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Skip the sweaty workouts: Scientists have found a way to make you run faster instantly

The method sped up sprints by 3 percent over a length of 65 feet

The Independent UK

Military honors bestowed on Illinois veteran identified nearly a decade after death

A veteran who died in Chicago without any recollection of their life has been memorialized in a funeral service with military honors

The Independent UK

Parthenope to Poker Face: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Gary Oldman stars in Paolo Sorrentino’s latest paean to Italy, and Natasha Lyonne is the sleuth with a nose for fibs in Rian Johnson’s mystery comedy

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New jazz fellowship honors the genre's elders and gives them each an unrestricted $100,000 grant

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Sometimes, vegan cheese tastes better

Plonts, a new plant-based cheese, is taking an irreverent approach to swaying consumers

Salon

Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow review – sax legend shows no sign of slowing down

The octogenarian joyfully whispers and warbles his way through sublime tone poems, impassioned tributes and traditional spirituals with an all-star band

The Guardian - UK

‘A person deserves a name,’ says sheriff’s commander who helped identify Chicago vet who died with no memory

This is the strange story of a person, now finally identified, who had two lives, no memories and turns out to have been a 75-year-old veteran missing since the 1970s.

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Louis Armstrong's dazzling archive has a new home — his

Across the street from the jazz icon's home in Queens, a site of pilgrimage for fans from around the world, sits the new Louis Armstrong Center, which brings his 60,000-item archive back to the block.

WEKU

How a Cook County sheriff’s detective apparently solved the nearly 100-year-old mystery of a missing Chicago girl

The detective’s work has convinced two families that Mary Agnes Moroney — kidnapped from her home in Chicago in 1930 — was raised as Jeanette Burchard and became a nurse in Florida. She died 20 years ago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Whatever happened to Mary Agnes Moroney? DNA tests appear to solve 1930s mystery of missing Chicago girl

A new investigation into the kidnapping led her family to conclude she grew up as Jeanette Burchard, became a nurse and had three children, and died in Florida 20 years ago. “She was loved very much,” her daughter said.

Chicago Sun-Times

A slavery-era instrument is on the National Mall, singing 'songs of liberation'

An old-fashioned steam calliope designed by luminaries in the worlds of art and jazz is on display at the National Sculpture Garden.

WEKU

Investigators accept insights, but there is 'no exact science' fighting gang violence

Sydney police tackling the recent tit-for-tat gangland wars are looking at the lessons their Victorian counterparts learned when bloody underworld feuds tragically spilled into the public domain.

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