Sex and shopping give same thrill

02/03/2011

WE KNOW WHY SEX IS HOT, and now we have evidence that shopping gives women — and men — the same thrill. RESEARCHERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER in London hooked people up to eye-tracking devices and showed them pornographic images. Then they showed them sales promotions and found their brains reacted with as much excitement to bargains as they did to sexual material.
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Maya tells what women must have

01/26/2011

ONLY A BRILLIANT VOICE could tell us what women must have, and so we owe poet, author, playwright and woman of the world Maya Angelou a thank you. MAYA IS A FONT OF WISDOM AT 82. HERE ARE HER CONCLUSIONS ON WHAT WOMEN MUST HAVE.
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Betrayal by mean women scars lives

01/19/2011

MEAN GIRLS GROW UP TO BE MEAN WOMEN and their betrayal of friendships wounds their “sisters” forever. WHO DOESN’T HAVE A SORRY TALE TO TELL about being called nasty names, being bullied, being dumped as a friend from someone you trusted?
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Sex at work? 17 percent are guilty

01/12/2011

THE BOSS AND HIS SECRETARY? That hottie in marketing and her colleague who always work overtime? The cougar and the mailboy? YOU’VE GUESSED IT. But only 17 percent admit they have had sex at work.
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Fast food rushes you to morgue

01/05/2011

HEY! IT IS A NEW YEAR and you hope to shape up — be a better you. SO PAY ATTENTION to the latest calorie counts and honest evaluation of fast food — some of it can rush you to the morgue, or at least the cardiac arrest section of your local hospital.
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Death ends Skyline love story

12/29/2010

"I'M IN LOVE WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL BLOND in the middle of the front row. Please get me her phone number. I'm going to marry her!" FALLING IN LOVE WITH A PHOTO on the front page of a Skyline issue more than 30 years ago was dynamic trader/civic leader Wally Auch, who raved about a Patricia Mullady, chic, adorable and a standout among 10 other attractive young socialites at a luncheon charity affair. The pix was as glamorous as any Hollywood starlet layout.
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Dear Santa, please deliver these gifts

12/22/2010

FOR MAGGIE DALEY, MICHAEL DOUGLAS, ARETHA FRANKLIN and millions of others, please bring a cure for cancer. FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA, make him a tougher, wily street-fighter. ELECT RAHM EMANUEL MAYOR OF CHICAGO because he’s a tough, wily, street-fighter.
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Honor for Rumsfeld blasted by alums

12/15/2010

ACTRESS ANN-MARGRET, mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel, actor Bruce Dorn, movie producer Edward Zwick, restaurateur Charlie Trotter, Boeing CEO James McNerney, TV news anchor Walter Jacobson and Sen. Mark Kirk didn’t make the first list of New Trier Township High Alumni Hall of Fame.
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Diogenes has found his honest man

12/08/2010

THERE IS ONE HONEST, SELFLESS MAN in our midst, so ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes can finally put down his lamp and stop searching. THAT RARE HONEST CITIZEN IS BILLIONAIRE WARREN BUFFETT, nobody’s fool and an outspoken, common sense kinda guy.
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Horror pix on cig packs good idea

12/01/2010

WHY JUST DEADLY RESULT PIX on cigarette packs? Sure, they cause disease and deaths and horror pix can scare some smokers away, but what about other necessary warnings?
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