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DIED. OSCAR BROWN JR., 78, jazz singer, songwriter and playwright who infused his work with the sociopolitical truths of black American life; of complications from a blood infection; in Chicago. Brown, an actor on TV shows like Brewster Place and Roc, recorded such albums as 1960's Sin & Soul ... and Then Some and produced the stage revue Opportunity, Please Knock, employing high-profile gang members in the cast. "I wanted to present a picture of black culture," he said, "to anyone who could hear...
...century earlier, Skocpol filed a grievance in 1981 against the University for gender discrimination after her tenure application was denied. Then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky and then-University President Derek C. Bok agreed to review her case, and after she spent four years at the University of Chicago, Harvard offered Skocpol tenure. She accepted the offer and has been at Harvard ever since...
...father of nine, all of them grown up on grits," says Kofi Moyo from his home on the South Side of Chicago, where he presides over his blended family's kitchen with diligence, passion and Southern-inflected love. "All of my kids are grits champions. Maybe that's because I approach grits as something different. Grits with cheese, tomato and pepper. Fish and grits. Lately I've begun working diligently on shrimp and grits. I've knocked a few people over with that one." Moyo, a gemologist by training and a brand builder by trade, belongs to the growing ranks...
...chows down. This year, the event's 16th, Moyo expects 1,000 male cooks to feed 30,000 mouths in 10 cities. Moyo also has a new cookbook, Real Men Cook: Rites, Rituals, and Recipes for Living (Fireside Press; 192 pages). He aims to help local charities, such as Chicago's Community Mental Health Council. In the past 15 years he has raised $800,000. But he also wants to make a point: cooking is not just women's work; it's a vital part of being a responsible man, taking care of business at home...
...Pygmy, according to its supporters?explodes that theory. "[It'd] go completely against the flow of human evolution," says Thorne. "This would undo everything that we are." Even if the island-dwarfing process did indeed shrink H. floresiensis, says Robert Martin, curator at the Field Museum in Chicago and author of a widely cited textbook on human evolution, the grapefruit size of the brain is too small. "Brains do not shrink proportionally to bodies in a species but remain relatively large," says Martin. "That's why the heads of small dogs, for example, are proportionally large for their bodies compared...