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03.22.2013
Handsome, ambitious, and dead at 39, Howard T. Ricketts tried to unravel the mystery of a Mexico City epidemic.
03.26.2013
When shopping for food was like visiting a natural history museum.
03.26.2013
The University turns a former seminary into a new home for economics.
03.11.2013
In an excerpt from his new book, I Speak of the City, Mauricio Tenorio Trillo chronicles the canine history of Mexico’s capital.
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12.12.2012
Many humanities graduates want to get published. This crew decided to become publishers.
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12.05.2012
More than 60 years after Studs Terkel’s television show was cancelled, Paul Durica “broadcasts” a new episode.
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11.30.2012
A former player traces UChicago’s oblong football history, from dominance to disappearance to happy coexistence with the school’s academic culture.
11.26.2012
An architect rips out a synagogue’s “profane” lawn and grows 8,500 pounds of food for the hungry.