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The post-pandemic workplace will hardly look like the one we left behindApr 25, 2020 6:18 am - "Sneeze guard" partitions. "Safe zones" demarcating spots to stand in elevators. Contact tracing apps to detect interactions between co-workers and infrared temperature ...
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Soothing experiences are necessary for your mental healthApr 25, 2020 6:00 am - We all need to be pampered once in a while, both women and men. Maybe there's a little different type of "spoiling" for men than women, but the bottom line is the same: ...
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Class Acts: Vernon Hills' Liu one sharp kidApr 25, 2020 1:00 am - In many ways, Josh Liu has been extraordinary in high school. The Vernon Hills senior has only once gotten a grade less than an A in four years of taking honors and AP c...
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Constable: Students write first draft of history in pandemic diariesApr 25, 2020 1:00 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com In addition to the usual facts and figures of the influenza outbreak of 1918, the students in Trinity High School's Internat...
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Baseball Way Back: DeBusschere's two-sport track anticipated Jordan'sApr 25, 2020 1:00 am - A basketball Hall of Famer, he was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history on the league's 50th anniversary. He and Phil Jackson were associated with a team ...
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Grammar Moses: When all you have is leftoversApr 25, 2020 1:00 am - If you're like me, you've actually found the end of Netflix. And you're blazing through "The Office" at a clip of six episodes a night, thoroughly enjoying all of them w...
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Facts Matter: Scam text warns of possible COVID-19 infectionApr 25, 2020 1:00 am - Some people have received scam text messages warning they have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 The fake text, most likely an attempt by...
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COVID-19-related unemployment ranges from 5.1% to 6.9% in Chicago, suburbsApr 25, 2020 1:00 am - Heidi Vienup went to bed March 19 with a job. By the next day, the Hoffman Estates retail worker was navigating the state's unemployment website. "It was so sudden," she...
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Hub Arkush: Grading the Bears' draft picksApr 25, 2020 1:00 am - I really do love the annual NFL Draft, and if TV and radio ratings, web traffic, and social media views are any indication, tens of millions of people agree with me. Thi...
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Aurora event to inspire young Latinas goes globalApr 25, 2020 1:00 am - With public gatherings banned, an Aurora event aimed at inspiring young Latinas earlier this month went virtual — drawing its largest audience in four years. Aurora's an...