Things you could get a heart attack just thinking about. Professional ice cream taster John Harrison on his family ties to the industry: “My blood runs 16 percent butterfat.”
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“As a ’60s person, I’m drawn to those who burn fast and hot, who live life to the ultimate, who go against nature and all the rules,” says Camille Paglia in the San Francisco Examiner’s Image magazine (July 7), reflecting on AIDS and the sexual revolution. “Who has contributed more to life? The gay men who are dying, those who sought love and beauty? Or the type of careful soul who never risks anything and lives to be 80? I think gay men should be seen as romantics, who were correct in pushing themselves to the ultimate. They pursued love and beauty and they were slapped down.”
Your dimes and quarters in this basket will help kill trees and pave over wetlands. “Because tollroads are not funded by federal tax dollars they are not subject to environmental review or federal safeguards against damage to parklands, endangered species habitat, or wetlands. The Illinois Toll Highway Authority has unlimited power to condemn land, including public parks and nature preserves, for new tollroads,” reports the McHenry County Defenders’ Environmental News (June-July). The organization has a special interest in this issue since one proposed new tollway is aimed at Volo Bog State Natural Area and the local conservation district’s Glacial Park. “Attempts by environmental groups to make the Toll Highway Authority comply with environmental safeguards and standards have been killed in the General Assembly.”
Pieces of glass (2,148) and cigarette filters (779) were the most common items of debris picked up by 77 volunteers on three-quarters of a mile of Montrose Avenue Beach last September. This fall the Great Lakes Beach Sweep (708-597-2988) is calling for volunteers to pick up and document lakeside litter on September 21.
