Body of man found in lake near Adler Planetarium
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
The body of an unknown man was pulled from Lake Michigan on Saturday afternoon.
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Body Of Man Pulled From Lake Michigan
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
The body of a man was found near in Lake Michigan near the Adler Planetarium Saturday afternoon.
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Chicago Sinfonietta Plays 'Overture to the Theater Set' of Ulysses Simpson Kay Aug. 22
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
[Ulysses Kay: Works for Chamber Orchestra; Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra; Kevin Scott, Conductor; Troy 961 (2007)] The Planets at Millennium Park Friday, August 22, 2008 7:30 p.m. Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park The Adler Planetarium and Chicago Sinfonietta present an encore presentation of Gustav Holst's The Planets on Chicago's most spectacular outdoor stage. Adler astronomer Dr. Jose...
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Starry-eyed Obama delivers taxpayer $$ for Adler
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
The Next Right gave IR a heads up on a self-serving earmark U.S. Senator Obama delivered to the Adler Planetarium when Adler's board of directors wished upon the Democratic rising star with campaign donations and hit the jackpot. Great catch,...
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Chicago Sinfonietta: Ulysses Kay's “Overture to the Theater Set”, Millennium Park August 22
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
[ Ulysses Kay : Works for Chamber Orchestra; Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra; Kevin Scott, Conductor; Troy 961 (2007)] ChicagoSinfonietta.org: Friday, August 22, 2008, 7:30 pm Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park Due to popular demand, the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Adler Planetarium present an encore performance of our legendary sight and sound spectacular on Chicago’s most spectacular stage....
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Astronauts Answer Questions in a Educational Event
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Part seven of seven: Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu answer questions in a live educational event with students participating from the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Ill.
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Waterparks and Giant Fiberglass Animals - Rochester, Minnesota, United States
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
The Lim Family Circus is on the road.
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Speaking of Peeps, Have You Heard About AstroPeep?
Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
tags: peeponaut , astropeep , marshmallow peeps , science , space travel , astronomy , Adler Planetarium Astropeep strength training program, part of the selection process for identifying those marshmallow peeps who had "the right fluff". These special peeps would be recruited as peeponauts who would be sent into space on a weather balloon. Image: Adler Planetarium [ larger view ]. Like most scientists,...
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2 days in Chicago - Chicago, Illinois, United States
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Here we go... Our Cross-Continent Trip: Sunnyvale - Toronto
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From Training to Blastoff: A Peep Space Odyssey
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
By William Hageman, Chicago Tribune Jul. 6--The Adler Planetarium's recent launch of a Marshmallow Peep into space is a twist on experiments that the 10-person Adler crew has been conducting for a while.
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Peeps In Spaaaaace!!
Blogula Rasa (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Chicago’s Adler Planetarium has a “Far Horizons” educational program that sends up experiments to the edges of space via weather balloon. They recently began a rigorous Peep Space Program, recruited various shades of prospective peeponauts from the Marshmallow-American community, and after putting them through a series of training and endurance tests, launched one lucky yellow [...]
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A Peep with the right fluff
linkfilter.net - fresh links (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Link # submitted by on Jul 4, 2008 12:24pm. (+150XP)Using a weather balloon, a team from the Adler Planetarium's Astronomy Department sent a Peep up from Koerner Aviation in Kankakee, Ill. The helium-filled balloon and our yellow, marshmallowy hero soared nearly 19 miles high before returning to Earth near New Carlisle, Ind., some 85 miles down range. "On any mission we like to use a video camera to...
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Kirk, Biggert Announce Energy Plan
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Two suburban Republican lawmakers have been keeping an eye on the gas crisis. As CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports, they believe America should spend billions of tax dollars to develop new sources of energy and end our addiction to foreign oil.
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Riekher Clears Up History of Planetarium's Old Scopes
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
By William Mullen When the world's ranking historian of telescopes, Rolf Riekher, visited Chicago last month, he also came to help assess the Adler Planetarium's historic telescopes, the biggest and best collection anywhere outside of Europe.
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Chicago, day 3
Fedora Planet (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
A drive to the Metra station and a half hour ride to Chicago started the day once more. We then decided to walk around for no particular reason for about an hour, then wait for the free trolley system to start up at ten o’clock. First stop was the Adler Planetarium , where we saw a whole bunch of things that I pretty much already knew, as I was also trying to be able to deal with large groups of children...
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