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Stefano Esposito

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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Stefano Esposito

    2 beluga whales had 'chronic gastrointestinal disease' before death, Shedd reveals (opens the original)

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    Two of the four Shedd Aquarium beluga whales that have died in recent weeks suffered from a “chronic gastrointestinal disease” — a sickness that likely developed before they arrived here from a Canadian aquatic park, Shedd staff announced Friday. A third beluga, 34-year-old Beethoven, suffered from age-related health problems, Shedd said. Beethoven, unlike the other two, was part of the aquarium’s resident population. Shedd also said veterinarians have found no evidence of a “shared infectious d

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Stefano Esposito

    3rd beluga dies from shuttered Canadian aquatic park (opens the original)

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    A beluga whale at a Spanish aquarium died Friday, bringing to three the total number of belugas that have died since being shipped out of Marineland Canada this summer — including two at Shedd Aquarium. Jelly Bean died “suddenly and unexpectedly” Friday, Oceanografic Valencia said in a statement.“In recent days, Jelly Bean had experienced feeding difficulties, prompting the veterinary team to intensify her monitoring,” the Oceanografic statement reads. “During this period, she showed signs of im

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Stefano Esposito

    A trapeze artist views her life — and death — from an unexpected vantage point: the ground (opens the original)

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    Lying motionless inside a CAT machine scanning for signs of cancer, Shana Carroll’s brain began to fidget. “I’ve had so many procedures where you’re inside machines and you just feel like, what science fiction weird thing is going on here?” said Carroll, a writer, director and choreographer. What if, the former trapeze artist thought, a show could be fashioned, knitted together, from the moments in life when a person is lying flat and looking up at the world? And so, in the cold sterility of tha

  4. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Stefano Esposito

    After recent beluga deaths, Shedd Aquarium monitoring others for 'clinical concerns' (opens the original)

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    Days after two rescued beluga whales died at Shedd Aquarium, the institution said it is closely monitoring the remaining whales and expressed concern that others may have health concerns after examination. In a statement Friday, Shedd indicated that while many of the mammals are showing more “encouraging health signs than others,” several belugas have “presented clinical concerns and their health can change quickly.” “None are yet where we want them to be from a health standpoint,” the statement

  5. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Stefano Esposito

    Heir to a revolutionary past, playwright and author Zayd Ayers Dohrn charts his own path (opens the original)

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    In May 2024, when Northwestern University made a deal with pro-Palestinian student protesters to dismantle their encampment, Fox News headlined its story this way: “Northwestern professor, whose school gave in to anti-Israel agitators, is son of notorious terrorist radicals.” Even when Zayd Ayers Dohrn is secluded in his ivory tower along the shores of Lake Michigan and minding his own business, he can’t escape the taint of his parents’ revolutionary past. “I of course had nothing to do with tha

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