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The music industry has suffered many sad losses over the years. This week, Tidbits brings a sampling of those talented legends whose premature deaths resulted in promising careers cut short. •Baby boomers will recall Ricky Nelson as one of the biggest teen idols of the 1950s and 1960s. Starting out on his family’s television show “Ozzie & Harriet,” Nelson began his recording career in 1961 with the million-selling “Travelin’ Man,” followed by another chart topper “Hello, Mary Lou.” He was still recording in the 1980s with his Stone Canyon Band when he composed the hit “Garden Party.” As Nelson, his fiancée and band members were jetting to a New Year’s Eve 1985 performance, a fire caused by a malfunctioning heater broke out in their DC-3, and the plane crashed, killing the 45-year-old singer and several others. • Soul singer Otis Redding recorded just one millionseller and No. 1 hit. Just three days after recording “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” in 1967, the 26-year-old Redding and his band boarded a plane in Wisconsin, encountered a storm, and crashed into Lake Monona. Four months later, the song hit the top spot on the charts. •One crash took the lives of three rising stars in 1959. Considered a pioneer of rock and roll, 22-year-old Buddy Holly, only a year and a half into his career, had already scored hits “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue.” He was on the “Winter Dance Party” tour in February of 1959 with 17-year-old newcomer Ritchie Valens, a teen idol who had just released “La Bamba,” and 29-year-old “Big Bopper” Richardson. The Bopper had recently scored a big hit with “Chantilly Lace.” The winter weather was bitter cold as the tour got underway, with the situation aggravated by a malfunction of the heater on their bus. After completing their gig in Clear Lake, Iowa, the group was due to play in Fargo, North Dakota, the following night. The Big Bopper had the flu, and Holly made the decision to charter a plane to Fargo. With limited seating on the Beechcraft Bonanza, they flipped a coin for seats. Valens won the toss. Bass player Waylon Jennings gave up his winning seat to the Bopper. Within minutes after takeoff, the craft crashed,
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killing all aboard. It was “the day the music died,” according to the 1971 Don McLean musical tribute “American Pie.” •The career of 30-year-old Jim Croce was flourishing in 1973. He had topped the charts with three hits, “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim,” “Time in a Bottle” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” But life on the road was taking its toll on the young singer, and he became homesick for his wife and infant son. Two months after “Leroy” hit No. 1, Croce chartered a plane home for a break. Shortly after takeoff from a Louisiana airport, the Beechcraft E18S hit a tree, killing Croce and four others. • Considered one of the greatest singers of all time, the velvet-voiced crooner Karen Carpenter, along with brother Richard, racked up 17 Top 20 hits and sales of more than 100 million records in the 1970s, including “Close to You” and “We’ve Only Just Begun.” Yet this beautiful girl with the wholesome image struggled with anorexia for years, and desperate to look slim on stage, dropped as low as 79 pounds. The eating disorder took its toll on her heart and eventually claimed her life in 1983 when she was just 32. •Even young people have heard the music of Big Band trombonist Glenn Miller, although his music career was only three and a half years long. Such hits as “In the Mood” and “Chattanooga Choo Choo” have endured for decades, and even the re-issues of his hits 40 years after his death have achieved gold status. Miller and his swing band scored 31 Top Ten hits in 1940 and another 11 in 1941, making him the top recording artist for both years. In 1942, the 38-year-old Miller left behind his $20,000-per-week income and joined the Army, organizing a 45-member military band that performed for troops and war-bond rallies. In 1944, on a flight to Paris, his plane disappeared over the English Channel. It wasn’t determined whether the craft had been shot down or had crashed due to bad weather. The plane was never recovered. •Patsy Cline was already a Grand Ole Opry star at 26 and the nation’s number one female artist at age 29. Her recording of “I Fall to Pieces” was the Song of the Year
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) With the new year’s opportunities almost within reach, the Arian’s courageous aspects are raring to go. And don’t be surprised if a lot of people follow the zodiac’s most trusted leader. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Change lies ahead for the brave Bovine who is ready to shuck off the tried and true to try something new. But appearances can be deceptive. Check it all out before you charge into anything. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This week promises a peek into what the new year holds for the Gemini Twins, both in love and careers. Family matters continue to be a factor in decisions you’re going to be facing. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) As you move into the new year, your travel aspects grow stronger, and you might find yourself making decisions about a destination and a traveling companion sooner than you’d expected. LEO (July 23 to August 22) The new year holds both glitter and gold. This means Leos and Leonas should begin getting the facts they’ll need to separate the real thing from the sham in order to make important decisions next year. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A good way to start the new year might be to arrange for a visit to someone you haven’t seen in a long time. You also might want to pick up that project you put off a while back. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) As you contemplate the new year’s potential, you might want to talk things over with people who are or have been where you want to go. Their experience and advice can be helpful. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Someone close to you might feel you have no more room for him or her in your life. This calls for immediate reassurance of your love so you can start the new year on a high note. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) The coming year will bring more people into your life. Some situations might not work out as well as others. But overall, everyone earns something, and that’s always a good thing.
The test, called Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metric, either was or wasn’t designed to reveal TBI, depending on whom you ask. (But, if the media stories are correct, no other test was considered because the Army itself developed the program.) Some medical types thought that any test was better than none, especially if the “after” test was done quickly. Others wanted to wait until the “right” test came along, and the “after” test results were ignored. The Army wants a good test, of course, so it wants to compare others that are available -- which will take years. Meanwhile, how many cases of mild TBI won’t be diagnosed? To read the long NPR story go to: www.npr.org and put “Military’s Brain-Testing Program a Debacle” in the search box. Follow the links in the article to the companion piece on ProPublica, “Brain Wars.” For another version of this story, go online to Stars and Stripes at www.stripes.com and put “Testing program fails soldiers” in the search box.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) The new year could find you indulging in one or more of the hobbies you’ve always wanted to take up. And don’t be surprised if they ultimately direct you toward a new career. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) The artistic Aquarian should find more opportunities in the new year. You might even make some potentially helpful contacts as you gather to ring in the year 2012. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) The new year offers challenges for Pisceans who want to make better use of the skills they now have and learn new ones. Personal relationships show stronger positive aspects. BORN THIS WEEK: Although you sometimes tend to be a bit judgmental, nevertheless, you are generous and caring and very much beloved.
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Since pasta is one of the world’s favorite foods, it’s worth a look into some of its history, ingredients and statistics. • If you’ve eaten pasta this week, you’re part of the 77 percent of Americans who eat it at least once a week. One-third of the population dines on pasta at least three times a week. If you’re an average American, you’ll eat about 20 pounds of the stuff this year. But if you’re a resident of Italy, that figure is 60 pounds! • Not surprisingly, the word “pasta” has its origin in the Italian language, and translates “paste,” meaning a combination of flour and water. High-quality pasta comes from semolina flour, which comes from durum wheat. Using softer flour will result in mushy pasta. North Dakota is the top American producer of durum wheat, 73 percent of the U.S. total. That’s enough to dish up about 13.7 billion servings of spaghetti! One bushel of wheat yields about 42 pounds of pasta. Almost two million tons of pasta is produced in the United States every year. • Not all pasta is produced from wheat flour. Some varieties are made from rice, barley, corn and beans. • Explorer Marco Polo dined on pasta in China in the courts of Kubla Khan during the 13th century. It’s believed that the Chinese were eating pasta as early as 3000 B.C. •Thomas Jefferson is credited with bringing pasta to America. During his tenure as U.S. Ambassador to France, he tasted a pasta dish while visiting Naples, Italy, and enjoyed it so much, he had crates of pasta and a pasta-making machine shipped to America in 1789. However, it wasn’t until 1848 that a Frenchman named Antoine Zerega opened America’s first commercial pasta plant in Brooklyn, New York. He used one horse in the basement to power the machinery and placed the strands of pasta on the roof to dry them out. •Don’t confuse pasta with egg noodles. Pasta is produced by kneading flour and water together. According to government regulations, egg noodles must be at least 5.5 percent egg in order to bear that label. The word noodle translates from the German nudel, meaning “paste with egg.” So if a noodle doesn’t contain eggs, it’s not a noodle! • There are about 600 different shapes of pasta, but its main types are flat (such as fettuccine and lasagna), tubular (manicotti, penne and macaroni), shaped (the wheel-shaped rotelle and bowties), strand pasta (spaghetti and angel hair), spirals (fusilli) and the small soup pasta. Those little bowties are officially known as farfalle. But this term doesn’t have anything to do with ties. It actually means “butterflies.” Ditaloni, also known as thimble pasta, is shaped like small cups, and stellini are star-shaped, while anellini are tiny rings of pasta. The word linguine translates from the Italian word meaning “tongues,” and the very thin strand vermicelli means “little worms.” • If your recipe instructs you to cook your pasta “al dente” (which literally translates “to the tooth”), it means it should be a bit firm, but still tender. • Counting calories? There are about 200 calories and 40 grams of carbohydrates in one cup of cooked spaghetti.
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1. Who is the only second baseman in major-league history to post five consecutive 30-homer seasons? 2. Seattle pitcher Felix Hernandez was 24 years old when he reached 1,000 career strikeouts in 2010. Name the three younger hurlers to reach 1,000 K’s. 3. In 2010, Indianapolis tied an NFL mark for most consecutive playoff appearances (nine). Who else holds the mark? 4. When was the last time before 2011 that the University of Kentucky’s men’s basketball team reached the Final Four? 5. In 2010-11, two Vezina Trophy (NHL’s top goaltender) finalists (Roberto Luongo, Tim Thomas) met in the Stanley Cup Finals. When was the previous time that happened? 6. Dale Earnhardt holds the Sprint Cup record for most wins at Talladega Superspeedway (10). How many times has Dale Earnhardt Jr. won there? 7. Combined, tennis players Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic have won 25 of the past 26 Grand Slam men’s singles titles. Who is the only other person to win in that span?
Winter Meetings Fuel Fan Frenzy Is there anything more captivating, anything in sport that offers more sheer excitement than baseball’s winter meetings? I think not! Do you know that the Royals are fishing for a lefthanded utility player? Well, the wags down at Dallas (where the meetings were held this year) know! And the fans back in Kansas City could not possibly be more riveted. They are literally queuing up outside the department-store window displays -- even when it’s snowing -- hands deep in their pockets, watching the TV sets through the glass to catch the latest news headlines. (Because that’s how all news is gathered, right Hollywood?) A quizzical woman passes by, clutching her handbag and adjusting her hatpin. “Say,” she says. “Did the Royals sign Jose Batista yet?” The man tips the lid of his fedora and pulls the pipe out of his mouth, temporarily averting his gaze from the television sets. “Say,” responds the man. “Not yet -- but they may have made a swell offer to Jerry Hairston!” “Say!” she replies. “That is swell!” “Say!” he yells back, wild eyed, whipped into that jungle-like frenzy that the winter meetings bring out in
all of us. Because whenever a general manager holds a press conference and says, “We’re here to try and improve the ball club,” it speaks to an ancient, some would say, primal urge to just light fires and dance. And that, of course, is exactly what all of those folks in front of the department store proceed to do (except for the lighting fire part -- I mean, come on, let’s not go too far here). They start off with a little two-step, then they kind of shake their hands in a hand-jive-meets-MichaelJackson sort of way, before stomping their feet, doing a complete turn before tossing their heads back, throwing their hands in the air, simultaneously dropping to their knees and yelling out: “Bautista!” This ritual is repeated all over the country. In Tampa Bay, they shoot off cannons usually reserved for the annual Gasparilla pirate festival whenever an agent drops a hint that a player might be interested in signing a long-term deal to play for the Rays. (And don’t even ask what they’d do if he’s a left-handed reliever, because, oh boy! Look out! Are those real?) And who’d have thought that the Yankees are looking to add pitching? And that the Sox are looking for a bat? I mean, these are the sort of things that can be uncovered only at the winter meetings, that wonderous three-day span which is, apparently, the only time baseball executives, managers, agents, Andrei Gromyko and Henry Kissinger can get together in the same room and communicate with one another. Viva Bautista!
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New Year’s Quotes and Toasts Making the Most of That Champagne Toast A long-standing disagreement about the best way to pour a glass of champagne for that New Year’s toast finally has been settled. Scientists in France are reporting that pouring bubbly in an angled, down-the-side way is best for preserving champagne’s taste and fizz. The study, which appears in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, also reports the first scientific evidence confirming the importance of chilling champagne before serving to enhance its taste. Gerard Liger-Belair and colleagues note that tiny bubbles are the essence of fine champagnes and sparkling wines. Past studies indicate that the bubbles -- formed during the release of large amounts of dissolved carbon dioxide gas -- help transfer the taste, aroma and mouth-feel of champagne. Scientists long have suspected that the act of pouring a glass of bubbly could have a big impact on gas levels in champagne and its quality. Until now, however, no scientific study had been done. The scientists studied carbon dioxide loss in champagne using two different pouring methods. One involved pouring champagne straight down the middle of a glass. The other involved pouring champagne down the side of an angled glass. They found that pouring champagne down the side preserved up to twice as much carbon dioxide in champagne than pouring down the middle -- probably because the angled method was gentler. They also showed that cooler champagne temperatures (ideally, 39 degrees Fahrenheit) help reduce carbon dioxide loss.
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” -- Oprah Winfrey “New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” -- Mark Twain “May we be alive at this time next year.” -- Irish toast “Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” -- Dave Beard “People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.” -- Author Unknown “Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can’t they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping -- rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas. But, goodness, why need they do it?” -- John Dos Passos, 1917 “Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals?” -- Ogden Nash “Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.” -- Brooks Atkinson “Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year, everybody.” -- Phyllis McGinley
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Resolve to Eat These 14 Foods in New Year With the start of a new year, many of us resolve to improve our eating habits by trying to include more nutritious foods in our diets -- but which foods? Food Technology magazine lists 14 foods that deliver research-documented benefits to health. Whole Grains 1. Barley: 11 clinical trials spanning almost 20 years found that increased consumption of barley products can lower total and LDL cholesterol. 2. Quinoa and buckwheat: Research suggests that seeds and sprouts from both quinoa and buckwheat represent rich sources of polyphenol compounds, which enhance the nutritional value of foods, such as gluten-free breads. 3. Brown rice: Substituting brown rice for white rice may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes. 4. Rye: Rye can improve glycemic profiles and rye bread can be used to decrease hunger both before and after lunch when consumed at breakfast.
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On Jan. 1, 1876, the first area-wide New Year’s Day Mummers’ Parade is held in Philadelphia. Mummers’ celebrations in America date back to colonial times. Reciting doggerel and receiving in return cakes and ale, groups of five to 20 people, their faces blackened, would march from home to home, shouting and discharging firearms into the air. On Dec. 28, 1895, the world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was a series of short scenes from everyday French life. Admission was charged for the first time. On Dec. 27, 1900, prohibitionist Carry Nation smashes up the bar at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas, causing several thousand dollars in damage and landing in jail. Nation became famous for carrying a hatchet and wrecking saloons as part of her anti-alcohol crusade. On Dec. 30, 1922, in post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is established. In the USSR, all levels of government were controlled by the Communist Party. Soviet industry was owned and managed by the state, and agricultural land was divided into state-run collective farms. On Dec. 31, 1937, Anthony Hopkins is born in Port Talbot, Wales. Hopkins is known for playing one of the greatest villains in movie history, the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs” and its two sequels, “Hannibal” and “Red Dragon.” On Dec. 29, 1940, London suffers its most devastating air raid when Germans firebomb the city. The next day, a newspaper photo of St. Paul’s Cathedral standing undamaged amid the smoke and flames seemed to symbolize the capital’s unconquerable spirit during the Battle of Britain. On Dec. 26, 1966, the first day of the first Kwanzaa is celebrated in Los Angeles. The seven-day holiday is a celebration of African-American family, community and cultural values, which include unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, economic cooperation, purpose, creativity and faith.
To Your Good Health By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.
Wine -- Good or Bad
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am thoroughly confused. Several months ago, I read of the benefit of wine for women. The conclusion was that it reduced a woman’s chances of heart attack and stroke by 30 percent. My husband and I have started to drink one glass of wine a day. Now comes a new report that says just one glass of wine a day increases the chances for breast cancer. Should I be concerned? -- M.T.
ANSWER: Welcome to the army of nutrition confusion. What’s good one day might be life-threatening the next. I don’t rely on one report. I stick to what the majority says. If the majority changes its mind, then I change. Wine and other alcoholic drinks lower the incidence of heart disease and, apparently, strokes. That’s the current majority thinking. Moderate drinkers of alcohol -- wine in particular -- have a lower overall mortality rate than do alcohol abstainers and heavy drinkers. “Moderate” drinking is one glass of wine, one 12-ounce can of beer or 1.5 ounces of whiskey for women; it’s two for men. The role of wine (or alcohol) in promoting breast cancer is less clear. Analysis of 40 studies shows an increase in breast cancer for women downing three or more drinks a day. The same studies suggest that even one or two daily drinks might pose a slight danger. Other studies show an increase in lobular breast cancer with one drink a day, but no increase in ductal breast cancer. Ductal cancer is the most common kind of breast cancer. I am positive that equally confusing information will be forthcoming.
The best advice I have read is this: If a woman truly savors drinking wine, one glass a day is relatively safe in regard to breast cancer. The benefits of heart health and prevention of stroke are not so great that they should induce anyone to change from being a nondrinker to a drinker. The booklet on breast cancer explains this illness in detail. To obtain a copy, write to: Dr. Donohue -- No. 1101W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. DEAR DR. DONOHUE: How much stress does sex put on the heart? I don’t have a heart problem. I know two fellow workers, who, according to scuttlebutt, died while having sex. They were about my age. -- R.L. ANSWER: Scuttlebutt isn’t a reliable source of information. Blood pressure and heart rate rise during sexual relations, but not so much as to be a source of concern for most men and women, even those who have had a heart attack. The energy expenditure is approximately the same as climbing two flights of stairs. That is, walking, not running, up those flights. Most people who have had a heart attack can resume an active sex life within three to six weeks of having the attack. The exact amount of time has to be determined by the person’s physician, who takes into account the magnitude of the heart attack and how well the heart is currently performing.
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Reader: Bride Wants to Use Dog in Wedding By Samantha Mazzotta
DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My stepdaughter Susan is getting married on the day after Christmas, in the Bahamas. A lot of her relatives, including myself, are rather miffed about the date and location. But even more outrageous are her plans for the wedding itself. She’s decided that her yellow Lab, “Briny,” will serve as the ring bearer! I’m not sure how she plans to pull this off, but I think it’s really inappropriate. How can I tell her this without upsetting her? -- Joyce L., Deerfield Beach, Fla. DEAR JOYCE: I don’t think there’s a way to say what’s on your mind without upsetting her, because you’re unhappy with the wedding plans overall. Personally, I think it sounds really fun that Briny has such an important place in the wedding. Susan does need to make sure that Briny can make the trip over to the Bahamas. The website www.bahamas. com has details on getting a pet import permit, but the
most important detail is that Briny must have up-to-date shots and Susan must bring the written record of those immunizations with her. So, the most you can and should do is double-check with Susan that she has taken care of these requirements for Briny and that she’s staying in accommodations that allow pets. This close to the wedding, it’s probably best not to go into any other details. If you’ve accepted the invitation and finalized your travel plans, go to the wedding, enjoy a fruity beverage (preferably with an umbrella), and be happy.
How Do You Pay Off Debt? When you’re saddled with multiple debt payments every month and want to put extra money toward paying off one at a time, how do you decide which debt gets the extra money first? There are two schools of thought: Some financial gurus advise paying off the smallest debt first, and then using that extra money to attack the next smallest. Others believe in going for the one with the highest interest rate first, no matter how large or small the debt. But when it comes down to it, it’s the consumer, not the financial wizards, who ultimately write the checks. And it’s consumer who, for the most part, will pay the smallest debt first, no matter the interest rate. Now a University of Michigan study (Winning the Battle but Losing the War: The Psychology of Debt Management) has uncovered the reasons for consumer debt repayment decisions. Researchers concluded that consumers will pay off a small debt first, even if a larger debt has a higher interest rate, for the emotional and psychological satisfaction of retiring a debt -- a “quick win,” as they dubbed it. Correct or not, consumers are concerned with reducing the number of debts more than they are with the dollar value of the debts. It was only when consumers were shown the amount of interest they were paying that some saw the sense
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in changing their repayment methods. Credit-card companies are now required to show in a box on each month’s statement just how long it will take you to pay off the debt if you make only minimum payments, as well as a sample comparison to how much you’d have to pay each month to retire the debt more quickly. You can make use of an online calculator to show 1) how quickly a debt will be paid off if you make payments of varying amounts, and 2) how much interest you’ll be paying during that time. Search online for “credit card payment calculator,” then do the math for each of your debts to see which plan gets you debt-free the fastest. The bottom line: No matter which method you use to pay off debts, be sure it makes financial sense. Always make more than the minimum payment to protect your credit scores.
1. LITERATURE: Who wrote the “Little House on the Prairie” book series? 2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the official animal of Oklahoma? 3. HISTORY: By what other name did Southerners refer to the Battle of Bull Run? 4. PERSONALITIES: What was the first name of pirate Captain Kidd? 5. MOVIES: The film “Schindler’s List” won how many Oscars? 6. GEOGRAPHY: What is the approximate total square mileage of land in Hong Kong? 7. TELEVISION: Who played the character of Norm on “Cheers”? 8. INVENTIONS: What did Robert Goddard develop in 1926? 9. U.S. PRESIDENTS: How many years did Franklin Roosevelt serve as president? 10. LANGUAGE: What common vegetable’s Latin name is Solanum tuberosum?
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during a “Shop With a Cop” promotion, and there were 60 police officers already in the store -- in uniform. • You may be surprised to learn that the Statue of Liberty is not located in New York. While it is on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, it’s technically within the territorial waters of Jersey City, N.J. • It was American inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison who made the following sage observation: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.” • If you’re planning a trip to Peru to ring in the new year, you might want to bring along some yellow underwear. In that country it’s considered lucky to wear it on the first day of the new year. • Another story to add to the file on clueless criminals: In 2010, two men in Portland, Ore., went to a supermarket and started removing price tags from items and filling their backpacks with the loot. However, they didn’t even make it out of the store with their ill-gotten gains. It seems that the would-be crooks decided to do their shoplifting
• If you’re going to be traveling to California anytime soon, you might want to keep this in mind: In that state, shooting game from a moving vehicle is illegal -- unless the animal you’re aiming for is a whale. • A baseball will travel farther on a hot day than on a cold one. • The oldest bakery yet uncovered was found by archaeologists digging in the Egyptian city of Giza in 2002. They say that the baking trays, bread molds and ovens there date back to 2500 B.C., right around the time the pyramids were being built. *** Thought for the Day: “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” -- Mark Twain
1. Dan Uggla (2007-11). 2. Bob Feller (22 years old), Bert Blyleven (23) and Dwight Gooden (23). 3. The Dallas Cowboys, 197583. 4. It was 1998, when Kentucky won its last championship in men’s basketball. 5. It was 1989 (Calgary’s Mike Vernon, Montreal’s Patrick Roy). 6. Five times. 7. Juan Martin del Potro won the U.S. Open in 2009.
1. Laura Ingalls Wilder 2. Buffalo 3. Manassas 4. William 5. Seven 6. 407 7. George Wendt 8. Liquid-fuel rocket 9. 12 years, 42 days 10. Potato
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