Dept. of limited options. From a Chicago commercial dating-service questionnaire: “My friends consider me to be: _ Very Attractive _ Somewhat Attractive _ Above Average _ Average _ Fairly Plain”
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Thank you, Ms. Social Worker; now leave us alone. “Jane Addams and her nutrition-conscious associates were appalled at the reliance on pasta in the diets of Italian families,” writes Richard Bjorklund in One City (May/June 1989). “To counter this, Hull House residents prepared a demonstration meal complete with elements from all basic food groups. They set up the banquet and invited Italian women to come and taste the goodness of a balanced diet. They came, they tasted, they scowled and returned to their tenements to cook more pasta for their families.”
Yes, that’s my universe. This from the University of Chicago: “A new theory of how galaxies formed suggests that they may be distributed in the universe like the frosty planes inside a fractured ice cube rather than at random.”
I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in. “Of those AIDS patients actually referred to nursing homes,” reports the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, “half are sent to Oak Forest Hospital–the only long-term care facility in the state with space reserved for people with AIDS–and Oak Forest reserves only four beds for this population.” That population is estimated at 100 in Chicago.
