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• Kotoko Wamura was a child in Japan when a 30foot (9m) tsunami swept away the town of Fudai. He remembered tales of a 50-foot (15m) tsunami that hit in 1896. So when he was elected mayor of Fudai in the 1960s, he insisted a 50-foot seawall be built to protect the town. People were outraged at the cost and angry that it blocked their view of the sea. Others argued that a 30-foot wall would be tall enough. But Kotoko Wamura held firm, and the seawall was built. He died in 1987 so he didn’t live to see the day in March of 2011 when his 50-foot seawall saved his beloved town.
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GET THE LEAD OUT • Duff Roblin’s opponents and constituents ridiculed the project, dubbing it “Duff’s Ditchâ€? and predicting it would never be useful. No sooner had it been completed than it was put into use, saving the city from flooding in 1968. Since then, it’s been used twenty more times, saving Winnipeg from floods over and over again. Experts estimate it’s saved over $100 billion in cumulative flood damage, making it an excellent investment indeed.
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• Geologists all over the world ridiculed him. How could something as large as a continent move? What would cause the movement? Wegener hypothesized that the centrifugal force of the Earth’s rotation caused it, or astronomical influences, or a rift under the ocean that was spreading apart. His theories were almost universally rejected. He died on a polar expedition in 1930 without gaining recognition for this discovery.
A RESTLESS PLANET • Alfred Wegener was a German scientist born in 1880. His research showed that the rock strata and the fossil record on one edge of a continent matched the rock strata and fossil record on the opposing edge of another continent separated by thousands of miles of ocean. He noticed that the continents seemed to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle: the eastern edge of South America fit into the gap of the western edge of Africa; the coasts of Australia and India matched the coast of Antartctica on so on. • In 1912 he presented his hypothesis that all the continents had once been joined together in a single landmass that had drifted apart. He called the landmass “Urkontinentâ€? which is German for “primal continent,â€? and coined the term “continental drift.â€?
• Clair Patterson spent many years working as a chemist for the California Institute of Technology. He focused on working with lead, a heavy metal that is toxic when inhaled or ingested. • When uranium decays, it turns into lead. The halflife of uranium is over 4 billion years, so by measuring the decay of uranium/lead, scientist can estimate the age of minerals in the same sort of way carbon dating is used to measure the age of organic material. In 1956, Patterson was the first person to use uranium-lead dating to estimate the age of the Earth at 4.55 billion years, a figure that is still considered accurate. • The focus of Patterson’s career was tracking the geo-chemical evolution of the Earth. While measuring the chemicals in ice core samples taken from Greenland, he noted an alarming increase in the amount of lead that coincided with the date in the 1920s that gasoline companies began adding lead to gas in order to stop engines from knocking. When he compared the lead content of skeletons of people buried in the 1600s (none) to the amount of lead in the skeletons of people who had died recently (high), he became alarmed. He proved that after lead was added to gasoline, the amount of lead being deposited in the environment was 80 times greater than it had been previously. • In 1965, Patterson began a concerted effort to have lead removed from gasoline. Gasoline companies fought back hard. He was ridiculed and his research was disparaged. But his efforts paid off: lead was phased out of American gas products by 1986. • Patterson then led the charge to have lead removed from tin cans, and it was subsequently also removed from paint. • By the time Patterson died in 1995, the level of lead in the blood of Americans had dropped by 80%.
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concoction that reduced the swelling in the ankle, or hock, of a horse. • “Impatiens” is the Latin word for impatient, referring to the flower’s violent explosion of seeds. • Primrose means “first rose” in Latin because it appears so early in the season. (continued) • The hydrangea bush absorbs up to twelve gallons of water per day and its name comes from “hydro,” the Greek word for water. • The Dutch borrowed the word “tulip” from the French (“tulipan”), who borrowed it from the Turks (“tulbend”), who noted that the shape of the flower reminded them of a “turban.” • Lilac comes from the Persian word for “blue.”
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*** DEAR DR. ROACH: My mother lives in Florida. Her major discomfort is fatigue and no energy. I have asked her doctor to please give her a vitamin B-12 injection, even though her B-12, thyroid function, vitamin D and blood count are all in the normal range. Her doctor does not believe in B-12 injections. Do you think it might help? — J.L. ANSWER: Vitamin B-12 is necessary for proper function in many tissues, but it is critical for blood cell production and neurologic function. B-12 deficiency causes an unmistakable anemia (called megaloblastic anemia) and can cause neurologic and psychiatric disturbances even in some people with no anemia. The blood test for B-12 is quite reliable. The major cause of B-12 deficiency is an autoimmune disease that prevents the stomach from making intrinsic factor, which is necessary for efficient absorption of B-12. B-12 can be absorbed orally by people with pernicious anemia by taking very high doses, such as 1 mg. This gives as good a replacement as injection. It was common 50 years ago to give B-12 injections as a "tonic." However, it offers no advantages for people with normal B-12 levels beyond the placebo response. As I have noted many times, the placebo response can be very powerful, and 1 mg of B-12 orally is very safe. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: I have heard that drinking water with your meal is bad for you. Is this true? And if so, why? I have a dry mouth due to cancer treatment and must have water with everything I eat. Is something bad going to happen to me? I am otherwise healthy. — R.G. ANSWER: It's not true at all. Water is, generally speaking, the healthiest drink. It is possible to drink too much water, but it's very hard to do so unless you are taking medications that affect your kidneys or you have excess anti-diuretic hormone, an unusual medical condition. Keep drinking your water.
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Find All the Fun and Games Answers on Page 14! it used to cost to ride throughout town. It also should mean "zero shock absorption" or "hits every pothole dead on." Atlantic City, you may have heard, has an image problem. The city used to have 16 casinos, and through attrition, now has seven. It's a small town, out on an island, with about 40,000 residents. It has one of the largest unemployment rates in the country, and nearly one-third of the town makes ends meet under the poverty line. There are more strip clubs than grocery stores.
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On the plus side, it's where the boardwalk and salt water taffy were invented, and it's the longtime home of the Miss America pageant. When you play Monopoly, all of the street names are real Atlantic City streets. And, yes, it still has plenty of casinos, the booze is free, and it hosts world-class entertainment (Frankie Valli and bunch of other big shots call it home) and some of the best restaurants and shopping in the world. One of the town's great hobbies is chatting about what can be done to "revitalize" the place. Ideas abound. A water park in one of the old casinos, legalized marijuana or a Ferris wheel are always bandied about. Some want to attract college campuses and others want to legalize
For Advertising Information Call 954-667-3237 prostitution. As if the town needed more vice. What Atlantic City really needs is sports. I was lucky enough to score tickets to a boxing match at Bally's the other day. Five fights for $50, ringside seats because the woman I met outside had comps and extra tickets. It was great. And it didn't take long for a few of the old-timers in the audience to reminisce about the old days ... when Mike Tyson fought his way to belts in the 1980s, when MMA started up in the '90s. This is a town with great transportation: a train and bus hub, a great airport where flights can cost as little as $9. It boasts an empty minor-league baseball stadium, and despite all of the competition with one-off casinos in Philly, Delaware and Connecticut, those places are boring. No, in order to revitalize AC, the city has to turn to the other side of gaming: sports. Evander Holyfield is starting a boxing "league" and plans on marketing it and conducting fights in AC. Dana White has plans to bring the UFC back to town. Rumor has a horse park coming to town. Now, if only the state can get its act together and legalize sports betting — a no-brainer — it will reap untold benefits. This has to be done. Atlantic City may be Mos Eisley come to life, but that shouldn't mean you can't bet on the Rangers-Flyers game. Give it a whirl, AC ... it won't be the first time you dared to be different. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Incidentally, DeGrazia could be a little cranky. When he got into a dispute with the IRS, he took a large collection of his paintings and burned them in the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix.
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BANANA OAT BREAKFAST BARS 2 large, very ripe bananas 1 tablespoon agave syrup or sugar substitute
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4. Pat the thick mixture evenly into prepared baking pan. Sprinkle with the remaining 2 tablespoons nuts. Bake for 30 minutes or until the edges just begin to crisp up and turn a golden brown.
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1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups rolled oats 1/4 cup pitted, chopped dried dates, raisins or craisins 1/4 cup chopped nuts — such as walnuts, almonds or pecans, plus 2 tablespoons for sprinkling 1. Heat oven to 350 F, and lightly grease a 9- by 9-inch-square baking dish with butter or butter-flavored cooking spray. 2. Peel bananas and blend in a blender or food processor until liquid and no large chunks remain. You will have between 1 cup and 1 1/4 cup. Pour mixture into a medium-sized bowl.
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