First City in eating out. According to a recent issue of Restaurant Business, Chicagoans spent $7.5 billion on food outside the home. Los Angeles was a distant second ($6.38 billion) and New York third ($6.37 billion).
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“For my book Real Choices, I went around talking to women who have had an abortion and to women who provide care for pregnant women,” writes Frederica Mathewes-Green in U.S. Catholic (January). “I had presumed that most abortions are prompted by problems that are financial or practical in nature. But to my surprise, I found something very different. What I heard most frequently in my interviews was that the reason for the abortion was not financial or practical. The core reason I heard was, ‘I had the abortion because someone I love told me to.’ It was either the father of the child, or else the woman’s own mother, who was pressuring her to have the abortion. Again and again, I learned that women had abortions because they felt abandoned–they felt isolated and afraid. As one woman said, ‘I felt like everyone would support me if I had the abortion; but if I had the baby, I’d be alone.’”
“Acknowledging and understanding white-skin privilege is the vital first step in any honest dialogue on race,” writes Julian Bond in Poverty & Race (November/December). “It is remarkable to consider that the Promise Keepers are the only predominately white group I can think of who have achieved racial harmony as a core belief–even if they do not acknowledge that something is wrong between the races in America–and have pledged to do something about it. Why do they stand almost alone?”
