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At age 80, retired Chicago physician and educator Dan Winship is getting a bittersweet last chance to teach about medicine - only this time he's the subject.

The odd-looking, four-story vessel made of recycled shipping containers departed from Treasure Island to comply with a Jan. 31 regulatory order concluding that Google Inc. didn't have the proper permits to build it there.

Pedestrians board a train at Union Station Friday March 7, 2014 in Los Angeles. Americans are boarding public buses, trains and subways in greater numbers than any time since the suburbs began to boom.

Have you ever wondered if a person can see themselves during a hospital operation or found themselves out of their body during a near death experience? Maybe you, a family member, a neighbor or a friend have done it.

Ruben Garcia, manager and owner of Garcia's souvenir shop, checks prices on clay dolls in his store in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014.

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In this Feb. 6, 2014, file photo, Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray joins the Congressional Black Caucus on the national day of prayer to remember the poor and homeless, at the Capitol in Washington.

Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson said Russia's strongarm tactics in its former satellite could make it harder for the eight nations on the Arctic Council to reach agreements at a time when the region faces a series of critical issues.

The conference was sponsored by WisDOT. WisDOT, WTBA and ACEC partnered to create ways to improve their working relationships and better understand all party's common goals.

What you'll see: On the north Peninsula, 17,800 vehicles on Interstate 280 pass by Junipero Serra County Park in a peak hour, 221,000 in a day, according to Caltrans.

Under an I-25 overpass, one block from a power plant and almost 1,000 miles from home, I catch a whiff of Wisconsin in Denver.

A visitor can feel as though they've left the U.S. altogether - and now they are the foreigner, a tourist in their own city.

At 92, Phyllis Gould, one of the nation's original Rosie the Riveter welders during WWII, has just a few things left on her bucket list.

Many US cities have quintessential sights and sounds: San Francisco's clanging cable cars, New Orleans and its raucous Mardi Gras, and Washington's political mudslinging.

Veronica Welch is the founder of Style Fashion Week, the city's premiere industry-only event.

Alexander Beggins met his future Wild Child bandmate, Kelsey Wilson, a couple of days before they were supposed to go on tour a few years ago as part of the backing band for a Danish musician, Bjarke Bendsten, otherwise known as Migrant.

Everything is cheaper in Hemet than San Francisco, including $4 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.

East Bay Assemblyman Rob Bonta last year took in a performance by a hip-hop dance crew called the Jabbawockeez at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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Mayors of some of America's biggest cities said Thursday that cities, not Washington, D.C., are driving the country's economic growth.