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Imrem: It helps if Illini's Underwood has urban edgeMar 19, 2017 5:01 pm - The thing to watch for Monday during new Illinois basketball coach Brad Underwood's introductory news conference is whether he has an urban edge. Underwood is a promisin...
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Why you shouldn't clock out for a colleagueMar 19, 2017 7:10 am - Q: Our timekeeping system is online, and we are required to clock out for breaks, lunch and at the end of the day. Sometimes we bend the rules and take a short lunch in ...
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Cushy parental leave policies don't tell America's storyMar 19, 2017 7:00 am - Many companies have been noisily publicizing their cushy parental leave policies in recent years, telling the world they're bestowing workers with an increasingly genero...
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Should home inspectors disclose asbestos?Mar 19, 2017 6:00 am - Q. We have an asbestos problem that involves our home inspector. Before we bought our home, we explained to our inspector that we planned to remodel the interior. Now th...
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Couples may be better off to keep exes in the pastMar 19, 2017 6:00 am - Q. The new man in my life has a friendship with an old lover from years ago. I went out with them and clearly saw she still has a thing for him and her husband is jealou...
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Retreat at Mar-a-Lago: Passing the baton to ChinaMar 19, 2017 1:00 am - By Fareed Zakaria We do not yet have the official agenda for next month's meeting at Mar-a-Lago between Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. But after 75 years...
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Tragedy put 10-year-old in the news; why it matters nowMar 18, 2017 2:00 pm - Rigo Gonzalez went through two major traumas as a child. In August 1994, a neighborhood kid, 14, and his brother took their parents' van for a joy ride, and crashed into...
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Eating anti-inflammatory foods may reduce symptoms of rheumatoid arthritisMar 18, 2017 7:30 am - The famous Greek physician Hippocrates is believed to have said “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” This suggests that both the treatment of and proba...
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Actors first, singers second: The best examples before 'Beauty and the Beast'Mar 18, 2017 7:15 am - “Harry Potter” co-star Emma Watson is known for incanting spells, not intoning songs, but she's tackling the lead role of Belle in this weekend's remake of Disney's “Bea...
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When is a government regulation excessive?Mar 18, 2017 6:00 am - President Trump believes federal regulations are excessive. He has directed task forces to be set up at each federal agency to supervise and monitor the process of findi...