All Stories from July 21, 2013 (Change date)
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On the road: Lumberjacks ready to competeJul 21, 2013 6:00 am - Chicago Cutting edge fest If you've yet to explore the hip neighborhood of Wicker Park, consider doing so during Wicker Park Fest, featuring some of the best in current ...
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Spencer in Oscar hunt again with ‘Fruitvale’Jul 21, 2013 6:00 am - CANNES, France — Octavia Spencer almost passed on one of the most acclaimed movies of the year so far — “Fruitvale Station.” The film, released in select theaters last w...
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Girl groups are making a comebackJul 21, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — I'll tell you what you want, what you really, really want: Girl groups. Even if you don't want them — they're back on the scene. A new batch of pop tarts are ...
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Durbin introducing bill to encourage gun tracingJul 21, 2013 6:00 am - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is introducing legislation to encourage law enforcement to report guns recovered from violent crimes to a national database so they may be traced. ...
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Hikers put in their bid to do Arizona’s WaveJul 21, 2013 6:00 am - VERMILION CLIFFS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. — Small wooden balls click rapidly in a whirling bingo basket, as 78 hikers wait to see if their numbers will roll out to win o...
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MSI showcases artifacts from throughout its historyJul 21, 2013 6:00 am - The Museum of Science and Industry turned 80 this year, and it's celebrating by sifting through its collection of 35,000 artifacts for the 80 items that best represents ...
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Local architect competes on HGTV's 'Brother Vs. Brother'Jul 21, 2013 6:00 am - At different points in his life, Oliver Aguilar was a goat farmer in the Philippines, a struggling artist in Naperville, an acclaimed photographer and a suburban home de...
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Parenting the less-than-perfect childJul 21, 2013 5:55 am - Parenting any child, even the perfect child, the “please and thank you,” honor student, doesn’t-need-every-new-Apple-product child, is the hardest job in the world. (Ple...
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Notable deaths last weekJul 21, 2013 5:18 am - Nadezhda Popova, a Soviet aviator who became one of the most celebrated of the so-called “Night Witches,” female military pilots who terrorized the Nazi enemy with their...
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Scrapbooks give peek inside Hemingway’s early lifeJul 21, 2013 5:01 am - BOSTON — Long before Ernest Hemingway first wrote a story, his mother was busy writing about him. Grace Hall Hemingway started a series of scrapbooks documenting the chi...