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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Flashback 1994: Cultural Differences Hamper Health Care

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Station Hospital, by  Robert Smullyan Sloan (Metropolitan Museum)           "Medical stories are always interesting," I told ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Quaker Oats quietly touches up its iconic oatmeal man

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Out with the old, left, in with the new and slightly different.       Maybe because we’re both gents from Ohio who ended up working in ...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Something new under the sun: Hoplark HopTea

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    For a guy who doesn't drink, I spend a lot of time in bars. Which raises the question, What do  you drink in a bar if you don'...
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Monday, September 9, 2019

Turning away from wonder to gaze at matters Trumpian

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     The word “placebo” is not only from Latin, it is Latin, an unaltered Latin word meaning “I will please,” the first person singular fut...
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Sunday, September 8, 2019

Lighted balloons

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    Did you have a good summer? Now that we're hurtling into September, hard to believe it's almost gone. For me, spine surgery c...
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Saturday, September 7, 2019

This might not be the outrage Patti expected, but it’ll have to do

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      Friday was the rare day I had two columns in the paper, the second being a quick hit ordered up in response to Patti Blagojevich sha...
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Friday, September 6, 2019

Ping Tom Park part of a growing Chinatown

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Artist Anna Murphy finishing mural at Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown.         Nobody calls the near West Side of Chicago “Jew To...
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