Jeff Lyon

It's been a wild year for Calgene, the California-based firm responsible for the first genetically altered tomato, topic of a Feb. 20, 1994, article. Unanticipated production problems (the tomato crops...

Resolutions passed at last summer's 74th Representative Assembly of the National Education Association: On "eliminating sexual orientation stereotyping" in the classroom, delegates urged: "a) Accurate portrayal of the roles and...

It started two Halloweens ago, when Nancy and Chris Ledvina's friend, Marianne Schaefer, had a pair of 3-foot-tall lawn signs custom-made for them: a smiling jack o'lantern on a stick...

This bubbly press release from Wisk Detergent: "Whether it's red wine dribbling on a blouse while on a date, or an ink spot on a white shirt before entering a...

TV's most unlikely sex symbol finally puts his behind on the line Dennis Franz celebrated his 50th birthday by showing America his bare behind. As Det. Andy Sipowicz on ABC's...

Two years ago director John McNaughton and his partner, Steve Jones, seemed on the verge of a career breakthrough. After impressing a number of critics in the late '80s with...

Is the Kevorkian project dead?" Dr. Harold Klawans, asked rhetorically. "Not yet. Unlike most things with Jack, the project is never dead! Klawans, the Chicago neurologist and author, saw his...

Cult figures are rare in the insurance game, but if you watch late-night TV, you know one. He's Rodney D. Young, king of high-risk auto insurance. Each night, sandwiched between...

Dan Swartzman still shudders when he talks about the recent morning his office telephone rang at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "I picked it up," he says, "and was...

DNA evidence looms big in the O.J. Simpson case, but did you know history's first conviction based solely on then-controversial fingerprint evidence occurred in Chicago on Feb. 1, 1911? That...