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Boy Named After Ballpark to Throw First Pitch
JamesJanegaThis kid's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Field -- Cubs fans, obvs -- named their kid "Wrigley Field," thus ensuring he will know how to fight.
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Escaped buffalo shot on interstate south of Chicago
Death seems like a stiff penalty for a traffic jam...
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Evict the Spammers from Your Inbox
zattara2http://digg.com/microsoft/Evict_the_Spammers_from_ ...
fed up...with spammers!!!
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High school teacher remembers Bernie Mac: A tall, skinny kid
Bernie Mac was the class cutup, a compulsive performer, to whom audience approval was more important than my lesson plans or his grades, writes David McGrath, Mac's freshman English teacher at Chicago Vocational High School.
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"Nonplussed" does NOT = unfazed (even if Obama said so)
In the realm of vocabulary blunders committed by those who should know better, nonplussed is nonpareil. Learn how not to sound foolish here!
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Geothermal power: A viable energy alternative
I didn't know you could get geothermal energy outside of, like, Iceland, but apparently this building does it in NYC.
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New numbers adding up to rare hope for rarer gorillas
This is a cool story -- overnight, the world's known population of western lowland gorillas doubled. Here's how they found 125,000 previously uncounted apes, and how stunned zookeepers are reacting.
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Lightning Strikes--PHOTOS
Meteorologists reported there were 800 lightning strikes a minute during the height of this storm, and 90,000 lightning strikes in a four-hour period -- a number representing SIX MONTH'S worth of lightning for northern Illinois, all in four hours.
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Awesome Lollapalooza 360Degree Views W/ Music- Updated Daily
360 Lollapalooza pictures, with sound. Updated daily. You can almost smell the trash cans! Check it out and pass it on!
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