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“FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS BY KIDS” AT WWW.SECRETSERVICE.GOV:

August 19, 2021 at 11:39 a.m.

What do I have to do to become a Secret Service agent? "...The applicant must have either a four-year college degree or a combination of education and criminal investigative experience,...

FIVE ESSENTIAL THINGS ABOUT: GRAVITY

August 21, 2021 at 3:33 a.m.

1) Newton foresaw rocketry 300 years ago. He said if you fired a cannonball with enough energy, it would escape Earth's gravity, orbit the planet and return to its starting...

5,486: Total weight in pounds of the…

August 20, 2021 at 11:25 p.m.

5,486: Total weight in pounds of the 1985 Super-bowl champ Chicago Bears starting team. 6,093: Total weight in pounds of the 2003 Chicago Bears starting team.* In football, both size...

ICONS: Peanut butter can Peter Pan really be 75?

August 20, 2021 at 10:54 p.m.

As comfort foods go, it gets no warm-and-fuzzier than peanut butter. You ate roughly 1,500 PB sandwiches as a kid. What's been called "the pate of childhood" is etched in...

In a few weeks yet another visionary…

August 20, 2021 at 11:36 p.m.

In a few weeks yet another visionary concept of the 1960s, commercial air travel at twice the speed of sound, will bite the dust. In its infancy, the Concorde offered...

Aftershock: What will this tragedy do to the American psyche?

January 30, 2019 at 11:54 a.m.

In the aftermath of Tuesday's catastrophe, when people confronted with unmitigated horror reached for something within their experience to compare it with, the event most often cited was Pearl Harbor....

5 who will survive in our memory

August 20, 2021 at 8:00 a.m.

Does the name Dirk Been mean anything to you? Probably not. How about Joel Klug? Doesn't ring a bell, does it? By now, 32 people of all shapes and sizes...

On Chicago’s Northwest Side, at the five-way…

August 20, 2021 at 8:55 a.m.

On Chicago's Northwest Side, at the five-way intersection of Austin, Lawrence and Mason, all roads lead to Kenny's Family Restaurant. Kenny's is a wedge-shaped, brick structure, a small slice of...

Two plays with elaborate titles opened this…

August 20, 2021 at 9:35 p.m.

Two plays with elaborate titles opened this month ("Dimly Perceived Threats to the System" at Stage Left, "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious" at the Neo-Futurists); turns out they're...

IF THE GONDOLA THING FLOATS, WHY NOT CAMEL RIDES?

August 20, 2021 at 9:29 p.m.

The most European of American cities have historically been thought of as San Francisco and New Orleans. But suddenly Chicago is vying for the title, under the guiding hand of...

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