Lightning strikes more frequently than weather records based on thunder indicate, according to the Illinois Water Survey. “Between 22 and 40 percent of lightning bolts are ‘silent’–not accompanied by thunder,” reports the Nature of Illinois (Winter 1989). “This could have adverse implications for businesses like nuclear power plants, which have had to base risk analyses on old, conservative reports.”
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Back for a third year and going strong. The mostly white southwest-side Chicago Lawn neighborhood had the most racial incidents reported in 1988, just as it did in 1987 and 1986, according to the Chicago Commission on Human Relations–31 out of a citywide total of 255. “Nine of the incidents involved physical attacks, including six against blacks. Two other attacks were against racially mixed groups.” (Chicago Reporter, March 1989)
Mmmm, it feels sooo good. “Every time I rinse out a tin can, tear off the label and put it in my blue box [for recycling], I just feel so good. I say to myself, ‘Yeah, another one for the environment,’” says North-west Morgan Park Civic Associ-ation secretary Diana Butler in a recent Resource Center release. Some 38 percent of Morgan Parkers now use their blue recycling boxes on garbage day.
My mind’s made up. Don’t confuse me with the facts. From Harper’s “Index” (April 1989): “Percentage of Americans who cannot name any member of Bush’s Cabinet: 81. Percentage of Americans who say that Bush’s Cabinet choices are ‘good’ or ‘excellent’: 44.”
