Now and then a cruise through the day’s hard-copy home-delivered Chi Trib that can’t make it past the Front Page . . .

* Which has two (2!) stories, assorted jump items, and three pix, one of which takes up half of what’s over the fold.  Bigger story, with that biggest pic, is “A lethal legacy” — notice the non-verbal head, i.e., no verb there — subtitled “Poisonous defoliants still exact toll in U.S., Vietnam.”  Smaller, much smaller type above, a sort of tag: “TRIBUNE WATCHDOG AGENT ORANGE.”

Was just asking at dinner the other night, or was it breakfast? Whatever happened to Agent Orange?  So I’m an obvious audience for this story, with its French Impressionist-inspired art foto of woman on sick bed and other woman reaching to get her something on the dresser.  Besides, I’m a sucker for “lethal legacy” stories.  It’s that alliteration.  Couldn’t they make it rhyme?

Can’t link you to my morning paper, of course, but on line we have this story and pix to go with it, one of which is below the fold on hard-copy p-1.:

It is clearly a story I should care about, and why go to church when I have the Trib to remind me of suffering in the world, not to mention how badly our government has behaved in having “neglected a lasting problem even as the health fallout has spread”?

I’m not grateful enough, and besides, it’s what Pulitzer prizes are given for, so can you blame them?

* Story two is “Young Chicago Muslim in the interfaith spotlight” — again a verb-free head.  Verbs are for subtitles, as here: “Obama front man on religion wins top global prize.”  Front man on religion?  He leads the religion race?  Obama’s pick to win?

It’s Eboo Patel, whom I have to admit I had not heard of.  He got the Louisville Grawemeyer Award, of which also I have been unaware.  Sorry, folks, it’s a story for among the truss ads or maybe a religion brief, unless . . .  Yes, it will make me feel better about my Muslim brothers and sisters.  No matter how nastily their brother and sister religionists behave sometimes.  How nice to be reminded . . .

BTW, on line (and note well, reporters don’t do heads in either medium) the story is “Chicagoan wins global religion award,” which gives a slightly wider tinge to it for Trib readers.  I think it does.