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What is that in my soggy lawn, and can I eat it?Aug 22, 2007 11:00 pm - When it stops raining for a moment, I slosh into my backyard, just to look around and make sure none of my neighbors is building an ark. In the soggy turf at my feet --...
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Her favorite school outfit never made it to classAug 22, 2007 11:00 pm - When I was a little kid, I got three new dresses a year. I always had a lovely dress for Christmas and Easter, along with one for the first day of school. As part of the...
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Long-term care policy makes sense for someAug 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Q. I am 60 years old. My financial adviser is strongly urging me to buy long-term care insurance (before September, when Genworth is raising its rates). My mortgage is ...
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Woman's tale shows how close we are to pastAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - It would be interesting if every time we passed a McMansion in Arlington Heights, we were to consider that that home with its five bathrooms is only four degrees of sepa...
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Fantasy running backs: Take L.T. or go for comboAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Did everybody have a good summer? Hopefully so. But now it's time to get back to work. And by work, I don't mean your day job. No way. This work involves hitting the boo...
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Sugar Grove anniversary needs helpersAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - In just a few weeks, Sugar Grove residents are going to party like it's 1957, with bandstand dance contests, poodle skirts and life-sized cutouts of James Dean. It was o...
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E-mazing revelations from readersAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - E-xcerpts from a smattering of your e-mails of recent months: Rebecca J. McDade: One of the things I find so amazing about sports writers is their holier-than-thou attit...
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East Coast treats come to Cary at Boardwalk Bob'sAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Amy Wahl's favorite childhood memories were made in Ocean City, N.J. Every summer, parents Steve and Sylvia Mountsier took Wahl and her brother for a vacation to the fam...
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Freckles caused by excess skin pigmentation, sun exposureAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - "People always comment on my freckles! What are freckles? How do people get tan?" asked Nikki Zarytsky, 11, a sixth-grader at Fremont School in Mundelein. Babies don't h...
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New trends in grocery shopping are reducing coupon useAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - I frequently hear shoppers complain about the state of grocery coupons where they live. Common complaints include higher purchase requirements of coupons, lower values a...