Chicago has its share of the country’s top corporate criminals of the 1990s, according to a list compiled by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman in their weekly on-line column “Focus on the Corporation.” They ranked corporations by the size of the criminal fine imposed on them: 7th was Archer Daniels Midland, fined $100 million for antitrust activities; 8th was Sears Bankruptcy Recovery Management Services, $60 million for fraud; 52nd was Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, $4 million for fraud; 62nd was Chemical Waste Management Inc., $3 million for environmental violations. Have a nice day.
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“Some of the classic apples are spitters,” Gene Yale of the Midwest Fruit Explorers tells Cathy Jean Maloney in Chicagoland Gardening (September/October). “You take one bite and spit it out.” Nevertheless he and his colleagues sometimes have trouble describing how fruits taste: “‘Carmely taste,’ says one, while a colleague talks about ‘licorice overtones.’”
According to a recent press release from the Swedish American Museum Center on North Clark, which will be showing Swedish art-glass maker Erik Hoglund’s work through November, Hoglund “once threw mashed potatoes into the molten glass to study the effect.”
