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behavior. He was cited for showing up late for games, using profanity on umpires, arguing with the league president, and climbing into the stands to fight with a heckler. His antics earned him ejections, fines, and suspensions. His off the field behavior of keeping late night hours, carousing with loose women and excessive drinking was also causing noticeable problems with his health.

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morning similar to today’s practice of searching for colored eggs. • By the 1600s the pretzel’s intertwining loops had become a symbol of love. In some countries, royal couples included pretzels in their wedding ceremonies as a sign of their marriage bond, an act that may have been the source for the common phrase “tying the knot.”

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When you see Kona run, you would never know the awful events that plagued her life and ours when she was a puppy. She is a living miracle. We never regretted the expense or the time involved in getting her through it all.” The best way to prevent “frontover” and “backover” accidents is to be aware that they happen. Check under and around your car before moving it. Know where your dog is at all times. Keep him out of the street and away from the driveway. Use a lead in the front yard. Keep him on a leash. Fence in the front yard, separating it from the driveway and the road. Or decide that the front yard is off limits to the dog. Kona is one of the lucky ones. Lucky in life, lucky in love. Not everyone has the financial resources, and there are times when there is no way around that. But it’s also true that not everyone is willing to stand by through thick and thin, in sickness and in health. Often, when I share a letter from a reader, it’s an example of what not to do. But this letter is an example of pet ownership at its best: total commitment, unflinching responsibility and wholehearted dedication to the health and well-being of the animals that enrich our lives. Tell them you saw their ad Woof!

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contribute. Frankly, I am a little bit fuzzy on how More about that in a minute. this fund operates, but I think it is something like a The general tax-funded Social Security pro semicompulsory individual retirement account. So, regram gets Australians a rather modest monthly an employee participating in this fund will gradutirement benefit that maxes out at about $2,000 for ally build up money, often into the hundreds of American an individual or $3,000 for a couple. In thousands of dollars or more by the time they redollars, that converts to $1,233 for a single person tire. And when they do retire, they can draw money the is or $1,849 for a couple. And remember, that maximum benefit payable. For comparison, the out of the fund. The couple I mentioned above who current maximum Social Security retirement ben- get no benefits out of the means-tested Australian efit in the U.S. is $3,011 per month. And there is no Social Security system get a fairly nice income from marital cap. In other words, a husband and wife, their Superannuation Guarantee fund. There is obviously much more to the Ausboth of whom had maximum Social Security earn- tralian Social Security system than I was able to $6,022 or ings, would each get $3,011 per month, discuss here. But I’m simply out of space. In next combined. MON., MARCH 9 sugweek’s column, I am going to discuss some the to And here is another interesting twist Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  gested reforms to ourSocial Security program that  P are carefully. benefits Please review Double check: Phone Number(s)  Spelling Australian Social Security system. The involve some of the features of the Australian sys-or co income means-tested. 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Babe Ruth (from page 3) • Ruth played his final season with the Yankees in 1934. His age, his weight, and lack of conditioning was taking its toll. He was traded to the Boston Braves in 1935. Now at age 40, he played just 28 games of the season, hitting the final six of his record home runs for that team. • Before Babe Ruth had joined the Yankees, the team had never won a title of any kind. During his tenure, the Yanks bagged seven pennants and four World Series titles. • Boston’s sale of Ruth to the Yankees was highly criticized and resulted in a decadeslong superstition known as “the Curse of the Bambino.” Prior to the sale, the Red Sox were one of the most successful baseball teams, capturing five World Series titles. Once Ruth was sold, an 86-year winning drought began for the Sox, while the Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in history. • Between 1920 and 1964, the Yanks collected 29 American League pennants and 20 World Series titles, while the Red Sox earned only one pennant during that entire period. The curse was finally broken in 2004 when the Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals to take the World Series title. The intense rivalry between the NY Yankees and Boston Red Sox remains today as one of the fiercest in all of American sports. • Ruth’s homerun record of 714 stood for 34 years. At the time of his retirement in 1935, he held 56 major league records, including home runs, RBI’s, total bases, and batting percentage. • The Baseball Hall of Fame was established the year after Babe’s retirement, and he was selected as one of the first five inductees. • Ruth was diagnosed with cancer in 1946. In 1947, the baseball commissioner declared April 27 as Babe Ruth Day to honor the baseball legend. With his body ravaged by the cancer, Ruth could barely speak above a soft whisper while sharing a brief statement with the 58,500 fans in attendance. He appeared at the stadium again on June 13, 1948 for the park’s 25th anniversary, his final appearance there, and the day his jersey Number 3 was retired. • Babe Ruth died August 16, 1948 at age 53. His casket remained on display in the Yankee Stadium rotunda for two days, viewed by more than 77,000 people who filed past. More than 75,000 stood crowded outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral during his funeral mass. 

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