Word: chicago
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Phoenix 3, Chicago...
There is no more Michael. Scottie is a Houston Rocket. The Chicago Bulls' dynasty looks more like the Ulysses S. Grant Junior High team than a professional squad...
...startled last year when her gynecologist handed her a catalog of nutritional supplements (complete with the physician's vendor number) as part of her annual checkup. "Patients in a doctor's office are in a particularly vulnerable situation," says Dr. John Lantos, a medical ethicist at the University of Chicago. They might feel pressured to buy the products just to please their physician. Wouldn't it be less of a conflict of interest, he wonders, only half in jest, if doctors ran a fast-food restaurant in the lobby...
...first and only federal law to assist homeless Americans, the McKinney Act of 1987, which authorized millions of dollars in funding for housing and hunger relief. But today that spirit is gone. In 1987 the number of articles on homelessness that appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times totaled 847; in 1996 those four dailies ran just 200 stories on the subject. As recently as 1991, 8% of Americans said homelessness--more than crime, the budget deficit, education or the decline of American values--was "the main problem facing the country today." Only...
...have vanished from sight. Cuomo attributes this to the expansion of shelters and other services; but increasingly, frustrated municipal governments are responding to the problem by cracking down on panhandling, sweeping homeless encampments out of parks and off streets and outlawing sleeping in public. At least 50 cities--from Chicago to Tucson, Ariz., to liberal Berkeley, Calif.--have antivagrancy laws on the books. Such measures only displace the homeless, however. New York's clampdown on vagrancy in Times Square, for instance, has merely pushed the encampments to the edges of the island of Manhattan...