Hey, these are the suburbs–we can’t say “manure” around here. From a Meadow Lane Products press release: “Mary Kopidlansky of Cary discovered a unique way to combine her child-rearing schedule with her passion for animals–sell llama by-products. The owner of several llamas and a resident of unincorporated Cary since 1989, 34-year-old Kopidlansky was aware of how valuable and nutrient-rich the llama by-product was. But she never thought of actually marketing the product to gardeners in search of a rich, organic fertilizer.”
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Qualified to be Dilbert’s boss. Among the strange requests employees of RHI Consulting of Oakbrook Terrace have received, according to a recent company news release: “Please remove this Pop-Tart that someone put in my disk drive.” “These figures need to add up to something different than what they add up to! Please make them do so.” “Can I just get the U.S. portion of the World Wide Web?”
“The probability of dying is high at birth, declines until puberty, and then increases at an exponential rate (for humans, doubling every seven years) until very old age, when the rate of increase slows,” reports Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Mechanistic Biology and Biotechnology (“Frontiers: Research Highlights,” 1996-97). The basic pattern of age-related death is the same for mice, beagles, and people (adjusted for different total life spans). “The results suggest that 85 years may represent a biologically imposed upper limit to life expectancy for human populations.” Everyone over 42 and a half, get busy!
You be the judge. According to Jennifer Davis, writing in Illinois Issues (March), “It may be hard to fire teachers, but it is not impossible.” Number of teacher dismissal notifications statewide, 1995-1996: 65. Number of teachers actually fired: 11.
