Hearts were steady, kidneys were slightly higher, and livers and pancreases were both up strongly–according to the 1988 report of the Regional Organ Bank of Illinois at 800 S. Wells. The six Illinois transplant centers receiving most of the acquired organs report that all kinds of transplants were up last year–except kidneys, “since less kidneys were imported from out of state.”
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“Chicago [is] something of an anomaly among big American cities,” writes Merrill Goozner in Chicago Enterprise (February 1989). “Unlike Boston or New York, where blacks are true minorities, or Atlanta, Detroit and Washington, D.C., where they are true majorities, Chicago’s population is basically split”–roughly 40 percent white, 40 percent black, and 20 percent Hispanic and others. “Indeed, Chicago may be entering an era of frequent changeovers at City Hall, a time when swing constituencies–lakefront liberals and Hispanics–ensure that no one’s fundamental interests are trampled upon and that overt racial hostilities are muted.”
Well, which would you rather have? Robert B. Reich on the corporate takeover mania (New York Times Magazine, January 29): “The bankers and lawyers who helped RJR Nabisco move out of equities and into debt late last year earned about $1 billion for their efforts. This sum exceeded the total amount devoted by the United States in all of 1988 to the search for a cure for AIDS.”
