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Afternoon Shift Book Club: All Our Names
Welcome to the Afternoon Shift Book Club. Here’s how it works: each month, we pick one book that’s our selection of the month. They’re books about Chicago, our region or by authors who are from here....
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Afternoon Shift: Balancing college curriculum amid a changing economy
Proposed curriculum changes at Notre Dame highlight important issues for undergraduate learningThe University of Notre Dame recently floated the idea of dropping requirements to take theology and...
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Afternoon Shift Book Club: ‘All Our Names’
Afternoon Shift Book Club: 'All Our Names'Love, war and loneliness are three of the threads that run throughout our Afternoon Shift Book Club selection for May. We always pick books that involve...
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Week in Review: Dennis Hastert indicted, Chicago still most corrupt, Bears...
Week in Review: Dennis Hastert indicted, Chicago still most corrupt, Bears dismiss Ray McDonaldWe recap the week’s news including the developing scandal surrounding former Speaker of the House, Dennis...
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Afternoon Shift: Suntans, skincare and ‘colorism’
Cultural attitudes on sun exposure and skincareJune marks the arrival of sun tanning season and despite years of skin cancer warnings, many of us still can’t get enough of the sun’s browning rays. But...
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Afternoon Shift: Black and Latino relations at City Hall and beyond
Chicago's Black and Latino CaucusesTwo thirds of Chicago’s population are black or Latino, we talk to two aldermen who represent the Black and Latino Caucuses in City Council. Alderman Roderick Sawyer...
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Afternoon Shift Book Club: Balm
Welcome to the Afternoon Shift Book Club. Here’s how it works: each month, we pick one book that’s our selection of the month. They’re books about Chicago, our region or by authors who are from here....
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Afternoon Shift: Training doctors in nutrition, the human cost of fashion,...
What do doctors know about nutrition?When it comes to premature death and disability, what we eat is the number one risk factor. That’s according to a 2013 study in the Journal of the American Medical...
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Afternoon Shift: What's in a word?
'That Should be a Word' offers 250 new terms for the modern lexiconLast week, Merriam-Webster added more than 1,700 new words to its unabridged dictionary, including gems such as “clickbait” and...
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Afternoon Shift: What makes Chicago great?
What makes Chicago great? Due to recent programming changes, June 5 is the final Afternoon Shift. We take this hour to celebrate the show and the city we love: Chicago. What we’ve always tried to do...
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