One 17-year-old’s reason for cosmetic surgery, as relayed to us by the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery: “For years, all I saw in the mirror was this nose looking back at me.”
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Reporters should avoid covering scientific controversies the way they would Chicago politics, says Mike Moore, editor of the Quill and of Health Risks and the Press, which is reviewed in Info (July 1990), the newsletter of the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness (formerly the Atomic Industrial Forum). “Reporters in Chicago build journalistic careers on looking for the grease, the underlying clout, the fix that presumably lies beneath the mysterious deals that characterize everyday political life in Chicago…. [But] when scientists disagree sharply over the meaning of the same or similar evidence, those disagreements may have nothing to do with whether Scientist A is a consultant to Company B or that Scientist C has been funded by a grant from Foundation D….While there may be a little of the Chicago alderman in all of us [speak for yourself, fella!], perhaps that is less true of scientists than of many other classes. In science reporting, the journalistic aphorism ought to be, ‘Follow the paradigm, and you’ll find the story.’” Especially if the paradigm is money.
Has this guy taken the Lake Street el lately? According to the Chicago Industrial Bulletin (July/August 1990), “The future of the American economy isn’t going to be decided on Wall Street, but right here on the west side of Chicago…”
5,999,800 to go. According to the Illinois Department on Aging, “Only 200 of the nation’s 6 million employers offer any assistance with eldercare, with 100 of those simply providing long term care insurance.”
