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Lane Tech at 100 + Lane's luminaries
For a century, the corridors of Lane Technical College Prep High School have framed a moving snapshot of Chicago, albeit for a long time there were few female faces in the picture. When the storied North Side school opened in 1908, the city's skyline...Tags: Engineering, High Schools, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, John Podesta, Home Depot Incorporated
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For Phelps, a new pool venture
Olympian Michael Phelps and his coach, Bob Bowman, hoping to replicate their athletic success in the world of business, will announce a partnership today aimed at transforming the Meadowbrook Aquatic Center in Mount Washington into a world-class...Tags: Advanced Training, Beijing Games, NBC, Multi-Sport Events, Katie Hoff
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Kobal Foundation celebrity photos capture eternal glamour
Special to The TimesFROM THE time he was a schoolboy, John Kobal was in love with Hollywood. He longed to become a part of it, and eventually he did -- by befriending faded movie stars and forgotten photographers, enchanting them with his sincerity and his hungry memory, and...Tags: Photography, John Gilbert, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Arts
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'A Few Seconds of Panic' by Stefan Fatsis
A Few Seconds of Panic
A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old
Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
Stefan Fatsis
Penguin: 340 pp., $25.95
George Plimpton, the longtime editor of the Paris Review, enjoyed a second literary career when he turned Walter Mitty-like...Tags: George Blanda, Multi-Sport Events, Wrestling, Jake Plummer, Oakland Raiders
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Portrait of devotion: For 58 years, they shared their lives
South Florida Sun-SentinelSidney Indeck remembers the last time he kissed Jetta. "She had her eyes half closed," he says. "I said: 'Jed. Give me a smile or a kiss.' I waited and waited and finally she puckered up her lips. The next morning she was dead." That was March 2005....Tags: Photography, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Massachusetts, Real Estate Agents, New York
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Hotel splash
RedEyeSometimes the most fabulous thing about a hotel is its pool. You won't find any infinity pools in Chicago—the kind that appear to spill elegantly into the ocean (or, in our case, the lake)—but several Chicago hotels have pools with killer views,...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Physical Fitness, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Macaulay Culkin
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10 great things at the Venetian Pool
South Florida Sun-SentinelSure, we're the hot spot for fancy-schmancy swimming pools. Pools with waterfalls and whirlpools. Pools with flower gardens and crazy shapes. But for a swimming hole like no other, don't miss the Venetian Pool in Coral Gables. It's not just a lot of...Tags: Donald Trump, Caves and Caverns, Landforms, Esther Williams, Building Material
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'Tarzan' May Swing Again
Zap2It.comHe's been an animated hit, a television flop and a Broadway swinger, but could Tarzan be catching a vine back to the big screen? Producer Jerry Weintraub and Warner Bros. are hoping to start a new franchise based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs creation....Tags: Christopher Lambert, Guillermo Del Toro, Television, Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Fast Chat with Billy Bob Thornton
One tends to forget, but before he was a movie star - and he is - Billy Bob Thornton was a writer. He put himself on the map with the original script for George Hickenlooper's short film "Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade," and won an Oscar for adapting...Tags: Paris Hilton, John Anderson, Carl Franklin, Milla Jovovich, George Hickenlooper
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Best Raw Bar
Southport Raw Bar 1536 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale, 954/525-2526, Southportrawbar.com Nothing beats eating shucked-to-order seafood in a waterfront establishment, let alone one that has the vibe of old Fort Lauderdale. Before two New Yorkers bought...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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Some Oldies But Goodies
"The Tarzan Collection, Vol. 2" (Warner, $40): After a successful decade at MGM, the "Tarzan" franchise moved to RKO in 1943. Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan, made the move to the new studio, as did Johnny Sheffield as his son Boy and their pet...Tags: Los Angeles, Bernadette Peters, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bob Hope, Walter Matthau
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A return to glory
Times Staff WriterJeffrey Chodorow, the New York restaurateur who locked horns with Rocco DiSpirito in the infamous reality series "The Restaurant," may be a hardheaded businessman, but he's also something of a romantic. Others have gazed upon the legendary 1923 Hollywood...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Errol Flynn, Rudolph Valentino, Clark Gable, Scarlett Johansson
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