Christmas was looking very iffy for 7-year-old Ben Ryles and the other children of Park Ridge. You see, the city couldn't afford to pay someone to wrap holiday lights around the downtown trees -- and Ben feared Santa Claus would race across the night sky, failing to notice his town.• Eugenia Last horoscopes for November 6
• Georgia Nicols horoscopes for November 6
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High-risk groups first -- that's the message the White House is reinforcing regarding the swine-flu vaccine.
• HIV therapy halts brain disease
• Lining up votes for health care
• Teen's death linked to H1N1 virus
• 1970s baby bottles have mom worried
• Hospice dog kept working in old age
• Obese, pregnant and now worried about weight gain
• No more young visitors at Rush
• Fewer employers help fund workers' health-care plans
• Salon gives women from shelters, with cancer day of beauty
• Half of all kids on food stamps at some point
• Not too late: Weight loss works in middle age
• Burris: No compromise on health care having public option
• More H1N1 vaccine on way
• H1N1 virus kills 19 more kids: CDC
• Widely used anemia drugs Aranesp, Epogen, Procrit may raise stroke risk
• Research: Playing music is instrumental to brain health
• Obama lifts HIV ban on U.S. entry
"Hey, Mario," I asked the waiter as he went by. "Does anybody actually finish one of these things?" Mario Velez shook his head as he passed the 9-inch skillet weighing down my table, brimming with several pounds of steaming victuals. "Some people come close," he said with a grin. Velez makes his bones at Johnny's Kitchen & Tap, one of those places where no one goes away hungry. • Photos: Johnny's Chicken al Forno
• Lidia Bastianich an expert in Italian way — keeping it simple
• Filling a carbonara craving
• Hometown talent has hook on fall cookbooks
• Lighten up before holidays with seasonal salads
• Eater's Digest: November happenings
• Pomegranate pretty to look at — and packs a nutritional punch
• Versatile dip works with any veggies
• Outta the Box
• Tastings Around Town
• End of the line for two fine-dining establishments
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When it comes to weirdness, don’t mess with Texas. In a new list of the country’s wackiest attractions, the Looney Star State lays claim to four of the 10 oddities. “When you take a trip, these might not be the first places that come to mind,” said TripAdvisor spokesperson Brooke Ferencsik. “But they’re really unique and fun things for travelers to see.”• Photos: Top Ten of weirdness
• What's beyond 'gigantic'? Ship for 6,300 passengers
With pressure mounting from inside and outside the Church hierarchy, an order of nuns has rebuked a Chicago-area member for volunteering at an abortion clinic, telling her that such actions are "in violation of her profession."
• Internet believers: Pastors open online churches
