Finish school–save a life. Suburban-based Pediatrics magazine (May) reports that a Tennessee study found that children five and younger are 19.4 times more likely to die in a fire if their mother has less than a high school education.
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Not always avant-garde. Frank Lloyd Wright’s “omission of a spire from Unity Temple was also consistent with ideas current in Chicago’s architectural culture of the period [90-plus years ago],” writes Joseph Siry in Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion. “While tall spires had been almost synonymous with the church as architecture in the city from the 1850s to the 1870s, they became much less popular in local Protestant churches from the 1880s, for both stylistic and practical reasons. In 1890, when Wright was working for Adler and Sullivan, Sullivan believed that the spire in an urban church was an anachronistic motif, because it had lost its earlier function as a belfry and had thus become solely ornamental.”
Muzzle those defense lawyers! “Often clients are best served by low-profile defense” rather than publicity campaigns, says University of Chicago law professor David Strauss, defending judges who issue gag orders in high-profile criminal cases. Defense lawyers who try to defend their clients in the media put their colleagues in a tough spot, he notes: “As long as out-of-court advocacy is common, a lawyer who refuses to speak outside the courtroom will risk damaging his or her client’s interests by appearing not fully to believe in the client. If out-of-court statements are allowed, an attorney’s refusal to engage in an out-of-court public relations campaign may be taken to suggest a lack of enthusiasm for the client’s case,” even when it may be in the client’s best interest.
