Sorry, I won’t be able to come over the evening of December 31. I have other plans… Walgreen pharmacist Pauline Cheung advises consumers to “weed out your medicine cabinet once a year” to get rid of outdated drugs. “Because it’s an easy date to remember, I do mine every New Year’s Eve!”
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“In architecture, if you’re able to hold the same values and priorities as your male counterparts, the sky’s the limit,” says Diane Legge, formerly a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, according to Today’s Chicago Woman (November 1990). “As long as you put your work before your family, there’s no problem. As long as you’re willing to travel all the time and put your marriage on hold, there’s no problem. Obviously, there’s a problem.” And the problem is that male architects are too macho to admit it. “I tried to do what I felt was right, which meant that I went home early. I put family first and refused to do certain jobs that required extensive travel. I thought that perhaps by example, people would get the message. But I was the only one doing it. Yet I believe that in their hearts, the other partners would like to do it too, but they just can’t because everybody has to do what everybody else is doing. I did it differently because I was always different, but it would really help if one of the men did it. That would break the chain.”
You want a prescription for what? Our favorite session in the Milwaukee County Zoo’s recent 11th International Elephant Workshop: “The Pharmacokinetics of Ampicillin Administered Orally in Elephants.”
Class analysis from the American Cancer Society: “Former smokers tend to be white, more educated, male and have greater income. Only 13% of individuals living below the poverty level are former smokers, compared to 26% of those with higher incomes. Current smokers tend to have lower income and be less educated when compared to those who have never smoked.”
