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By Margaret Lyons in News on Mar 14, 2008 11:51PM

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We love you, old-timey baseball dudes. [Link]

Could CPS open a handful of boarding schools? Arne Duncan is thinking about it. [Trib]

NIU gunman Steven Kazmierczak's autopsy revealed that he had "less than .5 micrograms of nicotine, less than .025 micrograms of a residual antidepressant called Alprazolam (also known as Xanax), and traces of the cold medicines benzodiazepine and pseudophedrine" in his body. [S-T]

The new One Book, One Chicago pick is Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye. [Chicago Public Library]

America's Most Wanted paid an expert to enhance video surveillance footage from outside the Tinley Park Lane Bryant. The video shows two cars parked right outside the store, "the unusual spot where the cars parked...means the motorists were either likely involved in the killings, or are witnesses who have yet to come forward," according to the Sun-Times. [S-T]

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