All Stories from April 20, 2013 (Change date)
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Add breast milk jewelry to childhood keepsakesApr 21, 2013 8:30 am - NEW YORK — Strands from baby’s first haircut. The first tooth. Tiny footprints sunk into clay. Some parents even tuck away the dried stump of the umbilical cord or the s...
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A handblown glass item from ItalyApr 21, 2013 8:30 am - Q. I have attached photographs of a handblown glass item that — to me — looks like an ostrich. It was found in my mother’s attic, but I have no idea where or when she ob...
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Ford Roadster taken on remarkable road tripApr 21, 2013 8:22 am - Building and fabricating play important roles in the custom-car hobby, but it’s hard to beat the smiles that arise when owners use their machines to travel somewhere new...
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DVD previews: ‘The Impossible,’ ‘Gangster Squad’Apr 22, 2013 8:16 am - Coming April 23 “The Impossible” (PG-13, 114 minutes, Summit/Lionsgate): The catastrophic nature of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean that opens this fact-based drama...
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Assumed guilt led to dismissal of chargesApr 20, 2013 5:00 am - The three Schaumburg police officers who are accused of wrongdoing have not been convicted in a court of law. Therefore, the 19 people who were arrested by them had case...
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An HVAC upgrade makes sense if you plan to stay in homeApr 21, 2013 8:30 am - Q. Late last summer, our air conditioner was not doing a good job of cooling, but we decided to save through the winter and have a new air conditioner installed this spr...
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Let’s question U.S. purchases of armsApr 20, 2013 5:00 am - Why is the U.S. government buying up 1.6 billion bullets for Homeland Security? Many of these are hollow-point bullets. This will create a shortage of bullets for the Am...
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New mayor should focus on rebuildingApr 20, 2013 5:00 am - It is my opinion that the mayor of Mundelein should be more concerned with rebuilding Mundelein though small business and not corporations. After all, part of Mundelein...
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Anonymity has no place in public dialogueApr 20, 2013 5:00 am - Three days before the April 9 election I received through email a flier from “Civility and Transparency in Government.” It was nothing but mudslinging against a candidat...
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Cats aren’t alone preying on birdsApr 20, 2013 5:00 am - Froma Harrop, thanks for the interesting column, “Cats and dingoes: a birds-eye view.” There is just one thing you forgot to mention: hawks. I have at least one dead bir...