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• Among royalty

  - 2008-07-29

  IN THE 1960s, famed community organizer Saul Alinksy, Arthur M. Brazier and the Woodlawn Organization took on the University of Chicago, the mayor's office, some church groups and even this magazine as they strove to improve life for people in the Woodlawn community near Hyde Park. This summer, the...

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• Illinois Technology Association Honors Fifty For The Future

  - 2008-05-19

  Program Recognizes Outstanding Illinois Students Preparing for Careers in Technology CHICAGO -- The Illinois Technology Association ITA is pleased to recognize the 2008 Fifty for the Future (F4F). Extending ITA's mission of building the technology community in Illinois, the F4F program identifies well rounded high potential students and...

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• Increasing Rate of Return on a Gift Challenge Does Little to Boost Giving.

  - 2007-12-15

  Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Dec. 15 AScribe Newswire -- A little encouragement makes a big difference in people's motivation to give to a charity, but upgrading the encouragement doesn't automatically boost giving, according to a University of Chicago study on the impact of...

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• The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual

  - 2007-11-01

  THE U.S. ARMY/MARINE CORPS COUNTERINSURGENCY FIELD MANUAL, forewords by General David H. Petraeus, Lieutenant General James F. Amos, and Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl, introduction by Sarah Sewall, The University of Chicago Press, IL, 2007, 473 pages, $15.00. Why should anyone pay for a copy of Field Manual FM...

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• A Good Life in a World Made Good: Albert Eustace Haydon, 1880-1975

  - 2007-03-01

  A Good Life in a World Made Good: Albert Eustace Haydon, 1880-1975 by Creighton Peden, Peter Lang Publishing, 312 pages, $78.95 IN THE COURSE of a long and fruitful career, Eustace Haydon was both a Baptist and a Unitarian minister, and the co-author, along with Roy Wood Sellars...

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• Leon Kass: when he chose his career, bioethics was a dead field. Today, it's at the heart of many of our society's most vexing controversies. And this physician-philosopher is the nation's leading voice on the subject.("Live" with TAE)(Interview

  - 2006-07-01

  Leon Kass is a medical doctor, biologist, ethicist, philosopher, and teacher. After decades as a professor at the University of Chicago, he accepted responsibility for chairing President Bush's Council on Bioethics, a position he held from 2001 until last year. Today he is the Hertog Fellow...

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• Mystics: Presence and Aporia

  - 2006-01-01

  Mystics: Presence and Aporia. Edited by Michael Kessler and Christian Sheppard. Religion and Postmodernism Series. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 254 pp. $49.00 cloth; $21.00 paper. This edited volume is the outgrowth of a 1999 conference, "Mystics," held at the University of Chicago Divinity School....

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• Sergio F. Martínez, Geografía de las prácticas científicas.(Reseña de libro)

  - 2005-11-01

  Sergio E Martínez, Geografía de las prácticas científicas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM, México, 2003, 206 pp. En una crítica de la teoría de las prácticas científicas planteada por Andrew Pickering, Stephen Turner (1999) señala que, en cualquier campo de estudio, sea en la...

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• Extensible Terascale Facility

  - 2005-11-01

  Aug. 22--The National Science Foundation has made a five-year, $150 million award to operate and enhance the Extensible Terascale Facility. Described as the world's largest, most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research, "TeraGrid" integrates high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental facilities around the United States. University...

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• Literary critic W. Booth, a Utah native, dies at 84

  - 2005-10-13

  CHICAGO -- Wayne Booth, a prominent literary critic and professor whose books are required reading at many universities, has died. He was 84. Booth died Sunday at his home in Chicago from complications of dementia, said Josh Schonwald, a spokesman for the University of Chicago, where Booth was...

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