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Founded by Baptists in 1890, along with oil baron John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago occupies 211 acres in the Hyde Park neighborhood south of downtown Chicago. It has 4,400 undergraduates and 9,000 graduate, professional and other students. Its athletic teams are called the Maroons. Although the university was founded by Baptists, it was nondenominational from the start and enrolled women and minorities at a time when many universities did not. The College, for undergraduates, has five divisions: Biological Sciences Collegiate Division; Humanities Collegiate Division; New Collegiate Division; Physical Sciences Collegiate Division; and Social Sciences Collegiate Division. Its six professional s...
Founded by Baptists in 1890, along with oil baron John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago occupies 211 acres in the Hyde Park neighborhood south of downtown Chicago. It has 4,400 undergraduates and 9,000 graduate, professional and other students. Its athletic teams are called the Maroons. Although the university was founded by Baptists, it was nondenominational from the start and enrolled women and minorities at a time when many universities did not. The College, for undergraduates, has five divisions: Biological Sciences Collegiate Division; Humanities Collegiate Division; New Collegiate Division; Physical Sciences Collegiate Division; and Social Sciences Collegiate Division. Its six professional schools are: Divinity School; Graduate School of Business; Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; Law School; Pritzker School of Medicine; and School of Social Service Administration. The four graduate divisions are: Division of the Biological Sciences; Division of the Humanities; Division of the Physical Sciences; and Division of the Social Sciences. Also connected with the university are the Adler Planetarium, the Argonne National Laboratory; the Chapin Hall Center for Children; the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Field Museum; the Toyota Technological Institute; the Yerkes Observatory; and the Oriental Institute. More than 70 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as faculty members, students or researchers.
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Short commute has more women working in Milwaukee
Milwaukee ranks second in the country in the percentage of married women in the labor force, and it's because of the area's short commute times, according to a new study. The study by the University of Chicago placed Minneapolis at the top of the list...Tags: New York, Commuting, Colleges and Universities, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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GM to cut jobs, brands after facing depressed US sales
The Associated PressGeneral Motors Corp. may get rid of some brands, speed the introduction of small cars from other markets and make further white-collar job cuts as it tries to deal with a shrinking U.S. auto market. A person familiar with the company's discussions said...Tags: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Sales, Bankruptcy, John Murphy, Heavy Engineering
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A whole new world awaits next presidential progeny
The Associated PressYoung Tad Lincoln herded goats into a White House sitting room. Quentin Roosevelt rammed his wagon into a historic painting. John Kennedy Jr. had to be scooped out of a hiding place in his father's desk. Amy Carter famously brought a book to a state...Tags: Hillary Clinton, The White House, Chelsea Clinton, Mike Myers, Henry Kissinger
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GM may try to shed brands, but market is tough
AP Auto WriterGeneral Motors Corp. is reviewing its brands and may try to jettison some to raise money as it burns through cash at an alarming rate. But industry analysts say buyer interest in the brands most likely to be sold -- Buick, Hummer, Saab and Saturn --...Tags: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Petroleum Industry, Sales, Crossovers and SUVs, Heavy Engineering
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What kind of life awaits next presidential kids?
AP National WriterYoung Tad Lincoln herded goats into a White House sitting room. Quentin Roosevelt rammed his wagon into a historic painting. John Kennedy Jr. had to be scooped out of a hiding place in his father's desk. Amy Carter famously brought a book to a state...Tags: Hillary Clinton, The White House, Chelsea Clinton, Mike Myers, Henry Kissinger
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Fuel prices drive tough adjustments
Chicago Tribune correspondent++++++++++++++++++++ || || || ++++++++++++++++++++ You know times are tough when the governor of Michigan, the top executive in the state that put the nation on wheels and sold a generation of Americans on the virtues of gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs,...Tags: Utah, Petroleum Industry, Police, Iowa, Vehicles
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GM said to consider more cuts as market shrinks
AP Auto WriterGeneral Motors Corp. may get rid of some brands, speed the introduction of small cars from other markets and make further white-collar job cuts as it tries to deal with a shrinking U.S. auto market. A person familiar with the company's discussions...Tags: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Sales, Heavy Engineering, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment
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WEEKLY PLANNER
CONVENTIONS July 3-7 | American Institute of Floral Designers Collaboration. Expected atendance, 1,100. Hilton Chicago. www.aifd.org/2008symposium.htm. July 7-11 | The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Association of...Tags: Evanston, Government, National Government, Credit Ratings, Connecticut
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U.S. witnessed massacres
The associated pressThe American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining...Tags: Massacres, Police Investigations, Wars and Interventions, Police, Death and Dying
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A great gift to the world
Shame on you for running John McCarron's misinformed and misleading commentary on that late, great economist. As a self-described man of the left, McCarron has little appreciation or even understanding for what Milton Friedman accomplished. In McCarron'...Tags: Milton Friedman, Economic Policy, Money and Monetary Policy, Economy
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