olympics. Cleveland - yes, Cleveland! - just won the Gay Games. Citing the city's world-class athletic facilities, hotels and public transportation, the Gay Games Federation announced that Cleveland will host the games in 2014. An abundance of enthusiasm, some Midwestern pluck and a boisterous night on Lake Erie didn't hurt. "It was obvious that these guys worked very hard on this for over a year," says Darl Schaaff, who led the site-selection committee for the federation. "The level of community support was just amazing...
...pictures of Chicago...
...care narrative is so firmly entrenched that it needs no introduction. You are sick; you visit the doctor; he diagnoses the illness; he prescribes the appropriate medication; you get better. Often this process, and not the actual treatment, cures us with its normality. This is why 55 percent of Chicago doctors have prescribed a placebo treatment to their patients...
...seat on the U.N. Security Council and more input from developing nations in setting global trade and economic policy. (He is also personally cheerleading in Copenhagen for the Brazilian bid for the 2016 Olympics, a move that may have helped convince Obama to head to Denmark himself to back Chicago's candidacy.) It's hard to keep a pristine non-interventionist tradition with ambitions like those - and increasingly, the hemisphere is telling Brazil that it's a tad disingenuous to insist that it can still have it both ways...