Columns
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Grammar Moses: Writing this column through a veil of tearsJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - I wrote a few years ago about how, as a child, I misinterpreted song lyrics in amusing ways. I'd sing "Canada Dry" to the Buckinghams' "Kind of a Drag," because that's w...
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'We did that, that boot print,' says Rolling Meadows designer of Apollo 11 spacesuitsJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - This was no simple Sunday night dinner party. “We were immersed,” remembers Bob Davidson, a NASA engineer who helped design the spacesuits Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin...
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Rozner: Golf's new young guns flexing their muscle at John DeereJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - SILVIS, Ill. - The John Deere offers a classic opportunity, perhaps a week unlike any other on the PGA Tour schedule. Always the North American event the week before the...
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Timing put Hoffman Estates engineer on Apollo teamJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - A decade in the making, the Apollo 11 mission to land men on the moon in 1969 required precision timing. That all started in the early '60s with the central timing equip...
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Armstrong's best friend couldn't bear to watch moon landing: 'I knew it was a high-risk situation'Jul 13, 2019 1:00 am - Austin "Jim" Bailey Jr.'s best friend, the pilot he helped train, was about to use the equipment Bailey helped design to do something historic on live television. "You'v...
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Jackson Outdoors: A great way to spend an afternoonJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - I have been hammering the state tourism bureau for more than two decades about including our state's world-class fishing. It's readily available either on Lake Michigan ...
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Doc Brown, The Dude and more: Four special suburban film screeningsJul 12, 2019 8:10 am - If you're a moviegoer who's tired of summer superheroes, there are four special screenings in the coming week across the suburbs that might lure you away from the flat-s...
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Window films can reduce your cooling billsJul 12, 2019 7:00 am - Q. My single-pane windows are still good, but much heat comes in during summer and it's chilly near them during winter. Would installing one of the newer year-round or h...
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Would-be good Samaritan suing St. Charles, police officers over arrestJul 12, 2019 5:30 am - Is Todd Sutra a good Samaritan or criminal meddler? That's the question behind a federal lawsuit the St. Charles Township businessman filed this month against the city o...
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Donald showing big improvements, but Vegas holds lead at John DeereJul 12, 2019 1:01 am - SILVIS, IL. - Luke Donald is seven years removed from being the world's No. 1 golfer, but he's showing signs of regaining the form that made him that good, and that's sa...