Headlines we were afraid to read beyond: “Toothbrush manufacturers bristle with activity” (Chicago Dental Society news release, August 16).
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“There’s no such thing as a parent,” one stay-at-home dad tells the Chicago-based Claretian Publications newsletter Bringing Religion Home (August/
Cost-effectiveness is where you find it. “One story in particular illustrates [the late University of Chicago physics Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan] Chandrasekhar’s devotion to his science and his students,” according to a U. of C. memorial note. “In the 1940s, while he was based at the University’s Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis., he drove more than 100 miles round-trip each week to teach a class of just two registered students. Any concern about the cost effectiveness of such a commitment was erased in 1957, when the entire class–T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang–won the Nobel Prize in physics.”
Not as dirty a story. “Of the 23.1 million acres of cropland in Illinois, 76.7 percent were at…tolerable soil loss levels in 1995,” according to a recent Illinois Department of Agriculture soil-erosion survey. This amount represents a 2.7 percent increase over 1994 survey results.
