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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My dog has such terrible bad breath. How can I improve this? — Beth in

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DEAR BETH: Take your dog to the veterinarian to be checked out, espe-cially if the bad breath just started or just got worse in recent days or weeks. Sometimes bad breath is just a hygiene issue, but it also can signal an underlying illness that might not have any other symptoms.

If your dog is diagnosed with an ill-ness, follow your vet’s instructions on care. Give it prescribed medica-tion if needed and feed any diet that’s recommended.

Provided your dog checks out health-wise, your vet may recom-mend that it get a professional clean-ing to remove plaque and improve overall dental health. In between cleanings, you should brush your dog’s teeth regularly using a brush and toothpaste specifically designed for dogs. You can purchase these from the vet or at any pet supply store.

Diet also may play a role in your dog’s breath. Try different types of dog food or add variety to its diet with fresh foods and homemade treats a few times a week. Keep in mind that dogs can’t eat all the same foods that we humans do — like chocolate and onions, which are poison to them — so look for dog recipe books at your local bookstore or online for pet-safe ingredients.

Finally, chewing is important to a dog’s oral health. Make sure that plenty of chew toys are available, which strengthen the jaw and teeth and also, in some cases, help to keep teeth clean.

Send your pet questions and tips to [email protected], or write to Paw’s Corner, c/o King Features Week-ly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Find more pet advice and resources at www.pawscorner.com.

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Ripchair: Mobilityfor Disabled Vets

Did you see the Discovery Channelepisode on Howe and Howe’s Rip-chair? Mike and Geoff Howe buildhigh-tech toys for the military. Part oftheir arsenal includes a remote-con-trolled tank called the Ripsaw. ForSWAT teams, they have the world’ssmallest manned assault tank, theBadger. Now they’ve built an all-ter-rain wheelchair for disabled veterans.

Think what that could mean for adisabled veteran who wants to getinto the woods for a little fishing, oranything else.

The bottom of the Ripchair is simi-lar to the treads on a tank but with big-ger teeth to grab dirt and forge ahead.It runs on a 30-horsepower dieselengine, climbs hills up to 50 degreesand runs at 10 mph. It’ll go throughmud and sand. Even more, it’s madeof steel.

An online video shows an employeegiving the prototype Ripchair a testrun. He ran it around a dirt parkinglot and then took it into woods, goingdown steep inclines and mowingdown small trees.

In an interview with the PortlandPress-Herald, the Howe brothers saidthey’re not going to make the Rip-chairs for profit. Instead, they’ll lookfor donations and create a non-profitso they can give the chairs away todisabled veterans.

Check the Internet for more infor-mation. Use this as your searchparameter: Ripchair Howe andHowe. And check this site: www.pressherald.com and put OperationEnduring Mobility in the search boxon the right side.

Also check them out at www.howe-andhowetechnologies.com — don’tmiss the demonstration videos oftheir other equipment.

Want to send a donation to help gettheir non-profit off the ground so theycan start giving Ripchairs to disabledveterans? Send a check and a copy ofthis column to:

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Leg Pain Often Dueto Clogged Arteries

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: What can you tell me about peripheral artery disease in my legs? How about the ballooning of those clogged arter-ies? Where is a good place to go for that procedure? — E.K.

ANSWER: Activity causes chest pain in people with clogged heart arteries. It causes leg pain for people with clogged leg arteries — periph-eral artery disease. Angina is the chest pain of heart artery clogging; inter-mittent claudication is the leg pain that comes from clogged leg arteries. The obstructed arteries can’t deliver enough blood to leg muscles when a person walks. The leg muscles signal they’re being shortchanged in their blood supply by rebelling with pain.

The pain can occur anywhere in the legs. If the blockage is high up, then thigh pain is the result. If a bit lower down, it’s calf pain. Lower down even more produces foot pain. “Intermit-tent” indicates that the pain leaves when the person rests.

Diabetes, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure and high blood choles-terol are some of the things that lead to artery clogging. Aging is, perhaps, the biggest contributor to it. About 17 percent of men and women older than 65 have this problem.

A doctor confirms the diagnosis by measuring blood pressure at the ankle and comparing it with blood pressure in the arm. The two readings should be about equal. If the ankle blood pressure is much lower, it indicates that there’s an obstruction in the leg arteries.

Treatment involves a diet that reduc-

es the amount of fat and cholesterol; it’s essentially a diet of fruits, vege-tables and whole grains, with less red meat and more fish. Although walking brings on pain, walking is a treatment, too. The person walks to the point of pain, rests and then resumes walking. Medicines like aspirin, Plavix and Pletal can be beneficial.

You ask about the balloon treat-ment. It’s the same kind of procedure used to open clogged heart arteries. A slender tube with a deflated balloon at its tip is inched through the artery to the point of obstruction. When that’s reached, the doctor inflates the bal-loon to squash the obstruction. The population of your city is 50,000. I am sure many competent doctors there are versed in this procedure and can treat PAD as well as it can be treated anywhere. Ask your family doctor for a name.

The booklet on PAD explains the ins and outs of this common problem in detail. To obtain a copy, write: Dr. Donohue — No. 109W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipi-ent’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I expect sore muscles the day after I exer-cise hard. They tell me I had a real workout. When my muscles are sore, I take the day off. I’ve been told to exercise regardless of sore muscles. Do you agree? — M.O.

ANSWER: A low level of exercise circulates blood to aching muscles and quickens healing. All-out exercise doesn’t give the muscles a chance to fully recover. You shouldn’t do resis-tance exercises (weightlifting) with the same muscles on consecutive days.

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Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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• On Jan. 26, 1788, the first Austra-lian penal colony is established, and 736 convicts banished from England land in Botany Bay. During the next 60 years, approximately 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain.

• On Jan. 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” beginning “Once upon a midnight dreary,” is published in the New York Evening Mirror.

• On Jan. 25, 1905, at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered. Weighing 1.33 pounds, and chris-tened the “Cullinan,” it is the largest diamond ever found. The Cullinan was later cut into nine large stones and about 100 smaller ones.

• On Jan. 24, 1935, the first canned beer goes on sale. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gott-fried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Fin-est Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to Richmond, Va. It had taken two years of research to develop a can that was pressurized and had a special coating to prevent the fizzy beer from chemi-cally reacting with the tin.

• On Jan. 27, 1965, the Shelby GT 350, a version of a Ford Mustang sports car developed by American auto racer and car designer Carroll Shelby, is launched. The Shelby GT 350 fea-tured a 306 horsepower V-8 engine and remained in production through the end of the 1960s.

• On Jan. 30, 1972, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 13 unarmed civil-rights demonstrators are shot dead by British Army paratroopers in an event that becomes known as “Bloody Sunday.” The protesters, all Northern Catholics, were marching in protest of the British policy of internment of sus-pected Irish nationalists.

• On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing the seven astronauts aboard. The O-ring seal on the Challenger’s solid rocket booster, which had become brittle in cold temperatures, failed. Flames then broke out of the booster and damaged the external fuel tank. Within 73 sec-onds, the shuttle began breaking apart, then plunged into the Atlantic Ocean.


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2. MOVIES: Who directed the mov-ies “Stagecoach” and “The Grapes of Wrath”?

3. CHEMISTRY: What element’s symbol is C?

4. MUSIC: What rock ‘n’ roll band included members Marty Balin and Paul Kantner?

5. HISTORY: What Union general captured Vicksburg, Miss., after a 40-day siege?

6. SCIENCE FICTION: What fic-tional character had a flying lab called Sky Queen?

7. LITERATURE: Who wrote “Rid-ers of the Purple Sage”?

8. MYTHOLOGY: Hera was the sis-ter and the wife of which Greek god?

9. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What U.S. president was born in West Branch, Iowa?

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2. In the 1964 bossa nova hit “The Girl from Ipanema,” what is she doing that attracts so much attention? Bonus for knowing where Ipanema is.

3. Name the artist who first sang “Red Red Wine.”

4. Name the 1972 hit by Climax.5. Name the Tommy Edwards hit

that had a melody written by a U.S. vice president.

6. Who had hits 20 years apart with “I Think We’re Alone Now,” in 1967 and 1987?

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and is saying goodbye to friends and family. The song also was covered by the Kingston Trio with different lyrics in 1963.

2. She’s walking. That’s it, just walk-ing. Ipanema is a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

3. Neil Diamond, in 1968. He also wrote the song. The more well-known version was done reggae-style by UB40 in 1983.

4. “Precious and Few.” The song hit No. 3 on the charts.

5. “It’s All In the Game” in 1958. The 1911 melody was composed by Charles Dawes, who would be the 30th vice president. The song was used in the movie “October Sky.”

6. Tommy James and the Shondells, and then Tiffany.


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• Kitchen substitution: Make your own “sour milk” to stand in for but-termilk. Just add 1 tablespoon of either white vinegar or lemon juice to a measuring cup, then add enough milk to make a cup. Stir and let stand a minute or two before using.

• To prevent hangnails, give your-self a hand massage and use a little olive oil while you’re at it. Rub a few drops of the oil into your nail beds for healthier cuticles.

• Your bar of soap will last longer if you let it dry out for a few days before using it.

• “If you have leftover paint in your can, get a balloon and blow it up to fit in the empty space of the can. Press it into the paint can and close the lid. It keeps a scummy glob from form-ing on the paint’s surface.” — A.C. in Washington

• Want a great, fluffy omelet? Use room-temperature eggs and add water instead of milk.

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• It was American astronomer,astrophysicist and author Carl Saganwho made the following sage obser-vation: “The fact that some geniuseswere laughed at does not imply thatall who are laughed at are geniuses.They laughed at Columbus, theylaughed at Fulton, they laughed atthe Wright brothers. But they alsolaughed at Bozo the Clown.”

• If you’re like the average Ameri-can woman, you will eat 4 to 6 poundsof lipstick during your lifetime.

• You probably won’t be surprisedto learn that Alaska is the most north-ern and western state in the Union,but would you believe that it’s alsothe easternmost state? Yep. Becausethe state crosses over into the EasternHemisphere, it’s technically farthereast than Maine.

• In Alabama, lawmakers oncethought it necessary to pass a lawforbidding the operation of a vehiclewhile wearing a blindfold.

• Traffic is so bad in Tokyo that formost trips shorter than 50 minutes,it’s faster to ride a bicycle than it is todrive a car.

• You’re almost certainly familiarwith the grouping of stars knownin the U.S. as the Big Dipper, madeup of the seven brightest stars in theconstellation Ursa Major. You mightnot know, though, that other culturescall it by different names. In India,for example, the stars are known asthe Seven Sages, and Mongolianscall them the Seven Gods. Many inNorthern England see a Butcher’sCleaver rather than a dipper. Scan-dinavians think it looks like KingCharles’ Wagon, those in Finland callit the Salmon Net, and the Dutch havenamed it the Saucepan.

• A shrimp’s heart is located in itshead.

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1 3/4 cups (one 15-ounce can) clear beef broth

2/3 cup uncooked elbow macaroni 1/4 cup finely diced onion 1 3/4 cups (one 14 1/2-ounce can) stewed tomatoes, chopped

and undrained 2 cups reduced-sodium tomato juice

1 cup frozen whole kernel corn 8 ounces 97 percent fat-free frankfurters, diced

2 teaspoons chili powder 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

In a large saucepan, combine beef broth, macaroni and onion. Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes or until macaroni is tender. Addundrained stewed tomatoes, tomato juice, corn, frankfurters, chili pow-der, parsley flakes and black pepper. Mix well to combine. Bring mixture to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasion-ally. Serves 4 (1 1/2 cups each). Freezes well.

• Each serving equals: 214 calo-ries, 2g fat, 13g protein, 36g carb., 816mg sodium, 2g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 2 Vegetable, 2 Meat, 1 1/2 Starch.

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