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• What constitutes a genius IQ level? Intelligence tests are based on one devised by French psy-chologist Alfred Binet in the 1950s. Average in-telligence falls between a score of 85 and 114. It’s estimated that about half of the world’s pop-ulation has an IQ between 90 and 110. A score of about 160 is considered to be a genius. About 1% of all the people in the world are above 136. It’s believed that Einstein’s IQ was 160, while Mozart’s is estimated at 165.
• Considered the world’s first real child prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began studying vio-lin and harpsichord at age 3. At 5, he was per-forming at the University of Salzburg and at Vi-enna’s Imperial Court the following year. He was 6 when he began composing minuets and other short pieces. His first symphony came along at age 8 and an opera at 12. Mozart received all of his education from his father and never attend-ed a school. He frequently experienced anxiety, loneliness, and sadness, and occasionally exhib-ited the symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome and bipolarism. Although he only lived to age 35, he composed more than 600 pieces, including 68 symphonies, 27 piano concertos, horn concer-tos, violin sonatas, and many volumes of string quartet music.
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A Dollar Saved Is a Dollar EarnedHow are you doing so far on your financial New Year’s resolutions to lower your expenses? It’s the little things that will add up to big money over the course of a year. Grab a calculator and do the math.Are you still buying a trenta mocha frappuccino on the way to work? Coffee purchased five days a week at 52 weeks comes to $1,300 if the coffee costs $5.
GENIUSES (continued):• Albert Einstein was responsible for “the world’s
most famous equation,” E=mc2, the formula for mass-energy equivalence. Yet this German-born physicist failed his first college entrance exam, passing only the math and science sections, forc-ing him to attend a secondary school before re-taking and passing the test a year later. Einstein’s 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. He came to America on a visit in 1933, and made the decision to stay when new German laws prohibit-ed him from teaching at any university there. He renounced his German citizenship, took a teaching
position at Princeton, and became a U.S. citizen in 1940. Regarding the topic of genius, he once said, “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
• Regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all times, Isaac Newton almost became a farmer. His mother urged him to follow in his late father’s footsteps on the family farm, but this genius dis-liked the profession intensely. He attended Cam-bridge University, studying mathematics, physics, and astronomy. We’re most famil-iar with his theory of gravitation, developed after watching an apple fall from a tree. Most folks have
also heard of his law of inertia that states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion. Another familiar Newton law is that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton was also re-sponsible for the first practical reflecting telescope. Modern-day psychologists believe it’s quite pos-sible that this genius had Asperger Syndrome, an autism disorder characterized by severe difficulties in social situations. (cont’d on next page)
Tack on another $900 if you add a breakfast sandwich to go. (How many mortgage or car payments is that $2,200?) Vending-machine snacks at $2 a day comes to more than $500. A $7 lunch special adds some $1,800 to your yearly expenses. A $25 bestseller purchased every month comes to $300; you could save if you get your books from the library instead.Everyday tactics to find extra money:• To pay off credit-card debt a bit faster, forgo one movie and dinner out, rent a flick, fix
snacks at home and put that extra money on the card payment at the end of the month. (This is especially helpful if you’re in shock when you look at the holiday credit-card statements that have come in.)
• Don’t buy the sweater or pair of jeans that catches your eye, even if on sale, and send the extra money with your mortgage check as a principal payment.
• At the grocery store, ask when the hot foods at the deli counter are discounted to half price. Chances are it’s 30 minutes before the deli closes.
• Try house brands of food. You might be surprised.• Go online and use this as your search parameter: save money. Browse the millions of
hits and pick a few ideas that sound like things you’d actually try. • Drop all your change into a jar and let it add up for a year. Run it through a coin counter
at your bank where they won’t charge you a percentage.• See something at a store that you just have to have? Wait. Think about it for a whole day.• Plan ahead. Keep track of birthdays and give-gifting occasions and buy when you see
something priced well. You’ll save rushing around at the last minute and paying more than you really want to.
• If a year-long savings plan is too big to contemplate, break it into monthly or even weekly goals.
David Uffington regrets that he can-not personally answer reader ques-tions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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his daughter with Katie Holmes, Suri. Both Cruise and Bauer were prepared to fling dirt from TMZ to The Wall Street Journal. Their Mexican stand-off ended because they real-ized they could tarnish their reputations for-ever, so the lawsuit was dropped.Cruise was prepared to accuse Bauer Me-dia of having un-American ties, while Bau-er was prepared to rake Scientology over the coals. For instance, Tom involved his three wives -- Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kid-man and Katie Holmes -- in the religion, but all three left the church soon after cut-
ting ties with him.Scientology has had some major defections to worry about. Jason Beghe, best known for the films “Thelma & Louise” and “X-Men: First Class” and who will star in the upcom-ing NBC series “Chicago PD,” premiering Jan. 8, left the church in 2007. In 2009, “Crash” director Paul Haggis, a 35-year member, left. In 2012, Lisa Marie Presley exited quietly, for fear she would alienate her mother, Priscilla Presley, still a Scientol-ogist. And most recently, “King of Queens” star Leah Remini announced on “Dancing With the Stars” that she’d left the church. Luckily for the religion, its board of direc-tors is made up of many lawyers, who can resolve most of their legal problems swiftly and quietly.CBS thinks we’re ready for a reboot of Neil Simon’s classic “The Odd Couple” and has chosen “Friend’s” star Matthew Perry to play the messy Oscar Madison ... now that is odd!Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber may have lost his way with his latest musical effort. The musical genius who gave us such mega-hits as “Joseph and the Amazing Technicol-or Dreamcoat,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Evita,” “Cats,” “Starlight Express,” “Phan-tom of the Opera,” “Sunset Boulevard” and recently “The Wizard of Oz,” has chosen “Stephen Ward” as his latest project. Who is Stephen Ward, you ask?In 1961, Dr. Stephen Ward was at the center
of the infamous Profumo scandal in which the very-married John Pro-fumo, secretary of state for war for the British government, began an affair with a call girl named Chris-tine Keeler, who also was having an affair with a naval attache at the Soviet Embassy in London. The af-fair lasted only two weeks, and the story didn’t break until 1962. Vari-ety’s British theater critic described the show by saying, “How could the fallout from Britain’s most notorious real-life sex-and-poli-tics scandal have been turned into something so flaccid?” Well, that certainly is a stiff review!(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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GENIUSES (continued):• Although we think of Alexander Graham Bell as
the inventor of the telephone, he had 17 other patents, including hydrofoil boats, aerial vehi-cles, and selenium cells. Bell was 29 years old and working on an improvement to the tele-graph when he invented the telephone. As a young boy, he had come up with a talking doll that said, “Mama,” and at age 12, built a device for the process of dehusking wheat. Follow-ing the shooting of President James Garfield in 1881, Bell quickly devised an electromagnetic apparatus to try to locate the bullet lodged in Garfield’s abdomen. In 1906, this genius with a vision said, “The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.”
• Robert “Bobby” Fischer was an American chess master, who at age 14, won the World Chess Championship, the youngest winner of the title. At 15, he was the youngest international grand-
master of all time. This son of a biophysicist father and a teacher, then nurse, then physician mother, Bobby learned chess when he was six years old, using the instructions from a chess set bought at a candy store. As a genius with an IQ of 187, he dropped out of high school at age 16 to dedicate himself to the game. His famous 1972 world championship match against the USSR’s Boris Spassky put Fischer in the pub-lic eye. After that match, he became a recluse and didn’t play a competitive game in public for nearly 20 years.
• A modern-day genius, 30-year-old Michael Kearney received his first bachelor’s degree at age 10, and had earned three more by age 21, followed by a doctorate in chemistry at 22. Kearney spoke his first words at four months, and at six months, surprised his pediatrician by saying, “I have a left ear infection.” By 10 months, he was reading, and graduated from high school at age six.
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ticker, voting machine, motion picture camera and projector, phonograph, and incandescent light bulbs, Edison was also the inventor of waxed paper! As to being a genius, Edison had this to say, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspira-tion.”
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• Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1931, William Shatner got his start as a child performer on Canadian Broadcasting’s radio programs. While earning his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Montreal’s McGill University, Shatner spent his summers performing with
the Royal Mount Theater Company, training as a Shakespearean actor. After graduation, he joined the Canadian National Repertory The-atre in Ottawa, acting regularly in the Shake-spearean Stratford Festival of Canada in Strat-ford, Ontario.
• A far cry from his Shakespearean roots, Shat-ner was cast as Ranger Bob on the Canadian Howdy Doody Show in 1954. Although his first movie role was the part of “a crook” in the 1951 Canadian film, The Butler’s Night Off, Shatner’s first big role was at age 26 in 1958’s The Brothers Karamazov, along with Yul Brynner. The early ‘60s were filled with lower-budget movies and TV guest spots for Shatner.
• It was Shatner’s casting as Captain James Ti-berius Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise in 1966 that sealed his fame. Even though Star Trek was cancelled after just 79 episodes over three seasons due to low Nielsen ratings, the series became a cult classic with thousands of followers. The short-lived pro-gram generated five additional TV series, 12 movies, and books, video games, toys, and ac-tion figures.
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Although you’re getting kudos and other positive reac-tions to your suggestions, don’t let the cheers drown out some valid criticisms. Better to deal with them now than later.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Following your keen Bo-vine intuition pays off, as you not only reassess the sugges-tions some people are putting in front of you, but also their agendas for doing so.GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You continue on a high-en-thusiasm cycle as that new project you’ve assumed takes shape. You’re also buoyed by the anticipation of receiving some good news about a per-sonal matter.CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your eagerness to immerse yourself in your new assign-ment is understandable. But be careful that you don’t forget to take care of that pressing per-sonal situation as well.LEO (July 23 to August 22) This is a good time to learn a new skill that could give a clever Cat an edge in the up-coming competition for work-place opportunities. Enjoy the arts this weekend with some-one special.VIRGO (August 23 to Sep-tember 22) You could risk cre-ating an impasse if you insist on expecting more from others than they’re prepared to give. Showing flexibility in what you’ll accept could prevent a stalemate.LIBRA (September 23 to Oc-tober 22) Although you can weigh all factors of a dispute to find an agreeable solution for others, you might need the skilled input of someone you trust to help you deal with an ongoing situation of your own.SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) The good news is that your brief period of self-doubt turns into a positive “I can do anything” attitude. The better news is that you’ll soon be able to prove it.SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) This is a good time for Sagittarians to start making travel plans while you still can select from a wide menu of choices and deals, and not be forced to settle for left-overs.CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Like your zodiacal sign, the sure-footed Goat, you won’t allow obsta-cles in your path to keep you from reaching your goal. Don’t be surprised by who asks to go along with you.AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Let your head dominate your heart as you consider the risks that might be involved in agreeing to be a friend’s co-signer or otherwise act as his or her backup in a fi-nancial matter.PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Prioritize: Resolve to close the door and let your voicemail take your phone calls while you finish up a task before the end-of-week dead-line. Then go out and enjoy a fun-filled weekend.BORN THIS WEEK: Your capacity for care and compas-sion helps to bring comfort to others.(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
• It was Polish chess grandmaster Saviel-ly Tartakower who made the following sage observation: “Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mis-take.”
• In the late 19th century, a single female Bengal tiger, known as the Cham-pawat Tiger, was solely responsible for an estimated 430 deaths in India and Nepal. After evading hunters and the Nepalese Army for years, she was fi-nally killed in 1907 by a hunter named Jim Corbett.
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in its victims’ blood.• In 2011, during a tough financial time
for the nation of Romania, the govern-ment instituted a 16 percent tax on the incomes of self-proclaimed witches, fortunetellers and astrologers. Those so employed were incensed and vowed retribution, some casting spells against the president and those members of the government who had supported the legislation. In an unrelated incident, the legislature also drafted a measure that would punish those who incorrect-ly predicted the future.
• Famed magician Harry Houdini was born with the less-than-inspiring name Erich Weiss.
• There is a planet named Gliese 436b or-
biting a red dwarf star. It’s about the size of Neptune, and it’s very, very hot -- roughly 820 degrees Fahrenheit. None of this is terribly unusual; what’s truly surprising is the fact that the plan-et’s surface is made up largely of ice (with an outer layer of hydrogen and helium) despite the heat. It seems that the gravity and atmospheric pressure are so great that water is forced into a solid form, creating so-called hot ice.
• A Louisiana man once caught a grape in his mouth that was tossed from 252 feet away.
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Q: This past summer I got involved with a series called “Mistresses.” Can you tell me if it’s going to return, or was it just something they put on for the summer? -- Liz R., via email
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lan and Yunjin Kim. The show centers on the lives of four female friends, and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relation-ships.Q: I really enjoy “The Glades,” but I think I read some-
place that it is being canceled. I truly hope this is not so. Can you please find out its status? -- Diane, via email
A: The A&E network decided this past fall to cancel “The Glades” after four seasons. The police procedural broke records for A&E when it debuted, but slowly and steadily it lost more than one-third of its viewers throughout the series run, so the network can-celed it.
READERS: I told you I’d let you know when I had an exact date for the season two premiere of “Vikings,” and I’m a woman of my word. “Vikings” returns to the History channel Thursday, Feb. 27, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. So don’t forget to tune in!Write to Cindy at King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475; or e-mail her at [email protected].(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
WILLIAM SHATNER (continued):• After Star Trek’s cancellation, life became tough
for Shatner. He had been typecast as Captain Kirk and offers for roles were few. His wife divorced him, taking much of his money with her, and Shatner lost his home. He lived in a pickup truck camper, hoping for better roles to come along. He guest-starred on a number of game shows and did some TV commercials to make ends meet.
• In 1979, Paramount Pictures chose to produce a Star Trek movie, reuniting the original cast. The sequel, The Wrath of Khan, came along in 1982, followed by six more films, ending with 1994’s Star Trek Generations with the death of Kirk.
• In the midst of filming the Star Trek movies, Shat-ner landed the role of police sergeant T. J. Hook-er, a popular television series from 1982 to 1986. The reality show Rescue 911 followed in 1989, a seven-year stint. At age 73, he joined the cast of
the legal drama The Practice in 1997, a series that spun off into Boston Legal, starring as the eccen-tric attorney Denny Crane, winning two Emmys for the role. Shatner has also been the spokesman for Priceline for 15 years, as well as writing sever-al Star Trek novels, including The Ashes of Eden and Avenger.
• Shatner and his co-star Leonard “Spock” Nimoy both suffer from tinnitus, which is a ringing in the ears. The hearing of both men was damaged while filming a 1967 episode of Star Trek when they stood too close to a special effects explosion.
• Although he retains his Canadian citizenship, the 82-year-old Shatner, an avid horseman, and his wife own a 360-acre horse farm near Lexington, Kentucky. He has been honored with both a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a maple leaf on the Canadian Walk of Fame.
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Puff Pancake MakesDramatic Breakfast
Make weekend breakfasts extra spe-cial when you put this delicious puff pancake on your menu. Also called a Dutch baby, this version of the recipe is simple to prepare with kids, and dra-matic to serve piping hot, right out of the oven. Believe me, mouths will be watering when it arrives at the table. Take a bow, and then serve with fresh fruit or other favorite toppings.
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4 eggs1 cup skim or whole milk1 cup all-purpose flour1 tablespoon sugar1/8 teaspoon salt3 tablespoons unsalted butter Topping: 1 tablespoon powdered sugar and a squeeze of fresh lemon1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.2. Let one of your kids count and crack the eggs into a mixing bowl. Inspect it to be sure there are no remaining shells. Beat eggs with a beater until
light and pale.2. Another child may measure and gradually beat in the milk, flour, sugar and salt. 3. Meanwhile, place butter in a 10- or 12-inch cast-iron or ovenproof skillet, or a 9-inch-by-13-inch oven-safe glass baking dish. An adult should place it in the oven until it is hot and the but-ter sizzles. Remove from oven and pour batter into the hot butter. Return to oven and bake for 20-25 minutes or until puffy and golden-brown on the edges. (Keep oven door closed until done.)4. Squeeze lemon juice on top, dust with powdered sugar and serve table-side immediately.Serves 4. Serve with fresh fruit, such as berries, grapes and kiwi slices. Alternate blender method for steps 1-2: Put eggs in a blender and whirl for one minute. With motor running, add milk and slowly add flour, sugar and salt. Whirl for an additional 30 sec-onds. Proceed with step 3. Donna Erickson’s award-winning se-ries “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activi-ties, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erick-son’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2014 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.
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FOR- YOU!These facts are for our Tidbits readers, meaning they all begin with for-!• Back in 1917, B.C. Forbes was a
financial columnist for the Hearst newspaper franchise. Along with Walter Drey, the general manager of the Magazine of Wall Street, he founded Forbes magazine, a finan-cial publication containing investing and market topics. Today his grand-son Malcolm Forbes, Jr. is CEO and Editor-in Chief of Forbes. This pe-riodical is famous for its miscella-neous lists, such as the 400 Richest Americans, the World’s Billionaires, and America’s Most Trustworthy Companies. According to Forbes, Bill Gates has been the richest American for the past 20 consecu-tive years, with a current estimated worth of $72 billion.
• On April 14, 1865, Actor John Wil-kes Booth entered a private box at
Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. and shot President Abraham Lin-coln with a .44-caliber single shot derringer as Lincoln watched a per-formance of Our American Cousin. Booth was a familiar face around the theater and a personal friend of the owner John T. Ford. The struc-ture was used as an office after the assassination for 28 years until the interior collapsed, killing 22 clerks and injuring 68 others. The dam-age was repaired and the building remodeled into a government ware-house, used until 1931, when it be-came a Lincoln museum. In 1968, a complete restoration of the historic theater was finished, and it reopened as a live performance venue. The site receives about a million visitors annually.
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Top 10 Pop SinglesThis Week Last Week
1. Eminem feat. Rihanna No. 1 “The Monster”2. Pitbull feat. Ke$ha No. 2 “Timber”3. One Republic No. 3 “Counting Stars”4. A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera No. 4 “Say Something”5. Lorde No. 5 “Royals”6. Imagine Dragons No. 6 “Demons”7. Passenger No. 9 “Let Her Go”8. Avicii No. 7 “Wake Me Up!”9. Miley Cyrus No. 8 “Wrecking Ball”10. One Direction No. 10 “Story of My Life”
Top 10 Albums1. Beyonce No. 1 “Beyonce”2. Garth Brooks No. 2 “Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences”3. One Direction No. 5 “Midnight Memories”4. The Robertsons No. 6 “Duck The Halls: A Rob-ertson Family Christmas”5. Kelly Clarkson No. 3 “Wrapped in Red”6. Eminem No. 8 “The Marshall Mathers LP 2”7. Katy Perry No. 9 “Prism”8. Soundtrack No. 10 “Frozen”9. Michael Buble No. 13 “Christmas”10. Luke Bryan No. 14 “Crash My Party”
Top 10 Hot Country Singles1. Florida Georgia Line No. 1 “Stay”2. Luke Bryan No. 3 “Drink a Beer”3. David Nail No. 5 “Whatever She’s Got”4. Eli Young Band No. 4 “Drunk Last Night”5. Cassadee Pope No. 6 “Wasting All These Tears”6. Parmalee No. 2 “Carolina”7. Zac Brown Band No. 7 “Sweet Annie”8. Cole Swindell No. 8 “Chillin’ It”9. Luke Bryan No. 9 “That’s My Kind of Night”10. Jason Aldean No. 12 “When She Says Baby”
TOP TEN MOVIES1. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG-13) Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman2. Frozen (PG) animated3. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG-13) Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate4. American Hustle (R) Christian Bale, Amy Adams5. The Wolf of Wall Street (R) Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill6. Saving Mr. Banks (PG-13) Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks7. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig8. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG-13) Jenni-fer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson9. 47 Ronin (PG-13) Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sana-da10. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (PG-13) Tyler Perry, Chad Michael MurraySource: Billboard(c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Darin Taylor, Mayor of Middleton asked me to do a balloon creation of the City of Middleton using their logo as a “springboard.”
“Middleton--walkable, healthy&
livable”I created it with the mountains, stream with bubbles, their bridge, grove of trees and playground equipment for their new park. Mayor Taylor is excited about their new park. My intention is to have all the elements of the sculpture di-rect people’s attend to the playground equipment. Middleton really is a beautiful little town.
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• On Jan. 26, 1788, the first of 50,000 convicts banished from England to Australia land in Botany Bay. These were not hardened crimi-nals; only a small minority were transported for vio-lent offenses. Among the first group was a 70-year-old woman who had stolen cheese to eat.
• On Jan. 20, 1841, China cedes the island of Hong Kong to the British. In 1898, Britain was granted an additional 99 years of rule. In September 1984, the British and the Chinese signed a formal agreement approving a 1997 turnover of the island.
• On Jan. 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics begin at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were
thrilled by the ski jump and bobsled, as well as 12 oth-er events involving a total of six sports.
• On Jan. 23, 1957, the Wham-O toy company rolls out the first batch of aerodynamic plastic discs, now known as Frisbees. The story of the Fris-bee began in Bridgeport, Conn., where students from nearby universities would throw empty Frisbie Pie Company tins to each other, yelling “Frisbie!” as they let go.
• On Jan. 21, 1976, from London’s Heathrow Air-port and Orly Airport out-side Paris, the first Con-cordes with commercial passengers simultaneously take flight to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and Rio de Janeiro, respectively. The Concordes flew well past the sound barrier at 1,350 mph.
• On Jan. 24, 1980, U.S. offi-cials announce that Amer-ica is ready to sell mili-tary equipment (excluding weapons) to communist China as a reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghan-istan. An additional agree-ment was signed for the construction of a station in China that would be able to receive information from an American satellite.
• On Jan. 22, 1998, in a Sacramento, Calif., courtroom, Theodore J. Kaczynski pleads guilty to all federal charges against him, acknowledging his responsibility for a 17-year campaign of package bombings attributed to the “Unabomber.” The “Un-abomber” was named after the UNABOM Task Force. The name came from the words “university and air-line bombing.”
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• “If you got a new flat-screen TV for Christmas, don’t forget about safe-ty. Be sure to use a wall strap, or just go ahead and mount it to the wall!” -- E.S. in Virginia
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• Here’s a great school tip from a young reader, P.J. in Florida: Take a photo of your spelling words with your mom or dad’s cellphone, and you can go over them anytime, anywhere!
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Expert Advice On Student Loan Repayment
(NAPS)-Here are two bits of good news for recent and soon-to-be college gradu-ates with student loans: 1. You probably have a six-month grace period after graduation before you have to start making payments. 2. While adding a new payment of any kind into your life can be daunting, the vast majority of Americans with student loans do successfully pay them off, due, in part, to the value of their college ed-ucation. These student loan repayment tips can help you be among them:• Contact your servicer. Some students have more than one loan, so it’s best to contact each servicer to discuss your payment options. The servicer can also help identify alternatives if you’re expe-riencing difficulty. • Pay every month, and pay extra when you can. Make payments every month. Options to postpone payments typically mean you’ll pay more over the life of the loan, so tackle your payments now. Whenever you can, pay extra to reduce your interest costs and pay off faster. Put money from a raise or bonus toward your student loans. • Create a budget. Know how much is
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• When gold was discovered in California at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, thousands flocked to the area seek-ing treasure. Most people headed there in 1849, giving them the nickname the Forty-Niners. That year, San Francisco’s population jumped from 800 to more than 50,000. California’s head count in-creased by 86,000 people in two years. The folks who struck it rich weren’t the miners, but rather those who created businesses to serve the pros-pectors. Two well-known companies that came out of the era are Wells Fargo and Levi Strauss.
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