The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 43

BEST AVAIABLE COPY Wednesday July 10 1996 Thf Kansas City Star Mf TAKE 10 SHORT Takes GOOD 7m AHeloise reader who just bought 9 is most upset about horrible pBpaa on the floor of the left by the former owners How should she get them off? solution: youcanpeeloff the flowers with a plastic ice scraper use anything metal because it could scratch the tub surface) and you ait left wwRbe stubborn residue remove it make sure the tub is dry some dry commeal onto the and scrub with a nylon net scrub- i little elbow grease may be necessary should come right tl 1 urn peons wN ongmen nvr EUfVtf auMi aim ftmamm rrc we rot some Cteufune i rVegpr FAMILY consider a cultural enrichment camp' For example Mary Lob weeklong sessions start July 22 and July 29 at her music studio in Liberty Called Kindermusik Adventures Around the World the new program focuses on ages 4 to 7 Children play musical instruments dance learn folk songs and crafts try ethnic games and taste foods that families in Africa Japan Germany England and Mexico might enjoy Hours are 10 am to noon July 22-26 or 6 to 8 pm July 29-Aug 2 Fees are $50 a week and $30 for supplies Call yam Thursday am Take 10 781-2074 to register Monday: Health Fitness Tuesday: Women Work I Saturday: Sharing the Planet I Sunday: Person to Person Marjean Busby Thursday: Time Money Friday: Home Garden just bmpt a I and need some ideas for putting your personal touch on it try Century 21 House A through the pages of the new you might find tips on how to cabinets information on the at popularity of front porches or I for adding a bedroom or great room magazine sold on newsstands or by is published six times a year 1 for $3 SHMHNGUCPUNET think tiara ararti now be happy you around ago a activities to new esti-1 reported in the latest of Science it used to Earth only 18 (to rotate on its axis 1 from several US universities the estimate by analyzing sediments garried by tides flie sedimenl its A day in LIFE This in the was just what the magazine wanted known as tidalites vary in thickness in response to changes in the tides Tides in turn are influenced by the relationship of the Earth the sun and the moon By taking into account the orbit around the Earth as well as the effect of the sun on tides the researchers came up with the 18-hour figure That fits with previous results from fossil evidence which showed that 400 million years ago days lasted 22 hours So if the trend continues in 100 million years you might have time to get everything done North American Nock bean ate threatened by the declining bear poarnktiemin Asia See Saturday's Take 10 story PERSON TO PERSON Love at fust scent? Actress Hsatior Ladt-bar clearly thinks so She tells InStyle magazine about like her first visit to her now-husband Richie house: rang the bell and this beautiful scent of candles filled the doorway Richie was dressed nicely and there was real low music Before I got my foot in the door I was like HEALTH A FITNESS WENDY YANGThe Star Linda Winn of Mission Hills was featured in Life baby-boomer issue as a member of the taking care of both parent and children By ANGELA YORK Staff Writer Five months after the interview the magazine finally was published Winn had no idea how the article would turn out or what picture Life chose She rushed to Barnes Noble bookstore on the Country Club Plaza in late May after getting word-from a friend that publication had hit the stands When she opened the magazine she found the two' page story complete with a photo of her reaching out and holding her hand and her hand son fell on the floor at the store because his hand was in the Winn said about had a--" heart attack when I saw waited with anticipation for the said husband Jim thought it captured Linda's dedication to her family Linda enjoys life and I know if that side of her comes out in the interview brought back so many memories Winn said made me stop think and reflect backon my family and how history affected chance in a million came said Winn life is split between taking care of her father and her children Hilary 17 and Kevin 11 Her father has been diagnosed with disease and lives in a nursing home Winn visits and takes him out every day Keeping up with him and with her activities leaves little time for herself She also teaches Sunday school and is involved with her schools In the article Winn talks about her life and its challenges Although the essay is in first person Winn did not actually write it She was interviewed by Life writer Cal Fussman in her home for 1 1 straight hours said all of Winn said writer picked out certain things that he thought were Winn said Life did not want to give her residence as Mission Hills although she is unsure why Instead the magazine asked her to choose either Kansas City or Kansas City Kan Winn chose Kansas City because she grew up there inda Winn of Mission Hills joined fellow baby boomers Bill Clinton Michael Jordan and Madonna in a recent special edition of Life magazine Winn 49 was not among the 50 celebrity baby boomers in the cover story but was featured in a series of six essays on noncelebrities born in 1946 How did the magazine discover Winn a homemaker in the middle of the Midwest? Life employs screeners throughout the country people who find a particular character profile the magazine needs Through a friend of a friend the screener was told about Winn who was exactly what Life wanted: a sandwich-generation in the a baby boomer taking care of both children and parents Older MM SMatare who believe they have beaten the odds of developing cigarette-related health problems are in for a rude awakening A study of nearly 10000 women showed that compared with nonsmokers smokers aged 65 to 74 have more than double the risk of dying from cancer and heart disease and their risk of dying from smoking-related cancers is 8 to 10 times higher Women smokers 75 and older are five tubes more likely to die from smoking-related cancers than nonsmokers Molly Vogt of the University of Maryland reported tn the Archives of Internal Medicine Many of you 1 1 A 1 RESOURCES In person PsychologistauttiorMary Pfpter has had two best-selling books in recent years: Reviving Ophelia Saving the Selves of Adolescent GHs and her latest The Shelter of Each Other their own values apart from what pop culture seems to promote In her workshop from 9 am to noon July 17 Pipher will address similar topics with a focus on how to help teen-agers keep balance and order in their lives The lecture Tuesday costs $15 in advance $20 at the door the workshop July 1 7 costs $60 a person For reservations or more information call 561-1627 a public lecture and workshop for professionals and parents Both events are co-sponsored by the Cornerstone Foundation and Heart of America Family Services The lecture at 7:30 pm Tuesday at Unity Temple on the Plaza 47th and Jefferson streets will focus on points Pipher makes in The Shelter of Each Other (GrossettPutnam $2495) These include her belief that TV and other machines and electronics personal computers for instance isolate and separate families from each other and from their neighbors and communities TV also teaches values and behavior she asserts and these are seldom beneficial Pipher thinks that including grandparents and aunts and uncles when possible need to cultivate traditions and togetherness to work and play together and to create survey of nearly 1900 executives by the Paul Ray Bemdtson recruiting firm and Cornell University found that nearly 30 percent planned to leave their jobs as soon as they found something else Sixty-nine percent had sent resumes to ptwpective employers during the past year Many of the survey respondents ated job insecurity and-or heavy workloads as the reason for their unhappiness will be in Kansas (Sty Tuesday and July 17 for USTINGS Continued from F-1 Few records withstand from By JANET WEEKS Lot Angela Daily News RutMfliaA Qxt Jjvta And dhs Ul Rindt Jeanne 555-5555 want a personality logo must choose from the designs offered by Southwestern Bell Hillyer said it is likely a few new ones will be added next year The complete list of logos to choose from are pictured in this phone book on the page right before the alphabetized listings begin The logos include team symbols from the University of Missouri the University of Kansas and Kansas State University and 13 other colleges each of which gets royalty payments Ttoo dozen other universities turned down the offer Hillyer said University of Texas would be a desirable one to have but they have a policy that does not allow than to he said Hillyer acknowledged that gotten a few calls from people who wonder why Southwestern Bell had to reduce the size of the listings type if there was room enc whole new variety of 1 whole idea is something to keep the cost of the book he said we can introduce products like these that are profitable and help to keep the cost of the book down then we have to react when we get increases in paper Directory White Pages based in St Lduis thought as successful as vanity license plates were kind of pick up on that giving people the opportunity to make statements about themselves their hobbies their interests the universities they either attend or Hot exactly The personality logo ads cost $5 a month which is added to the monthly phone bill Also new from Southwestern Bell is something called of distinction" ada For $250 a month you Can add a line of type up to 34 characters long and Hillyer adds the boundaries of good For those who combine the two for example a tennis logo and the phrase go a discounted rate of $650 a month is offered For a better idea of how the whole thing works thumb through the new White Pages Chances are you ire than seven or eight pages upon a personality lojjpad- And when you find one also The $190 million spent an -movies those five days tils Q) million more than the prcviwgs high set last Thanksgiving when opened The one mark failed to set wasT for the biggest take in its first three-day weekend Its Ftiday-to-Sunday take of $502 foil-1 lion fell short of the record last year by with $528 million opened late lues-day while opened on a Friday been a great weekend Extraordinary A wild said Jeffrey Godsick vice president of promotions for Fox If Daycon-tinues on its record-anttiWljlt- ing course it could oyarahe PatkTlS the most successful film of all time And of course 48: of a sequel is already under LOS ANGELES 20th Century continued to blast box-office records Monday when grosses hit an estimated $100 million after seven days in theaters the fastest climb to nine digits in Hollywood history- The record is the fourth to fall to the sci-fi disaster flick since it set a new pre-opening-day high of $111 million July 2 Other watermarks include highest five-day opening ($849 million see the Top 10 list on the Showtime page) biggest opening for a Fox film ana best Fourth of July opening The Fourth of July record previously was held by which grossed $385 million over five days last summer also pushed total box-office figures past a record have found an employee of Southwestern Bell Or a friend or relative of an employee To get the ball rolling Southwestern Bell offered its employees a free personality logo ad and a free line of distinction ad for a year A total of 102 employees took the company up on tiie offer Some of them however neglected to tell the people for whom they placed the logo ads Fred Coats an avid golfer was surprised to learn from a reporter for The Star that he had a personality logo ad showing a golf ball and a chib head with the words know nothing about the In-ddgendence resident said have no! ideLpow it got But it take Coats long to figure out the source His daughter Wendy is a Southwestern Bell operator Alex Hammonds of Lenexa was similarly unaware his new listing had a picture of a star and the words A Super Star His wife Alice works in Southwestern human resources department just went ahead and did he conducted The logos are new this year to Kansas City and St Louis but they were introduced in Texas cities inducting Dallas and Houston a year ago hope they catch on but probably too early to have any projections cm them Hillyer said To keep costs down those who 4.