Burt Constable
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More items found, but still no clues to Buffalo Grove teen's whereaboutsOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - BARABOO, WIS. _ Searchers on Wednesday found the favorite yarmulke of missing Stevenson High School senior Lee S. Cutler, but no clues as to what happened to the 18-year...
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Proposed cuts in energy help could have chilling effectOct 22, 2007 11:00 pm - President Bush's veto of that SCHIP children's health insurance bill has critics complaining that poor kids are going to be left in the cold. That charge takes on a lite...
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High school kids helping needy from suburbs to DarfurOct 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Already among the best and the brightest in a highly competitive suburban school, a small group of kids at William Fremd High School in Palatine has it all figured out. ...
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What's the value of kids missing school for McDonald's, Fox?Oct 17, 2007 11:00 pm - While it might be in their nature to be upbeat, the John Hersey High School cheerleaders appear to be genuinely "lovin' it" Wednesday morning when they miss their first ...
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Readers keep the faith, and dish out some Cubs realityOct 15, 2007 11:00 pm - I had figured my "Cubs Sweep to the Pennant" column would fill this space today while I caught a flight back from Colorado. Instead I find myself in an odder place. "Bur...
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God, sleep, teen fantasies can fill schools' moment of silenceOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Adults suggest a new law that went into effect Friday mandating a brief period of silence in schools is all about religion. Some no doubt secretly hope, and others openl...
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Get-rich plan of glow-in-the-dark tattoos patently wrongOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Tired of reading stories about college dropouts who think up one stinking idea and then spend the rest of their lives burning through their billions of dollars, I decide...
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Oh, no, Cubsism runs in the familyOct 08, 2007 11:00 pm - On Columbus Day, when my kids stay home from school to celebrate the spirit of discovery, I discover I have a defective gene that I have passed on to a new generation of...
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Next year not hereOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - Summer refuses to leave, but Wrigley Field's boys of summer are just a memory. No sooner does anthem-singer Wayne Messmer remind the sweltering Wrigley Field hopeful tha...
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Revival of anthem gets fans through times like Game 2Oct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Thursday night's laboriously long, agonizingly frustrating Cubs' 8-4 playoff loss to the Diamondbacks in Arizona didn't end until the fat lady sang early Friday morning....