Who will walk my iguana? According to recent publicity, Near North pet-sitter Bonnie Marty “offers pet-sitting services for all animals with the exception of reptiles.”
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We regret to inform you that this position has already been filled. From a recent publicity letter by Blue Dolphin Publishing: “Master of Love and Mercy is the life story of Dharma Master Cheng Yen, a Buddhist nun who has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and has been awarded the Eisenhower Medallion for her contributions to world peace. Called the ‘Mother Teresa of Asia,’ she presides over a small Buddhist temple in Taiwan.”
Increased costs = increased benefits. UIC economist Frank Chaloupka and Harvard’s Henry Wechsler have found that a 10 percent hike in the price of cigarettes would reduce the number of college-student smokers by 6 to 7 percent. “According to our estimates,” says Chaloupka in a university press release, “a 75-cent hike in taxes per pack in 1993 would have reduced the number of smokers between the ages of 18 and 24 by more than 1.8 million. That, in turn, would have reduced the number of premature deaths in that age cohort by at least 450,000 individuals over time.”
“Liberalism’s authority in foreign policy has never recovered” from the Vietnam disaster, writes Deborah Shapley in the Hyde Park-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (July/August). “Had McNamara expressed his regrets between 1968 and 1971, when the liberal international tradition of Kennedy and Johnson still had some standing, his tally of errors over Vietnam might have delinked the debacle from the liberal foreign policy agenda.” She doubts that he could have stopped the war itself, but “he could have salvaged more of his own credibility and some of liberalism’s authority.” Maybe–or maybe cold war liberals then would rather have died than acknowledge lethal error.
