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by Patricia L. Cook With the holiday season upon us, you have probably already had some sightings of Santa and maybe even his reindeer. This week, Tidbits scopes out some interesting facts about these pointy protrusions that can be both beautiful and deadly!

•Antlers are the bony growths that sit atop theheads of more than 60 kinds of deer, including moose, elk, reindeer and caribou.All of theseanimals are hoofed ruminants of the Cervidae family. Ruminants include cows, sheep, goats and giraffes, all of which have four-part stomachs.

•Antlers are true marvels of nature. All deergrow a new pair of antlers every year from the time they are a year old. The rate at which they regenerate, an inch or more per day, makes them the fastest growing formation in the animal kingdom. Conversely, the degeneration of the bond between the antler and the pedicle, the bony platform above the frontal bone of the skull on which antlers grow, is the fastest deterioration of tissue in the animal kingdom. This tissue degeneration causes the antlers to loosen and fall off in complete sets.

•While only male moose and elk have antlers,both male and female caribou and reindeer grow them. Moose and elk use them as weapons to fightforherdleadershiporforafemalemate.

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•Asmallcrowdof fewer than100peoplewasseated in the large 85,000-seat stadium in Chicago for thefirstgames,whichhadabout1,000 athletes from 26 states and Canada.

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1. ANATOMY: Which gland produc-es human growth hormone?

2. FAMOUS CHARACTERS: What does Donald Duck always wear?

3. MONEY: What is the basic cur-rency of Iraq?

4. RELIGION: In Western churches, what day is set aside for the Feast of St. Stephen?

5. SCIENCE: What is the Latin word and chemistry symbol for lead?

6. MOVIES: What 1969 movie was made from a Philip Roth novel and starred Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw?

7. PULITZER PRIZE: What was the title of Charles Lindbergh’s autobiog-raphy, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953?

8. LITERATURE: What 1920s novel features a narrator named Nick Car-raway?

9. LANGUAGE: What is a fata mor-gana?

10. GEOGRAPHY: What body of water does the Mississippi River flow into?

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3. Who held the Baltimore Ravens record for career TD passes before Joe Flacco broke it in 2010?

4. In 2010, Butler’s Brad Stevens became the second-youngest men’s basketball coach in the NCAA Tour-nament championship game. Who was the youngest?

5. In 2011, Peter Budaj became the third goalie to record 100-plus career NHL wins for the Colorado Ava-lanche. Name the other two.

6. Who won the first NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway?

7. Tennis great John McEnroe has the most U.S. Davis Cup career singles victories, with 41. Who is No. 2?

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passes for the Ravens (1996-97).4. Indiana’s Branch McCracken

was 31 when he did it in 1940.5. Patrick Roy and Dan Bouchard.6. Fireball Roberts, in 1960.7. Andy Roddick, with 33.


1. Name the all-girl group that released “Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home).”

2. Which New Wave quartet wrote and released” Can’t Put a Price on Love” in 1980?

3. Name the group that sang “Holly-wood Swinging” and “Higher Plane.” What was the year?

4. “Blue Boy,” “Hole in My Heart” and “My First Night Without You” never broke into the top 50 on the U.S. charts. Which famous performer released them?

5. Which group released “Do You Believe In Magic” and “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice” and when?

6. What was the bestselling song of 1990, based on worldwide airplay? (Think: shaved head.)

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went to No. 3.2. The Knack, on their second

album, entitled “But the Little Girls Understand.” The group’s co-song-writer, Doug Fieger, died in 2010.

3. Kool and the Gang, in 1974. Both songs hit No. 1 on the U.S. R&B charts,

4. Cyndi Lauper, in 1987, 1988 and 1989 respectively.

5. The Lovin’ Spoonful, in 1965. Both songs, written by John Sebastian, made it to the Top Ten. The group’s first No. 1 hit came the following year with “Summer in the City.”

6. “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Sinead O’Connor. It was No. 1 in at least 15 countries.


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•Afterthreeorfourmonthsofgrowth,antlerscanreach a span of 7 feet and a weight of more than 45pounds.Antlersserveasasortof“badgeofauthority.” The animal with the largest antlers, or rack, is usually accepted as the leader of the herd. Deer of all types use their antlers to fight and showdominance.Testosterone is atits highest levels when the antlers are in their period of quick growth (which may be the origin of another term we’re all familiar with).

•Unlike thehornsofcowsandotheranimals,antlers are not hollow. Horns are made of tubu-larfilamentsofkeratin,whichiswhathumanhair and nails are made of. Only the rhinoceros has solid horns. Horns, unlike antlers, do not regenerate each year. They grow throughout an animal’s life, and if they are broken, they do not reform. Most animal horns have only one point. The pronghorn antelope is the exception, with two points. Pronghorns also are different in that they shed their horns.

•Antlersaremadeofahoneycombedbone-liketissue. They go through a time when they are covered with a thin skin of fine hairs calledvelvet. The velvet contains an extensive capillary (vein) network. If you were to touch growing antlers on a live deer, they would feel warm from thehigh level of bloodflow.Theantlers harden over time during the growth season, and the cartilage in the antlers becomes

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•During the heat of the summer when antlersare almost fully grown, they serve as natural air conditioners. With the large amount of warm blood running through them, the antlers “throw off” some of a deer’s body heat. Of all of the types of deer though, remember that the only females that grow antlers are caribou and reindeer. So, the poor females of the other types of deer don’t have this built-in cooling system.

•Manydeershedtheirantlersinaboutthesamelocations (called “antler sheds”) each year, and many hunters and artists search for the shed antlers. Collecting and selling the antlers is permitted in most areas. However, some states have enacted shed-hunting laws that only allow antlerstobegatheredincertainareasatspecifictimes,withlargefinesandevenjailtimeasthepenalties for those who break these laws.

• Shed antler collecting is quite popular in theNational Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Jackson District Boy Scouts are issued a special permit one Saturday each spring to join the refuge staff in gathering elk antlers. The Scouts help sort, weigh, tag, bundle and sell the antlers at a public auction held in the Jackson Town Square each May.

• Jackson (the area is called Jackson Hole) hasfour elk-antler arches at the corners of Town Square Park in the center of town. The arches, first erected by theRotaryClub of Jackson inthe 1960s, are made of antlers gathered from the Elk Refuge. Each arch, made from about 2,000 antlers, weighs 7,000-10,000 pounds. Recently, the Rotary Club auctioned off the old arches and replaced them with new ones. Millions of tourists from around the world have had photos taken under the famous Jackson antler arches.

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Q: I’m writing to inquire about “Hu-man Target.” Is it coming back this fall, or maybe as a midseason replacement? At the end of the program last summer, it said it was the season finale, not the series finale. -- Fran N. in Ohio

A: Every-one involved in a show is always hope-ful that it will get picked up for another season, hence the wording of “season finale” versus “se-ries finale.” After the second-season finale aired, Fox decided not to renew “Human Target” for a third season. But hey, at least it got to have two seasons. Even more of this fall’s new shows have been canceled after airing only a few episodes, including the CW’s “H8R,” ABC’s “Charlie’s Angels”(which will air its remaining produced episodes) and CBS’s “How to Be a Gentleman,” starring “Entourage” star

Kevin Dillon. On the critical list are NBC’s “Prime Sus-pect” and ABC’s “Man Up!” NBC’s “Pan Am”started fairly well, but has been hemorrhaging viewers left and right. However, this seems to be NBC’s darling, so it might get the network support it needs to sur-vive the season. ***

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A: Syfy confirmed at this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con that “Merlin” will return in early 2012 for its fourth season. However as of this writing, no firm date had been set. Also, BBC-One, which produces and airs the show first in the U.K., has approved a fifth season of the popular fantasy, and considering its good ratings on Syfy, there’s a great chance we’ll get a fifth season here as well. ***

Q: Is “Shark Tank” gone from TV? I loved that show. Will it come back? --Anonymous, via e-mail

A: “Shark Tank” will be back midseason 2012 on ABC for its third season, along with “Secret Millionaire,” which returns for its second season. Producers for the hit entrepreneurial reality show have not yet announced an exact airdate for the sea-son premiere of “Shark Tank,” but if past seasons are any indication, expect it sometime between January and March 2012. And keep checking the Celebrity Extra website (celebrityextraonline.com) for late-breaking info on all your favorite shows. ***

Q: What is going on with Netflix? Is it still going to be around, or is it going to be Qwikster? I am so confused!

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Don’t Be Afraid to Correct Investment Mistakes Sometimes it’s important to stick to your convictions despite the emotional urge or outside pressures to change your mind. But other times, you need to be flexible enough to change your mind when presented with a new set of facts. Never has that been more apparent than in the business headlines in recent weeks. First, the CEO of Netflix decided to reverse his decision to split the company into two parts, after the announce-ment and its pricing changes caused an uproar from shareholders and customers. Then the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co., Meg Whitman, decided to reverse the company’s multibillion dollar decision to dump HP’s personal computer division -- a decision made under the pre-vious CEO, but one in which she had participated as a board member. Each of these reversals cost shareholders a huge chunk of money. HP stock is down 36 percent for the year and Netflix lost 75 percent of its market value, not to mention 800,000 customers. Everyone makes mistakes. But when lead-ers of companies -- or countries -- make mistakes, the costs can be catastrophic. It takes courage to admit a mistake and reverse course. But that can be a better decision than continuing down the wrong road. Take Bank of America, for instance. It saw an opportunity to replace lost profits from debit card swipe fees by instituting a monthly $5 charge for us-ing a debit card to access your own money. What a fiasco!

When I asked Warren Buffett, who recently invested $5 billion in B of A preferred stock, what he thought of the move, he lifted his glass of Coca-Cola and said, “New Coke.” He was referring to the historic marketing mistake of 1985, which caused Coca-Cola Co. to quickly bring back “Classic Coke.” Sometimes experience is the great teacher. But it’s important to learn the lesson quickly and reverse course before too much damage is done. Hopefully, research will prevent those mistakes. Just this week, Chase said that after testing the market, it had decided against imposing a fee for debit card use. Of course, their decision was certainly influ-ence by the negative reaction to B of A’s blunder. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be first to venture forth with your brilliant new marketing ideas! So what does all this mean for your own in-vestment decisions and money-management plans? Well, first you have the comfort of knowing you’re not alone if you make a big mistake on an invest-ment decision. But at least your mistake won’t make headlines. On the other hand, as embarrassing as CEO mistakes may be, they are cushioned by huge salaries and golden parachutes as they depart. But your mistakes could cost you your re-tirement. That’s why it’s so important to do your re-search, create a sensible plan -- and diversify your investments so you don’t have all your nest eggs in one basket. The recent volatility in the stock market makes this advice all the more important. It may sur-prise you to learn that although the Dow Jones in-dustrial average is just about 750 points higher than where it started the year, it has traversed 22,350 points on a closing basis so far this year. Adding up all those closing moves -- both up and down -- has resulted in tremendous anxiety and a lot of second-guessing of investment decisions. But if you had determined an appropriate portion of your assets to invest in a diversified stock portfolio, you could have taken comfort in knowing that his-torically that portfolio would produce positive returns over a 20-year period. And if another portion of your assets was in safe but low-yielding “chicken money” investments

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to 2004. This included information on whether they took vitamins, minerals and other dietary supple-ments. As these women grew older, more and more took supplements, increasing from 62 percent in 1986 to 85 percent in 2004. By December 2008, 15,594 of the women had died. Women who took iron supplements were twice as likely to die as those who did not. And remarkably, the risk of death was also higher in women taking multivitamins, Vitamin B6, folic acid, copper, magnesium and zinc. The only supplement exerting a positive effect on life expectancy was calcium, which is frequently quite deficient in the average American diet. While it makes sense that too much iron can damage cells, how could vitamins and minerals -- integral parts of food -- shorten life expectancy? One explanation is that the composition of vitamins and minerals in pill or capsule form is too dissimilar to the vitamins and minerals found in food. Vitamin E is a good example. In food, the vitamin consists of a mixture of alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocopherols. When taken as a capsule, all of the Vitamin E is the alpha tocopheral. This might explain why Vitamin E in capsule form has been shown to do more harm than good in numer-ous studies. More vitamins than we need may not be better than the ideal or natural amount. Deficien-cies of vitamins and minerals are very rare -- our problem is over-nutrition rather than malnutrition -- and taking much more than is required to meet our needs can lead to adverse effects. Vitamin and mineral sales in the United States run into the many billions of dollars, and many exercise and nutrition experts promote vari-ous supplements as essential for optimum health and fitness. While some research studies have shown benefits of consuming vitamins and miner-als, just as many studies have shown no benefit. Meanwhile, compelling evidence is piling up that points to potential harm. To me, the message is clear. The best source of every nutrient required for our health comes from food. Truly understanding how, what and when to eat is a better approach than trying to get a nutrient in a pill or capsule form.

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Columnist Is Right -- Parents Are Not ‘Mooching’ Social Security Q: In a recent column, you categori-cally stated that people cannot bring their for-eign-born parents to this country and then put them on their Social Security account. You said the only way that could happen is if someone died. In other words, you claim that benefits to parents can be paid only after the death of one of that parent’s grown children. But I know for a fact that this is untrue. My ex-husband brought his parents to this coun-try in the 1980s and immediately put them on his Social Security. And they got those Social Security benefits for the rest of their lives. How could you print such a big lie?

A: I didn’t lie. The problem is that you are confusing one government program with another one. However, you are not alone in that confusion. I got emails from dozens of readers challenging me on my facts or accusing me of lying. And every one of those readers made the same mistake you are mak-ing. I’ll explain in a minute, but first I will review the facts. In that prior column, I took on a ubiquitous rumor that Social Security is going broke because retirees are bringing their elderly parents to the U.S. from foreign countries and then putting those par-ents on their Social Security account. People claimed that these parents were “mooching” undeserved benefits off the system -- benefits financed by over-burdened American taxpayers. I correctly pointed out in that column that the only way a parent could claim benefits off an adult child’s Social Security record is if the adult child died. And then benefits could be paid only if the adult son or daughter was supporting his or her

parent before the son or daughter’s death. Finally, I made clear that out of roughly 50 million Social Security beneficiaries, only about 2,000 people get benefits as dependent parents on a deceased son or daughter’s Social Security record. And the vast majority of those parents are U.S. citi-zens. So even if they were all “mooching” benefits from the taxpayers (which they are not because they are getting paid legally), they are certainly not bank-rupting the Social Security system. All the readers who claimed they had per-sonal knowledge of a foreign-born parent getting So-cial Security benefits were actually referring to folks getting Supplemental Security Income payments. As I’ve pointed out so often in this column, far too many people confuse SSI with Social Secu-rity. SSI is a federal welfare program that pays a very meager monthly check to about 6 million elderly and disabled poor people in this country. Even though the program is managed by the Social Security Ad-ministration, SSI is not a Social Security benefit, and SSI checks are not funded by Social Security taxes. Up until about 20 years ago, it was possible for an elderly person who moved to this country le-gally to qualify for SSI benefits after they arrived -- as-suming they met all the eligibility requirements. So, many people, like your ex-husband, brought their parents over here and then took them down to the Social Security office to help them file for Supple-mental Security Income payments. Because they went to a Social Security of-fice to do this and because the name of the program makes it seem to be a Social Security supplement, many folks mistakenly believed their parents were getting some kind of Social Security benefit. But again, they were not. Those foreign-born parents were getting monthly SSI checks. And they didn’t get the checks for long. Sometime during the early 1990s, Congress changed the law to say that, with only very few exceptions, only U.S. citizens could qualify for Supplemental Se-curity Income payments. So foreign-born parents have never “mooched” benefits from the Social Security pro-gram, and for the past two decades, they haven’t “mooched” benefits from the Supplemental Security Income program either. * * *

Q: My dad is 104 years old. He lives in a nursing home. A Social Security representa-tive recently visited him and asked to see some form of identification. What was that all about?

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3. Where is “For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” found? a) Lukeb) Colossians c) 1 Timothy d) Galatians

4. With what did the seraph touch the fright-ened Isaiah’s mouth? a) Living waterb) Wingtip c) Live coal d) Fingertip

5. From Proverbs 15, what does a soft an-swer turneth away? a) Mockery b) Wrathc) Tears d) Falsehood

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A: Gosh. I didn’t know the Social Security Administration was still doing those ID checks on centenarians! It’s an anti-fraud measure to make sure people that old who are getting Social Security benefits are really still alive. As I recall, the project started 30 or more years ago following a spate of news stories about grown children cashing their deceased parents’ So-cial Security checks. During my career with SSA, I visited hundreds of centenarians and essentially asked them: “Are you still alive?” I always found that so embarrassing! And in all the cases I was involved in, there never was even a hint of fraud. Frankly, I’m not sure how effective or neces-sary that program is anymore. Today, all kinds of other anti-fraud measures are built into the system, such as computer-matching operations with banks and state bureaus of vital statistics. With only a few rare (and thus newsworthy) exceptions, if you’re old and you die, Social Security is going to find out about it.

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such as Treasury bills, CDs or money-market funds, you would have had more comfort in sticking with your stock market investments. What happens if you make a mistake? What if you sold out on one of those fearful down days? Don’t be paralyzed by fear or embarrassment. The market doesn’t know your emotions -- or care about your portfolio. The market is moving on. And so should you. Take a lesson from those CEOs who aren’t afraid to recognize a mistake and reverse course to get back on track. The only thing worse than being wrong is staying wrong. And that’s the Savage Truth. Terry Savage is a registered investment adviser and is on the board of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. She appears weekly on WMAQ-Channel 5’s 4:30 p.m. news-cast, and can be reached at www.terrysavage.com. She is the author of the new book, “The New Savage Number: How Much Money Do You Really Need to Retire?” To find out more about Terry Savage and read her past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.COPYRIGHT 2011 TERRY SAVAGE PRODUCTIONSDISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM

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ANSWER: Those puffy bags under your eyes aren’t filled with water; they’re globs of fat. In younger years, tough strands of fiber held them in place. With age, those strands weaken, and the fat bulges out. Look around and watch for them on TV. You’ll see that most people over 60 have them. They’re not a sign of illness. I have seen all sorts of ads for creams and gels that say they can shrink these bags. I can’t vouch for any of them. I don’t know if they work. I have reservations. One way to correct them is surgi-cal removal. You can forget the ice treatment unless you want to keep it up. It’s not a solution. ***

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A: Some psychologists believe many indi-viduals today do not mature until about age 26. They attribute several reasons for this: Failure to assume responsibility; the 50 percent divorce rate; being spoiled as children; too many scheduled sports and required social interactions, and not enough free time as children. Also, too many families do not pen-cil in enough family time on their calendar. Other contributors are the development of the computer and its offspring, the youth’s “secret” languages, such as texting, and other child raising in-terferences. What parent or grandparent doesn’t feel alone while driving when their child or grandchild is completely preoccupied listening to their iPod, busy texting a friend or immersed in a computer game? If your family can’t identify the cause of the problem, you certainly can’t solve it. Either you or her parents should encourage her to sit down with her school guidance counselor to get to the root of her problem. If she has entered a large and highly competitive college or university after doing well in a small town high school, she may have had a rude awakening. She is now going to have to work a lot harder for those high grades than ever before. Other reasons could be that her classes are too difficult, relationship issues, insecurity, health or psychological problems. She might even consider delaying college for a year or so and find a job. A “time out” like that may give her a different perspec-tive and new direction in pursuing a career choice and her college major.

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● On Nov. 14, 1851, “Moby-Dick,” a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published. “Moby-Dick” is now considered a classic of Ameri-can literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: “Call me Ish-mael.”

● On Nov. 15, 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City. The advent of the ticker revolutionized the stock market by making up-to-the-minute prices available to investors around the country. Prior to this, information from the New York Stock Ex-change traveled by mail or messenger.

● On Nov. 20, 1923, the U.S. Patent Of-fice grants Patent No. 1,475,074 to 46-year-old inventor and newspaperman Garrett Morgan for his three-position T-shape pole traffic signal. By having a position other than just “Stop” and “Go,” it regulated crossing vehicles more safely than earlier signals had.

● On Nov. 16, 1959, “The Sound of Mu-sic” premieres on Broadway. While the real-life Maria did marry Count Georg von Trapp and become stepmother to his children, she never did the other things shown in the mu-sical, such as run singing through the Salz-burg, Austria, mountains.

● On Nov. 19, 1969, Brazilian soccer great Pelé scores his 1,000th professional goal. Under Pelé’s leadership, Brazil won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970. Dur-ing his career, Pelé scored 1,282 goals in 1,363 games.

● On Nov. 18, 1978, People’s Temple leader Jim Jones leads hundreds of his fol-lowers in a mass murder-suicide at their commune in Guyana. Cult members who refused to take the cyanide-laced fruit-fla-vored drink were forced to do so at gunpoint or shot. The death toll was 913, including a U.S. congressman who was investigating the commune.


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Antique Mugs and Brush Stir up a Lather Q: This shaving mug has been in our family since the early 1950s. It is marked on the bottom with the word and number “Germa-ny -- 99.” The multi-colored flowers are in relief against a heavily embellished gold background. We also still have the shaving brush that came with it. The mug was given to my dad, who was a painter and paperhanger, by the owners of a home he was working in. Any information you can provide on the history of our mug will be appreciated.

A: Shaving mugs were used in the 1800s and early 1900s. Many were made in Germany and exported to the United States. Without a manufac-turer’s mark, it can be impossible to identify the ac-tual maker. “Ninety-nine” is a design number. Both antique shaving mugs and brushes are very popular collectibles. Your vintage shaving mug and brush are selling in antiques shops in the range of $50 to $75.

Q: This enclosed mark is on the bot-tom of a small pitcher that I have. I’ve had it for a long time, but I don’t remember where or when I acquired it. The pitcher is 5 inches tall and decorated with green flowers and leaves against a white background. What can you tell me about my pitcher?

A: Homer Laughlin China Co. made your pitcher. The company was founded in East Liverpool, Ohio, in 1877 and continues today to successfully produce china. Semi vitreous china is ironstone and used for dinnerware and wash sets. Although the mark you enclosed is blurry, it is an eagle attacking a lion. It was used from 1897 to 1905. “Colonial” is the name of the pattern. Your pitcher would probably be worth $25 to $35.

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•Not all phobias seem that abnormal oruncommon.Lotsofpeoplemighthaveafearof death, known as necrophobia. But thosewith an extreme form might be terrified ofbeing buried alive.A nosocomephobe has afearofhospitals,averminophobeisafraidofgerms,andahydrophobehasanirrationalfearofwater.

• Individuals suffering from extreme agora-phobiararelyleavetheirhomes,duetotheirfearofpublicoropenspacesand the inescapablesituationsthatmayoccurthere.Onlyhomeissafe.

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•Don’tconfuselevophobia, thefearofobjectstoaperson’sleft,withdextrophobia, thefearofobjectstotheright.

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Higher trajectory: If you want your shot to have a little higher trajectory take your normal stance, set up to the ball and turn your head, looking up in the sky to the point where you want your ball to go. Hold that position, turning your head back to the ball. As you turn to look high in the sky, a few things will happen. Your right shoulder will lower a little bit, your swing path will be a little more shallow, and some of your weight will shift to your right side. All of this will promote a more lofted shot.

Lower trajectory: Set up to the ball with your normal address. Turn your head to view your intended ball flight, making sure you don’t look above your intended line. By keeping your head low your shoulders will remain level and your weight will remain evenly distributed. This pro-motes a steeper swing, which causes a delofted club face at impact. The result is lower trajectory.

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3. Kool and the Gang, in 1974. Both songs hit No. 1 on the U.S. R&B charts,

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5. The Lovin’ Spoonful, in 1965. Both songs, written by John Sebastian, made it to the Top Ten. The group’s first No. 1 hit came the following year with “Summer in the City.”

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