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CONDENSED MILK, con’t Gail’s last name was Borden. Incidentally, Gail Borden was distantly related to Lizzie Borden of axe fame who supposedly murdered her parents. FACT 8 ounces (.24 l.) of condensed milk has 982 calories; evaporated milk has 338; whole milk has 150; 2% has 121; 1% has 102; cultured buttermilk has 99; and skim milk has 86. MILK SAFETY • Germs responsible for transmitting tuberculosis, typhoid fever, cholera, and scarlet fever live in cow manure. When the cow kicks up the manure, the germs land on the teats. If they are not washed before milking, the germs go in the milk. In the 1890s scientists finally had the evidence they needed to prove that outbreaks of these diseases came from contaminated milk. • Louis Pasteur invented pasteurization just at that time. In pasteurization, milk is heated briefly to kill organisms without damaging or changing the milk. In 1891 in New Jersey the first milk plant to install a pasteurizer was exhibited as a modern marvel. Dairymen opposed the new technology for many reasons. They claimed it was unhealthy to alter milk this way; that the extra expense involved would send the price of milk prohibitively high; and that unscrupulous dairymen would rely so much on the pasteurizer to clean their milk that they would let their cattle and barns become filthy. Children, they claimed, were better off drinking live bacteria in real milk than dead bacteria in altered milk. • Teddy Roosevelt ordered the Public Health Service to do a study. They concluded that pasteurization did not alter milk in any way except to kill all deadly germs. The following year, Chicago became the first city to require all milk sold to be pasteurized. (continued on page 4)
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May 12 - May 18, 2014 MILK SAFETY (cont’d) • Opponents of pasteurization went to court, arguing that requiring pasteurization interfered with free trade. Chicago courts repealed the ordinance. In 1911, the American Medical Association came out in favor of pasteurization, and New York City ordered all milk pasteurized. Milk producers, arguing hardship, managed to get enough loopholes in the law that it was essentially still legal to sell raw milk. But in 1913 when an epidemic of typhoid hit New York due to unsanitary milk, the loopholes were closed. Eventually all cities followed suit. Infant mortality dropped drastically. Today the milk we drink rarely sees either light or air between the time it leaves the cow and the time it enters your glass. QUICK BITS • In the 1930s each milk bottle had an average life span of 35 round trips between dairy and home. • Before World War II, about 80% of milk was delivered directly to the door. Gas rationing hastened the end of that practice and people started buying their milk at the store. • Homogenized milk is milk that has been treated to prevent the cream from rising to the top. The milk has been forced through a fine mesh which breaks up the globules of fat which remain suspended in the milk instead of rising. It has nothing to do with purity. • Unfortified milk has only tiny traces of vitamin D. Vitamin D is found naturally in egg yolk and fish liver oil, but nowhere else. • Iron is added to many foods, but it is not added to milk because iron-fortified milk turns coffee green. • Sheep milk was popular in medieval England, and a sheep dairy was called a ‘wich.’ The name survives in many village names such as Greenwich, Norwich, and Sandwich.
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home front. An investment opportunity might need more study. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Don’t be reluctant to act on your suspicion. Even if others see nothing wrong, the astute Scorpio could sense an underlying problem that isn’t always obvious on the surface. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A new opportunity presents some obstacles that need to be dealt with as soon as possible. Delaying action in hopes that the problems will go away could be counterproductive. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) A friend or family member’s request might carry some hidden factors that could later create problems. Be sure you know all the facts before you make your decision. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A setback in implementing a plan could turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Use the downtime to rework your original concepts and see where changes could be made. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) You might not be consciously fishing for compliments, but admit it -- won’t you feel great when your efforts are noticed? So accept the praise gracefully. You earned it. BORN THIS WEEK: Your love of beauty in your personal life extends to your efforts to protect and preserve the natural world around you. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
This Week Last Week 1. Pharrell Williams..............No. 1 “Happy” 2. John Legend ......................No. 2 “All of Me” 3. Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz ........................No. 4 “Talk Dirty” 4. Katy Perry .........................No. 3 “Dark Horse” 5. Idina Menzel .....................No. 5 “Let It Go” 6. Bastille ...............................No. 6 “Pompeii” 7. DJ Snake & Lil Jon ..........No. 8 “Turn Down for What” 8. Justin Timberlake...........No. 12 “Not a Bad Thing” 9. Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne & French Montana .............No. 11 “Loyal” 10. Lorde................................No. 7 “Team”
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• Milk contains lactose sugar. In order to digest it, peoCOLIC CONNECTION ple have to produce an enzyme called lactase in their • 20% of infants suffer from a little understood disorder digestive tract. Babies produce this necessary enzyme called colic. This causes sustained uncontrollable fits naturally until they are about six. After that, their bodof crying in the baby. A recent study has turned up evies continue to produce lactase only if they continue idence that colic may be caused by intolerance to certo eat milk products regularly. tain antibodies produced in the cow and passed to the • If a person goes for a long period without eating milk baby through the milk. But some babies suffer from products, they lose the ability to digest milk and will colic even when they are fed exclusively human milk. suffer from stomach cramps, nausea, and diarrhea if Researchers theorized that these cow antibodies are they try to drink milk again. In many parts of the world passed to the baby through mother’s milk. They asked where cattle were never domesticated, entire races of mothers to stop eating milk products themselves, and people lost the ability to digest milk and many culin half of the cases, the colic cleared up in the child as tures still believe that milk products are unclean and a result. unhealthy. Today lactase is available in tablet form for (continued on page 6) people who suffer a deficiency of it but still enjoy eat-
Cooking the Books When the Department of Veterans Affairs sends out a press release concerning allegations about one of its hospitals, you know big stuff is in the works. And when two U.S. senators (John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona) jump in and ask for a probe, heads are going to roll. In this case, they’re asking the VA Office of the Inspector General to investigate “delays in care” in Phoenix. The senators didn’t mince words concerning allegations that as many as 40 veterans in Arizona died while waiting for their medical appointments, and specifically that hospitals were keeping secret waiting lists to fudge the waittime numbers. What’s disturbing is that this isn’t new news. I’ve written about it here. It’s happened before. If you want to fudge the numbers for appointment wait times, here’s how you do it: --If you make an appointment that’s more than 30 days out, wait and then cancel the appointment. Immediately reschedule it for the same date, making the books look like the appointment had a shorter wait time. --Keep a separate set of books. Don’t put all the appoint-
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• The problem was that heating cheese caused it to sepSOUR MILK arate into oils and solids, rendering it unpalatable. In the 1932 film The Sign of the Cross Claudette ColHowever, Kraft eventually discovered that if he shredbert plays a spoiled empress who luxuriates in a marble ded the cheese first, and stirred it quickly while heatbathtub full of milk. Some 400 gallons of real milk were ing it, the growth of mold and bacteria would stop, used. The scene took a week to film, during which time and the resulting product was tasty and shelf-stable. the milk became steadily more rancid. “Excuse me,” It did not require refrigeration and could be shipped said Colbert, “But my bath is turning to cheese!” long distances. FAMOUS CANADIANS: • Competing cheese producers insisted that Kraft label his product as ‘embalmed cheese’ because the JAMES KRAFT aging process had been stopped. Federal regulations • James Kraft was born on a dairy farm near Stevenslater ruled that his product be labeled as ‘processed ville, Ontario, Canada in 1874, the second of eleven cheese.’ children. He went to work in a local grocery store at the age of 18, and later moved to Buffalo, New York, • The new venture was successful and by 1909, several of his brothers had joined the company. By 1911, where he invested in a cheese factory. The company when James became an American citizen, the new sent him to Chicago to manage a branch of the firm. company was advertising on billboards and reaching While he was there, he was ousted from the company. out to retail grocers with direct mailing campaigns. With only $65 to his name, James Kraft needed to do • The company opened its first cheese factory in Illisomething to survive, but cheese was the only businois in 1914, distributing 30 kinds of cheese. In 1915, ness he knew. Kraft sold $5000 worth of cheese. By 1916, sales had • At the time, selling cheese was a dicey business. Berisen to $150,000. During World War I, Kraft supplied cause there was no refrigeration, cheese melted in the American forces with 6 million pounds of cheese, and summer heat and rotted quickly. Many merchants resoldiers were introduced to his product. By 1926, the fused to carry cheese because the quality was iffy and Kraft Canadian organization was making 25 million the shelf life was short. In 1903, Kraft invested his five-pound boxes per year in British Columbia. $65 in a horse and wagon, and began buying cheese early in the morning and selling it to merchants before • Meantime, the company kept introducing new products: Velveeta in 1928, Miracle Whip in 1933, macathe heat of the day could spoil it. Profits were plowed roni and cheese in 1937, Parkay margarine in 1940, back into his own dairy herd, and he spent his spare sliced processed cheese in 1950, and Cheez Whiz in time experimenting with cheese, certain that there 1952. In 1933, Kraft started packaging cheese spreads must be a way to pasteurize cheese the same way milk was pasteurized. (continued on page 8)
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Q: My apartment has closet doors that fold open on sliding tracks. Over the past month, the doors have started sticking and one is completely off the track and just swinging open. Is this hard to fix? Our maintenance guys aren’t so reliable. -Mindy H., Atlanta A: If the slider attachment at the top of the door isn’t damaged, you should be able to easily put the bifold door back on its track. Reach up to the top of the detached door -- or climb onto a sturdy stepladder or footstool so you can reach -- and feel along the top near the front edge of the door. You should feel a round disc, or wheel, sticking up. Place your finger on top of the wheel and push down. If it’s spring-loaded, the disc will depress down and then spring back up. Check the bottom of the door as well. If the door opens along a top and bottom track, a similar JAMES KRAFT, cont’d in a container that could be used as a drinking glass when emptied. Hand-painted and nicely designed, the glasses were called Swankyswigs. In the first year following their introduction, sales rose 601% and 94.3% of women who purchased the spreads reported that they were saving the glasses. Today Swankyswigs are collectible items. • “After we are gone,” he wrote, “There will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia -- all earnestly striving to increase sales, which by that time will be far in excess of a hundred million.” He wasn’t far from the truth, as Kraft is now the second largest food conglomerate on the planet, after Nestles. • James Kraft died in 1953, by which time Canada had become the world’s biggest consumer of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. CHEESE • When cream is placed in a crock and jiggled a lot, the result is butter. But one day in ancient times some person placed milk or cream in a sack made from the intestines or stomach of an animal. After being agitated, perhaps during a day’s ride, the result was not butter, but a primitive form of cheese. That was the first discovery that the enzymes and acids in the lining of an animal’s stomach will cause milk to coagulate. • Known as rennet, these chemicals are essential in the manufacture of cheese. Rennet contains many enzymes which coagulate the milk, causing it to separate into solids (curds) and liquid (whey). This helps young mammals digest and assimilate their mother’s milk. (continued on page 10)
wheel, or a simple metal pin called a pivot, will be located in the same position near the front of the door. It may or may not have a spring. If both wheels are in good shape, great. If either one is broken or missing, contact apartment maintenance to have them repair the door. Or, if they don’t respond, contact management and ask if they can either speed up the repair, or if you can do the repair yourself and have them take the difference off the bill (you’ll need to give them a receipt for parts and labor). Let’s start from the premise that both wheels are all right. It’s a pretty easy fix, made easier if a friend helps steady the door. If one of the wheels isn’t spring-loaded, carefully ease that rigid wheel into the corresponding track. Then reach up (or down) to the spring-loaded disc, depress it with one finger, and guide that part of the door back into its corresponding track, sliding your finger out of the way until the disc pops up into the track. Move the door back and forth a couple times to test it. What if the door doesn’t seem be straight? That can cause the wheels to stick in or jump out of the tracks. You can adjust the door in a number of ways: The Family Handyman website (www. familyhandyman.com) has a step-by-step description of how to do it. HOME TIP: To smooth a sliding door’s path, put a thin coat of wax or silicone spray on the wheels. Send your questions or home tips to ask@thisisahammer.com. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
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HOLLYWOOD -- Johnny Depp, one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood, has box-office woes. His latest film, “Transcendence,” has all the earmarks of being a dud. The film cost $100 million to make, but only took in $11.1 million its first weekend, which translates to being an underachiever. Two other recent films didn’t fare well either. “The Rum Diary” cost $45 million but only made $24 million, and even though “The Lone Ranger,” which cost $250 million, earned $260.5 million, it didn’t cover publicity and advertising costs. Depp’s only hope to remain on top is the success of his upcoming films: “Into the Woods,” “Mortdecai,” “Black Mass,” “Mortimer Wintergreen” and the sequels to “Alice in Wonderland” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.” *** We knew when we saw a woman and a man, on the news, who’d been surgically altered to look like Barbie and Ken, it wouldn’t be long before Mattel partnered with a studio like Sony Pictures
to give us a live-action Barbie film. If it succeeds, it will become a new franchise for them. *** If you love Bette Midler and want to know her innermost thoughts as she prepared for a European tour, then “A View from A Broad,” written by The Divine Miss M herself, is for you. It’s an often amusing and informative account of taking on the “broad” challenge of playing European cities where you don’t speak the language. In 1993, Midler played Mama Rose in a TV version of “Gypsy.” The original Mama Rose in “Gypsy” was the legendary Ethel Merman (1959). She starred on Broadway as Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun” in 1946, and in a hit revival in 1966, as well as “Hello Dolly” in 1970. Film buffs may remember her from “Call Me Madam” (1953), “There’s No Business Like Show Business” with Marilyn Monroe (1954), “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (1963), and her last film, “Airplane”
PHOTO: Johnny Depp (1980). In a new book, Tony Cointreau, heir of the French liqueur family, writes about befriending Agnes Bojaxhue, better known as Mother Teresa, and his mentor and “other mother,” Ethel Merman. He shares his experiences at Mother Teresa’s facilities in the U.S. and Calcutta, India. He also was with Ethel Merman backstage during the creation of “Gypsy.” “Ethel Merman, Mother Teresa ... And Me” is available at Amazon in hardcover and for Kindle. Merman had a wry sense of humor. In her memoirs, she wrote a chapter about her highly publicized marriage to Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine. The marriage ended on their honeymoon. You turn to that chapter in the book, and it’s only one page ... and blank! (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• It was noted British lexicographer Samuel Johnson who made the following sage observation: “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” • If an American black bear is pregnant when it goes into hibernation, she could give birth without ever awakening. While she is still in her torpor, her body will draw on reserves of fat to produce milk to nurse her young. However, if something that could be dangerous to her young comes within 50 feet of the den, the mother bear’s heart rate will spike and she will wake to defend the cubs. • If you’re holding your nose, you can’t hum. Try it. • If you happen to be fortunate enough to spot numerous bears together in the wild (or unfortunate enough, depending on the circumstances), thanks to this column you’ll be able to call the group by its correct collective noun: It’s a sloth or sleuth of bears. • On a chemical level, there’s not too much difference between blood and seawater. • If you’ve ever looked closely at a zipper, you may have noticed the letters YKK on the tab. The letters stand for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha, which is Japanese for “Yoshida Manufacturing Shareholding Company,” which produces most of the zippers found in the U.S. • An octopus has three hearts. • A recent study by scientist Karl Berg suggests that an adult green-rumped parrotlet, a tiny bird native to Venezuela, will “name” its babies, assigning each a particular series of peeps to identify it. Not only that, other parrotlets then learn to associate that exact series of peeps with that particular bird, and actually use the sounds to get its attention. *** Thought for the Day: “I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” -- Xenocrates• (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
• Cheese is little more than artificially coagulated milk, with different types of bacteria and/or molds added. There are 18 different categories of cheese and well over 1,000 different varieties. • The average American eats about 26 lbs. (12 kg) of cheese each year.
CHEESE FACTS & ANECDOTES • A mouse will not eat cheese if other food is available. Mice have been known to eat glue, leather, plastic, paste, soap, bugs, leaves, roots, stems, and seeds— but they just don’t go for cheese. • Canadian cheese makers wanted to have a very unique display at Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition in 1983. They created a cheese centerpiece that weighed 22,000 pounds (10,000 kg). The train that was hauling it to Chicago broke down under the strain several times on the way. When it was maneuvered into place at the Expo, it promptly crashed through the floor of the building. • President Andrew Jackson had just a few days left in office when a dairy presented him with 1,400 lbs (635 kg) of cheese. What to do with it? Jackson decided to hold a party in the White House and invite the public at large to attend. On February 22, 1837, he threw open the doors of the White House and the public surged in. By nightfall, the only thing left of the cheese were stains left where bits of it had been ground into the rugs, furniture, and walls. When Martin van Buren moved into the White House ten days later, the place still smelled like cheese. • When Thomas Jefferson was in office, cheesemakers of Berkshire, MA, decided to present the president with a cheese of colossal proportions. They had 900 dairy cows among them, and they turned a single day’s production of milk into a 1,200 lb. (544 kg) cheese which was moved by sled, boat, and wagon to the White House. By the time it reached the president, some 60 lbs. (27 kg) had to be removed because of deterioration, but the president was so impressed he made a $200 donation to the church of Berkshire. • As a practical joke, the Duchess of Marlborough once mixed slices of soap in with the slices of cheese and watched her guests actually eat the soap rather than appear to have bad manners. • In the mid-1800s, naval vessels of Brazil and Uruguay were engaged in battle when the Uruguayan ship ran out of shot for their cannons. The captain ordered his
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Does 90-Year-Old Still Need Ob-Gyn? DEAR DR. ROACH: Two years ago, at age 90, my gynecologist told me that I did not need to see him anymore because of my age. When I mentioned this to my daughter, she became outraged, and said that I need to continue my mammograms and visits to the doctor. What is your opinion? -- I.W. ANSWER: This is actually three questions in one, and none of them is easy. How long do you “need” to continue Pap smears and mammograms, and do you need to keep seeing your gynecologist? The Pap smear question actually is the easiest, since there is very good evidence that a woman who has had normal Pap smears regularly until age 65 is very unlikely to get cervical cancer. This does not apply to anyone with a history of cancer. When to stop mammograms is controversial. I feel that they can continue in healthy women indefinitely, but especially in the presence of some other serious disease, a woman over 75 could choose to stop. I still recommend a regular visit with the gynecologist. Even if a mammogram or Pap smear isn’t being done, the gynecologist can discuss other concerns and do an exam. Questions about breast cancer and its treatment are found in the booklet on that subject. To obtain a copy, write: Dr. Roach -- No. 1101W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.
DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of May 19, 2014. PHOTO: Lucy Fry in “Vampire Academy” PICKS OF THE WEEK “Monuments Men” (PG-13) -- In the final stretch of World War II, the retreating German army had orders to destroy priceless works of art before they could be recovered by the Allies. The Monuments Men were an unlikely fighting force of curators and art historians tasked with going behind enemy lines to save these treasures. George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett and Jean Dujardin comprise the all-star cast. Even with a dream-team ensemble and rich source material, the storyline limps along when it should sprint. The crew splits up into their own subplots, united mainly by droning speeches insisting that this is a super-meaningful mission. “Vampire Academy” (PG-13) -- At a secret Hogwarts-for-vampires located somewhere in Montana, supernaturally pretty vampire teens learn to master their powers. Lissa (Lucy Fry) is special vampire royalty. As a “Moroi,” she gets more magic powers -- they’re the good witches of vampire world. Rose (Zoey Deutch) is Lissa’s protector, a Dhampir -- another type of OK vampire. There’s trouble brewing with the evil Strogoi -- that’s vampires who act more like, ya’know ... vampires. However, most of the plot revolves around vampire best friends and their choices among the vampire boys. Why can’t the undead just be monsters again? “About Last Night” (R) -- Two couples in modern-day
*** DEAR DR. ROACH: Our 48-year-old son has been diagnosed with pityriasis rubra pilaris. He is miserable with the burning, red rash and the loss of skin cells. He now has extremely swollen ankles and feet. We know this is extremely rare. Can you lend any insight into treatment of symptoms? -- C.D. ANSWER: Pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP) is a rare inflammatory skin disease of unknown cause. Generalized redness, sometimes with islands of unaffected skin, is common. Scaly plaques and raised red bumps also occur. There are several treatments that have been effective for some people, but nothing is effective for everybody. Vitamin A derivatives are the usual first treatment, but more-powerful medicines often are needed. As is so often the case for rare diseases, finding the most experienced local expert (in this case, a dermatologist) can lead to better treatment for your son. I found a support group at www.prp-support.org. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: Americans are infatuated with grilling, barbecuing and charring meat -- all forms of high-temperature cooking. Isn’t charred food carcinogenic, leading to stomach and colon cancers? -- S.B. ANSWER: Yes, charred meat is carcinogenic, at least according to the preponderance of the data. In fact, increased red meat of any kind probably increases overall cancer risk, but high-temperature cooking creates several kinds of toxic chemicals and increases colon cancer risk specifically. There is some evidence that leaner cuts of red meat aren’t as dangerous, and also that marinating, especially in wine, reduces the production of the dangerous chemicals. I recommend limiting consumption of high-temperature-cooked red meats. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. (c) 2014 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved
Page 11 Los Angeles explore the ins and outs of love, romance, lust and friendship -- all with a lot of comedic energy and frank sex talk. Danny and Bernie (handsome-man Michael Ealy and comedy live-wire Kevin Hart) are best buds playing the field when they both fall into iffy romances. Danny and Debbie (Joy Bryant) are the more virtuous couple. Is it love? Is it dating? Is it true that only fools rush in? Classic quandaries. Bernie and Joan (Regina Hall) despise love, ridicule each other mercilessly, and yet neither one can truly walk away. DOG OF THE WEEK “Pompei” (PG-13) -- Swords, sandals, leather armor and lava. These are the things that Pompeii has plenty of. Engaging performances, non-corny dialog and originality -- these apparently had not been invented yet. Milo (Kit Harrington, “Jon Snow” of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”) is dreamy young slave gladiator who sure can swing a sword. He sets his sparkly blue eyes on an equally pretty noble girl (Emily Browning), who is engaged to an evil Roman senator. Then a volcano erupts, and they run from it. Much of the film looks like it could be freeze-framed and then printed on the cover of a paperback romance novel. It just needs a better, more suggestive title -something about swords or heat or eruptions. TV RELEASES “Call the Midwife: Season 3” “Warehouse 13: Season 5” “LA Law: Season 2” “Nikita: Season 4” “Dalziel & Pascoe: Season 9” (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
They Lived to be 100 The U.S. Census Bureau has released a long-term research report on the differences between centenarians and seniors who are age 65 and older. Pulling in data from a previous report, Centenarians 2010, this research is an overview of 2007 to 2011 and focuses on marital status, education, veteran status, income and poverty levels. Here’s what it learned: -- Women made up the majority of those who had lived a century or more, at 81 percent. In the over-65 group, women were at 57 percent. -- Marital status: Most centenarians (82 percent) were widowed. Because of age, the over-65 group had a lower rate of 29 percent widowed. -- Education: A surprising 43 percent of centenarians did not finish high school. In the over 65 age group, 23 percent didn’t receive a diploma. Of those who went on to college, 15 percent of centenarians earned a bachelor’s degree or higher, with 21 percent of the over-65 group earning a degree. -- Veterans: Only 0.5 percent of women centenarians were veterans, but the number wasn’t much higher for women in the over-65 group, with 1.15 percent veterans. -- Income: Of the centenarians, 83 percent received Social Security, compared to 88 percent of the over-65 group. The amount of benefits was lower, of course, for the centenarians because Social Security is based on what you put into the system. Of the centenarians, 17 percent lived in poverty, compared to 9 percent of the over-65 group. Want to live to be a centenarian? Dr. Thomas Perls, co-author of “Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age,” has some tips: Be adaptable and flexible. Get rid of stress. Be optimistic. Exercise. Own a pet. Those are good goals for people of any age. Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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I was a college student during the 1970s and still have a large box full of keepsakes from that period. I have early issues of “High Times,” a Happy Face cookie jar, a doughnut-shaped phone and an assortment of pop posters. I am thinking of having a garage sale, but keep hesitating. — Steve, Westminster, Colo. Several years ago, Michael Jay Goldberg, a Portland, Oregon-based collector, published a fun guide, “The Collectible ‘70s: A Price Guide to the Polyester Decade.” This might be helpful when determining what to toss and what to keep. Last year, while rummaging through one of my storage closets, I found a pile of 1970s comics: “Freak,” “Tales from the Fridge,” “Short Order” and “Psychotic Adventures.” Needless to say, I lost more than an hour revisiting these publications from my past, but what a blast. My advice is to think before you toss. *** My son has a collection of Hot Wheels, and I would like to find a price guide so he can determine how much his collection is worth. Can you help me? — Alice, Mobile, Ala. Although there are several excellent guides, my personal favorite is “Warman’s Hot Wheels” by Michael Zarnock and published by Krause. This nifty little guide fea-
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tures design histories, current values and more than 500 illustrations in full color. It is $17.99 and available at amazon.com or from the publisher, Krause, 700 E. State Street, Iola, WI 54990; 888-457-2873. *** I have a fan-shaped vase in green. I have been told by my mom that it was a wedding gift in 1937 and is a piece of Fenton. Is it worth keeping? — Laura, Palm Springs, Calif. Your Mongolian Green fan vase is referenced in “Fenton Glass” by Mark F. Moran and published by Krause Books. According to Moran, your vase is worth about $35. *** I have nine early Barbie dolls, all in the original packaging. Whom can I contact to find out current values? — Ruth, Sun City, Ariz. Scott D. Gram is a Barbie doll expert as well as a certified appraiser of art, sterling silver and antiques. He can be contacted at sdgram@qwest.net. Write to Larry Cox in care of KFWS, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 328536475, or send e-mail to questionsforcox@aol.com. Due to the large volume of mail he receives, Mr. Cox cannot personally answer all reader questions, nor do appraisals. Do not send any materials requiring return mail.
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