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• Those who paint their fingernails these daystend to choose the color on a whim. Inancient China, though, it was a much moreserious matter: The color of your fingernails wasan indication of your social rank.

• It was newsman Dan Rather who made thefollowing sage observation: “Americans willput up with anything, provided it doesn’tblock traffic.”

• Here’s something to consider the next timeyour allergies start acting up: It’s beenreported that the force of the air movementgenerated by a sneeze can reach more than100 miles per hour.

• In 19th-century England, one Dr. WilliamPalmer was suspected of going on a killingspree, poisoning his mother-in-law, his wife, hisbrother, five of his children and at least twopeople to whom he owed money. He wasfinally brought to trial for the murder of hisfriend John Parsons Cook, who had becomeviolently ill and then died after having dinnerat Palmer’s home. Palmer was convicted andsentenced to be hanged. As he wasmounting the gallows, witnesses claim thatPalmer looked at the trapdoor andexclaimed, “Are you sure it’s safe?”

• If you’re ever lost in the wilderness of theeastern central part of North America, it mighthelp to look for Silphium laciniatum, betterknown as the compass flower or compassplant. This perennial herb resembles thesunflower and can grow from 3 to 12 feet tall.The plant’s usefulness is based on the fact thatits leaves tend to orient themselves so thatthey point north and south.

• • •Thought for the Day: “I like them to talk nonsense.

That’s man’s one privilege over all creation.Through error you come to the truth! I am a manbecause I err! You never reach any truth without

making fourteen mistakes, and very likely a

hundred and fourteen.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My little dog“Sandy,” a 3-year-old Shih Tzu, has had an on-going ear infection for the past four months. Thevet said it was a yeast infection and gave me somedrops for it. It cleared quickly, but within twoweeks it was back again. This time the vet sug-gested I change his dog food, along with givinghim the drops again, so now he is on a grain-freedog food. It cleared up for a while, but it is back

again. Any suggestions on what to do now? —Donna, via e-mail

DEAR DONNA: Keep trying! Continue work-ing with your vet to find a solution to Sandy’s re-curring ear infections. It may take a combinationof treatments to stop them from happening, includ-ing a change in diet (such as the prescribed grain-free diet), drops or oral medication.

Signs of an ear infection in a dog typically in-clude head shaking, yel-low or brown “gunk” inthe ears, a yeast-likesmell, redness and swell-ing. Causes include de-bris or water in the ears,allergies, or unexplainedfactors.

Shih Tzus are prone toear infections because ofthe shape of their ears,and because of the longhair growing over theears — fluids don’t drainfrom their ears as easily.Owners must clear thehair from their dogs’ earsfrequently and must besure to dry their dogs’ears after swimming orbathing.

Dogs like Sandy whohave repeat infectionsmay benefit from havingthe hair clipped awayfrom around their ears(let the veterinarian dothis). Sandy may begiven a long-term courseof treatment, too — usu-ally oral medication. Insevere cases, vets mayrecommend surgery toreconstruct the ear canalto improve drainage, butthis should be consideredonly when other avenueshave been exhausted.

Send your tips, questionsand comments to Paw’sCorner, c/o King FeaturesWeekly Service, P.O. Box536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or e-mail them [email protected].


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License PlatesQ: I have several license tags, including a rare por-

celain plate from Iowa, a 1921 Colorado tag, and abouta dozen from various states that were issued during the1930s. I would like to contact others who share myhobby, since I have several duplicates. — Carl, GrandJunction, Colo.

A: Some sources that might be helpful are Dave Lin-coln, a collector, P.O. Box 331, Yorklyn, DE 19736; theAutomobile License Plate Collectors Association, P.O.Box 7, Homer, WV 36372; and The Plate Trader, anexcellent newsletter, 21 Ridge Run SE, Apt. D, Marietta,GA 30067.

• • •Q: I have a bottle of Kennedy Scotch Whisky imported

from Scotland. How much do you think it is worth? —Claire, Nashua, N.H.

A: Since I have no idea of when your whisky was

distilled and if it has any historic value, I can’t answeryour question. Mike Strother is a collector who is es-pecially interested in tax stamps, labels, documents andother items relating to the distilling industry. He mightbe able to help you. His address is 4677 Spring CreekDrive, Lexington, KY 40515.

• • •Q: I have an old lawn mower that has been owned

by my family since the 1930s. Is it valuable, or shouldI toss it? — Steve, Albuquerque, N.M.

A: I’ll cut to the chase. Most of the older lawn mow-ers manufactured in the United States have very littlevalue. In my 30 years of writing this column, I haveyet to find a club for collectors. I suggest you post it oneBay, and if a feeding frenzy develops, you’ll have youranswer.

• • •Q: I have some World War II-era Japanese postage

stamps. I would like to contact an expert about them.— Kathleen, Canandaigua, N.Y.

A: Kenneth Kamholz is secretary of the InternationalSociety for Japanese Philately, P.O. Box 1283,Haddonfield, NJ 08033; [email protected]; and http://www.isjp.org/isjp.html. I am certain he can advise you.



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January 1 - 7, 2009

BEST RACE: On Sept. 28, Jimmie Johnson outdueled Carl Edwards at KansasSpeedway in a single race that summed up the whole season. It was the cool, effi-cient Johnson over the brilliant, impetuous Edwards. On the final lap, Edwards laidit all on the line, swooping past Johnson in the third turn only to drift into the wallafter his Ford cleared the champion’s Chevrolet. Edwards managed to hang on tosecond. “I knew I was going to hit the wall,” said Edwards. “I didn’t know I wasgoing to hit it that hard.”

WORST RACE: The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard (Indianapolis Motor Speed-way) was barely a race at all. The tires provided by Goodyear popped like balloons.The longest green-flag sequence of the 160-lap race lasted a grand total of 18 laps.Indy did maintain its status as a predictor of championships, though. Johnson won.

Best and Worstof NASCAR ’08


BEST STORY: Hands down, it was the rise and fall of Kyle Busch, who woneight of the 26 regular-season races only to collapse in the Chase. Busch’s averagefinish in the first three Chase races was 35.0, meaning that his Chase was overshortly after it began. Still, Busch won a total of 21 races in NASCAR’s threemajor series, an incredible feat undermined only by the fact that no one else everreally tried to race that extensively in three, not two, series.

WORST STORY: Billed at season’s beginning as the greatest rookie class inNASCAR history, the competition for Raybestos Rookie of the Year quickly dis-solved into a long day’s journey into night. By the end, only two rookies were left.Regan Smith won the award, in part because Sam Hornish Jr. failed to make thestarting field for the final race. Smith became the first lame-duck rookie in recentmemory. He doesn’t have a Cup ride for 2009 yet.

BEST TEAM: Hendrick Motorsports collected another title, but only one driverbesides Johnson won a race. Dale Earnhardt Jr. won mainly on strategy at Michi-gan in June. On the other hand, Roush Fenway Racing won 11 races, three morethan Hendrick and one more than Joe Gibbs Racing, and captured positions two(Edwards) and three (Greg Biffle) in driver points behind Johnson. All in all, giveJack Roush the edge.

WORST TEAM(S): The co-winners, Dale Earnhardt Inc. and Chip GanassiRacing with Felix Sabates, merged at year’s end. It was a move born out of des-peration. Neither team won a race or put a driver in the Chase. Honorable mentiongoes to Gillett Evernham Motorsports, which won two races but, uh, lost (Ray)Evernham, who basically cashed out.

BEST COMEBACK: After consecutive disasters at Talladega and Charlotte,Edwards trailed Johnson by 168 points at the Chase’s midpoint. In the remainingfive races, Edwards won three times and had an average finish of 2.0. He fell shortby 69 points, but fought the good fight.

WORST CRASH: Michael McDowell’s qualifying crash at Texas on April 4looked fatal. Attempting to straighten out his Toyota, McDowell overcorrectedand shot into the wall almost head-on. He walked away with minor injuries, dem-onstrating the safety of NASCAR’s new car and the value of soft walls.

BEST SPOKESMAN: Jeff Burton could teach politicians some lessons on howto be tactful, quotable, humorous and responsible.

WORST SCENE: Excitable Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick had to be sepa-rated in the Lowe’s Motor Speedway garage on Oct. 9. Photos, suppressed at thetime, surfaced two days later showing Edwards halting Harvick’s advance by grasp-ing his neck. Attempts to keep the matter quiet wound up making it five times asloud.

BEST GESTURE: Kyle Busch gave his purse money from a Nationwide Se-ries race to help the great Sam Ard, whose career was shortened by injury and whonow suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.

WORST GRIP ON REALITY : At Indianapolis, NASCAR’s Robin Pembertonand Goodyear’s Greg Stucker were in almost complete denial. With thousands offans demanding refunds, Pemberton said real fans didn’t mind, and didn’t get aroundto apologizing until a few days later. Stucker said it was “nobody’s fault.” Theteams knew what had happened. Kyle Busch called it “stupid,” and his crew chief,Steve Addington, termed the Allstate 400 “a sorry excuse for a race.”

Monte Dutton has covered motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette since 1993. Hewas named writer of the year by the National Motorsports Press Association in 2008. Hisblog NASCAR This Week (http://nascar.rbma.com) features all of his reporting on racing,roots music and life on the road. You can e-mail Monte at [email protected].


The rise and fall of Kyle Busch (here celebrating his victory in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona in July) earns,in Monte’s book, Best NASCAR story of 2008. (Geoff Burke/Getty Images for NASCAR)


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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Both my left and rightbreasts have many lumps. They scared me, so I sawan OB/GYN doctor. She spent a long timeexamining my breasts and told me I had fibrocysticbreast disease and that it was nothing to worryabout. I had a mammogram, and no cancer wasseen. I still worry. Does this turn into cancer? — V.B.

ANSWER: Fibrocystic breast disease shouldn’t becalled a disease. It has been renamed “fibrocysticchanges.” “Disease” is not a word that can be usedwhen 60 percent of premenopausal women havethe condition.

“Fibro” refers to strands of scar tissue. Cysts arefluid-filled sacs. With fibrocystic breast changes,both breasts are usually involved, something thatrarely happens in cancer. The cysts are soft andfeel like they’re made of rubber. They can bepainful, especially in the days before a menstrualperiod. Cancers are solitary, hard masses thatcannot be pushed around, like a cyst can.

Fibrocystic breast changes are not cancer anddon’t become cancer. If they do become painful,take Tylenol or one of the anti-inflammatorymedicines like Aleve or Advil. Some women findthat eliminating caffeine eliminates the pain offibrocystic breasts. Others have gotten relief byadopting a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet.

You can put this issue to rest.Breast cancer is on every woman’s mind. The

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• • •DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My wife has been going

through menopause for the past eight years. Wehave not been intimate through these years. WhenI bring up the subject of intimacy, she quickly statesthat she doesn’t want to talk about it. She won’teven hug me.

My wife is only 53 years old. It seems like she willbe going through menopause for the rest of herlife. I have been patient, but I would like to havemy wife back. If you could give me some advice,it would be greatly appreciated. — J.T.

• • •DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Does regular running

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repaired, oil in the car changed? Read up on it.There are manuals and how-to books for every-thing under the sun. If you can learn how to do atask, not only will you save yourself money, butyou’ll then have a skill that’s valuable to others.Assess your skills and see what you might barterfor things you need.

• Consider adopting a philosophy of voluntarysimplicity where less is more. Voluntary simplic-ity can put a whole new face on a tight budget.Instead of feeling pressure about what you can’tbuy, in a simpler lifestyle you won’t want extrascluttering your life. The less stuff you buy, the lessyou have to take care of and the more money youkeep in your pocket.

Bottom line: Become extremely proprietaryabout your cash. Take a hard look at each and ev-ery situation in which you might spend money.Make every penny count.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answerreader questions, but will incorporate them into his columnwhenever possible. Write to him in care of King FeaturesWeekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475,or send e-mail to [email protected].


money-saving opportunities and make it a way oflife.

• Get involved in a food-supply group. AngelFood Ministries [www.angelfoodministries.com],for example, makes bulk purchases of food andhas distribution points in 38 states. The cost of thefood is very low. Often the program is run by localchurches, but there are no qualification require-ments. Once a month, orders are taken and the fooddelivered to a central location. If there is no distri-bution group near you, look into starting one.

• Look for other low-cost food distributiongroups in your area. Do an Internet search for “low

cost food” and put in your town andstate.

• On FreeCycle [www.freecycle.org],you can ask for what you need andgive away what you don’t need. Ar-eas are broken down by ZIP codeacross the country. The generosity ofmany people in this group is unsur-passed. Don’t be afraid to ask forthings.

• Check the craigslist[www.craigslist.org] Free section foryour area before spending money.Lots of useful items are being givenaway all the time.

• Do it yourself, for everything pos-sible. Need clothing altered, a roof


Q: Years ago, there was a sitcom starring WhoopiGoldberg, and I cannot remember its name. She wasthe manager or owner of a hotel and was always be-ing visited by her brother and his girlfriend. — CarlaM. in Oklahoma

A: The show you are referring to is called “Whoopi,”and it aired on NBC from September 2003 throughApril 2004. Whoopi starred as Mavis Rae, a memberof a defunct one-hit-wonder group called The EbonyBlackbirds. The crux of the show centered around the

events and people who visited Mavis’ hotel, the LamontHotel in New York City, including her brother,Courtney, and his girlfriend, Rita. The show did not dovery well, mainly because of its off-color humor andcriticism of President George W. Bush and his poli-cies. Whoopi can now be seen as one of the panelistson “The View,” where her edgy political and culturalcommentary is welcomedand appreciated.

• • •Q: On “Fringe,” there

is a character named ei-ther Clarke and/orFrancis. I don’t know allof characters’ names yet,since the plot moves reallyfast. What is hischaracter’s name, andwhere have I seen him be-fore? — Paulette, via e-mail

A: Puerto Rican actorKirk Acevedo plays thecharacter of Agent CharlieFrancis on Fox’s new hitdrama/thriller, “Fringe.”Kirk, 34, has starred in“Band of Brothers,” “TheBlack Donnelleys,” “Lawand Order: Trial by Jury”and “Oz.” He has beenmarried to actress KierstenWarren (“DesperateHousewives” and “DivineSecrets of the Ya-Ya Sister-hood”) since May 2005.

• • •Q: What has happened

to the CBS show “Moon-light”? Will it be returningin the spring? — Joann G.in Vermont

A: The cult-hit vampiredrama “Moonlight” was

canceled in May 2008 by CBS. There was talk of an-other station picking up the series and producing a sec-ond season, but the plans were scrapped and “Moon-light” was permanently canceled a month later. The first(and only) season of the show will be released Jan. 20on DVD.



• On Jan. 7, 1785, Jean-Pierre Blanchard and JohnJeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France,in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the EnglishChannel by air. They nearly crashed into the Channel,however, as their balloon was weighed down by extra-neous supplies such as silk-covered oars, with whichthey hoped to row their way through the air.

• On Jan. 8, 1867, Congress overrides President An-drew Johnson’s veto of a bill granting all adult malecitizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote,and the bill becomes law. It was the first law in Ameri-can history that granted black males the right to vote.

• On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt des-ignates a large part of the Grand Canyon a national monu-ment. Congress increased the protection of the canyonin 1932 by making it a national park, ensuring that pri-vate development would never spoil the Grand Canyon.

• On Jan. 9, 1493, Italian explorer Christopher Colum-bus, sailing near the Dominican Republic, sees three“mermaids” — in reality manatees — and describesthem as “not half as beautiful as they are painted.”Mermaids, mythical half-female, half-fish creatures, aretypically depicted as having a woman’s head and torso,a fishtail instead of legs and holding a mirror and comb.

• On Jan. 6, 1925, Finnish long-distance runner PaavoNurmi appears in the first of his 55 U.S. races. Of these,he lost only his last race, a half-mile sprint. Some news-papers speculated that he had lost only out of polite-ness to his American hosts.

• On Jan. 5, 1933, construction begins on the GoldenGate Bridge, as workers start excavating 3.25 millioncubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages.The Golden Gate Bridge officially opened on May 27,1937, the longest bridge span in the world at the time.

• On Jan. 10, 1979, the last convertible VolkswagenBeetle is produced. The VW “Bug” was a popular carthroughout the 1960s and 1970s, leading to innovationssuch as sunroofs and convertible tops in an otherwiseunchanging design.



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Not all of us are retired. Many seniors are just nowwrapping up long careers or are going back to work foreconomic reasons. Some of us are looking for a differentway to spend our retirement years.

“What’s Next In Your Life? How to Find MeaningBeyond the Money” is about how to retire in a new way— without the stress that often comes with such a drasticchange of life. We face new daily routines, plans thatdon’t pan out, the loss of identity if it was tied with ourprofession, and disappointments in the choices wethought we’d be happy with. Then there’s the simple factof money: If we don’t have enough to retire, we have tokeep working.

Many of us want to keep working, though, apart fromfinancial reasons. The authors quote a study that revealedthat 71 percent of us plan to keep working after we retire,and of those, a whopping 66 percent want to have a newprofession. The question this book helps answer is: Howdo we know what to do next?

Whether you’re retired or just thinking about it, takea look at this book. Written by Joan Strewler-Carter and

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Stephen T. Carter, “What’sNext” (Rockhill Books) comeswith a manual and a Web site.The manual guides you step bystep through forming a new lifeplan by looking at the non-financial aspects of retirement.

The Web site[www.whatsnextinyourlife.com]has a host of additional tools,resources and ideas. Don’tmiss “Road Trip” and “TimeCalculator” under the planningtools. The results can be veryrevealing.

Matilda Charles regrets that shecannot personally answer readerquestions, but will incorporate them intoher column whenever possible. Write to herin care of King Features Weekly Service,P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail [email protected].


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