Subject: University of Chicago

• Dispatch from Chicago

  January 12, 2007

• Plastic corpses don't make you smarter

  This year Union Station's Bodies Revealed exhibit was the focal point of a controversy involving bloggers, religious officials, reporters and any shrill voice that could find its way to an online comments section. Now, four months too late for most of Kansas City to pay attention, a reasoned symposium on plastinated corpses -- with respected experts from impressive schools -- came together at the downtown library on Friday.After so many months of arguments, the changing official story about whet

  December 8, 2008

• Merriam-based Lee Jeans is a proud maker of “mom jeans”

  December 4, 2008

• Renaissance Man

  November 3, 2005

• Springtime for Hitler

  What, you’d expect visiting Nazis to have dinner at a barbecue joint?

  May 12, 2005

• Drunk on Optimism

  Missouri says tourism is a $7 billion industry. Yeah, and Gladstone is the new Venice.

  November 18, 2004

• Bosom Buddies

  While Ahmad Chalabi fights for his political life, his Iraq-invasion co-conspirator is breezing to re-election.

  October 28, 2004

• Church Mice

  East 24th Street is lousy with churches and crime. But just try to get a minister to care.

  October 14, 2004

• Bog Log

  January 22, 2004

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  May 1, 2003

• The Long Walk Home

  Twenty-five years ago this week, the Kansas City school district started making a $2 billion mistake-and blacks are still paying.

  May 23, 2002

• Promises of a really big show

  Following the yellow brick road can be a bummer; The longer it gets, the harder it is to distinguish fantasy from reality.

  February 10, 2000

• What It Is

  June 25, 2009