Site develops as a global photo-sharing option
La Grange resident and technology consultant Art Hill recently received a letter from Korea. A book publisher wrote that it would like to include one of Hill's photographs of Paris...
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Tools speed mortgage loan process
If you're like most people who have shopped for a mortgage recently, you've probably found that the lowest rates listed in newspapers and on the Internet often come with higher...
Photo professional dumps film, embraces digital
It's all about digital for Northbrook commercial photographer Steven Benning. He turned his back on film about six years ago and hasn't looked back. Benning now does digitally what would...
Programmer keeps finding challenges
As a 5th grader, Bulgarian-born Nickolay Tchervenski began programming in BASIC. The following year he learned Pascal, and as an 8th grader, C became his programming language of choice. Recently,...
Online class reaches out to disabled via the Web
He remembers the moment vividly and with mixed emotions. Jack Wilde transferred to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb as a junior with dreams of becoming a musician. "I wanted to...
Students back GIs via e-mails, sweets
In his spare time, Dino Moran helps students help soldiers stationed overseas. Moran, a physical education teacher and freshman baseball coach at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, last semester spent...
Spreading word of peace aided by latest tools
Carolyn Danckaert, 27 Peacebuilding program director, American Friends Service Committee, Chicago The American Friends Service Committee was founded by Quakers in 1917 to aid civilian victims in Europe during World...
Record exec’s `rig’ a mix of old, new
Tony Brummel, 33 President, Victory Records Chicago Tony Brummel lives and breathes music. As head of one of the top independent record labels in the U.S., Chicago-based Victory Records Inc.,...
Trade group’s leader looks before she leaps
Lisa Walker, 43 President, International Imaging Industry Association Harrison, N.Y. Like most association executives, Lisa Walker flies a lot. She has accumulated more than 260,000 frequent-flier miles on American Airlines....
Teacher, pupil switch roles years later
Esther Hearne, 101 Palestine, Texas Timothy Triplett, 52 President, Coherent Technologies Inc., Palestine, Texas Timothy Triplett hadn't seen his 2nd-grade teacher in 45 years. Then in December, he ran into...