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Flowers (from page one) SUNFLOWERS

• Sunflowers are native to North America and have been cultivated since about 3000 BC. The sunflower belongs to the daisy family (Asteraceae) which has over 20,000 species. It is the biggest family of flowering plants. • There are about 70 different species, some of which are dwarf. Sunflowers can even be grown as miniature bonsai plants. A sunflower is actually a cluster of hundreds of flowers.

• Sunflowers can be used to extract and absorb toxins such as lead, arsenic, and uranium from contaminated soil. Sunflowers were used to remove toxins from a pond after the Chernobyl disaster in Russia, and the same method was used after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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What Makes Us Happy In an article titled “What Do You Need to Be Happy?” I reported that, even though most people believe that greater wealth would make their lives happier, studies indicate that once our ® basic needs are met, more money will not make us any happier. by Mary Hunt In that column, I asked readers to weigh in on this subject. In your heart, do you believe that more money would make you happier? How much would it take to make you really happy, or have you discovered that contentment is not tied to money? I promised to compile any responses I received in a future column. I hoped for a handful of responses, at least enough to create a follow-up column. I got that in bucketloads! At last count, 968 of you had responded. Your responses were all over the map! More than a few readers don’t buy the research, believing that, for them, more money would mean more happiness. Others confirmed it to be true, citing example after example of how more money requires greater responsibility and even more stress. Still others shared heartwarming accounts of how health crises and family tragedies became catalysts to teach true contentment in the presence of extreme challenge. Space does not permit me to give you more than just a tiny peek into the mailbag. Here are a few of your responses, selected randomly:

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-- every time I go to the grocery store. It always iting our checks in the bank, we would go next seems that I get stuck in the checkout line where store and stare through those big windows at the there is a little old lady in front of me who is writing beautiful ballerinas like little boys with their noses YOUR a check for her groceries. I mean, come on! Who pressed against the glass front of a candy store! writes checks for groceries anymore? Gosh, I loved going to cash my paycheck! But I diSOCIAL SECURITY The point is those hardcore traditionalists gress!) are out there. That’s why they made direct deposit Anyway, this direct deposit stuff was new. by Tom Margenau optional for existing Social Security beneficiaries. And for the first couple of months after it started, I And thousands of old folks opted for the old fashwould very carefully check my bank account every two weeks to make sure that the mysterious pro- ioned “snail mail” delivery of their Social Security cess worked and my money really was there. Of checks. Even today, there are still about 500,000 course, over time, I (and millions of other people) people who get paper checks. That sounds like a learned that direct deposit was reliable and de- lot. But it is less than 1% of Social Security’s beneficiary base of 61 million recipients. pendable. Still, there are a half-million pieces of U.S. The ongoing battle with the U.S. Postal Fast-forward a number of years later and Treasury Department paper going out in the mail Service and its funding has a small fraction of elthe SSA, working with the Treasury Department, derly Social Security recipients worried that there decided that all new Social Security claimants every month to all these people. And as I said at the may be future disruptions to the delivery of their would be required to use direct deposit. And at the beginning, these folks are starting to worry that Social Security checks. same time, they offered a direct deposit option to political problems at the postal service could lead to punctuality problems with their Social Security “Wait a minute!” I can hear many of you all existing Social Security beneficiaries. 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• Water-meal, a type of duckweed, yields the tinyest flower in the world. The Latin name is Wolffia globosa and it’s found all over the planet, floating on calm swampy water. The plant itself is about the size of a grain of rice and the flower weighs about as much as two grains of salt. A bouquet of the tiny flowers would fit on the head of a pin. • The slowest-flowering plant is the rare species of giant bromeliad called Puya raimondii, discovered in 1870 at a height of 12,992 feet in the Bolivian mountains. The flower cluster emerges after about 80 to 150 years of the plant’s life. It produces a huge stalk bearing hundreds of blooms. Once it has blossomed, the plant dies. • In ancient Rome, a scientist was struck by a flower’s resemblance to the swords gladiators used in battle. He named the bloom “gladiolus” after the Latin word for sword, “gladius,” and the name has remained through the centuries. • The daisy got its name because the yellow center resembled the sun. It was commonly known as the “day’s eye,” which in time evolved to simply daisy.

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