Trueblood: a T March 1990, V

Trueblood: A T March 1990, V

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Bright Lights, Big City by Lois Droege 3 Freedom seemed as large as Chicago itself when Karen first arrived in the Windy City. But being a runaway meant living on the dark side of the bright lights. Pleased to Meet Me by Judi Bailey 7 "What you see is what you get." If you'd describe yourself that way, come on over and shake hands with yourself. There's more to you than meets the eye. Diabolic Steroids by Jane Scherer 10 Pumping anabolic steroids instead of iron produces more than 10 muscles—it promotes facial hair on women and breast growth on men. Avoid the 'roids! Becki Trueblood: Jewel of the Gem State by B. Russell Holt 16 It's got more eyes than an Idaho potato and more legs than the Rockettes. It's the Miss America Pageant. Miss Idaho, Becki Trueblood, saw Miss Missouri take the honors, but she knows winning is more than wearing the crown. To Bee or Not to Bee by Laurie Lee Wilson 22 That is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outraged honeybees or to don protective gear and gather honey.

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Ask a Friend Too Young for Love? 13 You Said It! Steroids Strike Out 14 Kitchen Sink Cookies: The Snack of Champions 15 Plugging In Decisions, Decisions 20 Cartoons Spit-toons 21 And So Forth Hell, Michigan 26 Puzzles State of the State 27 Listen Up! The Blob Tube 28 One Last Note Body by Miller 30 31 Poster Bottle of the Bulge 31 2 • LISTEN • March 1990 COVER PHOTO BY JAY PARKER / PARKER PORTRAITS Lois Droege

Karen left home for Chicago, hoping to escape her parents' restrictions. Instead she found herself trapped by drug addiction and rape.

Karen listened, ear pressed to her parents' bed- long, black, curly hair. She glanced from the pic- room door, as Mom and Dad argued about her ture to herself—even she noticed the change. Her behavior yet again. She was sick of them treating hair was still long and curly, but now it was her like a two-year-old. She was also sick of her straggly and badly in need of a shampoo. The girl uptight twin sister who never did anything in the picture was smiling; her high cheekbones wrong. She knew one thing for sure: she was set in an angular face accentuated dark, deep-set getting out of this place soon! Just because they'd eyes. The teeth were straight and even; the braces found cigarettes in her purse, they acted as if the had done a good job. She peered into the mirror. world were coming to an end. She smiled to her- Her eyes were dull and lifeless, underlined with self; if they'd checked the whole pack, they dark crescents. She heard the door open behind would've found the marijuana hidden behind the her. It was Dad. others. That's what she needed, a joint. "May I come in, honey?" She dialed her friend's home and whispered, "Looks like you're already in," she snapped. "Syl, this is Karen. They found my cigarettes." Her father stood quietly for a moment. She Sylvia laughed. "What else is new? At least noticed for the first time how he had aged. She they care whether you have them. My parents are flopped on the bed, and he sat down next to her. too busy hitting the bottle to wonder what I'm "I just don't know what's happened to you this doing." year, Karen. We don't seem to be able to talk to Karen had met Sylvia at the beginning of the each other anymore." school year. At 17, Sylvia was almost two years Karen moved off the bed and stood as far from older than Karen. She had introduced Karen to him as possible. "What's there to talk about?" she pot. Karen often went to Sylvia's house after mumbled. school with several other kids, and spent the "For one thing, we need to talk about what afternoons just lying around getting high. Some- you've been doing. You're not attending school as times they tried angel dust and, recently, cocaine. you should, and your grades show it. We've Sylvia had been on the street several times. She found you drunk in your room, and you smoke always talked about the people she met and the behind our backs. The sad part is that you don't places she stayed. It sounded exciting to Karen. seem to care. What's happened to my little girl?" Karen hung up the phone and walked past her "She grew up, Dad. Face the facts. I'm not your dresser. Her eighth-grade graduation picture was little girl anymore." stuck in the mirror. Looking at it, she remember- "Who are you, Karen?" ed how her classmates had always envied her She refused to answer. When he questioned her March 1990 • LISTEN • 3 again, she covered her ears and shouted, "Leave of the $175 she'd hidden—and the money she me alone!" planned to steal from her sister. Her father stood up. "I'll leave you alone, Later, something startled her awake, and she Karen, at least for the moment. When you're realized it was 11:00 p.m. The house was dark ready to talk to your mother and me, you'll have and quiet. She packed her shoulder bag and to let us know. Meanwhile, you're restricted to slipped down the back stairs, not forgetting to your room." He turned and left. take her sister's wallet on the way. Karen slumped on her bed. More restrictions! Sylvia was waiting behind the library. "You're Well, this is it, she thought. I'm not going to have 10 minutes late," she hissed. any more restrictions! "I overslept, so don't act like my mother! Do She dialed Sylvia again. "Syl, remember the you have a joint on you?" plans we talked about? Well, it's got to be tonight. "Take it easy, Karen. We've got to get out of I have to escape from this place. Can we meet?" this place clean." Karen followed Sylvia to the Sylvia whistled. "Wow! You really mean it, bus station, where she bought their tickets for don't you? Any time is OK with me. My parents Chicago. Sylvia told Karen they'd be able to get won't even know I'm gone. In fact, I'm sure they jobs there. wish I'd stay away for good. Meet me behind the When they arrived in Chicago, a handsome library at midnight. Travel light; put everything young man driving a sports car met them at the on your back. We don't want to be picked up." bus station. Karen was impressed. He drove them Reaching beneath her bottom mattress, Karen to a seedy-looking residence hotel on the west found the envelope she'd hidden and popped side of town. two pills into her mouth. She fell asleep thinking Karen had been sick during the whole trip.

LISTEN (ISSN 0024-435X). Published monthly by Narcotics Education, Inc., 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904, U.S.A. For the U.S.A.: one- year subscription $16.95 (U.S.). Second-class postage paid at Nampa, ID. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to LISTEN, P.O. Box 7000, Boise, ID 83707. 4 • LISTEN • March 1990 After begging Sylvia for some coke, she fell across she could get a job soon, she might be OK. But the bed and didn't awaken until the next after- where would she stay? noon. Sylvia was dressing and said she'd buy She gathered her things and was out on the Karen some decent clothes. street within 20 minutes. Taking side alleys, she "What kind of job do I need to get so dressed headed in the direction of downtown. She was up for?" asked Karen, frowning. glad it was summer instead of winter. "Joe wants us to hit the street and turn a few Two girls about her age were leaning against a tricks tonight, so you'd better get cleaned up." store window, smoking. She asked if they knew "Tricks?" of a place she could sleep. They laughed, then led "That's right, kid. Just stick with me, and I'll her through a broken door in a dark, abandoned teach you how to pick up the ones with money. building. We'll bring them back here, and if we can get The place was filthy. Old cans, clothes, and them high enough, we can probably roll—" trash were strewn everywhere. The girls grinned Karen stopped listening because she suddenly at each other. Then one said, "Welcome to the felt very frightened. Now she understood about Grand Hotel." Two young people were huddled Joe and the apartment they had. But she had on the floor in stages of undress. Candles were never dreamed that this was what they expected stuck in cans, and Karen thought she saw an of her. What could she do? She got so nauseated animal scurry under some old newspapers. that she rushed to the bathroom, holding her "This is our pad, and you're welcome to stay. stomach. But if you like living, you'd better stay awake and When she came out, the apartment was empty. on the street at night. We crash in the daytime Karen couldn't stop shaking, either from fear or when everyone's sleeping off drugs." lack of drugs. She checked her wallet—two Karen drew a nervous breath. "I'll stay as long twenties, a ten, some ones, and loose change. If as it's OK." She was shaking badly now, and one

ILLUSTRATIONS BY KEN CAMPBELL March 1990 • LISTEN • 5 of the girls offered her a joint. They told her they frowning slightly and trying to remember a scene had run away from a foster home. similar to this one when she was a child. "But how do you get money for joints and "The last time I was in the hospital, I broke my food?" Karen asked. leg," she whispered. Her dad nodded, then "We get jobs here and there, make a few bucks, brushed away a tear. then hit the streets again," one girl told her. A man in a white coat appeared in the The three girls stuck together. Karen, desperate doorway. "I see you're back with us, Karen. for drugs, had spent nearly all her money on We're going to try to get you up on your feet as crack. She was never hungry, so she ate very soon as possible." little. As time passed, she stopped thinking about "When can I leave?" Her voice was thin and weak. "Maybe three months, maybe longer." Karen looked from Mom to Dad, suddenly At times she remembered calling suspicious. "You can't keep me here." She glared for her father. Though she at the doctor. "When I want to leave, I'll leave!" "I'm afraid not, my dear. This is a locked ward. occasionally thought she heard You'll leave when we feel you're drug free and ready to return to school." an answer, most of the time she "More restrictions—it won't work!" She turned knew only darkness, sickness, her head away from them. Dad reached for her hand. "If you loved me, you wouldn't make me and hurt. stay here," she said bitterly. "We do love you, and that's why you must stay. We came close to losing you altogether, and her parents—or anything else, for that matter. All this place has worked hard to bring you back to her waking hours were spent trying to get drugs. life. It's our responsibility to make you well She stayed close to the two girls; they knew the again. We know it won't be easy for any of us." street, and she felt safe with them. Weeks blurred into months, and though she spent her days drugged, she was alert enough to be careful at night. She knew she was filthy, and "Tough love will be hard for tried to wash in public washrooms as often as she could. But really, she didn't care. She was living her to accept," the doctor in a "druggie" world. whispered. "It will be a long, One night, desperate for a high, she left the girls and followed a dealer into a dilapidated slow process of rejection and warehouse. He promised he had stashed a lot of anger. Through it all, if you crack there. Before she knew what was happening, he beat her to the ground and raped her. She stand firm and loving, perhaps attempted to drag her shattered body out of the building, but that's the last she remembered. you will get her back." The police found her and admitted her at the county hospital. She lost count of days. Besides her terrible bruises and lacerations, the lack of Karen suddenly felt very sleepy. As she closed drugs drove her to manic episodes and violent her eyes, a tear escaped and rolled down her hallucinations. She was kept in bed with re- cheek. Her mother moved forward as if to em- straints, IVs nourishing the once 120-pound body brace her, but the doctor put up a restraining that now weighed barely 90 pounds. arm. After several weeks, she was transferred to the "She's not ready," he whispered. "Tough love adolescent drug unit. Meanwhile, the police had will be hard for her to accept. It will be a long, located her parents because her name was on the slow process of rejection and anger. Through it missing list. Still in bed under heavy sedation, at all, if you stand firm and loving, perhaps you will times she remembered calling for her father. get her back." Though she occasionally thought she heard an "No promises?" Karen's mother asked, wiping answer, most of the time she knew only darkness, her eyes. sickness, and hurt. "No promises. It's up to her," the doctor an- One day Karen woke to see her mom and dad swered, nodding toward Karen. "Much depends sitting near the bed. They stood up and came to on what she has to come back to, and only her her bedside. She looked from one to the other, family knows that." 6 • LISTEN • March 1990 Looks can be deceiving. If you haven't taken a tour of your inner self in a while, it may be time to renew the acquaintance.

You don't feel right about cut- test, but we'll mentally punish less sends negative, self- ting class and sneaking off to ourselves more harshly than defeating messages such as McDonald's for a snack, but anyone else could. Our con- "You're no good" or "You'll you go along with your friends science will eat away at us; never succeed." anyhow. Soon you find yourself we'll start to mistrust and dis- Getting in touch with your justifying your behavior. like ourselves. core self means being able to After all, you attend school tune in on the message "I'm daily—unlike the "burnouts" Meet the Two of You OK." And you are OK. It's an who don't show up half the In a way, we're all composed important message to hear. If time. You're always there on of two selves: an inner self and you listen, your inner self will time. Your homework is up-to- an outer self. The outer is easier give you important advice, date. You're responsible about to describe because it includes protecting your belief that home chores and honest with observable aspects such as you're an OK person, that you your parents. Well, usually. height, weight, coloring, per- shouldn't cave in to peer pres- They don't need to find out sonality, clothing style, skills, sure: "Stay away from drinking about this class cut. So you'll academic ability, and hobbies. parties"; "Don't lie about tell a little white lie. Or keep where you're going"; "Stick quiet. No big deal. with friends who want to stay "What they don't know drug free." won't hurt them," you tell Your inner self is the you yourself. But a stone the size of that does all the doing. It's the Mars settles in the pit of your you underneath it all, under- stomach. Something doesn't neath the hair that looks hip or feel right. horrid on any particular Tues- You've turned your back on day afternoon. It's the you who a vital piece of who you are— understands or doesn't under- your inner, core self. This is the stand the math assignment. It's part of a person that knows the you who says Yes or No to right from wrong, that per- an invitation to go out. This ceives good and bad, that has a you is always the same. What clear sense of justice. This self changes is your perception of isn't influenced by circum- The inner, or core, self is this you. Do you see yourself as stances or peer pressure. It more difficult to explain. It worth something or worthless? makes its own decisions based includes conscience and self- Too often the inner self on truth and personal ethics. perception. Having a sense of doesn't match the outer. Take When we ignore that inner worth or value means saying, Scott, for instance. His hair is voice, we're in big trouble with "I'm an OK person, even with always perfectly styled. His ourselves. We may never be all my faults." Feeling worth- clothes look like they're straight caught lying, taking advantage from "L.A. Law." Even if he of someone, or cheating on a Judi Bailey weren't the leading scorer of March 1990 • LISTEN • 7

the basketball team, he'd still be Likes door. Going outdoors into a one of Central High's most good hygiene peaceful, natural setting also popular kids. But secretly Scott sense of humor works. feels anxious and alone. helpful to parents Make yourself comfortable in "If they knew what I'm loyal to friends a favorite chair, or lie down on really like, what I really think," good at piano your bed or the ground. Try he warns himself over and cheerful closing your eyes to reduce over, "none of them would friendly visual distractions. bother with me." He's con- Now, just be alone with stantly afraid of failure, afraid Dislikes yourself in the present moment. friends will consider him an im- hairstyle That's all. Realize that you have poster, a fake. He's convinced get jealous easily value because you're you, a he doesn't deserve the fame, too fat! unique creation. praise, and attention he's re- easily bored It doesn't matter if you do ceived. Instead of experiencing get mad often this for 2 minutes or for 20— a sense of value, Scott is filled sometimes gossip just do it. Don't expect any with shame. terrible at sports startling results; your purpose Sometimes the opposite sit- is simply to get acquainted with uation occurs. Take Scott's Next, start an active program yourself. younger brother, Brian. He's as to gradually improve yourself. A good bridge between the clumsy as Scott is athletic. Even The person in the above exam- inner you and the outer you is a though he's often unfavorably ple might begin by finding a self-worth statement. Complete compared to his brother and more attractive hairstyle, not the following statement with receives a healthy dose of teas- gossiping for one whole week, three qualities you appreciate ing, Brian doesn't let it get to and going on a sensible diet. the most about yourself: "I him. He doesn't mind that Scott Don't expect to change every- have worth and value as a per- gets the limelight. While Scott thing at once. It all takes time. son because of my is outside practicing foul shots, Pick an area to work on; you'll , and .11 ' Brian is content studying feel better as soon as you act on One person might fill in the another chapter in his world- it. blanks with "intelligence," "op- history book. Emphasize the positive. Dur- timistic attitude," and "positive "What I do doesn't show up ing your self-improvement pro- relationships with my family." in the school newspaper," Brian gram, read over your "likes" Another might say "kindness," says. "But in my heart, I'm daily to keep in mind your good "terrific sense of humor," and pretty happy with myself. We points. Add to this list as you "ability to listen." What are can't all be team captains." remember more of your positive your responses? Brian has a basic sense of qualities or skills. You'll be sur- After memorizing your self- worth; he knows that he's OK. prised to discover how many worth statement, recite it to He's in harmony with the there are. yourself once or twice every workings of his inner self and, morning just after waking up at the same time, content with Enhancing Your Inner Self and every evening just before his outer self. A positive, Discovery, rather than going to sleep. Think of it healthy attitude toward life is change, is the focus here. Ways whenever things get rough the result. to get in touch with your inner during the day. self include self-visitation and Being more in touch with Outer-self Improvement using a self-worth statement. your inner self means being You'll benefit from working Self-visitation means spend- able to listen to your conscience on your outer self by gaining ing time "visiting" yourself. and your intuition. Messages more self-confidence. First, take Turn off the radio, don't answer from your inner self remind a close look at what you're the phone, and set aside all you to treat others the way dealing with. What are the thoughts of the upcoming you'd like them to treat you, to pieces of the outer you? school party or history test. By say No to alcohol and other Find the answers through eliminating everyday distrac- drugs, and to be true to your self-examination. Jot down a tions, you become more open to own standards. list of what you like about the core you. One definition of loneliness yourself and what you don't Find a quiet place. If family is "being out of touch with like. Include your opinion only members are home, ask them yourself." Communicating with (not your mom's or friend's). not to interrupt you, or place a your inner self means a lot less Here's an example: do-not-disturb sign on your loneliness in your life. ILLUSTRATION BY BOB CRAM March 1990 • LISTEN • 9 ~;

rrx st Anabolic steroids may seem like a 97-pound weakling's dream come true, but there's more to biceps in a bottle than meets the eye—such as breast shrinkage for women and testicle shrinkage for men.

Anabolic steroids. They sound "Roids" instead. He went from thighs, arms, chests, and necks. like something you'd give to 128 pounds to 206 pounds—a Their faces puff up, bloated cattle and horses, and in fact, Hulk Hogan. with water. They grow more one kind—Equipoise—does body hair. build muscles in show horses. Instant-Muscle Penalties Many teens are thin and Unfortunately, high-school and There's a price to pay for small simply because they college athletes in greater and using steroids. In the mornings, haven't achieved their full greater numbers are misusing Larry's kidneys ached; worse growth yet. Why rush Mother steroids to do the same thing, yet, his breasts started growing. Nature? according to recent testimony Nighttime brought anxiety At one time, steroids were before a New York state attacks and insomnia. These used mainly in competitive legislative panel. drugs can also cause severe sports and bodybuilding. Take Anabolic steroids act like the acne, mood swings, and bald- Steve Michalik, the 1976 Mr. male hormone testosterone. ness in men. They deepen the Universe. He began bodybuild- Anabolic means "tissue pro- voice, shrink the breasts, and ing at 13. Four years later, he ducing." Some kids start with promote facial hair in women. won the Mr. New Jersey con- three of these little blue pills Long-term use can lead to can- test. In 1972 he was Mr. and work up to nine a day in cerous liver tumors and poten- America; in 1976 he became Mr. eight-week cycles. Some kids tially dangerous plaque build- Universe. When he went to increase the dosage and forget up in the heart. California to compete for the the cycles. Prescribed by doctors to treat Mr. Olympia title, he found that Some "stack" for quicker such things as malnutrition, everyone was twice his size! results. That is, they mix dif- anemia, and skeletal disorders, Everyone was on steroids. He ferent kinds. But injections steroids are extremely powerful began to use them too. work faster. And selling them drugs. Even small doses can Steve started out on 50 to 100 to other kids helps pay the tab. change the body's chemistry. milligrams a week. Some of the "Little Larry," they called The jawbone, hands, feet, nose, others were using 600 to 800. By him. He weighed 128 pounds lips, and other body parts may 1984 Steve was taking huge after a big meal, and he hated grow to grotesque proportions. amounts, but his body wasn't it. Tired of the nickname, he In less than a year, skinny boys responding anymore. Tired and started using steroids, and his can gain as much as 100 sore, he had fierce nosebleeds. friends took to calling him pounds, adding inches to their Two years later, his blood

Jane Scherer ILLUSTRATION BY RON BELL March 1990 • LISTEN • 11 pressure was 250/180, putting kicks while on steroids. In a suppliers. If caught prescribing him in danger of a stroke. His study of more than 40 profes- steroids improperly, doctors cholesterol level was 500. sional bodybuilders and foot- face jail sentences ranging from Doctors like their patients to ball players who used steroids, 5 to 15 years and the loss of their stay under 200. Steve was only at least one-third suffered licenses. Selling can mean prison 37 years old, but his kidneys aggression-depression cycles. terms of 2 to 4 years. Alabama, and liver were failing. He had Weight training is definitely California, Florida, and North to stop the steroids or die. He in. Guidance counselors in Carolina have similar laws. stopped. Today, he's a physical- schools across the country say Long before steroids, super fitness instructor working one- that classes teaching it fill up athletes pumped iron and built faster than any other elective. their muscles the natural way Some large high schools in without drugs. For example, Weight training is Florida, for example, offer 12 Paul Anderson, 1956 Olympic weight-lifting classes a day. heavyweight weight-lifting definitely in. And it And it isn't just boys. At one champion, back-lifted a table off isn't just boys. At school about 35 percent of the the ground while it held heavy muscle builders are female. auto parts and a safe full of lead one school about One 17-year-old says, "It totaling 6,270 pounds. It was the 35 percent of the takes years to build a body; greatest weight ever lifted by a steroids are quick." Quick and human. In 1948, Alex muscle builders are dangerous. Although steroids Khatiashvili, of the U.S.S.R., female. aren't physically addictive, it's jerked a 72-pound barbell over hard to stop once you've start- his head at least 170 times using ed. Some people say they'll take both arms. Then there's Cana- to-one with athletes and de- steroids until they like their dian Arthur Dandurand. In the voting his free time to warning looks, and then quit. Bulging 1920s, he carried a 455-pound kids about steroids. biceps and ham-hock thighs automobile engine 84 feet and The Journal of the American quickly collapse when the Medical Association recently chemicals stop, however. So do revealed that 6.6 percent of the accompanying feelings of Some people say male high-school seniors— being on top of the world. maybe as many as 500,000 Many people who stop even- they'll take steroids nationwide—have used tually start up again. until they like their steroids, with one-third of them doing it in hopes of out- Steroid Stoppers looks, and then quit. terminating The Terminator. Aware of the growing num- Bulging biceps and Thirteen-year-olds are, in bers of young users, schools in some cases, paying between $50 various parts of the country ham-hock thighs and $400 for black-market have started urine testing. In quickly collapse steroids. They don't realize that Bristow, Oklahoma, for exam- these drugs may stunt their ple, officials require drug test- when the chemicals growth by speeding up bone ing for all junior-high and maturation. They don't know senior-high students involved stop, however. steroids might endanger their in extracurricular athletic activ- still-developing reproductive ities. Those who refuse can be put it down on a table. systems, causing shrinkage of suspended. For more stories about men the testicles as well as impo- State governments also are who were real supermen in- tence. trying to protect young people. stead of steroid supermen, read Then there's the damage that Anabolic steroids have joined The Super Athletes by David steroids can do to mental cocaine, amphetamines, and Willoughby. In the meantime, health. Users begin to think other dangerous drugs on the don't forget to build your bi- they're all-powerful. They list of controlled substances in ceps with barbells, sculpt your become aggressive, moody, New York. Only doctors can pectorals at the bench press, depressed, irritable, and given dispense them now for medical and strengthen your quadriceps to "roid rages." One boy con- reasons. The new law is with squats. Steroids add tem- fessed that his parents' home is designed to stop abuse by porary muscle, but there's no peppered with holes in the athletes, as well as their better way than sweat and doors and indentions in the trainers, team physicians, and struggle. After all, no pain, no walls from his punches and coaches—who are often the gain. II 12 • LISTEN • March 1990 and how you'll live according to those beliefs. Even in as short a period as five years, the 4 values that you and he now share may be as far apart as Los Angeles and New York City. IsP) boyirkend and X are both 15. *1 e've been Five years from now, the two of you might go‘ng together tor ilve Months and ta% a Xot abovt geOngrnarrd atter We A‘nksh ccffiee. have such different views and opinions that you'd be totally unsuited for spending *1 e' v e never had se* and don't Oan to volA a lifetime together. atter W're Mary ‘ ed. Ovc parents VOW Ws OXI. 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Relationships are like abcotievsl tiOesthis scyme, ovez the text five-yea:O. . a new suit or dress. and v 00 AI .sjot,atle zesjOuStsisho-oi of the vtkost toimp 21,ay yard avdhave fay.V svevy Vaz They're exciting to ac- to leavv tVese essevtia1 s16.11s late da as av adult Sorae quire. They make us •Ilt'wilt adalts1.1caow voa,yov it 11-0-vossib1eavdyoavboyf-cie-vdateivtVeVocess to kickback feel good about our- ,„1 selves, more attractive of c1azifyivtgly otvc valaes--WVatyaa savastobe1ieve and admired. The fit feels 1:1-s1-xt perfect—at first. Sometimes the fit stays good, and what was perfect for you at 15 .15 is still perfect at 20 or even 25. But usually, during adoles- cence, people make individual changes. The two 15-year-olds who were so right for each other may be totally wrong for each other at 20. I admire your decision to wait until marriage for sex. It's not easy these days, but it's by far the best decision you can make. I wouldn't suggest that you stop going Jack steady. However, I hope you'll remember that no matter how wonderful being in Anders love is now, there's a possibility you'll change your minds about each other in the future. Have a question about friendships, family relations, drugs and health, or other teenage concerns? Ask a friend—Jack Anders, parent, counselor, and social worker. Address your questions to "Ask a Friend," LISTEN Magazine, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904. Jack is sorry that he cannot answer letters individually. March 1990 • LISTEN • 13 What's hip? What's happening? If an athlete is found using drugs, he/she What's new? Here's the latest word should be automatically kicked off the team, and given help. Those players had their according to our best sources—you! chance to show their stuff. If steroids are used to make a better performance, it's the What should be done drug playing, not the person. There are enough people waiting to be given a chance about steroid use in who are just as good as that player was before his/her drug use, and who will play sports? honestly. Why not give the real players a chance? Steroid use in sports should be stopped. Players think that steroids will make them —Brendae Zanni, 13, Coquille, Oregon look lik r. Macho. Just having bulging muscl s not make you popular. If you Steroid tests should be done on every person real nt to be good at sports, ask a coach who goes out for a sport. If steroids are abo .me exercises that could help you get found, that person should be removed from bett our sport. Steroids are not the the team for the entire year. The coach is answ doing the person a favor that neither will —Leslie Be s, 12, Woodward, Oklahoma ever forget. If the person really likes the sport, he or she will go out for it next season If the coach knows about the use of steroids with a healthy drug-free body. by one of his players, and he's still allowing it —Cathy Matis, 15, Mosinee, Wisconsin or even promoting it, then I think the coach should be "sent to Hawaii"! I don't know I believe that when athletes choose to use much a t steroids except that they're a steroids, they choose to be losers. Steroids drug, drugs have ill effects and can be are the easy way out, and cheaters don't dan .us. By using steroids, the player deserve to win. To be a winner takes hard en angers himself to some extent, and then work and determination, and using steroids wh ood is lw.to the team? If a coach is a cop-out. When an athlete is caught using doe w about one of his players steroids, he/she should be kicked off the abusing s eroids, then there should be a test team, because athletes are respected and the players have to take if they are suspected admired. A steroid user doesn't deserve of using steroids. Also, I think that if a player such things. There are many young athletes is using steroids, he needs to be banned from who have big dreams and can replace losers the team. who use steroids. —Bianca Andersen, 14, Grand Rapids, Michigan —Natalie Emge, 14, Fort Branch, Indiana

What is the best way to keep teens off drugs? Let us Next Question: know how you feel in fewer than 200 words. If we publish your letter, we'll pay you $15. Send your response to "You Said It," LISTEN Magazine, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904. Be sure to include your name, age, and address. We reserve the right to edit letters. Reader responses don't necessarily reflect the views of LISTEN.

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OF ME

It's got more eyes than an Idaho potato and more legs than the Rockettes. It's the Miss America Pageant. Idaho's own Becki Trueblood saw Miss Missouri take the honors, but she knows there's more to winning than wearing a crown.

Sitting atop a 1955 red Becki can tell you that behind be ready for anything. Thunderbird convertible, Becki the glitter and glamour is in- For the talent portion of the Trueblood smiles as she waves tense pressure. And sometimes competition, Becki plans to put a well-manicured hand at the behind these is disappointment. her vocal talents to use. She's crowds lining the streets of her Becki hopes to be among the been singing for the past five hometown, Caldwell, Idaho. 10 finalists, because she doesn't years on TV and before live It's a warm September day in want to disappoint all her ad- audiences across the United 1989. With one arm, she holds mirers along the parade route. States. But she knows she'll be the bouquet of roses the mayor She wants to win for herself, nervous when she sings before has just presented to her. With and she also wants to win for the judges, so she practices the other, she waves at the her support team—her coaches again—and again. crowd of people, many sporting and board—who have invested Then September 16, 1989, "Becki Trueblood Fan Club" so much of themselves in her arrives, and with it the real T-shirts. Police and fire sirens success. pressure. And the disappoint- wail over the other celebration She faces the pressure of ment. hoopla as the procession moves hours spent preparing for the After all the preparation, slowly along the parade route. elimination rounds, especially after all the good wishes from A dream? After all, such the interviews the judges will supporters, after all the red things don't happen to most put her through. Becki reads roses and convertibles, Becki people in real life. But this is no newspapers and magazines watches as Miss Missouri, dream. Becki's hometown has every day looking for the little Debbye Turner, is crowned turned out to send her off in details that might turn up in an Miss America for 1990. Becki grand style to Atlantic City, interview question. Her coaches isn't even among the 10 New Jersey, where she'll com- set up mock interviews with finalists. First, second, third, pete with 50 other girls (one five or seven judges—just like it and fourth runners-up are Miss representative for each of the 50 will be in Atlantic City. Becki Maryland, Miss Colorado, Miss states and Washington, D.C.) has absolutely no idea what Illinois, and Miss Ohio. for the 1990 Miss America title. they're going to ask; she tries to Almost a year of Becki's Cheering crowds and roses hopes and efforts dissolve at from the mayor are special. But B. Russell Holt this moment. Will she be able to

PHOTO BY JAY PARKER / PARKER PORTRAITS March 1990 • LISTEN • 17 handle not winning the title? "When I was 17, I entered and to 23 other countries pre- "Of course I was disappoint- the Idaho National Teenager senting concerts, making ed," she says looking back. "I contest as a last-minute sort of records, and appearing on a really wanted to be Miss thing only two weeks before the weekly cable television America. It would've been an judging. I won without really program. opportunity for me to share preparing at all, so I thought I "Our concerts were enter- with the whole United States would do the same when I tainment," Becki says, "but some things that I've felt are went on to Florida for the basically our goal was to help very important. But I've had national level competition. No people. We sang songs for all other major disappointments in way! They blew me away in ages, and after the music we my life, and I've seen good Florida. It was so tough," Becki talked with the people. I love come out of them. The contest remembers. singing, but I actually enjoyed has been a huge challenge, and "I was more than disap- getting involved with people I love challenges. But I also pointed. My confidence level even more. We tried to help know there will be something was shot, and that had never them with their problems. And else after this." happened to me before. I al- that teaches you that your Handling disappointment ways thought I could do any- strength isn't in yourself. I've isn't new for Becki. In fact, she thing I put my mind to. But this learned that if I try to accom- lost another beauty pageant scared me, and I told myself plish anything from within my- nine years ago. That loss, she that I'd never enter another self, it will never work." feels, has helped her keep her pageant." After five years with perspective in the Miss America Five years ago, Becki became Heritage Singers, Becki still contest, the nation's best- part of Heritage Singers, a gos- loved the music, but she felt the known and most prestigious pel music group of 14 that time had come to make a beauty competition. travels full time across the U.S. change. "It was probably the hardest decision I've made," she says. "When you travel together like that, you get very close, and the group had become my family. I didn't know if I would ever again be involved with music in the same way, but I felt I needed to do something else." It was at this point—when she was 25 years old and didn't know exactly what she wanted to do next—that Becki heard about the Miss Treasure Valley Pageant. She learned that the first step in the Miss America system is to enter an approved pageant on the local level. In Becki's case, this was the Miss Treasure Valley Pageant, which covered two Idaho counties. She decided to enter the pageant because it offered scholarship money. Becki wants to study broadcast communica- tions. "I would love to produce and host a television show that would incorporate music and

Becki, who toured with the gospel group Heritage Singers, puts her vocal experience to good use during the talent competition.

PHOTO © PRO PHOTOGRAPHICS / JOE PROFETTO American beauties (left to right) Miss Minnesota Lynne Schacher and Miss New Hampshire Jennifer Ann Landry share the focus with Becki in Atlantic City. talking and helping people— sort of a 'Good Morning America' but with more attention to dealing with people's problems," she says. In November 1988, Becki won the Miss Treasure Valley A Pageant. She went on to the Miss Idaho contest in June 1989 and won again. As Miss Idaho, t Becki traveled around the state in a brand-new maroon Pontiac with "Miss Idaho 1989" painted on the side. She attended ribbon cuttings, benefit programs, ceremonies, and other functions in her official capacity as hostess for Idaho—sometimes overloading her schedule and finding herself booked to be in two places at almost the same time. But that's nothing: Miss America often visits five states in a single week. As Miss Idaho, really break down if you don't hoped to wear? "Of course," Becki automatically got the participate with the right frame says Becki. "I believe the chance to compete for the Miss of mind. You have to recognize decision of what will happen America title in Atlantic City. the possibility that you won't with your life comes basically The Miss America system win, and you have to believe in from you. You have to take focuses on much more than yourself enough to know that if your disadvantages and turn appearance, and Becki likes you don't win, you can still them into advantages. That's that. "I don't feel comfortable carry on. I didn't understand what I've always tried to do, being known as a beauty this at 17, and the loss hurt me and that's what I would tell queen," she says. "Of course, for a long time." anyone else to do. It isn't easy you have to be physically fit, Becki also feels that she came to say No when everyone else and the judges look for someone to the Miss America Pageant wants you to say Yes. It isn't who's attractive. Pretty girls with a more relaXed attitude. "I easy to have a goal and follow win the Miss America Pageant, entered it without a lot of through to make it happen. It but often it isn't the prettiest girl thought beforehand. Sometimes isn't easy to accept disappoint- who wins. The talent competi- contestants have lived the ments. But if you're going to be tion makes up 40 percent of pageant for years; they've a winner, you've got to find your score; the interview, 30 trained for it ever since they that strength somewhere." percent; and the evening gown were very young. But it wasn't Becki didn't exactly walk and swimsuit competitions, that way with me. I saw the away from the Miss America only 15 percent each." Miss America Pageant as a way Pageant empty-handed. She As a result of her confidence- to advance in a different area won a trophy in the judges' in- shattering loss at 17, Becki says than I had done before. And I terview portion of the competi- she approached the Miss wanted to follow the advice tion and $3,500 in scholarship America contest with a com- Gretchen Carlson, the 1989 Miss money. pletely different set of priorities. America, gave me. She told me, On September 16, 1989, a "I believe every pageant 'Enjoy yourself, because it goes national network audience saw experience offers something by so fast.' " the Miss America crown go to positive if you turn it into Is there life after Miss Miss Missouri. But even with- something positive," she says. America—especially if someone out the crown, Becki Trueblood "But your self-confidence can else wears the crown you had looks and talks like a winner. B PHOTO © PRO PHOTOGRAPHICS / JOE PROFETTO March 1990 • LISTEN • 19

eas or Drug-free A lot of us at school want to start a prevention club. We can't seem to decide what direction to go, though. Some of us want to work with younger kids, and some of us just want to throw parties for the high school. What do you suggest?

Sounds like it's time for some goal setting. First, paperwork can be time consuming, but your there's no reason why your group can't tackle school sponsor is probably willing to help with it. both projects. However, it's important that you The second goal idea—to provide alternative have well-defined objectives. activities for your own school—is another great My suggestion—and what seems to be most concept, also involving a lot of details. For exam- successful—is having two goals. One, help ple, who will pay for the decorations when you younger kids make positive decisions to stay have a party? Where will you get the refresh- away from alcohol and other drugs, and two, ments? Will teachers agree to chaperon the party? provide alternative activities for kids your own Should you fund-raise or sell tickets? Once again, age who want to have fun and stay straight. meet with your group leaders, sponsor, and We've talked often in this column about the maybe some parents to brainstorm and see what's incredible impact older students can have on workable. younger ones. That's why I encourage the first Now, as far as "big picture" goals are con- goal. Consider certain things before taking on this cerned, every town is different. What works in type of project, though. one place may not work in another. You might First, think about your school district and talk with some of your friends and decide what school schedule. Many districts allow high-school your community's biggest problem is. Then or middle-school prevention groups to visit decide what kind of realistic impact you can have elementary classes during an activity period. In on the problem. some cases, the elementary school meets before Say that lots of high-school kids drink. What the older kids' classes begin. That's perfect—if can you do about it? You can't play police squad, you can get your group out of bed early enough! but you can provide plenty of other fun things to Get support from your sponsor and other do so that alcohol won't be a temptation. Don't essential school authorities before trying this expect all the kids who like drinking to attend plan. Make sure your group members have trans- your parties, but do expect kids who are on the portation to and from the elementary school. fence to decide they'd rather have a good time Other details to think of and discuss include with you than throw up on their date at a beer getting permission slips from parents, as well as party. emergency release forms in case one of your Before taking on any kind of project, you members falls and breaks his or her leg in front of should have a clear-cut set of goals and specific the elementary school. objectives in mind. Now, let the brainstorms When you discuss your goals and specific begin! Have fun planning how you can make a projects, you must remember these details. The difference. QI

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March 1990 • LISTEN • 21 or Not to That is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outraged honeybees or to don protective gear and gather honey.

Across the United States, honey- Harry and Joe got such a "buzz" or drones (males). If the bees bees produce about $140 million that they have four hives now, tending the queen decide she's a year in honey and beeswax. and expect to keep bees for a not doing a good job, they'll They do it by themselves, often long time. stage a coup. They'll place some in hives kept by amateurs. In of the female eggs into larger fact, that's the beauty of keeping Bees, Up Close cells and feed them a different bees for a hobby—they do what and Personal diet than they give the regular comes naturally without lots of The average honeybee works bees. A new queen will hatch in attention or money from their herself to death in about six 15 days, and the old queen will owners. weeks. As a newly hatched bee, be driven out if she doesn't leave "It's an enjoyable hobby," she cleans brood cells, the com- on her own. says 15-year-old Joe Tinker, partments in the honeycomb Drones, the male bees, hatch "because it doesn't really re- where the queen lays her eggs. in about 24 days. Helpless to do quire a lot of heavy work. It feels After a few days of janitorial anything for themselves, they more like a leisure activity. It work, she moves into the nurs- have only one function— mating doesn't feel like a job when ery to feed the larvae, or imma- with a queen. During the spring you're doing it." ture bees. After a week or so, and summer, worker bees feed His brother Harry, 13, enjoys she begins to fly. A few days and care for the drones diligent- the honey. "It's nice to see that later, she bustles around gather- ly, knowing survival depends on you get all that honey from your ing pollen and nectar to take the drones. When the weather own bees." back to the hive for food and starts getting colder and mating Harry's interest developed honey production. season ends, the drones are when he attended a local meet- In contrast to a worker bee's driven from the hive. Outside, ing about beekeeping. A later lifespan, queen bees can live for they starve or die from the cold. trip to a honey festival several years. Although laying This sounds cruel, but the colony strengthened his resolve. Joe got about 1,500 eggs a day is hard has to prepare for winter and involved to help Harry with the work, queens don't wear out can't afford the extra baggage. lifting. One hive section full of quickly. Queens mate only honey can weigh about 60 during the first two or three Winter in the Hive pounds. weeks of their lives, then lay At full strength, a colony They joined a beekeepers' eggs until they die. Each queen consists of a queen, a few association and took a four- produces male and female eggs, drones, and between 20,000 and week course in which they laying one in each hexagonal 60,000 worker bees. During the learned about bees, equipment, compartment of her brood nest. winter, this army—minus the and care. Because they decided She decides if the eggs will drones—eats about 70 pounds of to make beekeeping their 4-H hatch into worker bees (females) honey. A vigorous colony will project, their bee association survive the winter better than a loaned them their first colony. Laurie Lee Wilson failing colony, which is why 22 • LISTEN • March 1990 some beekeepers combine the bees from two colonies in the fall (only one of the queens will be allowed to stay). In the cold weather, bees tend to live longer because they're less active. Honey production stops because there's no nectar to gather. No drones exist to require care, and the queen stops laying eggs, so the bees pass the winter eating honey, clustered together for warmth. During winter, the colony shrinks as the older generation dies. Younger bees mature and raise the larvae. When spring comes, the queen begins laying eggs, and the cycle starts buzzing again. Flight of the Honeybee As the colony grows, there's something else to watch out for. If the bees get too hot or too Smoke from a device which burns cardboard or leaves calms the bees so that crowded, they're likely to go in the hive can be inspected. search of a new home. Swarm- brand new queen, the other half beekeeper. In addition to losing ing, as it's called, is normal for of the bees, and lots of eggs to half the hive, he/she has to wait bees as a means of expansion. carry on. This usually happens four to six weeks for the colony The queen and half the hive fly during a peak honey-producing to build up again. That translates off for new territory, leaving a time, which is bad news for the into lots of honey that doesn't get made. As a beekeeper, your goal is to keep your colony happy at home. Making sure it has proper ventilation and room to lay eggs and store honey is usually enough. Keeping a young queen in the hive also discourages swarming. But no method is foolproof. Ultimately you can't prevent swarming, only post- pone it, says Glenn Musser, who has kept bees for 15 years. That's one of the reasons he defines beekeeping as learning to work with nature. Bees aren't tame, he points out; they just want to survive. Bee Stings and Honey Although you can't keep bees without getting stung, Harry and Joe have been stung only seven or eight times between them. "If you're confident around the bees, stings aren't a Harry and Joe use the smoking device to get bees out of the super, or top big problem," Joe says. As a portion of the hive, where the honey is. rule, bees don't attack; they March 1990 • LISTEN • 23 Joining a local bee association will give you access to more beekeepers and resources. Subscribing to a bee journal can keep you current on beekeeping technology and methods. Books are helpful, but when you're getting started, knowing someone who keeps bees in your area makes the process easier. Timing for bee care varies regionally, so bee people in your area can give you especially helpful advice. The Tinkers found local bee people "valuable when things go wrong or you're not sure about a certain procedure," Joe explains. Also, you may not have the money required to set up your own apiary, but you can afford the protective equipment needed to help out with someone else's bees until you can get Harry and Joe use a beekeeper's tool to lift vertically hanging frames filled started for yourself. with honeycomb. defend. A honeybee dies when it you if a beekeeper lives in your Finding a Place stings, so it's about as anxious to area and if you must register for Your Hive sting as you are to get stung. But your bee colony—as some states By now you're probably it will defend its hive, so you require—and how often it needs wondering where you could can't keep bees without being a to be inspected. The inspector put a hive of bees. Ideally, you target once in a while. It comes should be able to put you in want a dry location with direct with the territory. touch with an association in sunlight in the mornings, a So does honey. Starting with your area. water source about 100 yards an established hive, Joe and Harry Tinker harvested 120 pounds at the end of that first summer. They sold honey at the state fair and to their friends, and still had plenty left. If you start from scratch, you probably won't get a crop the first year, but the second year could yield 50 to 75 pounds of extra honey. Like Harry and Joe, many people sell it. Others give it away. It makes a special present, because you produced it and know the story behind it. Getting Started Unless you know someone in your community who has a hive or two, your first step should be to call the state or county agricultural department and talk to an apiary (hive) inspector. This person will be able to tell The boys inspect a brood frame containing eggs, pupae, and young bees. 24 • LISTEN • March 1990 A brood frame shows bees in several stages of development. Experienced beekeepers can handle frames without gloves once the bees get to know them. away, and plenty of nectar on the kind of bee you choose. Remember this rule of bee- nearby. If you live in a city, At this point, it would be good keeping: Let the bees be busy you'll need to do a little extra to make friends with your letter while you mind your own investigation. Some cities, like carrier, since that person will be beeswax. Sweet dreams! Washington, D.C., have ordi- delivering your bees. nances against keeping bees, so A common bee to start with is you'll need to make sure you the Italian bee, which builds up won't be breaking the law by a colony rapidly. This is good setting up a hive. for people living where spring is Beehive Most beekeepers recommend a short season; by the time Buzzwords starting with two or three hives nectar is flowing at its peak, the if you have the space and the colony will be ready to process Anxious for a taste of money. They won't take much it. Gentle by nature, Italian bees honey? Here are two more work than one, and you don't sting as readily as some general-purpose bee maga- can compare the colonies' other types. They are also a little zines that provide up-to- growth and production. They cheaper than the midnight date information and ad- can help each other out if you hybrid, another popular, gentle vice about beekeeping. Ask for a sample copy and any need them to. bee. Deciding which kind you free material each pub- If you decide to buy new want to work with depends on lisher might have, includ- supplies, you have several you and your geographical ing a catalog. Then decide options. Talk to a beekeeper's location. whether you'd like to supplier in your area (look in the You'll feed the bees sugar subscribe. phone book), or order them water for the first four to six yourself through the mail. Sears weeks after you get them. That • American Bee Journal and Montgomery Ward sell the gives them a chance to settle into Dadant and Sons necessities, and other suppliers their new home, build some 51 South Second St. are listed in bee journals. Prices comb, and get the queen back Hamilton, IL 62341 for starter kits, which come dis- into her egg-laying routine. • Gleanings in Bee assembled, begin at around $90. You may be tempted to Culture Not all kits include the protec- inspect the hive often, but you A.I. Root Company tive helmet and veil, so you may and the bees will be better off if 00 P.O. Box 706 need to purchase them you leave them alone for a Medina, OH 44258- separately. They cost about $15. while. Unless you suspect a 0706 Bees and a queen will cost problem, checking on them once another $20 to $30, depending or twice a week is plenty. March 1990 • LISTEN • 25 Uruguay and Chile found themselves behind bars because the government disagreed with their postal political persuasion. They were freed by other mail artists working through Amnesty Inter- national. A credit to the postal service's honesty and ability to handle with care are such safely delivered items as a laminated $10 bill and a filled water balloon (which arrived unburst). For the most part, anything movable is mail art—from a man- nequin's arm to live bees (see page 25). So if the postman only rings twice (and then runs), you know your letter is probably alive.

Be It Ever So Humble Home is where the heart is, and obviously some of the United States's 241 million residents have pretty soft hearts. If they didn't, cities with only-a-mother- could-love-them names like these would be mere ghost towns: Asphalt, Ky.; Dryville, Pa.; Last Chance, Colo.; Little Hope, Tenn.; Looneyville, W.Va.; and Muck City, Ala. And how about these, which sound like a description of your ex-boyfriend: Belcher, N.Y.; Boring, Md.; Droop, W.Va.; Silly Wabbit Gross, Kan.; Odd, W.Va.; and A wooden rabbit lawn ornament name on it. And a fluorescent- Tightwad, Mo. owned by a Maryland couple re- orange plastic fish with your ad- "Will you still need me, will cently decided to tour the coun- dress on its left fin. you still feed me, when I'm 64?" try. The bunny disappeared in OK, so there's the postcard asked the Beatles. Well, if the an- December 1988, leaving not a category, the package/box sector, swer is No, and if Social Security pawprint's clue as to his where- even the business-size envelope. (and all else) fails, move here: All abouts. He reappeared eight What postal genre does this stuff Saints Village, Mo.; Benevolence, months later, propped on the belong to? Mail art. Started in the Ga.; Heaven Heights, Mass.; Live couple's car windshield along early 1960s by an avant-garde Easy, Pa.; Paradise, Ariz.; or with a bag containing 48 photo- group of New York artists, mail Tranquility, N.J. graphs of himself in locations as art is now a worldwide art According to USA Today, most diverse as Utah, New York City, form—consisting of anything eastern town names have English, and St. Thomas in the Virgin mailable. Mail artists go to shows, Dutch, or American Indian ori- Islands. Harry and Louise West, view one another's work, collect gins, while western monikers are the rabbit's owners, have no idea addresses, and subscribe to mail- Spanish or Mexican. Town names who took the rabbit or why. art publications such as Banana in the Midwest tend to be funny Rag (P.O. Box 3655, Vancouver, or ironic—Cut and Shoot, Texas, B.C., Canada V6B 3Y8, $12/year). for example. All-Mail Revue Mail art ranges from whimsi- But still, with 60,809 burgs to Please, Mr. Postman, is there a cal (25 feet of garden hose recon- choose from, why would anyone letter, a letter for me? No, but structed into a seahorse) to politi- live in Hell (Mich.)? It ain't Ideal there is a hairy coconut with your cal—in the 1970s, mail artists in (Ga.), but it's home. 26 • LISTEN • March 1990 ILLUSTRATION BY LAURENCE KNIGHTON TRIPLE TRIANGLES WHICH STATE? Karen Zeinart Thomas A. Augustine To start the triangles, take away one letter from Each of the words listed below is associated with the word ornate, rearranging the remaining letters one of the 50 U.S. states. Fill in each blank with the if necessary, to make four new words. Continue correct state. to take away letters, making more words, until only the letter o is left in each triangle. Do not 1. The Alamo repeat any words. 2. Disneyland

O R N A T 3. Disney World 4. The Great Salt Lake

5. The Finger Lakes 6. Seward's Folly

7. Potatoes 8. Mardi Gras

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11. Bengals and Browns 12. The Sooners 13. Aloha

14. Carter Country 15. The Badlands

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The Blob Tube The size of your jeans may be di- rectly proportional to the amount Thumbs Up of television you watch, accord- The cheaper the booze, ing to a study conducted at the higher the price. Auburn University in Alabama. Thumbs Down Sound like a paradox? Men who watched TV more than ds) Malt liquor is bull. Ad- To community leaders in cities three hours a day doubled their - chances of being obese, compared vertisers use that slo- such as Los Angeles, San Francis gan, albeit in a different co, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, to those who watched an hour or c Tufts Diet and context, all the time. They use it the premise is all too logical. less a day. The too often in black and Hispanic Nutrition Letter reported that Thanks to the efforts of these the communities, according to 22 E. & J. Gallo Winery, teenage boys who watched four leaders, hours of TV a day were less fit groups formed around the Wash- United States's largest wine pro-- ington, D.C.-based Center for ducer ($1 billion in sales annual and could do fewer push-ups, pull-ups, etc. than their less tele- Science in the Public Interest, ly), has agreed to stop selling its who say malt liquor is more connected counterparts. Why? cheap, fortified wines in inner heavily advertised in minority city "skid row" areas. The wines Watching TV only burns about as - many calories as sleeping, but communities than elsewhere. being tabled are the bargain Blacks make up 10 percent of the basement Thunderbird and Night research shows that people eat 50 more high-calorie foods while population, but drink one-third Train, which sell for $.9041. of all malt liquor. Black and His- per three-quarter liter bottle. watching TV—buttered popcorn, potato chips, ice cream, cookies, panic men have higher rates of Usually laced with brandy, the cirrhosis of the liver, and black and pizza. alcohol content in fortified wines babies are more likely to be born may be as high as 20 percent. To with fetal alcohol syndrome than the (financially) nonliquid alco- are white babies. While beer has holic, a morning of panhandling about a 4.6 percent alcohol con- can pay for an evening on the tent, malt liquor ranges from 5.6 town—an evening passed out on to 10.9 percent. Stephen J. the town's park benches, side- Burrows, vice president for con- walks, and gutters, that is. Politi- sumer awareness and education cians and business people hope at Anhesuer-Busch, Inc. that corking the flow of cheap Washington Post, told the "We make no v wine will help make personal re- apologies for marketing a malt habilitation and economic revival liquor or for the fact that [it] is less difficult. especially popular in the black and Hispanic markets." Now that is bull. ram). SirAwurAY-

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If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am wo man. dent John F. Kennedy, the Peace March Birthdays —Helen Reddy Corps has sent more than 15 March is volunteers to 94 developing heptathlon National Women's Jackie Joyner-Kersee, History Month, a time for re- countries since its inception athlete and Olympic gold membering and celebrating the March 1, 1961. The Peace Corps medalist, born in East St. Louis, achievements of women from helps people help themselves by Ill., March 3, 1962; Rob Reiner, Betsy Ross, who sewed the firs teaching and working to improve actor/director (When Harry Met U.S. flag; to Marie Curie, the t health, education, water sanita- born in New York, NY, French chemist and physicist tion, agriculture, nutrition, and Sally), who March 6, 1945; Darryl Straw- discovered polonium and ra- forestry. Want to be a part of it? berry, baseball player for the dium; to Susan B. Anthony, a Put on your Birkenstocks and New York Mets, born in Los leader in the women's suffrage write to Peace Corps, Director of Angeles, Calif., March 12, 1962; movement; to Antonia Novello, Public Affairs, Washington, D.C. Aretha Franklin, singer / song- the first woman surgeon general 20526. writer, born in Memphis, Tenn., of the U.S. More specifically, Celebrate the vernal equinox Elton John on March 20—it's March 25, 1942; March 8 is United Nation's Inter- Earth Day. (Reginald Kenneth Dwight), national Women's Day; it's also Eleven years ago on this date, musician/ songwriter, born in International Working Women's children in New York City rang Pinner, England, March 25, 1947; Day. Commemorating an 1857 the United Nations peace bell at Liz Claiborne, fashion designer, march and demonstration by fe- the exact moment the sun crossed born in Brussels, Belgium, March male garment and textile workers the equator. This day marks the 31, 1929. in New York City, the event went beginning of spring in the North- global in 1910 at an international ern Hemisphere and the advent women's conference in Helsinki, of autumn in the Southern Hemi- Finland. It's the most widely ob- sphere. served holiday of recent origin, The second week of this month and in the U.S.S.R., it's celebrated is, as they say, wild as a March with meetings, concerts, and par- hare. For starters, we've got Na- ties; in the People's Republic of tional Drug and Alcohol Aware- China, gifts are presented to wo- ness Week; next up is your tent— men workers. it's American Camping Week; and finally, Happy birthday to the Peace National Procrastina- Corps! The brainchild of Presi- tion Week (oh, can't we put that off till April?). -so", ,f4.rn

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OmiterM& Body by Miller Not too long ago Miller Brewing Company proudly beer. And that, after all, is what the alcohol industry announced that after nearly 40 years it was changing is interested in. the shape of the beer bottles for some of its brands. Spokespersons for the industry will tell you, of This sent reporters scrambling to their word pro- course, that the aim of their advertising and market- cessors. It was newsworthy enough for USA Today to ing is merely to get the user of alcohol to change put it on page 1 of its "Money" section. brands. Anheuser-Busch is the U.S.'s leader in beer According to USA Today, the new bottles "show a sales. And Miller will do everything in its power to distinctive neck and shoulders. The old ones were cut into its competition's share of the market. sleeker—without much of an upper body at all." But alcohol advertising and marketing aim to Makes you wonder what we're talking about here, increase the overall number of drinkers too. That's the shape of a bottle or of the human form. It gives just plain good business. It doesn't take a Nobel- new meaning to the term bodybuilding. prize winner in economics to know that the more It's always interesting to watch the alcohol indus- customers you have, the more money you make. So try's attempts to sell the public more of its products. the alcohol industry pays people to measure how No detail is so small that it can be ignored. consumers will feel about such things as the shape of Miller calls its new look in bottles "bold and con- its bottles. temporary." Picture, if you will, a couple browsing Some would suggest that a bottle with a beer in a liquor store. Suddenly they stop, spellbound, in belly would be a more appropriate shape for the front of the Miller display. "Now there's a bold look- new Miller line. If you take a good look around, the ing bottle!" the man exclaims. "And yet so contem- beer belly is often "bold" and certainly "contempo- porary," his companion croons. Gives you goose rary." But then, how would you fit them all together bumps, doesn't it? Sounds as if they're in a museum in a six-pack? or an art gallery. Apparently, however, even the shape of a bottle is important to sales. Marketing tests showed that 67 percent of consumers preferred the new shape of the bottles over that of the old ones. That will sell more

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