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Sounds can penetrate deep sleep and enhance associated memories upon waking, new research finds.

They were in a deep sleep, yet sounds, such as a teakettle whistle and a cat's meow, somehow penetrated their slumber.

Through Dec. 6, look to Northwestern University's Evanston campus for a selection of the finest in Chinese traditional and contemporary fine art and performance artists.

The elderly are more vulnerable to problems after a major surgical procedure than younger patients, but a team of investigators using data from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program suggest that one way to improve surgical results in this age group is to have hospitals expand their quality control guidelines ...

A scene in the 1987 movie "The Untouchables" shows Sean Connery as a Chicago beat cop instructing federal agent Kevin Costner on how to play tough in the Windy City.

What's in a name? Many of you might be following the debacle at Northwestern University, where prosecutors issued subpoenas to professor David Protess asking to see his students' grades, his class syllabus and their private e-mails, according to an article on KMOV-St. Louis' Web site.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Courts - "Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers" Updating this ILB entry from Oct.

Food enthusiasts brought their curiosity -- and some beefs about the cattle industry -- to the recent Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance conference on "Beef, From Plains to the Plate." The three-day conference offered a demonstration of cutting up primal beef cuts, a tour of Maxwell Street Market, a trip through the Culinary Curiosity exhibition at ...

Franco Wicks is the sort of ferociously funny, privately pained character that any rising Hollywood star would love to play - and on Broadway no less, in this fall's production of "Superior Donuts." Instead Franco is being played, to acclaim, by an actor who is virtually unknown in New York or Los Angeles, Jon Michael Hill.

Men, especially black men, are at a relatively high risk of sudden cardiac death over their lifetime compared to women, a new study finds.

Electronic devices can't work well unless all of the transistors, or switches, within them allow electrical current to flow easily when they are turned on.

Since 1992, Prof. David Protess at the Medill school at Northwestern University has worked with undergraduate journalism students to investigate cases in which prosecutors appear to have taken aim at the wrong people.

A defense attorney for a former SIUE student accused of attempting to make a terrorist threat is trying to convince a judge to toss out the charge on the basis that it violates his client's right of free speech.

As the country gets ready to welcome the first African American U.S. president, whose first official visit here starts Sunday, the Chinese are confronting their attitudes toward race, including some deeply held prejudices about black people.

Every family has one genealogy buff. Pam Stone Eagleson is that family member. The difference between most heritage-seekers and this longtime Kennebunk resident is that Eagleson has literally made a career out of the practice.

One of the ways I keep Grits a manageable project is by remaining geographically limited, so I haven't followed in more than a cursory fashion the efforts by Illinois prosecutors to legally harass Northwestern University students working with that university's innocence clinic.

Photo: Northwestern University professor David Protess with students in Evanston, Ill., Oct.

People Submitted by Evan Piche, Urban League of Greater Hartford, on 2009-11-13.   Nancy Taylor Walter Harrison of West Hartford is a scholar of American Literature and Culture, and serves as the President of the University of Hartford, in West Hartford, CT.

The NCAA Honors Committee has named journalist Roxana Saberi and Captain Richard Phillips as recipients of the 2010 NCAA Award of Valor.

Words written on a piece of paper but never communicated to anyone don't amount to a crime, attorneys for a former student at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville argued at a hearing Thursday.