Farming just isn’t what it used to be. Last month McCorkle School at 4421 S. State hosted Illinois Farm Bureau consultant Tom Miller and his dog Sparky. “This Week…in the Chicago Public Schools” (March 23) promoted the presentation, noting that Sparky would show “how animals sniff illegal substances in baggage at airports as Miller discusses various illegal substances and why they are prohibited with fourth- and fifth-grade students”–all this “as part of the ‘Agriculture in the Classroom’ program
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The Daley News. “The Sun-Times was vague about his qualifications,” complained the 48th Ward Progressive Network News (March 1989) shortly before the mayoral election. “The Tribune was definite. They said last year in ‘Chicago on Hold,’ that they want an autocrat to run the city and, especially, the City Council. The last Daley was such an autocrat; they hope this Daley will be. Then they call that autocracy ‘reform.’”
Percentage of copies of the 21,728-page second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary expected to be sold in Japan, according to the New Yorker (April 3): 30.
