Please don’t slam-dunk my eyeball. According to UIC’s Eye Facts (September/October 1990), basketball and baseball resulted in nearly one-third of the 31,000 sports-related eye injuries in the U.S. during 1988. It’s not clear, however, whether these two sports cause more eye injuries because they are actually more dangerous, or simply because more people play them more often.
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“In 25 years, if you look back at the Reagan administration and try to figure out what is the worst thing that it did–was it the near tripling of the national debt, the collapse of the savings and loan industry, huge deployment of resources in the star wars?–the answer may well be that it basically shut down all of the innovative things that were going on in energy policy, says Denis Hayes, interviewed by Vicki Quade in the Chicago-based Barrister (Fall 1990). Ten years ago, he says, “we had a good, diverse solar research program…. Now we have to start all that stuff from scratch.”
Are the cameramen getting better, or are the reporters getting worse? Anita Huslin in the Chicago Headline Club News (October 1990): “Channel 2 political editor Mike Flannery said experienced cameramen (or women) today can surpass reporters in their knowledge and understanding of an event or story. ‘Some of our mini-cam operators are sufficiently conversant with the ins and outs of politics and the local criminal justice system that they should really be pulled in front of the camera on occasion and interviewed as experts.’”
Who says there are no new ideas on foreign policy? Just ask the South Bend, Indiana, chapter of NOW, quoted in Around the Bend, October 1990: “Let us have all Congressmembers who support this military solution be called up to go to the Middle East.” We’ll be right behind you, Newt.
