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I' 2F DETROIT FREE PRESSFRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1994 Time's almost out for weird '94 predictions nky-panky should be a no-no around the kids runs on tap water. Pope John Paul II would decree tnat married couples should have sex only on the first Friday of each month. "Yes, our psychics did strike but this last year," said Steve Plamann, articles editor for The National Enquirer. "But they have all made some stunningly accurate predictions in the past. They're not just people off the street." Science writer Gene Emery of Providence, R.I., a contributor to the skeptics' newsletter, has tracked predictions of tabloid-newspaper psychics for more than a decade and says 1994 saw some whoppers that as of this writing hadn't materialized.

This was to be the year: Frank Sinatra would become U.S. ambassador to Italy. Scientists would develop a car that I am outraged that my brother permitted this to go on in his home in the presence of my children. at idea of learning curve voice, give up his career and find true love in the arms of Oprah Winfrey. If those things don't happen by New Year's Day, psychics will have had another horrible year predicting the future, according to a national organization of skeptics.

"Their track record is abysmal," said Barry Karr, executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. wheels spin license. It's obnoxious how easy it is to get a license," she says. Others, including 16-year-old Dan Rose of Waterford, have similar stories. Rose, who took his driver's training last summer at Mott High School in Waterford, says: "We need better driver's ed teachers." "My teacher used to go to McDonald's during driver's ed and make us sit out in the lot.

Then he'd go to his house, and we'd sit in the driveway," Rose says. The idea behind graduated licensing is to force new drivers into a learning period before they can get unrestricted licenses. Booth says that even though such changes will not affect her, they would have infringed on her lifestyle. "I have a job," Booth says. "I work until 10:30 p.m., and no one wants to pick me up.

I go to private school, so by Jack broom Seattle Times Think you're busy? Consider this: Hillary Rodham Clinton has just two more days to get to a department store, nab a tube of lipstick and plead guilty to shoplifting. Charles Manson, meanwhile, needs to have a sex-change operation and get released from prison. And Michael Jackson has to lose his New drivers' DRIVING, from Page IF or guardian. The driver then would receive a provisional license with varying restrictions on the number of non-family passengers allowed, for two years. After two years without violations, the driver would qualify for a license.

Although changes are expected, Gustafson says the general response to his idea has been "very positive." Many teens, like 16-year-old Laura Booth, a student at Franklin Road Christian School in Southfield, agree that new drivers are inexperienced and that driver's education is not comprehensive enough. "I think kids at 16 really don't have the experience," Booth says. "They get wild out there. "In driver's education, I had six classes. I didn't go to two of them.

I got my permit and handed it in for my there is no bus; I have to take myself to school. I need my car," she says. Many teens agree because they find that public transportation, especially in the suburbs, is inadequate. Fifteen-year-old Angela Perrault of Kettering High School in Waterford plans to take driver's training this summer. She says her parents look forward to her lending a helping hand with the car.

"I have an 18-month-old sister and my parents are going to need help picking her up. Both my parents work and I play sports and it would be a big help if I could drive," Perrault says. Many other parents recognize the contribution a licensed teen can make to a family. When Darleen Sweeney's husband was diagnosed with cancer this year, she had to care for him 24 hours a day. Sweeney relies on her 17-year-old Dear Ann Landers: My husband and I divorced 21 months ago.

During our marriage he was verbally abusive and did not support me oi our two children. On a recent holiday, Jimmy decided to take the twc kids up north for a four-day vacation. They ended up at my brother's house. There happened to be another house guest there at the same time. She was the wife of my brother's best friend.

This was totally unplanned, they said. When the kids came back home, they told me their dad drunk all weekend and that he the lady house guest did a lot of hugging and hand-holding. (Our older child made it clear that they were together day and night.) I am outraged that my brother permitted this to go on in his home in. the presence of my children. A i My brother does not understand why I am so upset.

Will you explain the facts of life to these idiots? Mad as Hell in Chicago Dear Chicago: Apparently, since you and Jimmy are divorced, your brother and his wife didn't feel it was necessai, to police the ac-tion. I agree, however, that they did not use good judgment. Since the female guest was the wife of your brother's best friend, he should have instructed them to it while under his roof. You give me no clue as to the ages of the children, but it is apparent they are old enough to know something was cooking with their and the married woman. Dear Ann Landers: This is for headers who get cramps in their 1 legs.

I used to have leg cramps at night so darned bad they almost killed me. Several years ago, an older man told me to breathe into a paper bag Ann Landers Buy The Book, daughter, Farmington High School senior Debbie Sweeney, to help out. "Debbie has had to change her whole lifestyle," says Darleen Sweeney. "I can't leave the house. Debbie has had to work to help support the family.

She needs to go to the grocery store for us; she needs to go get medicine. A car is a necessity in the suburbs. If Deb didn't have one, she couldn't go to school, and she couldn't help." Despite the help that young drivers can offer the family, Angela Perrault predicts that most parents will support graduated licensing at least at first. "My dad thinks it would be a good idea," Perrault says. "But," she adds, "after a while he'll realize it's a hassle and he'll want it back the old Mark Fisk is a metro area freelance writer.

mm mm over off. dO? IFulrl)itiuli's, 3-Day Etoliday rNew Dance Show' folks I boogie one last time Bam when my legs started to cramp. It worked. Once, when I didn't have a paper bag, I put the palm of my hand over my mouth fairly snugly and breathed into it fast and hard. That worked, too.

The trick is in the breathing. Remember, you have to breathe rapidly to catch some of the air already exhaled. If the cramps start again, change position and repeat. The cramps usually come in six-to eight-second intervals. Keep up this routine until they stop.

This has worked for me for years, and I wanted to pass it on for others. I am Herschel Bradburn, age 92, and you can use my name if you want to. Fresno Dear Herschel: Thanks for the tip. When your letter appears, I'll bet you will hear from a lot of friends and relatives in Fresno. Dear Ann Landers: The letter about the 14-year-old lad who couldn't wake up, even with two alarm clocks, moved me straight to my typewriter.

I had both a son and a husband who could not wake up in the morning. It grieves me to remember how I used to throw ice water on my son to get him to school on time. I now know that it was not his refusal to cooperate but a metabolic problem. I learned that giving my husband and my son a glass of orange juice and then waiting 15 minutes for them to get up was the solution. Please pass it on.

Wiser in Colorado Dear Colorado: Consider it done, and thank you. Ann Landers appears Sunday through Friday in the Free Press. Write her and other columnists at PO Box 828, Detroit 48231. LA TlmesCreaton syndicates While Taylor belted out a string of songs in his deep bluesy romantic voice the mood in the room turned mellow, Most everyone's favorite was his "Eye to Eye" single, currently popular on some Detroit radio stations. "I came to enjoy the night and I especially wanted to hear Gary Taylor sing," said Kay Buckner-Seal of De troit.

Dewayne Singleton of Detroit ex plained that he came to the bash because he wanted to dance to deejay music. He was hoping there'd be lots of jazz. And, the evening's deejay, Jesse the Body, a.k.a. Jesse Lawrence, delivered with lots of jazzy sounds along with hip- hop and more. "I try to mix it up, keep it exciting," he said between spins.

That worked for Brenda Perryman of Oak Park who was getting ready to dance. "Hey, anytime RJ. Watkins tosses a party," she said, "I know it's gonna be good. one's outlook themselves when around other whites, because even when I'm around blacks I sometimes feel uncomfortable. I've been living in a mostly white community for so long that now I've adopted a white culture and lifestyle.

I feel that I have to work harder at keeping my blackness now. My knowledge of my history is never hindered, but everyday communication is greatly affected. I make sure I don't act too "black," because if I do, then I'll be criticized. Because I have been told the white way is the right way. at times I find it hard relating to other blacks.

Nevertheless, the older I get, the more I realize that no matter where I live or where I go, I have to live with me, and if I'm not happy with myself no one will be happy with me. My point in saying this is to say, Wake up! People are going to be black and people are going to be white. If we were all meant to be the same, God would have made us that way. He didn't. Instead he made us different, and different is good.

Moneca Hill is a senior at Thurston High School in Redford Township. Off oi Yes! you read that correct ly. We offer this discount only once at year end. Fvrvrhino in ton nmlitv I I I Rearer DANCE, from Page 3F in the process of renovating oar new Highland Park studios, and as as it's done we'll be able to present a variety of shows again. The sky's the limit," he says.

"The dance show will definitely be a part of it all." Dancer Al Speed of Detroit can't wait until the show returns. "I miss being on the old show as a regular," he says. "I used to go every Thursday for a taping. It kept me in shape and it kept me out of trouble." Another dancer, Jazel Henry, oth-'. erwise known as "Miss Energy," was happy to have this chance to appear on the specials.

"This CBS thing is big for Jn6," says the Detroit drug store man-I ager. "It means more exposure. I've I been practicing at home about eight 1 hpurs a day, every day, for this taping so I wouldn't make any errors in my dancing." i Later in the evening, all the dancing stopped and the entertainment started "with LA singer Gary Taylor and De-j troit. singer Royce. I Hard lessons color dinettes; and leather sofas imMMmmH.

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Maybe my distrust is pure ignorance on my part, or maybe it's the things I've heard about whites, or maybe it's something they've said or shown to me. I don't know. However, I do know that living the last six years of my life in Redford Township, I've experienced the most discriminatory lifestyle ever. The white people who live there believe that it is the most quaint little suburb, but; to the black residents, it's totally different. Since I've moved there I've become more aware of my color.

recently asked me how tfiuch I think about my color. I answered, "All the time." The person who asked (who happened to be white) said that they never thought about theirs. It made me wonder. I had never realized how whites never question 12 MileFarmington Rd. 553-20 HO Furniture of Farmington Hills The Free Press Goes Global via compuserve; 1 -800-848-8 1 99.