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Magnetic pulses might lift depression's 'cloud'

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00 CST

For 20 years, depression dogged Stan Dowery. "It always felt like there was a cloud over me," says Dowery, who lives in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood. "I never felt that I would get better."

Learn keys to online dating (like avoid the married guys)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00 CST

Your profile picture is perfection, your dreams for love and life written in clear and clever prose. But if you're spending more time looking at JDate.com than actually going on dates, maybe you could learn something from the new one-day class being offered Friday by Harper College in Palatine -- "Online Dating; Be Safe, Be Smart, Be Successful."

City boasts most 5 • restaurants

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00 CST

Chicago has more "Five Diamond"-rated restaurants than any other city -- seven -- in AAA's new ratings. They are: Alinea (for four years running); Arun's (eight years); Avenues, in The Peninsula hotel (four years); Charlie Trotter's (16 years); Everest (14 years); Seasons Restaurant, in the Four Seasons Hotel (10 years), and Tru (10 years).

Dreamy rocker, fans dare to dream of cure

BY ELIZABETH HAMEL — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00 CST

Groups of twentysomething women descended on the House of Blues on Thursday night eager to see the guy who made many of their hearts flutter when they were in their teens, former Bush front man and now solo artist Gavin Rossdale.

Magnetic pulses might lift depression's 'cloud'

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00 CST

For 20 years, depression dogged Stan Dowery. "It always felt like there was a cloud over me," says Dowery, who lives in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood. "I never felt that I would get better."

Fighting the flu while fighting the war in Afghanistan

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00 CST

KABUL -- Hundreds of Afghan and international troops already battling a rising militant insurgency are facing a new fight -- recovering from swine flu.

Dreamy rocker, fans dare to dream of cure

BY ELIZABETH HAMEL — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00 CST

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00 CST

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