Towards the end of the year, namely around the beginning of fall, the Midwest turns into an agricultural madhouse as farmers race to harvest crops. Country roads turn into interstate highways for combines, grain trucks, and tractors with wagons in tow. Small farm towns become busy epicenters, especially if they have grain elevators that corn and soybeans are stored in.…
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You might not think that being in college is all that great. Classes get in the way of your social life, you're broke all the time, you can't sleep in as much as you would like and you seem to get busier every single week. The good news is that, besides getting a great education and making your family proud, there are many perks of being a student, as long as you hold that coveted student ID.…
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Halloween is right upon us, so do you know what you're doing yet? As always, Champaign-Urbana has a flood of events for this grand holiday, so it's not hard to find something to do. However, every year it seems that fun activities that are different the conventional Halloween party or haunted house slip past unnoticed.…
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Halloween is absolutely my favorite holiday. As far as I am concerned, there are no other holidays, none that bear mentioning, anyway. I love Halloween, and from April through October I devote most of my spare time to dreaming up costumes that I can spend the rest of my spare time making.…
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My husband is a primatologist, which means that he studies monkeys (humans and other apes are primates, too, though). This also means that he is something of a vertebrate biologist (people who study animals with spines-that's spinal columns, not the sharp, pointy things on a porcupine).…
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Thousands of men, staff and students, walk the halls of Parkland College every day. While many of them are involved in activities, there are a few that go above and beyond the average Joe. The Prospectus has found a couple of these guys, and have deemed them the guys to know!
Marcel Grant, student
Marcel Grant is a stylish sophomore working on deciding his major.…
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If you're old enough, you might remember when you or your parents had to use the ol' noggin and come up with a creative Halloween costume using the items they-gasp!-had on hand. (Duct tape, cardboard, markers and ... GO!) But Halloween has since become a very disposable holiday.…
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The human brain's 100 billion neurons may have such specific functions that a few electrically charge only upon recognition of a single celebrity, such as Oprah Winfrey or Bill Clinton. UCLA researchers, studying the healthy cells of pre-op epilepsy patients, inadvertently discovered this unusual property, which apparently varies with individuals but remains internally consistent, whether the celebrity is represented by picture, name or sound.…
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COLUMBIA, S.C.-These are busy days for Amanda Loveday,-a college admissions counselor at the University of South Carolina's Columbia campus.
The telephone in her small office rings constantly, and students and their parents show up with questions-lots of questions.…
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PHILADELPHIA-Meleanie Hain of Lebanon, Pa., used to tell the news media that she carried a Glock 26 pistol everywhere she went to protect herself and her children. Then last week she was shot to death by her husband in what police called a murder-suicide.
For years, researchers have been trying to investigate whether carrying a gun is protective or risky.…
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CHICAGO-She stood on the sidelines amid the blankets and camp chairs, a petite, brown-haired woman in a monogrammed polo shirt, cheering as her 7-year-old son sprinted down the soccer field.
At halftime, she stepped up with a water bottle and pep talk. And after the game ended in a 4-0 loss, she circulated among the pint-size players as the designated "team mom," passing out apple slices, pretzels and peanut butter crackers.…
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CHICAGO-After spending three years investigating the conviction of a Harvey, Ill., man accused of killing a security guard with a shotgun blast in 1978, journalism students at Northwestern University say they have uncovered new evidence that proves his innocence.…
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CHICAGO-"You're fired."
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich could hear those famous words from a man who shares his passion for hair when he appears as a contestant on next season's "Celebrity Apprentice."
The new season will air in March. The NBC show is the latest venture for Blagojevich, who has been on a media blitz to promote his book, "The Governor," which debuted last month.…
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