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A LITTLE CHEMISTRY • The A.C. Gilbert toy company had a hit in 1913 when they invented the erector set. The company went on to release many educational toys such as microscopes and magic tricks. However, there were issues with several of their products. One was a chemistry set which offered 56 different chemicals. There was potassium nitrate (used in gunpowder); ammonium nitrate (used in bombs); nitric acid (used in rocket fuel); sulfuric acid (highly corrosive); and calcium hypochlorite (creates poisonous gas). A piece of safety advice, offered on the page with instructions for creating an explosion out of homemade gunpowder, was: “Do not try this on a bigger scale or a larger explosion will result.” • The kits were intended to be used under adult supervision while strictly following the instructions but that didn’t always happen. Given the proclivity of kids to mix things up, such as adding sodium ferro-cyanide to iron ions to create poisonous cyanide, parents became concerned and A.C. Gilbert Corp. had to release chemistry sets with more mundane chemicals. • Another of A.C. Gilbert’s bad ideas was the glassblowing kit. What could possibly go wrong when you hand a kid a blow torch and encourage them to heat a glob of glass to 1,000 F (538 C) and then do a bunch of experiments with molten glass? No safety equipment was included in the kit, nor even suggested in the manual. The guidebook contained complete instructions on how to make glass straws, champagne glasses, window glass, and even beakers. “You’ll know the glass is hot when it’s glowing red.” • Perhaps the very worst of A.C. Gilbert’s ideas was the U-238 Atomic Energy Lab. The kit included a Geiger counter that ran on three C-cell batteries, three types of uranium ore, a nuclear ﬁssion chamber, radium samples, polonium samples, and an electroscope. A form in the back of the manual allowed kids to send off for mail-order uranium reﬁlls, as well as instructions on how to search for uranium deposits where you lived. The kit also included a comic book called “Dagwood Splits the Atom” in which Dagwood and Blondie, along with Popeye, gave kids a crash course in atomic energy. Some of the experiments required kids to go out and purchase their own block of dry ice, which has a temperature of -109.3 F (-78 C) The U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was released in 1950 and removed from the market in 1951. continued on page 3

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Teaching her daughters to express thanks to others started on a practical level when her oldest, Presley, turned 4. "I was standing in the background at gift-opening time at her birthday party when the eager guests circled the birthday girl. It felt like a feeding frenzy," she says. "They closed in, and it moved fast. With all the excitement, Presley tore through the wrappings, so it was hard to get a complete list of who gave what." That's when Amy came up with an idea the following year to ask gift-givers to stand with her daughter while she opened their present, so she could snap a photo of them as they posed with the gift. Through the years, she has seen how both the giver and receiver feel special when they capture the moment together.

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THE FLYING WEDGE As a student at Harvard University, a young Theodore Roosevelt championed "the vigorous life," and the burgeoning sport of American football was something he clearly supported. When he became president, the game often figured in his landmark speeches. "In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!" His mood changed a few years later, however, when his young son Theodore Roosevelt Jr. enrolled at Harvard and joined the football team. The annual Harvard-Yale game had become the nation's top sporting event by this time, and football had become far more violent than the "masculine game" Roosevelt knew from his time in college. This was the era of the "flying wedge." A Harvard alumnus and war historian noted that the game's strategy closely mirrored military maneuvers. Even though he never played a down of football, he designed the flying wedge -- a play that mimicked the tactics of Napoleon's army by concentrating a large number

Pundits estimated that a ﬂying wedge weighed more than a quarter-ton. Every resulting pileup from a play lent itself to anticipation: Was somebody crushed?

1. Josh Beckett won 20 games in 2007. 2. Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki, 2001-10. 3. Mike Vanderjagt, with 42 in a row (2002-04). 4. Bob Kurland, in 1948 and 1952. 5. Once -- the Chicago Blackhawks, in 2017. 6. It was in 1958. 7. Bernard Hinault, in 1985.

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The play helped spark interest in the game. Parke Davis, an early sports writer, commented that the play energized fans. "Sensation runs through the stands at the novel play, which is the most organized and beautiful one ever seen upon a football ﬁeld."

(c) 2017 King Features Syndicate, Inc. The answer, sadly, was often yes. In 1905 alone, the "ﬂying wedge" play resulted in 22 deaths and an estimated 149 "serious" injuries. Newspapers printed body counts and took out full-page editorials calling for reform. Ever the hands-on president, Roosevelt called on the leading institutions to visit the White House. There, he used his "bully pulpit" to spur the creation of what is today called the National Collegiate Association of Athletics (NCAA) -- a body that began in the name of safety for college athletes. The ﬂying wedge was outlawed as a result, but the play does exist today in a reduced form. Returning teams are allowed to form a "wedge" for the kick returner, and defenders who take on the formation are called "wedge busters." Look for it next time you watch a game, and marvel as nobody dies. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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4. Continue to bake chickpeas for another 10 to 12 minutes or until crunchy. Sprinkle some of the chickpeas on each bowl of soup. Allow any remaining chickpeas to cool on the pan and transfer them to a resealable plastic bag. *** Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children's author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is "The Kitchen Diva's Diabetic Cookbook." Her website is www. divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc., and Angela Shelf Medearis

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*** DEAR DR. ROACH: A recent newspaper article suggested that mental and brain health might be improved by taking a small dose of lithium (5 mg) daily. What are your thoughts? -- R.B.L. ANSWER: Lithium is a light element found in trace amounts in the ground and in drinking water. It is used as a treatment in mental illnesses, especially bipolar disorder and occasionally in resistant cases of depression. Lithium requires skill in prescribing and monitoring, but it probably is underused, according to my colleagues in psychiatry. Lithium has a probably unwarranted bad reputation. I found the article you mentioned, by Dr. Anna Fels, and recalled studies that showed suicide, homicide and rape rates were higher in communities with low lithium levels, and I ﬁnd this intriguing. People in higher-lithium areas also seemed to have lower dementia levels. However, much more research needs to be done before

heart failure symptoms had improved; his weight fell into a healthy range; his total cholesterol, LDL, and triglycerides fell from 201 to 137 mg/dL, 105 to 67 mg/dL, and 112 to 96 mg/dL, respectively. The authors further explore the body of evidence showing such diets are beneﬁcial for heart disease patients.

VEGAN DIETS BENEFIT HEART HEALTH A vegan diet demonstrates the ability to prevent and treat heart failure, according to a case study and short literature review in the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology. In a new special issue of the journal entitled “A PlantBased Diet and Cardiovascular Disease,” researchers describe a case study where a 79-year-old man with heart disease refused the commonly recommended bypass and valve replacement surgery and opted to adopt a wholefoods, plant-based diet instead. After two months, his

COMPONENT IN ANIMAL PRODUCTS LINKED TO HEART DISEASE Choline, a nutrient found in meat and ﬁsh, may increase the risk for heart disease, according to a study published in Circulation. Eight participants who followed a vegetarian or vegan diet and 10 participants who followed an omnivorous diet took choline supplements for two months. Blood work from both groups showed elevated levels of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) and increased platelet activation, both results associated with blood clotting. The participants who followed a vegan or vegetarian diet had lower levels of choline at the start, suggesting a diet with lower levels of nutrients linked to increased TMAO levels may provide a preventive effect.

I could recommend lithium as a supplement for brain health. By the way: The usual dose for lithium in people with psychiatric conditions is around 1,000 to 1,800 milligrams daily. The content in drinking water in some areas is as high as 0.17 milligrams per liter. Drinking about 6 liters a day would get you only a thousandth of the usual daily dose. I can't even speculate on what dose might be appropriate as a supplement. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2017 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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