SCIENCE HALL OF FAME: It was 20...

SCIENCE HALL OF FAME: It was 20 years ago that UCI chemistry professor F. Sherwood Rowland and one of his graduate students discovered that chlorofluorocarbons deplete the ozone layer. Now they’re getting high-class recognition--a permanent exhibit about the discovery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. . . . It’s part of the new “Science in American Life” exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. It includes photos, graphics and reports of Rowland’s work.

FIGHTING BACK: The war against graffiti vandals is far from over, but Anaheim officials are boasting some good news: Their graffiti hot line calls are down 44% from last year. . . . Code enforcement supervisor Richard LaRochelle says it’s a combination of education programs and volunteer groups that are “removing graffiti before anyone has a chance to call it in.” Last month alone, the city used 400 gallons of paint in graffiti cleanup.

JOURNAL’S LADY: The cover of this month’s Ladies’ Home Journal may be Kathie Lee Gifford, but inside the magazine, it’s Debbie Aguirre who gets much of the praise. . . . Aguirre owns Tierra Pacifica, an Irvine design and construction firm that parlays work into community deeds. It’s restoring a historic office building in Pasadena, for example, but also renovating a battered women’s shelter there for free. Aguirre says she didn’t want to separate her corporate life from her community interests: “I wanted to blend it all in.”

TINY SHOW: Twelve inches may equal a foot in real life, but in miniature, a foot is just one inch. They’ve got miniatures by the thousands at both the Inn at the Park and Marriott hotels in Anaheim this week. The Marriott’s huge public show is Sunday afternoon. The attraction? Says Betty Martin of Solvang, an exhibitor who’s been collecting for 42 years: “Anything that’s small is cute--a baby, a puppy. And anything big that’s made to be small is especially cute.”