Was discrimination the problem? Percentage of adults with disabilities holding jobs in 1986: 33. Percentage holding jobs in 1998, eight years after passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act: 29 (Washington Post, July 23).
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As others see us. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, writing in the New Yorker (August 10), condemns a proposed New York development as “another example of the North Michigan Avenue school of urbanism–the school that specializes in fifty-story vacuum cleaners that suck the energy off the streets and exhaust it into private atriums.”
Why do students gain weight in college? University of Chicago economics professor Allen Sanderson explains in the “University of Chicago Chronicle” (May 28): “Right away, students say it’s because there is so much stress and they don’t have time to exercise. But I point out that it is probably because of the way food is priced. Because there is very little marginal cost in getting more to eat in college–in the residence halls here, students can help themselves to as much food as they want–there is little incentive to moderate their intake. As a result, they put on pounds.”
From another city’s file–the tabula rasa across the lake. “Benton Harbor is a proverbial blank canvas for growth and opportunity,” according to a recent article in the Kalamazoo Gazette. Scott Elliot, owner of the New Moon Gallery there, “has owned galleries in New York, London and Chicago. He sees as much potential in Benton Harbor as in any of those towns. ‘We’re coming into an environment where you can be extremely creative,’ Elliot said. ‘You’re not held back. We can make of Benton Harbor what we want to make. It feels like we’re pioneers.’”
