Unless they’ve contributed to my campaign fund. “At a fund-raising dinner,” reports Sam Smith in the “Progressive Review” (June 11), “the President promised more actions like that against Yugoslavia to aid people attacked for their racial, ethnic or religious background: ‘If we can stop it, we intend to stop it.’ It was not clear whether Clinton was referring to China with its repression of Christians, Buddhists, Tibetans, and human rights activists.”
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That’s it–my house needs a kidney. From a recent issue of “Medicare Today”: “Just imagine what it would be like if you couldn’t get rid of anything you brought into your house–empty food containers, leftovers, things you no longer need. After a while, your home would be so cluttered that you could no longer function. That is similar to what happens inside your body when your kidneys no longer work properly. Every minute of every day, organs and body cells create waste during their normal functions. When kidneys function properly, they serve as the body’s natural waste removal system.”
The wild life. According to a recent state Department of Natural Resources press release, approximately 16,000 raccoons were removed from homes in the Chicago area in 1997.
The times they are a-changin’. Number of vehicles registered in Chicago in 1956, according to “Transportation Facts” (April): 1 million, roughly 29 percent of all vehicles in Illinois. In 1997: 1.3 million, roughly 14 percent of all vehicles in Illinois.
