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Q: Is Vince Vaughn as funny in real life as he is onscreen?—Lisa Marie, Los Angeles

A: Absolutely. But he knows when to be serious, too. “My wife and I have a rule,” says Vaughn, 40, currently starring in The

Dilemma. “If we have an

Q: Any chance of a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion? —Catherine Merriman,

Loudonville, N.Y.

A: “I think we’d all be into it,” says Tatyana Ali, a.k.a. Ashley Banks. “We’ve actually talked about what would’ve happened to our characters after all this time.” Ali, 32, currently plays a divorcée on TV One’s Love That Girl!

“I’m defi nitely a lot more sophisticated than I was on Fresh Prince,” she says.

Q: Colin Farrell was once a box-o� ce leading man. What happened? —Cathy

Berry, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.

A: Farrell still has star power galore—and after sobering up a few years ago, he’s worked hard to prove it. He’s currently sharing the screen with Ed Harris in The Way Back and is set to appear in three more films this year, including a remake of 1985’s Fright Night. “I saw the original when I was about 11 and

Q: I enjoy Brad Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel. What else has he done? —J. M., Omaha

A: Meltzer is probably best known for his many books on secret codes and conspiracies. His latest is the novel The Inner Circle. “Here’s an exclusive clue,” he reveals. “Look for ‘355’ in the book. It’s the code name for a woman who helped George Washington with his spy ring in the Revolutionary War.”

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Q: I’ve liked Rachel Bilson ever since The O.C. When can I see her next? —Anna Lee,

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WS How did you get along with Betty White?

JLH She’s the most phenomenal person I’ve ever

met. Her energy is unreal, and she’s so beautiful,

kind, and witty. I grew up watching The Golden

Girls, and I was completely obsessed with her.

Why should people watch this movie?

Romance is one thing that doesn’t go out of style.

Speaking of romance—tell us about yours.

I met Alex [Beh] at a party. He was the funniest

one there. I thought I was done dating for a while,

but the heart makes decisions without the brain.

Is having a love life diffi cult in Hollywood?

It’s the same bad dates, the same heartbreaks.

then maybe 20 times after that,” says Farrell, 34, who plays the vampire. “I was hoping I wouldn’t like the new script, so I could gripe about Hollywood destroying such a great film, but it’s loads of fun. ”

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A: Very soon—Waiting for Forever, a romantic drama, opens Feb. 4. In a case of art imitating life, Bilson, 29, plays a young actress—but she insists that’s where the similarities end. “Emma is a lot harder than I am,” she says. “She’s not happy.” Bilson, on the other hand, is. “Any role makes you question things about yourself, but my life is pretty good right now. The challenge is bringing likability to women who come off as cold or unsympathetic. I think everyone has a soft center, though. Mine’s pretty mushy.” —Jeff Bridges, on growing out

his mane between roles

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could use a little luck in the Year of the Rabbit, here are a few customs to observe: 1. Sweep for success. Clean your house from top to bottom to expel the dust and disappointments of the past year and usher in a bright future. Decorate with plants or fl owers, symbolic of rebirth. But remember: All work must be done by midnight on Feb. 2. Swing a Swiffer on New Year’s Day and you’ll push luck right out the door. 2. Dress for the occasion. Buy new clothes to wear on New Year’s Day; they represent new beginnings. Even better, get something red—it’s considered a lucky color. 3. Add luck to your menu. Have dinner on Chinese New Year’s Eve with your fam-ily, consuming fortune-boosting foods like nian gao (sweet sticky rice cakes), dumplings, and a whole fi sh, symbolic of progress, togetherness, and abundance. For more traditions (and a dumpling recipe), go to Parade.com/newyear. —Daryl Chen

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serious leg up—he co-wrote

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Ask Marilyn

by Marilyn vos Savant

I read that chocolate

contains caffeine.

Yet I’ve also read

that the stimulant

in chocolate has a different

chemical composition from

caffeine. Can you explain? Eating

chocolate neither keeps me

awake nor boosts my energy,

but caffeinated beverages such

as coffee certainly do.

—Nancy Sharp, Salt Lake City

Caffeine (mostly in coffee, less in tea, and a little in chocolate), theophylline (mainly in tea), and theobromine (chiefl y in chocolate) belong to the same class of compounds—mild stimulants. However, they vary signifi cantly in their action.Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system (CNS), theophylline stimulates the CNS differently and to a lesser degree, and theobromine does not stimulate the CNS at all.

Send your questions to

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PARADE Is there anything characteristically Welsh about you?There is something characteristi-cally not Welsh: I don’t play sports. I don’t root for any team. I’m not interested and I never was. I think there’s a microchip missing in my brain. Someone said, “Oh, you ought to take up golf; a lot of actors play golf.” So I got some lessons. I was never so bored in all my life.

You seem very fi t, though. Do you work out?Yes, I do weights, the treadmill, that sort of thing. About 90 min-utes fi ve days a week.

Any guilty pleasures that you indulge in?No, I don’t think so. Oh, God, I sound very boring.

Not at all…but let’s just say I don’t picture you watching a lot of American television.Oh, I love it! American Idol, Dancing

with the Stars—I watch all that stuff. The other one I like is The Appren-tice. I just think it’s a hoot. When I first came here, I used to watch I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffi th Show. I’ve been a movie fan all my life, especially American movies. And I love Westerns; I’ve just TiVo’d two John Wayne movies.

You also paint. How did that come about?

I used to draw in my scripts with colored ink. Before we got married, my wife found all these scripts and said that for the wedding I should do 75 paintings and give them as party gifts. After that, she said, “You really are good, and you ought to paint.” Now I’ve got a per-manent gallery in Hawaii.

People often think of you as the villainous Hannibal Lecter. Can you tell us something sweet about yourself?I’m always buying gifts and fl owers for my wife. She appreciates that, and then I get rewards. She makes me breakfast and brings it to me when I’m in bed.

You became an American citizen in 2000, and when you came here in the early 1970s you said you felt “at home.” What about the U.S. made you feel that way?I’ve thought a lot about that lately. When I was a kid, I was very back-ward in school; I had the lowest marks. And I didn’t have any kids to play with in the playground. I just didn’t fi t in anywhere. I be-came an actor to see if that would help me to feel at peace with my-self, but I never did. I felt I was a complete outsider in my own country. I came to California to be in a movie, and I liked the weather, the anonymity, the spaciousness of America. You can do whatever you like here. So, symbolically, I ran away from that playground and came to a bigger one.

You’ve talked about driving around in the States—what do you drive and what do you listen to?My wife and I have an SUV

and like to wander. We both like country-western mu-sic—Waylon Jennings,

Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton.

What’s better in your seventies?[Laughs] I’m very happy, that’s all I can say.

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says that solitude and California are his preferred states.

Though he and his third wife, for-mer antiques dealer Stella Arroyave, live in Malibu, “I don’t have a single friend who’s an actor,” the 73-year-old Welshman admits. “But I enjoy working with them.” His latest movie, The Rite, has the Oscar win-ner (for The Silence of the Lambs) scaring audiences again. But at home, he tells Kate Meyers, he’s just a reality TV–loving pussycat.

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Puzzlesby Marilyn vos Savant

I V I N N A S U S

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1. Password, 2. White, 3. Merman, 4. Tennis,

5. Lollapalooza, 6. Time, 7. Zamboni,

8. Blue, 9. Madonna, 10. Grapes, 11. Living,

12. Dolly, 13. Susan

Find the hidden words that

connect to form a trail from

word No. 1 to No. 2, etc.

Letters link horizontally and

vertically. Start anywhere.

WordBlazer

Trail of Clues Letters

1. The key to your virtual doors 8

2. The fl ag no one wants to wave 5

3. Ethel with the brassy pipes 6

4. The game of love for many of us 6

5. What you call a real whopper 12

6. Popular as a fourth dimension 4

7. What smooths the way for skaters 7

8. The color of violets, to the poet 4

9. Madonna’s major preoccupation 7

10. The bunch wrought with wrath 6

11. Daylights that fl ee when scared 6

12. That sweet, embraceable ewe 5

13. Enshrined as the laziest of names 5

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wrapping a dirty sock around your

neck. Drinking the milk of a woman who has given birth to a boy. Putting skunk oil on your chest. Sipping elephant-dung tea.

Throughout history, humankind has come up with lots of wacky “treatments” for the common cold. And modern science hasn’t fared much better: Even though it’s the world’s most prevalent illness, we still don’t have a cure.

Dr. Birgit Winther, an otolaryngologist and part of a cold-research team at the University of Virginia, is one of the top experts on the subject. For 30 years, this tidy, petite scientist has studied the untidy subject of sneezes, coughs, and runny noses. She’s the kind of

fearless researcher who weighs dirty tissues, harvests mucus from swollen nostrils, and smears it on phones and light switches.

Not a glamorous job, but it’s all in the name of vanquishing a universal—and universally debilitating—disease. Each of us gets as many as 200 colds in a lifetime, adding up to some fi ve years of sickness and as much as a year in bed. Colds annually send Amer-icans to the doctor 100 million times, account for over 1.5 million ER visits, and keep kids home from school more than 20 million days. The estimated yearly cost? A staggering $40 to $60 billion.

Despite the fact that colds are ubiquitous, we’re surprisingly clueless about their causes and treatments. Here, at the height of the sick season, are Winther’s six truths about the common cold.

It’s that drippy, achy time of year. Ugh. Here’s how to arm yourself for ba� le.

The Cold WarsBY Jennifer Ackerman COVER PHOTO BY James Wojcik ILLUSTRATIONS BY Serge Bloch k ILC


“Treat the individual symptoms

that bother you most,” Winther

advises. Her step-by-step plan:

At the fi rst sign of symptoms,

take ibuprofen to ease sore

throat, headache, and malaise.

If a stuffy nose is a problem, add

an OTC nasal spray. For a runny

nose, use a prescription spray

(especially useful if you must be

around people the fi rst three

days of a cold, the most

contagious time). Old-style

antihistamines, such as Benadryl

or Chlor-Trimeton, can also

alleviate congestion and sneezes

but may make you drowsy.

Whatever you do, Winther

cautions, do not take antibiotics.

They kill bacteria, not viruses.

Doctors prescribe them more

than 40 million times a year,

which has led to more lethal,

drug-resistant strains of bacteria.

“For years, scientists thought cold symptoms

resulted from damage done by the cold viruses themselves,” Winther says. As it turns out, all that sneezing, coughing, and congestion is actually caused by our own bodies. In response to an intruding virus, our immune systems pump out chemicals that cause our noses to run, heads to throb, and throats to swell. “One cold differs from another because of the way the host body responds,” Winther says. That explains why you may come down with a killer cold while your spouse has barely a sniffl e, even though you both have the same virus.

It also explains why some immunity-boosting products may not help. “Get-ting your immune cells to work better could result in a stronger infl ammatory response and more exaggerated symp-toms,” Winther says. A colleague of hers once took immunity-enhancing drugs to speed his recovery, and “he’d never been so sick in his life!”

Though Winther and her co-workers have researched countless remedies over the years, “they’ve all been

dead ends.” To wit: The “killer” tissues that zapped cold viruses—but made people cough. Or the medication that shortened colds by a day—but made birth-control pills go haywire. And all those concoctions of goldenseal, garlic, and other natural ingredients that are sold at health-food stores? Still unproven.

For years, experts held high hopes for antiviral drugs, which either attack viruses directly or interfere with their ability to latch on to cells. Alas, Winther sighs, “cold viruses are smart-er than we are.” They hide in our cells and do much of their work before our symptoms appear. By the time we realize that we have a cold and take an antiviral, it’s too late.

What about a vaccine? Colds are caused by a menagerie of hundreds of different viruses. Since vaccines are designed to target only a few strains, we’d still be vulnerable to the others.

To avoid getting sick, Winther washes

her hands often, especially after contact

with anyone who’s ill or after events

that involve hand- shaking. She

also tries not to touch her face,

especially her nose and eyes,

where viruses like to enter our

bodies. This is tougher than it

sounds: Studies suggest that many

of us touch our faces hundreds of

times a day and—eww—pick our

noses as often as fi ve times an

hour. Even health-care providers

are guilty. Winther’s colleagues

secretly observed university

medical staff during a one-hour

lecture—and found that

one-third of them rubbed their

eyes and picked their noses.

The best way to not get a cold, Winther says,

is easy: Be touchy about what you touch. In

their now-famous 2007 studies, she and her

colleagues found that cold viruses brought

into hotel rooms by guests found their way

onto door handles, pens, light switches,

faucets, remote controls, and telephones

—and stayed there for up to 18 hours.

“Surfaces are far more important than we

ever imagined in the spread of colds,” Winther

says. When someone is sick in her home, she

scrubs frequently touched surfaces at least

once a day , either with a general cleanser or

plain soap and water. So how has the doctor

fared in her own cold war? In the past couple

of years, Winther has beaten the odds and

come down with just one cold.

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2Your mother was right: Wash your hands—and don’t touch your face!

Don’t touch that doorknob, either!

We’re our own worst enemies.

There IS no cure for the common cold—not yet anyway.

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everything about the super bowl—the audience (106 million viewers), the TV advertising dollars (more than $170 million in 2010), and of course the linemen (377 NFL players topped 300 pounds this season)—is huge, but your party dishes don’t have to be. These bite-size nibbles are big on taste.

Honey, I Shrunk the

SUPER BOWL!

BY GEORGE DURAN author of Take This Dish and Twist It

PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARCUS NILSSON

Chipotle ’n’ Cheese Sliders1 lb ground beef

1/2 medium onion, fi nely

chopped

3 Tbsp tomato paste

Salt and pepper

1 cup mayonnaise

2 Tbsp chipotle hot sauce,

like Tabasco

Olive oil

12 dinner rolls, halved

12 leaves baby lettuce greens

3 medium vine tomatoes, cut

into 1/2-inch slices

12 mini slices medium

cheddar cheese (or six

regular slices, halved)

1. In a medium bowl,

combine beef, onion, tomato

paste, 2 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp

pepper; use hands to mix.

Make 12 patties, about 2

inches wide.

2. In a small bowl, mix

mayonnaise and chipotle hot

sauce until well combined;

set aside.

3. Lightly toast dinner rolls in

a toaster oven. Meanwhile,

cook patties on medium-high

heat in olive oil in a nonstick

sauté pan or griddle, about 2

minutes per side.

4. Spoon chipotle mayo onto

the bottom buns. Top with

a few leaves of baby greens,

one slice of tomato, a meat

patty, and a slice of cheese;

top with bun. Stick a long

toothpick through each slider;

serve with extra chipotle

mayo in a bowl.

MAKES: 12 sliders PER SLIDER: 340 calories, 21g fat, 45mg cholesterol, 670mg sodium, 23g carbs, 16g protein

Bu� alo ChickenFingers with Blue-Cheese Dip

2 boneless chicken breasts

Salt and pepper

Vegetable oil

4 Tbsp butter

4 Tbsp hot-wing sauce, like

Frank’s RedHot

1 Tbsp white vinegar

2 cups blue-cheese dressing

Celery, for garnish

1. Dry each chicken breast

with a paper towel; cut

into strips 1/2 to 3/4 inch

thick and 3 to 4 inches

long. Season with salt

and pepper.

2. Heat a nonstick skillet

on high and add oil to coat

bottom. Working in batches,

fry chicken strips until

browned, about 2 minutes

per side, adding more oil as

needed. Set aside on a dish

lined with a paper towel.

3. In a small saucepan, melt

butter; mix in hot sauce and

vinegar. Once combined,

turn off heat and set aside.

4. Fill six shot glasses with

1 Tbsp blue-cheese dressing

each. Stick a toothpick or

short skewer into the end

of each chicken strip and

generously coat it with hot

sauce. Place two chicken

fingers and a celery stalk

inside each shot glass. Or

serve on a platter with

a dipping bowl of blue-

cheese dressing and celery

sticks on the side.

MAKES: 30–36 PER 4-FINGER

SERVING: 410 calories, 41g fat, 55mg cholesterol, 880mg sodium, 4g carbs, 7g protein

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Super Bowl Countdown!Every day this week,

we’ll feature a new mini recipe, like Baby Reubens, online. Plus, share your favorite football food at

Facebook.com/dashrecipes

Tiny TwinkieStrawberry Tri� es

2 cups diced fresh strawberries,

plus more for garnish

1 tsp sugar

2 Twinkies

2 biscotti, any fl avor

1 cup Cool Whip, thawed

1. Place diced strawberries in

a glass bowl and sprinkle with

sugar. Mix gently with a spoon

and set aside.

2. Crumble Twinkies into a small

bowl; set aside.

3. Place biscotti in a resealable

plastic bag; using the back of a

large spoon, crush into coarse

crumbs. Pour into a bowl.

4. Set out eight shot glasses or

mini parfait glasses. Using half

of the crumbled Twinkies, evenly

divide among the shot glasses.

Using half of the strawberries,

create a second layer. Top each

with 1 Tbsp Cool Whip and end

with crumbled biscotti. Repeat

with all the layers; garnish with

strawberry slices.

5. Refrigerate for at least an hour

(can make one day ahead); serve

with espresso spoons or similar.

MAKES: 8 trifl es PER TRIFLE: 100 calories, 3.5g fat, 5mg cholesterol, 60mg sodium, 16g carbs, 1g protein

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“Until recently, I thought I’d

done everything I could with the

common cold,” Winther says. “I

was ready to retire.” Then along

came genomics. “Suddenly there

was this new science that could

help us prevent colds based on

our genetic individuality.”

Different people may benefi t

from different treat ments or

tolerate certain drugs better, she

says. “We can look at how their

genes affect these things and

tailor medication accordingly.”

For example, one strain of the

“good” pro biotic bacteria

known as Lactobacillus GG

appears to reduce cold symp-

toms by tamping down the

body’s infl ammatory responses.

But does it work better in some

people than others? Winther is

using genomic testing to fi nd

out. In a recent study, she gave

subjects Lactobacillus GG in juice

form, then took samples of their

blood and nasal washes and

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Jennifer Ackerman is the author of Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon

Life of Your Common Cold.

analyzed their gene activity to

see which genes grew active in

response to the cold virus.

As for a vaccine,“Ten years

ago, I would never have thought

we could make one,” she says,

“but with genetic technology, we

can juggle antigens—the building

blocks of vaccines—in ways we

couldn’t imagine before. So

eventually, it may be possible to

make a vaccine that can handle

hundreds of different viruses.”

Over the centuries, people have gone to extremes to get rid of their sniffl es and aches. A few radical remedies:

✸ Smearing goose grease on your chest and wrapping it with fl annel

✸ Rubbing the soles of your feet with tallow and turpentine, and holding them against a wood stove

✸ Getting passed three times under a horse’s belly

✸ Having a fi sh skin tied to your feet

✸ Cupping, followed by blood-letting

✸ Going to sleep wearing a pair of cold, wet socks with a pair of thick, dry socks on top of them

✸ Stuffi ng your nostrils with cut garlic cloves

✸ Pressing a warm, peeled hard-boiled egg to your forehead

✸ Eating snakeskin

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Views Parade.com/views by Connie Schultz

On my way to

Vietnam last fall, I wrestled with one question: Will they hate me?

I was going there to report on the long-term legacy of Agent Or-ange, the toxic herbicide that has had a devastating effect on U.S. veterans, and the Vietnamese. And I’m an American. Two strikes against me, right?

It was dark and muggy when I landed in Hanoi. The fi rst thing I noticed was how many people were smiling at me in the airport.

“You American?” a middle-aged man asked as I waited for my bag. I nodded, and he held out his hand. “Welcome,” he said. “Come again.”

Early the following morning, I met Nick Ut. We were both fellows with the Vietnam Reporting Proj-ect and would be teaming up for the next eight days.

Most Americans don’t know Nick by name, but if you lived through the Vietnam War, you know why he matters. On June 8, 1972, he stood in the middle of Route 1 in South Vietnam and aimed his camera at 9-year-old Kim Phuc as she ran to-ward him, naked and screaming. A napalm bomb had dropped near her home in Trang Bang village.

Click, click, click.

Nick rushed the little girl to a hospital, which saved her life. His photo of her is widely credited with helping to end the war.

He’s been a staff photographer with AP for 45 years, but he is a rock star in our profession—and in Vietnam, where he was born. He became a U.S. citizen in 1984, yet it was clear from our phone conver-sations that he has never stopped loving the people of his homeland.

I was nervous about working with Nick. I knew that he was only 21 when he photographed Kim Phuc, that he lost two brothers in the war and had been wounded three times. I imagined him hardened beyond his years, and wondering why on earth he was teamed up with chirpy Midwestern me.

Day after day, Nick and I came

face-to-face with suffering I’d only seen in pictures. We spent hours in Friendship Village, which the U.S. veteran George Mizo founded for children of Agent Orange. Two days later, we visited a community of women veterans who had been sprayed with the dioxin in the war and came home sick, often sterile, and sometimes insane.

At one point during a meeting with disabled children, I had to walk outside. It was just too much. Minutes later, I felt Nick’s gentle hand on my shoulder. Then he went back in and said something in Viet-namese that made the kids laugh.

By the third evening, Nick was lobbying for an early-morning walk around Hoan Kiem Lake, near our hotel in Hanoi. Hundreds of Viet-

namese gather there to start their day with exercise and meditation.

‘You have to get up

early, Connie!” Nick said, his accent punc-

tuating his enthusiasm. “By 6! I want you to meet the women who sing. They will sing to you.”

I looked at him like he was nuts. “There is a lot of happiness here, Connie,” he said. “You will see.”

The next morning, the sky was drizzling and Nick was beaming. He grabbed my sleeve and we raced across the lanes of Hanoi traffic that swerve but never stop.

Almost immediately, I heard them. The women were in their fi f-ties, maybe older. A few held brightly colored umbrellas as they danced and sang in pitch-perfect harmony. After the third song, one of the women smiled and reached for my hands. Then she started to sing.

Back and forth we swayed, two women, worlds apart, in the rain.

I looked over at Nick, who couldn’t stop grinning. “What is she singing?” I said. “What is she saying to me?”

“She is singing that you are friends,” Nick said.

I let go of her hands, and hugged her tight.

To see Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–

winning 1972 photo of Kim Phuc and

more shots from his and Connie Schultz’

stay in Vietnam, go to Parade.com/schultz

Taking stock: Nick Ut shares his work with fans in Hanoi.

Read Schultz’ series on Agent Orange at

cleveland.com/agentorange

Good Morning, Vietnam The photographer who captured an iconic image of war also knows where to � nd, and give, joy


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