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Books: New releases
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $27.95) Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, S.C., Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where she encounters an injured man in Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Book, Amazon.com Inc., Dining and Drinking
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Military roundup
After 33 years in the Army, Ann Dunwoody ascended Friday to a peak never before reached by a woman in the U.S. military: four-star general. At an emotional promotion ceremony in Washington, Dunwoody looked back on her years in uniform and said it was a...Tags: Vehicles, Family, World War II, Crete, Defense
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Lyric Opera finally makes trip to Catfish Row
Tribune criticListen to George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and you hear America singing. So, what took Lyric Opera of Chicago so long to get around to this classic? Since its premiere in New York in 1935, this dramatically powerful slice of African-American life in...Tags: Theater, William Mason, Minority Groups, Classical Music, McCormick Place
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10 for the road
Best U.S. cities to visit San Francisco Charleston, S.C. New York City Santa Fe, N.M. Chicago Carmel, Calif. Honolulu Savannah, Ga. San Diego Sedona, Ariz. Source: Conde Nast Travel Readers Choice Awards 2008Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), San Francisco
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'Time is money' | Shipping agents help keep cargo coming
The checklist to get a container ship into Hampton Roads is exhaustive. All ships are required to check in with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard. They need to be scheduled with port terminals, pilots, tug boats and...Tags: New York, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Hampton Roads
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Genius in our midst
Three Marylanders - an astrophysicist who discovered "dark energy," a critical care physician whose innovative checklists are preventing hospital infections and a novelist writing about love and horror during the Nigerian civil war - are among the 25...Tags: Applied Science, Books and Magazines, Illnesses, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Astronomy
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Other MacArthur grant winners
Baltimore Sun reporterMaryland winners Adam Riess, 38, Towson. Astrophysicist, professor of physics and astronomy, Johns Hopkins University; astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute. Co-discoverer of "dark energy" and the accelerating expansion of the universe B.S.,...Tags: Applied Science, Illnesses, Astronomy, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Medical Staff
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Farmer, lighting designer: Geniuses
Chicago Tribune reporterWill Allen is an urban farmer in Milwaukee who wants communities around the world to have ready access to high-quality, affordable food. Jennifer Tipton is a stage lighting designer in New York with glowing credentials from a long and still active...Tags: Applied Science, Theater, Chicago Humanities Festival, Classical Music, Illnesses
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The top 10 cities in the world to visit
The top cities in the world according to Conde Nast Traveler's 20th annual Readers' Choice Awards survey: 1. Sydney 2. San Francisco 3. Florence, Italy 4. Cape Town, South Africa 5. Rome 6. Bangkok 7. New York City 8. Buenos Aires 9. (tie)...Tags: New York
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10 FOR THE ROAD
AMERICA'S FAVORITE CITIES FOR... *Museums/galleries: Washington *Athletic/active people: Denver *Attractive people: Miami *Friendly people: Charleston, S.C. *Stylish people: New York City *Farmers' markets: Seattle *Access to outdoors: Portland,...Tags: New York
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A message amid mourning
STAFF CORRESPONDENTAt a politically tinged funeral service that ran from noon until sundown, a crowd that joined presidents with paupers, elderly activists, thankful youths and others bade both a mournful and a joyous good-bye to the first lady of the civil rights movement,...Tags: Family, Maya Angelou, Diseases, Ku Klux Klan, Government
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Cruise Ship Returns After Wave Damage
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK -- When a "Boom!" on a cruise ship awoke him, the first thing that crossed passenger Robert Clark's mind was "the Titanic." In a panic, he and his wife and 7-year-old daughter ran to a reception area and found passengers from flooded cabins,...Tags: Maryland, New York, Tour Operations Industry, Cruises, Tourism and Leisure
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