Round and round we go. From the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery: “Lip reductions are the prominent procedures requested by Blacks, in contrast to the current demand for collagen injections by Caucasians who want a full-lipped look.”
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Big Sister is watching you. U.S. Representative and Senate candidate Lynn Martin says she respects freedom of the press, and she’s showing it (according to her own press release) by doing her best to suppress a magazine she believes “appear[s] to condone drug use” and “advertises drug paraphernalia.” (The latter is not illegal, but it soon will be if she has her way.) In her quest for a political fix, Martin says she has asked “an Illinois company which provides ‘High Times’ with circulation services to sever its ties with the publication and will ask individual news stands, convenience stores and other firms selling the magazine in Illinois to quit doing so.” What would Senator Martin’s attitude be toward publications–such as this one–that publish articles advocating legalization?
Chicago is the sixth city, at least when you ask engineers where they would most like to live. According to Illinois Economic Report (August 1989), the 2,600 engineers responding to a Design News poll liked, in order, San Diego, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, Phoenix, and Dallas.
“During the seven years that I have been active at Bluff Spring Fen, I have shared in small victories and great hopes,” writes Doug Taron in the Fenship Newsletter, reprinted in Natural Area Notes (June 1989). “What keeps me coming back to the fen is all of the evidence that the restoration efforts are actually working. Éthe degraded parts of the preserve [are] healing themselves. It is difficult to convey the sense of accomplishment that I felt the first time I saw bottlebrush grass and Canada wild rye blooming in an overgrown savanna, or while watching the progression of one area from bare gravel to a monoculture of Indian grass to a recovering prairie complete with pale purple coneflower and wild quinine.”
