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• It was beloved American film star Katharine Hepburn who made the following sage observation: “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything.”

• You might be surprised to learn that one out of every 18 people has a third nipple.

• The epic 1939 film “Gone With the Wind” was awarded 10 Academy Awards and is a beloved classic to this day. Given the astounding success of the movie, it’s shocking that one of the stars, Vivien Leigh, was paid only $15,000 for her role as Scarlett O’Hara.

• The world’s smallest spider is about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

• You may not realize it, but not all “light” beers have fewer calories than brews without that label. A beer simply has to be lighter in color to be called “light.”

• The African ostrich lays an egg that weighs a whopping 30 pounds. It’s so sturdy that a grown man can stand on it without causing it any harm.

• When the Titanic sank in 1912, many passengers perished in the frigid waters because no ship came to their aid until the Carpathia arrived more than two hours after the disaster. However, there was another ship nearby as the liner sank: a freighter, the California, was only 10 miles away. The crew even saw emergency flares fired from the liner, but they thought it was part of a celebration rather than a signal of distress.

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1. Hide: It works nearly every time. If you need a little break, admit it and seek refuge. Go to a private place and take a few long deep breaths and sing your favorite holiday tune to regroup.

2. Rehearse the worst, then, if it happens, you’ve already made advance preparations. And since the worst seldom happens, you can make a game out of what does.

3. Get organized early. List all your holiday chores: cards if you send them, decorating the house, gifts, special cooking, wrapping, mailing and shopping. Just listing everything you have to do will help you to feel less harried. Set a schedule, and do a little every day. Check items off your list as you complete them. This will show you your progress. Address a card or two per day. Wrap a present while you watch a favorite TV show. Remember, procrastination is the real “Grinch” who stole Christmas.

4. Reinstate the draft; get everyone in the house to help. Share the fun, share the duties. Children, too ... just confine them to one room so if they make a mess you only have one room to redecorate come spring.

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Every year, I caution people against giving the gift of a puppy for Christmas. There are many reasons for this, from the chaos of the season to the coldness of the climate to the fact that it is such a personal decision -- essentially the only time you get to choose a family member. Who wouldn’t want a part in that?

But every year, people do it anyway.

So this column is for all the people who pull off a ribbon and open a box to find an adorable, wiggling, wide-eyed puppy.

When you get the gift of a power tool, an appliance or a gadget, the first thing you reach for is the manual. But puppies don’t come with manuals, and they can’t tell you what they need. So what do you do?

Well, the first thing you do is most likely instinctive: You bond. You reach into that box, lift your pup into your arms and hold him. You cuddle with him. You stroke his fur and scratch behind his ears.

You reassure him and make him feel safe and loved in his new world. You keep doing this for the rest of his life.

Where it goes from there depends largely on his temperament and your environment. If he strikes you as scared or skittish, you’ll want to protect him from any chaos. If he bounds around the room brave and game to play, engage with him while beginning the process of puppy-proofing your home.

Puppies need three things right off the bat: love, patience and boundaries. Training can wait.

That’s not a typo. Day One with your new puppy is not the time to lay down the law. So if you got a puppy for Christmas, make one of your New Year’s resolutions to eliminate the word “no” from your vocabulary.

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-- Invest in a baby gate and a crate. No dog under the age of 2 should have free rein. His crate should be large enough for him to stand up, stretch out and turn around. It also should offer good visibility. The idea is to create a safe haven that is comfortable and inviting. Deck it out in soft chew toys and a warm blanket. Your dog’s crate is not a place for punishment or timeouts. You want him to love his crate, to willingly retreat there when you have to be out of the house or even out of the room for a while.

-- Begin a housebreaking routine. This is not the time for training, but it is the time to get into a routine. The basic idea: feed, water, walk. Feed your CASEY’S CORNER: Turn to page 10

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Study: Mammograms a So-So Screening Tool

To cement their argument, they note that women diagnosed with breast cancer between the ages of 40 and 50 -- none of whom had a mammogram during this study period -- had the greatest improvement in outcomes, with a reduction in deaths from breast cancer of 42 percent. This benefit could only be ascribed to better treatment.

Everyone agrees that mammograms do save lives. The question is: How many?

Today, mammograms as a screening tool for breast cancer are an integral, deeply embedded component of the way in which we manage the health of adult women with a goal of early detection of breast cancer. To stop screening mammograms is unthinkable.

But we should certainly pay more attention to the age at which mammograms should be done and how frequently they are done. These parameters are critical because of the downsides of mammograms, which not only include the problem of identifying cancers of no clinical significance but also the so-called “false positive” where something suspicious on a mammogram leads to needless biopsies and even surgery.

There is still consensus that mammograms should commence at age 50 and end at age 75. If a person has no family history of breast cancer, has not used hormone replacement, does not smoke, has had children and has breastfed, a mammogram should be done every two to three years.

In Europe, every three years is frequently the norm.

Any woman who has a strong family history of breast cancer, particularly if the cancer occurred at a young age, should get an annual mammogram.

And based on a careful discussion between doctor and patient, the first mammogram can be recommended at age 40.

The good news is that breast cancer treatments, even for cancers that have spread to lymph nodes, have a cure rate as high as 85 percent.

The key challenge with mammography at the moment is distinguishing between tiny cancers that will never cause a problem and those that will prove fatal without treatment. Until this differentiation can be made, we have no choice but to assume that all are potentially fatal and treat accordingly.

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CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) pup, provide water for your pup after he eats, and then immediately take him outside. When outside, praise him effusively the moment he eliminates. If he accidentally goes inside, clean it quickly and thoroughly and then take him outside. No pointing, yelling, spanking, rolled-up newspapers or “no”-ing.

-- Puppies teethe and puppies chew. To relieve the pain of teething while satisfying the natural urge to chew, keep an army of frozen washcloths in your freezer. If your pup is mouthing or chewing on hands, shoes or anything else you’d rather he not, swap the unwanted item for a frozen washcloth. He’ll love you for it.

-- Don’t forget the basics: stainless steel food and water bowls, puppy food, leash, collar, ID tags, microchip, puppy treats, chew toys and a blanket.

For more information on raising your new puppy, check out my book “I Just Got a Puppy. What Do I Do?” or visit www.unclematty.com. Happy holidays!

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In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers compared the rates of breast cancer before and after screening mammograms became widely available.

They found that instituting screening mammograms increased the diagnosis of very small breast cancers by more than 100 percent, from 112 cases per 100,000 women in 1976 to 234 per 100,000 in 2008. While tiny tumor diagnoses increased, mammograms did not reduce the rate of diagnosis of late-stage disease.

Over the 30-year period of study, the number of late-stage, larger cancers with a higher risk of mortality identified by mammography decreased by only 8 percent, from 109 to 94 cases per 100,000 women.

If mammography is a successful screening tool, it should detect the earliest cancers and, over time, this should be accompanied by at least as great a reduction of the larger, more advanced and dangerous tumors.

According to the authors of this study, Dr. A. Bleier and Dr. H.G. Welch, the fact that this did not occur implies that most of the early cancers were of no clinical significance, would not prove fatal and must have spontaneously resolved.

Based on these facts, they state that an estimated 1.3 million breast cancers were overdiagnosed during the 30-year period of this study and furthermore, that in 2008, breast cancers were over-diagnosed and unnecessarily treated in 70,000 women -- or 31 percent of all new cancers diagnosed.

Because mammograms have not reduced the rate at which more advanced cancers are diagnosed, they argue that mammograms are having only a small effect on the rate of deaths from breast cancer.

The conundrum clinicians face, however, is that, to date, no one can distinguish a small and harmless cancer from a small but potentially fatal cancer.

In this report the authors note that in women over the age of 50, deaths from breast cancer during the period of this study decreased by 28 percent. Until now, reduction of deaths was believed to reflect a combination of early detection by mammograms and better and more effective treatments.

Proponents of mammograms suggest that they contribute anywhere from 28 percent to 68 percent of the reduction in mortality.

Bleier and Welch suggest that most of the decrease in deaths comes from better treatment.

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People who fully recover from either usually don’t have permanent damage. They are vulnerable to a second episode, however.

Your daughter can protect herself on her next visit by slowly ascending and by taking Diamox. It’s a mild diuretic that affords good protection against altitude sickness. ***

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have developed an unquenchable thirst, which makes me drink water all the time. As a result, I have to spend a lot of time in the bathroom urinating. Can a person drink too much water? -- A.C.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Our 37-year-old ANSWER: A person can drink too much wadaughter lives in Denver. She took her younger ter, but that’s a very rare situation. A more likely ex- we need to do is start small and decide on what can add positives to our life. sister skiing where the altitude was 11,800 feet. planation of what’s happening to you is diabetes.

Consider asking your doctor what you can Our younger daughter lives in Toronto, where Excessive thirst, drinking water nonstop to do in the New Year to increase your level of health. the altitude is 250 feet. She felt discomfort or satisfy the thirst and the resulting need to urinate freThe answer might be rather simple, such as, “Get worse at the higher level. quently are signs of diabetes. You must see a doctor some 3-pound hand weights and strengthen your

Is it safe for an unacclimatized person soon. arms and wrists.” Or, “Add one fruit to your diet to travel to such an altitude abruptly? How best *** each day. Canned is OK.” How easy that would be. should one treat altitude sickness? Are there po- DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Can you get ringVow to stay in better touch with friends. tentially any serious or lasting effects of altitude worm from eating too much candy? Is there any Make a list of people who’ve started to drift away sickness? -- P and H.M. relationship between not keeping the body clean due to simple lack of contact and make a call or and ringworm? I have been told that both can send a letter to each one. Promise yourself that you

ANSWER: At high altitudes the pressure of cause it. -- Z.C. will stay in touch with them every month. oxygen in the atmosphere drops, so less gets into the

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• On Dec. 18, 1777, the new United States celebrates its first national day of thanksgiving, commemorating the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga after the surrender of Gen. John Burgoyne and 5,000 British troops that October.

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But there it was, in black and white and not some weird kanji script. Notre Dame and Alabama.

There is not column space enough to share the rich histories of these two fabled football programs.

I suppose that in the days to come, plenty will be written about Grantland Rice, Rudy, Knute Rockne, the “Four Horsemen” and winning one for “the Gipper.” Bear Bryant, Gene Stallings and colorful hat selections, stock footage of Heisman winners from over the years and lots of other bronze ornamental artifacts will be displayed.

I’ll just focus on the surreally preposterous for now (the 12-point line for Alabama being one of them ... bet on the Irish). Alabama has an elephant for a mascot. Notre Dame has a fighting Irish leprechaun and plays under the watchful eye of Jesus Christ signaling for a touchdown.

I put down the newspaper and spread a little marmalade on my English muffin. I don’t care what year it is, I think to myself ... Rudy was still offsides.

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When you find yourself in deep fairway rough, it is tempting to take a longer iron or fairway • Some phobias can be a learned behavior that wood and try to hit it as far as humanly possible. comes from listening to others describe a But the smarter and safer approach is to just get traumatic event. An individual in one’s life can it back into the fairway and set yourself up for trigger a phobia, such as peladophobia, the fear your next shot. So the next time you are in deep fairway rough, here are a few things to consider: of bald people. Those with nosto-phobia, a fear of returning home, may be able to contribute • Make sure their panic to a specific incident. you use a club • People who are afraid of looking into mirrors with enough loft.

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