He won’t tell you. Of 333 sexually active bisexual men interviewed by UIC researchers recently, 54 percent said that none of their female partners knew they went both ways. And the figure remained the same for those in steady relationships with women: “54 percent believed their female partners were not aware of their homosexual activity. Of women who were aware, 44 percent found out after first having sex with the men.”
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Racism at work. “What appears to be going on is that both blacks and whites who clearly meet [home mortgage] lending criteria are approved,” writes Federal Reserve System board of governors member Lawrence B. Lindsey in Stone Soup (Winter). “Those who clearly do not meet the criteria are rejected. What is left is a sizable middle group, a majority of applicants of both races, all of whom could be rejected for a valid reason; however, with some level of effort, many of these applicants can [be], and often are, approved.
“It is a happy note that there is a record low number of vehicle accidents in our area, but the side effect of that happy event is the reduction in potential organ donors,” says Regional Organ Bank of Illinois president and CEO Jarold Anderson. ROBI procured a total of 647 organs during 1992, but in that same time its waiting list grew from 1,062 to 1,359 people, most of them awaiting kidneys.