"Ants don't talk!" said Michael B. Johnson of the Moving Pictures Group at Pixar Animation Studios, referring to the ant creations that roamed the silver screen in the motion picture "A Bugs Life."
Johnson, a University of Illinois alumnus, returned to his alma mater last Tuesday as a part of the University's Designmatters3 lecture series.…
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It's that time of year again, where leaves are scattered about the ground, the heat of summer is all but a memory, and the crisp autumn air is saying one thing-winter is coming, the sunlight will be out for less than four hours a day, and we all will be miserable.…
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Being stranded at home with the flu is no fun. Being stranded at home with the flu and nothing to eat is even less fun. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services recommends keeping two weeks' worth of food and supplies on hand in case you are stricken with flu, too sick (and contagious) to go to the store, and don't have any friends brave enough to bring groceries to you.…
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At Parkland, there are seemingly countless numbers of teachers, each with classes full of students. But a select few faculty members seem to differentiate themselves from one another-students seek them out. One common trait that many successful Parkland professors share is their use of unconventional methods.…
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Beneath the luxury hotels on the Las Vegas Strip is a series of flood tunnels that are home to dozens of people who work odd jobs such as hustling leftover change in casino slot machines. A correspondent for London's The Sun gained the trust of a few and even photographed their "apartments" for a September dispatch, showing well-stocked quarters, with scrounged appliances and furniture and even one makeshift shower rigged from a water cooler.…
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CHICAGO-When Amar Bhatia was weighing his postsecondary options, he chose Indiana University over DePaul University because DePaul's downtown Chicago campus was just too close to Mom and Dad.
Now, as a sophomore, he's even closer-at Harper Community College, a five-minute drive from his Palatine, Ill.…
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CHICAGO-Derrion Albert was laid to rest Saturday after a three-hour funeral attended by the well known, those who knew him well, and others who just wanted to pay their respects.
In death, the 16-year-old became the latest high-profile name on the long list of young Chicagoans who die violently.…
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WASHINGTON-The International Olympic Committee's stinging first-round elimination of Chicago on Friday as the site of the 2016 Summer Games probably won't count much in how history judges Barack Obama's presidency.
However, in setting aside his weightier responsibilities and jetting off to Copenhagen to make a very personal case for his adopted hometown's bid-then losing the gamble-Obama suffered an embarrassing defeat, one watched around the world and celebrated by some of his critics.…
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WASHINGTON-Move over, Lucy. A 4-foot-tall female nicknamed Ardi, who lived 4.4 million years ago in Africa, has replaced you as the earliest best known ancestor of the human species.
Ardi's nearly complete skeleton is 1 million years older than Lucy's, pushing back the point when hominids-pre-human primates-are known to have split from the evolutionary line that led to chimpanzees and gorillas, an international team of scientists announced Thursday.…
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