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...DIED. JOHN POPLE, 78, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing a computer program that helps scientists better predict chemical reactions; in Chicago. An Englishman, Pople taught himself calculus from a discarded textbook while in high school and became the first in his family to go to college. His program is still used in a wide variety of studies, ranging from the effects of pollutants on the ozone layer to the testing of drugs for the treatment of HIV. When he was knighted last year, the self-effacing Pople said that his achievements as a scientist...
...though, the group has confirmed chapters at only 10 schools, including New York University, Stanford University and the University of Chicago. And it has yet to determine a definite list of “high-risk” polling areas where volunteers will focus their efforts...
...mine's a small, oft-told tale of inside baseball, office politics, double standards. . . but you know what?? My case also represents a troubling template for the future.?We know about Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge and a Chicago DJ named "Mancow," raunch-shockmeisters all, awaiting FCC rulings. More insidious is a climate of fear so pervasive even public radio knitters are being axed.? While I won?t be sending KCRW any love letters soon, I understand their worries.? Now that the FCC has raised the fine per incident from $27,000 to $500,000, it?s one slip...
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...dancer. To such bands as the Honey Drippers and Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five, I'd try out new steps for the jitterbug, the sand and other dances. I'd also daydream about boys and clothes and moving away from home to, well, anywhere. Cleveland, maybe, or even Chicago. I didn't have a plan...