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WINIK SAVANT PapanVs Special ^ pending on the individual. Let's say that you blink every five sec ]|ligence J onds. That's 12 blinks a minute, 720 blinks an hour and 11,520 blinks in a 16-hour day awake. Considering 365 days as a year, 111 ^ if you live to the age of 100, you I'm a 44-year-old woman will have blinked more Behind The Scenes who considers herself a than 420 million times! The Navy's peal JAG, Reap Adm. Donald Guter (c), good-hearted, productive (No wonder we have Joint David dame* Elliott and Catherine Bell. member of society, and I've times when we can bare ike most Americans since Sept. 11, David James Elliott says, never wanted to have chil ly keep our eyes open.) "I have great respect for the military." But the actor, who plays dren. Others tell me people Navy Cmdr. Harmon Rabb opposite Catherine Bell on the hit should have'children so you L have someone to take care I have a question CBS show JAG, boasts: "We were patriotic before it was fashion of you when you're old, so AM —tfleh about historical epithets nrewiiiM | « he able." Still, seven years on the show have changed Elliott, 41: "I'd I MHitlfy you have someone to fill wcn n A exandeP t seriously consider a military career if I were younger," he tells us. your life with happiness, so Great." I can see suck-ups And the real Judge Advocate General's legal staff would clearly you and your husband have buttonholing Alexander and love to have him: When Elliott visited the Pentagon to see them, a connection, and so forth. telling him, "Man, you're re he was mobbed. "It was like the Beatles had landed," he says. Elliott HI Obviously, these are selfish (•PtaVMI ally Great!" But I can't imag adds that he's proud of how closely the JAG cast adheres to military reasons, having nothing to ine anyone telling Ivan he practice and proud of the show's ability to "find the humanity in this do with the interest of the was Terrible, and I feel in my bones that no one in rigid system with lots of rules." But most of all, he's proud to por child! Why do you think peo ple have children? sulted Vlad the Impaler to tray one of them. Noting that many of the servicemen he met while says 111 —A.A., Naples, Fla. his face. Who decides these filming on an aircraft carrier were later deployed in the Persian Gulf, thingsP he adds: 'This is not like the career I have. This is life and death." I think people have children for all the wrong reasons—includ —M. Caron, New York, N.Y. Save On Heating Bills New Show Makes ing the ones you stated—but it PUSattT Cal1 me Pri^ of fame! For works out OK anyway, even if tunately, when Americans have Science Fun For KMs the new parents are in for a teen- humiliated their leaders in the 11 hen it comet to science, sy bit of disillusionment along press, none of the terms has be American kids often lag the way! And I don't think come permanently attached to behind students from other W they're as selfish as they sound: their names. Otherwise, we'd be industrialized nations. 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