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Et Cetera Page to Tuesday, August 14, 2001 'Survivor' enjoying her 'vacation' Dear Abby By Abigail Van Buren People the media for their sexy wardrobes. Moore's tliird album in two years, "Mandy Moore" (Epic), was released in June. She plays a cheerleader in the new film "The Princess Diaries." MELBOURNE. Australia A Eizza-stained piece of paper signed three of the four Beatles sold for $24,000 at auction. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison signed the paper during their 1964 tour of Australia.

Drummer Ringo Starr had laryngitis and was not on the tour. A fan managed to get the autographs while the band was staying in a hotel in the southern Australian city of Adelaide. The signed piece of paper was sold to an anonymous collector Monday night in Melbourne. It may be worth more if it can be confirmed that the stain is actually the thumb print of one of the Beatles. "I understand they were having a pizza in their hotel room in Adelaide when giving the autograph," auctioneer John Hoper said Tuesday.

here is a thumb print there, but 1 don't know whether it's the pizza man's or John Lennon's." it GlLr hi m. hi ByThe Associated Press NEW YORK Tina Wesson had a house with just one bathroom before she became a contestant on "Survivor: The Australian Outback." After winning the $1 million top prize on the CBS reality show, she bought a house witli five bathrooms where she lives with her husband and two teenage children. That's just one of the ways the 40-year-old former nurse from spent her winnings. She also paid off a debt for runner-up Colby Donaldson, who became a close friend, and bought him a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. "I'm having a great time," Wesson tells Us Weekly magazine in its Aug.

20 issue. She's traveled about 25 days each mondi during the summer, making public appearances and television guest spots. "Now is just a permanent vacation. I used to get so excited when it was Friday. Now I don't know what day it is, and I am like, 'This is what it's going to be like for the next It's wild." NEW YORK Mary-Louise Parker has knitting needles in her hands these days instead of cigarettes.

"It's soothing," the 37-year-old actress says in the Septemhcr issue of Rosie magazine. pened more than once, she should request that the- manager formulate a policy to handle such rudeness. People in customer service have personal power, and they can be polite when using it. That cashier could handle the situation differently: (1) Smile. (2) Carefully push aside the items for purchase, and (3) say courteously, "I'll lake care of the next customer while you complete your call." Even with no "next customer she can rearrange merchandise or leave the area for 60 seconds to relieve her stress.

JERRY WASH. DEAR JERRY: That's certainly a more positive way to handle a difficult situation than to engage In petty larceny in an attempt to retaliate for the customer's rudeness. Read on: DEAR ABBY: I have been a checker for 10 years. We receive a great deal of abuse from the public. I have been spat at, cursed, even had items thrown at me.

Today I waited on more than 200 people. After reading your column, I counted the cell-phone users. There were 47, and all of them gave me the same rude treatment described in the letter. Since the popularization of cell phones, there has been a decline in manners. STEWED IN SAVANNAH DEAR STEWED: You have my sympathy.

Were I standing in your shoes and received the kind of abuse you described, I would call the manager and have him or her handle the customer who is obviously out of control. Dear Abby is written by Pauline Phillips and daughter Jeanne Phillips. Everybody has a problem. What's yours? Get it off your chest by writing to Dear Abby. P.O.

Box 63440. Los An geles, CA 90069. For a personal reply, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Universal Press Syndicate DEAR ABBY: Your reply to "Cashier -With a Mission" was morally correct because the person should not shortchange customers who talk on cell phones by "forgetting" to put items into their bag or "accidentally" charging them twice. My probtem was a little different.

1 recently brought some items to the register in a bath and beauty shop at the mall. The girl behind the counter was using her cell phone. It was obvi-; ously a personal call. She rang up the items, took my money, bagged the merchandise and did not even both-; er to thank me, chatting on her cell phone all the while. As a matter of fact, she didn't even look at me.

What I'm trying to say is, people should be polite to people no matter on which side of the counter they're standing. "CORAL" IN BOYNTON BEACH, FLA. DEAR CORAL: Of course civility is a two-way street. You would have done both yourself and the manager a favor had you politely pointed out that the store needs to upgrade its customer service. Read on: DEAR ABBY; I am a checker in a grocery store, and too, am irritated by cell-phone users at the check stand.

It is the ultimate rudeness to be oblivious to those of us who are there to serve. Many cell-phone users don't even give me the courtesy of making eye contact. I would never treat them with such disrespect. What has happened to common courtesy? CAN'T WAIT TO RETIRE DEAR CANT WAIT: Some people are under extreme time pressure. Others are having a bad day.

And, sad to say, still others were never taught to respect the feelings of others. Read on: DEAR ABBY: Hie cashier who overcharged or omitted an item purchased by a customer was guilty of both theft and dishonesty. The root of her anger seems to be lack of power and lack of managerial direc-: live and support. Since it has hap MANDY MOORE Just being Moore has gained a reputation as the most wholesome of the bunch. Moore, who dresses in jeans and T-shirts, says she's not trying to send any good-girl messages she's just being herself.

"I'm probably the most boring, lame 17-year-old out there." she told The Associated Press. "I'm not necessarily sending out the message that you shouldn't dress provocatively." Briuiey Spears, 19, and Christina Aguilera, 20, have been criticized in TCC Gifts BACKTO SCHOOL HOLIDAYS BIRTHDAYS TOOTH FAIRY SYMPATHY GET WELL NURSING HOMES PETS 1 800 793 Keep In touch with arrordabu gilt Ureelly Owned By 'Super car9 goals may not be met in the near future pacfeaqes. mmm Today in History By The Associated Press I COLLEGE STUDENTS THANKY0U WEDDING HONEYMOON SHARON'S SCHOOL of DANCE AND GYMNASTICS Register Now; Ages 2 ttwng Adult CLASSES BEGIN SEPT. 4 TAP JAZZ BALLET BATON CHEERNASTICS! Special Wijb ammo niiini YW "And it gives me something to do because I don't smoke anymore, thank God. You can't do both at once.

I can't anyway." Parker, who won a best-actress Tony this year for the play "Proof," said she took up the hobby while she was a student at the North Carolina School of the Arts. While killing time on the set. she makes hats for her boyfriend, actor Billy Crudup, sweaters tor her sister and clothes for friends' babies. LOS ANGELES It's a boy again for comic Judy Gold. The host of HBO's "At the Multiplex With Judy Gold" gave birth last Thursday to 7-pound, 8-oimce Benjamin Dov Callahan-Gald at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, publicist Bob Read said.

Gold and child were doing fine. Read said Monday. She and her partner. Sharon Callahan, also have a 4-year-old son, Henry. The comic, a weekly contributor on the Fox News Channel's "The Insiders," also appears in the upcoming Wbody Allen movie, "The Curse of the fade Scorpion," which opens Aug.

24. NEW YORK As one of the very young, very blond female singers on the pop charts these days, Mandy Marks, chairman of the committee that wrote the report. The Bush administration has already proposed changing the partnership's focus to produce technologies dial can apply to all types of vehicles instead of just one car. Administration officials have proposed a cut in tile programs budget by $39 million, or 28 percent; The report said the partnership has succeeded in getting some fuel efficient technologies into production. All three automakers plan to introduce light trucks with hybrid engines that run on gas and electricity in the next two to three years.

Bob Culver, executive director of the automakers umbrella group for the partnersliip, agreed the 80 mpg goal is not within reach, but said it was always meant to be ambitious. "It made us tiiink out of the box for what we were going to research." he said. "By setting a goal like 80 mpg. It said we need to take a clean sheet of paper and look at everything in die vehicle." In die eight years since the partnership was announced, there has been a 20 percent increase in the petroleum used on U.S. highways, and petroleum imports have increased, the committee said.

"One has to look at the program and say it has not delivered on its said Jason Mark of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environment group. "In fact, we've been backsliding since this lias been in place." (On the Net: Tle National Academies: www.nas.edu; The United States Council for Automotive Research: wivuiuscar.orgO 1 Downtown Indiana 349-3700 rv- 3 The Indiana Gazette on the 'Net Putn" 0967 www.tccgifts.com family and mends wim our creative; Call About Our Great Back-To-School Ideas Shipped Anywteit In The Uiftei Statu RECREATIONAL (Non-Competitive) GYMNASTIC PROGRAM! TUMBLING TOTS: nt 3 preschool beginner; intermediate advanced i ii 496 Ben Franklin Road InHtna DA OIO OOOfi a fine children's boutique 30 OFF GET 10 OFF! HI hi "If CLASSES NOW: iff BEGIN 349-3890 4 SSfflsCHOOLBUSmL By NEDRA P1CKLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON A industry partnersliip aimed at producing an affordable family sedan that goes 80 miles on a gallon of gas should have more realistic goals, the National Research Council said. In its annual review of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehi- cles, the council said automakers probably will not be able to meet the programs original goal of developing an 80 mpg production prototype by 2004. The partnership was formed in 1993 by President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and representatives of the Big Three automakers. Since then, the government has spent $814 million and the industry more than $980 million to develop a car that has three times better Kiel economy than 1994 vehicles without sacrificing roominess, range, comfort or speed.

General Motors Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler Corp. have each produced concept cars that use a combination electric-dieseL engines, more aerodynamic designs and lighter materials to get 70-80 mpg. Hut they are too expensive lor most families to buy and run on diesel fuel that doesn't meet U.S. emissions standards.

The council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, said it's unlikely those barriers can be overcome in time to get an 80 mpg production prototype by 2004. "That's a laudable goal, but it's clear from the concept cars that the componentry in those vehicles was way over the cost targets," said Craig United Nations efforts to mediate a settlement to the Middle East hostage crisis. Five years ago: The Republican national convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president in an evening that featured a talk-show-style testimonial by Elizabeth Dole, who strolled the convention floor with a wireless microphone. In Peru, 35 people were electrocuted when a stray rocket during a fireworks show knocked down a high-tension line. One year ago; On the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, President Clinton offered a triumphant review of his years in office, and exhorted delegates to propel Ai Gore on the road to succeed him.

Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Russell Baker is 76. Singer Buddy Greco is 75. Actress Alice Ghosiley is 75. Singer Dash Crofts is 61. Rock singer David Crosby is 60.

Country singer Connie Smith is 60: Former jockey Robyn Smith As aire is 57. Comedian-actor Steve Martin is 56. Actress Susan Saint James is 55. Singer-musician I Graham is 55. Actor Antonio Fargas is 55.

Author Danielle Steel is 54. "Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson is 51. Rock singer-musician Terry Adams lNRBQJis51. Film composer James Horner is 48. Actress jackee Harry is 45.

Former basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson is 42. Actress Susan Olsen is 40. Actress Emmanuelle Beart is 36. Actress Catherine Bell is 33. Actress Halle Berry is 33.

Rock musician Kevin Cadogan (Third Eye Blind) is 31. Actor Scott Michael Campbell is 30. Actress Mila Kiwis is 18. Today is Tuesday, Aug. 14, the 226th day of 2001.

There are 139 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On Aug. 14, 1951, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, Calif. On this date: In 1848, the Oregon Territory was established. In 1900, international forces, including U.S.

Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of 1 foreign influence. In 1917, China declared war on Germany and Austria during World Warl. In 1935, the Social Security Act became law. In 1945. President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War In 1347, Pakistan became inde-' pendent of British rule.

In 1969, British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sec- tarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics. In 1973, the U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt In 1980, President Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic national convention in -New York. In 1981, Pope John Paul II left a Borne hospital, three months after being wounded in an attempt on his life. Ten years ago: Freed American hostage Edward Tracy relumed to the United States, arriving in Boston, where he was reunited with his sister, Maria Lambert.

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