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By Marisa Sloan Medill Reports Over 60 years ago, the revolutionary “nonstick” Teflon pan was first unveiled. American households would be forever changed by the
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By Dan Moberger Medill Reports At 5:30 p.m. on a muggy Tuesday in mid-July, parents dropped off their teenage daughters at Fleet Fields, a parking
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