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In Nigeria, Polio Vaccine Workers Are Killed by Gunmen
Label: HealthAt least nine polio immunization workers were shot to death in northern Nigeria on Friday by gunmen who attacked two clinics, officials said. The killings, with eerie echoes of attacks that killed nine female polio workers in Pakistan in December, represented another serious setback for the global effort to eradicate polio. Most of the victims were women and were shot in the back of...
Rosenthal: Chevrolet restores style to Impala name
Label: Business Because a brand embedded in our subconsciousness can find a space in our garage, the Impala endures.About 16 million Chevys named for an African antelope have hit the road since 1958. And even though the one you recently returned to the airport rental lot bore little resemblance the one whose "giddy-up" the Beach Boys sang of a half-century ago,...
Feb
08
Blizzard slams Northeast
Label: World A blizzard slammed into the northeastern United States on Friday, snarling traffic, disrupting thousands of flights and prompting five governors to declare states of...
Well: Think Like a Doctor: A Confused and Terrified Patient
Label: HealthThe Challenge: Can you solve the mystery of a middle-aged man recovering from a serious illness who suddenly becomes frightened and confused?Every month the Diagnosis column of The New York Times Magazine asks Well readers to sift through a difficult case and solve a diagnostic riddle. Below you will find a summary of a case involving a 55-year-old man well on his way to recovering from a series of...
S&C relay at center of Super Bowl outage
Label: Business An electrical relay device supplied by Rogers Park's S&C Electric Co. was found to be at the center of the Super Bowl power...
Feb
07
Snow to hit evening commute
Label: World A winter storm warning has been issued for Lake and McHenry counties, with heavy wet snow falling at the rate of one to two...
Well: The 'Monday Morning' Medical Screaming Match
Label: HealthI did not think I would ever see another “morbidity and mortality” conference in which senior doctors publicly attacked their younger colleagues for making medical errors. These types of heated meetings were commonplace when I was a medical student but have largely been abandoned.Yet here they were again on “Monday Mornings,” a new medical drama on the TNT network, based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta,...
EveryBlock shuts down
Label: Business Hyper local news and social media site EveryBlock.com has shut down, the company said Thursday."Though EveryBlock has been able...
Feb
06
Cops: Salon bandit was paying for cocaine habit
Label: WorldJason Logsdon, 41, of Evanston has been charge with 11 counts of armed robbery.
The man accused of holding up hair salons in...
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