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CORAL SPRINGS: 9-11 memorial service set
The city will commemorate the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 with a memorial service and presentation by the Coral Springs Honor Guard. The program will begin at 6 p.m. Sept. 11 at Northwest Regional Library, 3151 N. University Drive. The city's police...Tags: Coral Springs
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Talk On Old Cemeteries
Stanley-Whitman Museum director Lisa Johnson is to speak next week about transforming the city's old cemeteries into living museums, while preserving and repairing the monuments for future generations. The program, sponsored by the cemetery commission,...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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Politics gone wild
It looked as if D.L. Hughley was positioning himself for a political seat somewhere, appearing on high-profile TV shows spouting about the current election, and showing some political savvy. Never mind. He riled so many viewers with his blunt and...Tags: Paramount, Bernie Mac, Television
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Katie Couric teams with rival anchors to 'Stand Up to Cancer'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- Katie Couric marks her second anniversary at "CBS Evening News" today, but tonight the anchor will be focused on raising money for cancer research. Couric will be joined by her rival network anchors, ABC's Charles Gibson and NBC's Brian...Tags: Health Treatments, Diseases, Katie Couric, NBC, Medical Research
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Abu Ghraib to house museum of abuse
The Associated PressThe notorious Abu Ghraib prison will be reopened and a museum built on the grounds to document Saddam Hussein's crimes, but not the abuses committed by U.S. guards. The sprawling complex, which has not held prisoners since 2006, will be refurbished with...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Saddam Hussein, Guerrilla Activity, Prisons, Bombings
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Ice skater turned hairdresser
Special to the Chicago TribuneWhen Lois H. Littlejohn was a young girl in the early 1900s, she desperately wanted a bicycle, but her widowed mother was too poor to buy her one. Instead, her mother gave her a used pair of figure skates that Miss Littlejohn went on to use in several...Tags: Marshall Field, Personal Service, Speed Skating
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Director Michael Disher brings Sondheim to Southampton
steve.parks@newsday.comMichael Disher isn't one to rest on his laurels. The director lauded for his student-community productions at now-defunct Long Island University-Southampton launched a new theater company at Southampton Cultural Center last season. Disher inaugurates his...Tags: Stony Brook University, Music Theater, Broadway, Theater, Colleges and Universities
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Genome lights the way to cancer 'milestone'
Researchers cataloging the genetic codes of deadly human brain and pancreatic cancers say they have found several dozen defective genes that appear to work in concert to set off the tumor growth that eventually kills their victims. The team, at the Johns...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Diseases, Virginia, University of Maryland, Research
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Laura Ziskin lassoed the stars for 'Stand Up to Cancer'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs a movie producer, Laura Ziskin has wrestled with studio executives, stars and lawyers. As a late-stage breast cancer patient, the "Spider-Man" maker has faced a far more perilous foe, and now Ziskin intends to do to malignant cells what she has done to...Tags: Melissa Etheridge, Biotechnology, David Fincher, Charlize Theron, Movies
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Barbara Ann Saletnik, who supervised Des Plaines' library move to new site, dies at age 58
Special to the Chicago TribuneDuring an 18-year career with the Des Plaines Public Library, Barbara Ann Saletnik went from working part time at shelving books to a full-time job that included coordinating the move of 250,000 volumes when the library opened a new facility in 2000....Tags: Maine, Christianity, Des Plaines, Schools, Walt Disney World Resort
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Performance art teacher, devotee
Chicago Tribune reporterThomas A. Jaremba helped start a department to teach performance art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and staged his own wildly eclectic shows that mixed dance, dialogue, video and music. Mr. Jaremba, 70, died of heart failure on Sunday,...Tags: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Goodman Theatre, Arts, Academic Progress, Jean Cocteau
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Construction worker dies in 40-story fall in Manhattan
A construction worker fell about 40 stories to his death yesterday at a skyscraper being built by the developer of the World Trade Center, authorities said. The victim, identified as Anthony Esposito, a rigger on a crew dismantling a crane, fell...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Luis Guzman, Manhattan (New York City)
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