“It’s a common assumption that people are not convinced about the importance of vaccinations,” says Dr. Cai Glushak of the University of Chicago Hospitals Pediatric Immunization Program, quoted in the Joyce Foundation’s October report “Testing Strategies to Raise Immunization Rates.” “But we didn’t find that” in CHA’s Robert Taylor Homes. “Instead, we found that parents are confused about the complexity of the schedule or don’t know that kids are lacking specific immunizations.” (More than a third of kids whose parents thought they were fully immunized weren’t.) In addition, the report notes that finding parents to explain immunizations to was not easy: “For one month, for example, the outreach team had to stop contacting residents because of a gang war (workers are now wearing bulletproof vests). It is unsafe to visit families during the evening. Also, the hallways of Robert Taylor Homes are outdoors, and the program had to suspend operations for a week during a severe cold spell.”
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Law students: Drop out now unless you’re perfect, advises Ron Coleman in Student Lawyer (October): “If you can’t produce a perfect cover letter–zero typos, zero grammatical errors, zero stylistic groaners–forget it. Because your cover letter is the single most important document you will ever draft. If it’s not perfect, you’ve documented that you don’t know how to do it right and that you lack the judgment to find someone who does know how.” And don’t get him started on resumes: “I’ve been amazed at what I’ve seen….Whom do you think you’re fooling when you say ‘upper 43 percent of class’? Do you think we deduce from that that you’re number three? If you’re number 86 out of 200, that’s ‘upper half.’ When you write ‘upper 43 percent,’ besides showing the recipient that you think he’ s stupid, you’re showing him or her that you don’t know the proper way to advocate–to present an idea in its best possible credible light.”
What, then? Quoted from Anglican Digest in Martin Marty’s Context (October 1): “It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly interested in religion.”
List of sins available to repent in an on-line confessional described in the Chicago-based Christian Century (October 11): murder, adultery, sloth, lust, avarice, deception, gluttony, pride, anger, covetousness, and misplaced priorities.
