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Contents October 1995


Vol. XXI, No. 10
Estabished 1974

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The farm:
Poisons in your kitchen faucet
Jennifer Halperin   10

ii9510tc2.jpg The school:
Anniversary for an education lab
Beverley Scobell    24

ii9510tc3.jpg The hospital:
A Q&A with Ruth Rothstein

Paul F. Cuadros   30

Cover illustration: Our cover was produced by design assistant Daisy Juarez. She used a photograph taken by Judy Lutz Spencer. The watery look was accomplished on a computer with the program called Adobe Photoshop.

Columns

Politics
Bears don't merit top billing on the legislature's fall agenda
Charles N. Wheeler III________6

The State of the State
It's 'devolution' time. Do you know who your state legislator is?
Jennifer Halperin________8

Your Turn
Affirmative action: Those for and against are missing the big picture
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz_______38

A View from the Suburbs
In U.S. Senate race, GOP casts Al Salvi as another right-wing annoyance
Madeleine Doubek_______42

More features

The Farm Bill means a harvest of change
Edward Field ______ 17

Burying a loved one can be a nightmare
Terry Bibo ______ 20

Our oldest cemeteries save the prairie
Tara McAndrew ______ 22

Champaign has an alternative school
Erin E. Reep ______ 27

State moves toward alternative schools
Michael Hawthorne ______ 28

Departments

A Conversation with Our Readers
Ed Wojcicki________3

Innovations
River otter program endangered
Beverley Scobell________4

Books
The 'myth' about a Mormon leader
  Bill Knight_______33

A new history bibliography
  Robert M. Sutton _______35

Book briefs
  Peter Ellertsen_______35

State Stix
Affirmative 'action'?
  Brian Lee _______36

Letters_______37

Court Briefs
F. Mark Siebert_______39

State Reports
  Anna J. Merritt_______39

People
  Beverley Scobell_______40

Esprit de Pol _______see back cover

October 1995/Illinois Issues/5


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