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BODIES OF WATER (continued):35 feet (11 m) high. Although the Coast Guard’s rescue efforts recovered lifeboats and rafts, none of the 29 crew members survived the wreck. Nearly seven months later, the freighter was photographed under water for the first time, 530 feet (160 m) below the surface of the lake. The ship’s bell was recovered in 1995 and now resides in a museum near Whitefish Point. It’s estimated that more than 25,000 lives have been lost on the Great Lakes in its 300 years of shipping history. The Whitefish Point area alone has claimed at least 240 ships. u Lake Ontario was not named after the Canadian province; rather it was the other way around. The lake was named first by the Iroquois, and the name means “beautiful lake” or “sparkling water.” Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located entirely within the United States. It’s about 118 miles (190 km) wide and 307 miles (494 km) long. Lake Erie is the shallowest and the warmest of all the lakes. It’s home to some of the world’s best walleye pike. Lake Huron, the second largest Great Lake, contains about 30,000 islands and has the longest shoreline of any of the five.u Scotland’s Loch Ness is over 20 miles (32 km) long and hundreds of feet deep in many places. Slime, peat and mud contribute to the murkiness of this body of water, making it difficult to spot the legendary Loch Ness monster. Although the first photograph of the creature was published in 1933, this was far from the earliest report of a sighting. Back in the seventh century, an Irish monk named Saint Columba wrote of a “water beast” that had mauled and dragged under a man in the area. Those who have reported sightings frequently describe “Nessie” as resembling the plesiosaur, a long-necked aquatic reptile that scientists

u The state of Minnesota may be known as “The Land of 10,000 Lakes,” but that figure isn’t the real number. According to the state’s Department of Natural Resources, the actual count is 11,842 lakes measuring at or larger than ten acres each. There are only four counties that don’t have at least one natural lake. The state’s shoreline from lakes and rivers is more than that of California, Florida and Hawaii combined.u Switzerland’s Lake Geneva was the inspiration for the British rock band Deep Purple’s megahit “Smoke on the Water” in 1972. The band was set to record “Machine Head” in a Montreux, Switzerland, casino in December of 1971 on the morning after a Frank Zappa concert there. During Zappa’s performance, a

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claim has been extinct for about 65 million years. However, the plesiosaurs lived in warm tropical waters, and Loch Ness averages about 42 degrees F. (5.5 degrees C). So far, no scientific expedition has been successful in locating any such sea serpent, even with the use of 600 sonar beams and sophisticated satellites. u “Ye’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road” are lyrics from a well-known Scottish tune published around 1841. The singer and his true love will never meet again on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, the largest lake in Great Britain, which contains more than 30 islands. The “low road” refers to the Celtic belief that a person dying away from his homeland would be provided a route home by fairies.

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treatment of an ear, nose and throat doctor. Nasal polyps provoke mucus production and dripping. An ENT doctor is equipped to deal with them, should they be found.Medicines — beta blockers, Catapres for high blood pressure, aspirin and NSAIDs — are examples of drugs that cause the nose to leak fluid down into the throat.Let me provide some general treatments that help most of these causes. You must stop clearing your throat. Sucking on throat lozenges or frequently sipping from a cup of hot tea with some honey in it will clear mucus from your throat and stop the irritation that throat-clearing causes.Flush your nose with a saltwater solution three times a day, one of those times being right before bedtime. You make the solution by adding one teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of baking soda to a quart of boiled water. Add the ingredients when the water is still hot. When the water cools, lean over a sink and flush each nostril gently with a bulb syringe, obtainable in drugstores.Cortisone nasal sprays — Nasarel or Rhinocort Aqua — soothe the nasal lining and reduce mucus production. If you still are afflicted after all this, do see an ear, nose and throat doctor.

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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) A hectic period begins to wind down. Take time to draw some deep breaths and relax before getting into your next project. A long-absent family member makes contact.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You’re eager to move forward with a new challenge that suddenly dropped in your lap. But you’d be wise to take this one step at a time to allow new developments to come through.GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You’re almost ready to make a commitment. A lingering doubt or two, however, should be resolved before you move ahead. An associate could provide important answers.CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Caution is still the watchword as you move closer toward a decision about a new situation. If you act too fast, you might miss some vital warning signs. Go slowly and stay alert.LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your new goal looks promising, and your golden touch does much to enhance its prospects for success. In your private life, Cupid does his best to make your new relationship special.VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) That impatient side of yours is looking to goad you into moving before you’re ready to take that big step. Stay calm and cool. Let things fall into place before you act.LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A legal matter you hoped could finally be settled could be a pesky problem for a while, until

all the parties agree to stop disagreeing with each other. Be patient.SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Partnerships — personal or professional — which began before the new year take on new importance. They also

reveal some previously hidden risks. So be warned.SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Your associates are firmly on your side, and that persistent problem that has caused you to delay some activities should soon be resolved to your satisfaction.CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Favorable changes continue to dominate, and you should be responding positively as they emerge. Someone wants to become more involved in what you’re doing.AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A friend wants to share a secret that could answer some questions you’ve wondered about for a long time. Meanwhile, travel aspects continue to be strong.PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Stay on your new course despite so-called well-meaning efforts to discourage you. Rely on your deep sense of self-awareness to guide you to do what’s right for you. YOU BORN THIS WEEK: You have the capacity to meet challenges that others might find overwhelming, and turn them into successful ventures.

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Racing at Daytona Will be Just FineNot that this is unusual, me seeing something a bit differently. From what I’ve read, here’s a minority opinion. The Supreme Court of my world often overturns me.I don’t think the new pavement at Daytona

International Speedway is going to make all that much difference.It’s not that I don’t think pavement in general makes a difference. At most tracks, it makes the racing worse for a while. At most tracks, however, the cars are going as fast as they can. At the two so-called restrictor-plate tracks (Daytona and Talladega), the cars are wide open all the way around. Adhesion isn’t an issue. I didn’t see that much difference a few years back at Talladega, and I think the hosannas currently being chanted to the heavens at Daytona are greatly overstated.I’ve got a feeling I’m going to long for the old bumpy days, though I certainly don’t begrudge the project being completed. Quite obviously, dating back to the embarrassment of last year’s Daytona 500, it was long overdue. But, if it had been me, I would have confounded the engineers by instructing them to “repave it bumpy.”Based on the recent Goodyear tire tests, we are being led to believe that every lap is going to produce five lead changes. Well, guess what? If that happens, it won’t really be a good thing. It will open the door to fast cars at the expense of fast drivers. I expect it will improve the statistics, not the racing.That’s obviously what has happened at Talladega recently. In 2009, the races there got some pans from critics because the first three quarters of the races there were pretty ho-hum: drivers riding in place, lap after lap, while some of the real contenders were in the back, figuratively whistling and learning new tricks with their yo-yos.The biggest reason Talladega enjoyed record numbers in the two 2010 races was what, basically, was little more than what the Air Force calls “formation flying.” The first 140 laps or so were pretty much the same

as the tire tests held at Daytona. Drivers experimented, trying to figure whom they could trust and whom they couldn’t, whether their cars were faster at the top or bottom of the banking, etc. A.J. Allmendinger was as likely to be at the front as Kevin Harvick. Allmendinger was much more likely to be at the front than many of the contenders, who bided their time back in the nether reaches of the field, knowing they had cars that could be catapulted to the front in the latter laps.The fascinating part of plate races now is watching the contenders rise and the pretenders fall. That’s when the racing really gets hairy, wild and wooly, and various other grooming-derived descriptions.After 2009, NASCAR officials undoubtedly suggested to the drivers

that it wasn’t beneficial to “stink up the show,” so they responded by making it more of a show. The end is what matters. Using strategy is natural and smart. There’s nothing deep, dark or sinister about it.Nowadays there’s a layer that has to be stripped away in almost everything. Drivers take part in some test session, and they predictably gush. They enter the pressroom acting as if they just struck oil.“It’s ... a gusher!”In short, I think the racing at Daytona will be fine. I go there with the anticipation of an exciting race. It won’t be quite as wild as

Talladega because, smooth surface or not, Daytona is much narrower. Talladega has much more rope for the drivers to hang themselves.On the other hand, I will attach more importance to the driver who wins the Daytona 500 because I know he will have had more to do with it than the driver who turns in the winning ticket in one of the Talladega lotteries.If the Daytona 500 has a random ending, even if it’s three wide at the checkered flag, I will be mildly disappointed. I want a clash of the titans, not a Cinderella story.But I’m funny that way.

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ROYAL BLUESCome hot stove time, like any baseball fan, it’s fun to discuss the hypothetical stuff. Of course, the hot stove league talk was a lot more fun, at least for me, when you discussed players like trading cards. You have four outfielders and four legitimate starters, and we have six starters and two outfielders. Let’s make a deal.Unfortunately, even in this renewed era of exchange, the small-market teams are still getting plugged over. Teams like the Yankees and Red Sox aren’t letting go of their star players (and their hefty contracts all but make that a certainty) and teams like the Rays and Royals have to carefully choose which prospects and bona fide major leaguers they can afford to cull or cultivate.This year’s free-agent starting pitchers were skimpy past Cliff Lee, so it didn’t take long before Royals ace and Cy Young award winner Zack Greinke appeared on just about every general managers’ radar. At 27, Greinke has plenty of years left in his gifted arm, and his salary wasn’t going to break anybody’s bank, either.The Yankees, losers in the Lee love parade, made a

poor decision on passing on Greinke — not surprising in the new Steinbrenner era. After pummeling their captain, Derek Jeter, in the press during contract negotiations, Yankee GM Brian Cashman smeared Greinke by bringing up his past problems with social-anxiety disorder. Still, it’s unfathomable that in this day and age, an organization as resource rich as the Yankees could be so publicly ignorant and rude about a personality issue.Fact is, Greinke went AWOL from the Royals organization a few years ago when he was relegated to Wichita, Kan. His craft came easy to him and the hyper-competitive Greinke simply became bored between starts. In other words, he’d have been perfect in New York. Greinke wasn’t popular in the Royals clubhouse. He openly bragged that his favorite statistic was defense-independent pitching (DIPS) — things only a pitcher could control — and that he wanted to play for a contender. I don’t know of any ace pitcher who isn’t a maverick on the mound, so Greinke can be forgiven for appearing less than collegial.Still, the Royals should have gnawed off their arms before trading him. The Royals lost their only draw (Greinke was pulling in something like 11,000 in walk-up ticket sales) and sent a signal to fans that their touted future prospects will be dealt soon enough, too. But New York’s loss is Milwaukee’s gain. The Cheeseheads are in for a real treat…Greinke is the real deal.

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elavskyQ: How is Shania Twain doing? I know she went through a rough divorce a while back. — Ginger F., Ocala, Fla.A: Shania’s heart is mending just fine — thanks to fiance Frederic Thiebaud. She and former hubby, Robert John “Mutt” Lange, separated in 2008 (with the divorce becoming finalized this past June) when Mutt left her for her former best friend, Marie-Anne Thiebaud. And yes, you are reading that last name correctly: Shania decided to mend her broken heart with the help of her former friend’s husband.

i i iQ: I’ve seen ads on Syfy for its new show “Being Human,” and I see it has vampires and werewolves and all that, which seems to be all the rage these days. What sets this show apart from all the others? — Justine F., via e-mailA: When I spoke with series star Mark Pellegrino recently, he told me: “I think what sets this show apart is its literal humanity. It’s not like it’s a romance novel — it’s people who have very serious issues that they’re contending with. I think the title, ‘Being Human,’ says it all. For these characters, being human is not just about assimilating, but also dealing with character flaws. Everybody has to deal with their character flaws, and for these characters it’s literal monsters within them that they have to control and battle with. What I think makes it unique as well is that it’s not just scary and it’s not just funny or a combination of all those great elements, but it’s also a story about family. I don’t think you get that so much from the other vampire/werewolf stuff.” You can catch the premiere of “Being Human” on Monday, Jan. 17, at 9/8c on Syfy.

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against ABC’s powerhouse “Dancing With the Stars.” Another aspect of Syfy’s handling of the show that doesn’t sit right with me: Most of the cast found out the show had been canceled via Twitter.

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