There’ll always be a drug problem. The Chicago Dental Society reminds us in a recent news release of a study that found 40 people during the 1980s who suffered from a hard-to-diagnose cause of mouth problems: cinnamon abuse. “Nearly all the cases were people who were trying to quit smoking and were chewing large amounts of cinnamon gum or sucking on hard candy that contained cinnamon.”
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“Not having a workable procedure for unloading spent nuclear fuel is like taking off in an airplane without landing gear,” says Tanya Cabala of the Lake Michigan Federation in a recent press release. On the east side of the lake Consumers Power Company has loaded spent nuclear fuel into concrete casks near the lakeshore at its Palisades nuclear plant–despite the lack of a workable procedure for unloading the stuff. LMF wants the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hit the company with a $1.3 million fine.
125: number of city permits required to hold Taste of Lincoln Avenue, according to Marty Marks in the Lincoln Parker (Summer).
“You can’t go wrong if you buy a body-builder a shirt as a gift,” kinesiology student and personal trainer Kent Probst tells UIC News (August 23). “If it’s too big, they’ll be flattered. And if it’s too small, they’ll wear it.”
