Bob Condor

He resisted the adjective for a few minutes because, oh, maybe it doesn't sound professional enough. Then David C. Sloane, a professor at the University of Southern California, simply and...

Some grocery stores in her south Los Angeles community are so "nasty dirty" that Lark Galloway-Gilliam walks out without buying a single item. Other markets sell yesterday's meat at today's...

At the private Ross School in East Hampton, N.Y., the students in 5th through 12th grades eat breakfast and lunch in the same "cafe" as teachers and staff. "It's multigenerational,"...

Life is falling into place for Sara Mednick. She recently earned a doctorate in psychology from Harvard University and landed a research position at the esteemed Salk Institute in La...

Every morning that she wakes up in her Victorian house in Philadelphia, Judy Wicks goes to her closet for the day's clothing. She can't help but read the sign she...

Common sense wins most arguments, especially if a guy like Lawrence Frank is working the case. Frank is an associate professor of urban planning at the University of British Columbia...

The threat of legal action by anti-obesity lawyers and activists clearly is emerging as a major health news story of 2003. But quietly and with barely a media ripple, another...

The announcement totaled a few sentences in many newspapers and didn't even make some local newscasts. The Tribune business section report by Delroy Alexander was admirably longer. Yet the impact...

As a younger sister, Beth Alt looked up to her brother Mike. "He had a wife and [two] kids," Alt said by phone last week. "He was taking care of...

In his playing days, Cubs radio broadcaster Ron Santo took any number of calculated risks during a game. He might have guessed a fastball was coming on the next pitch...