Show A- AdviceTV Weddings etc Travel Features Editor 625-427- 0 www standard net elcome to the latest installment of our “How Come” series wherein the staff of Life sets out to the find the answers to those most pressing of questions Today’s lineup: Why is my dog’s nose cold? ' Why is there dust on my stereo? Why is a cold a cold? What are the effects of warm milk? And: Why won’t that confounded plug fit into that receptacle? Of Read about hot milk and polarized ate to dust? Maybe you’re not lazy just keenly aware of the significance of those tiny Cubic Zirconium Orbs of Distinction the Sneezvs and the Award That They Always Give To Kelsey G rammer -there is none so prestigious as the Oscars That’s why an estimated 40 billion people will tune in this year to watch the Academy Awards show which begins at 530 p m (Pacific) on March 24 with the climactic announcement of Best Picture scheduled to be announced at 8:30 p m (Pacific) on March 28 Yes it will be 99 hours of nonstop entertainment broken “Hollywood-style- ” down as follows: Movie stars reading spontaneous banter from teleprompters 6 hours 37 Illustration by EMILY MARCUS Standard Examiner ' half-a-poun- d minutes 2000-square-fo- ot pound “So you can put your feather See DUST5D Such a warm heart A cold by any other name such an icy nose would still be miserable “moderate exposure to cold and dampness did not increase risk of infection” What about the theory that colds are associated With winter? “A lot of times like influenza it’s seasonal because people arp confined to closer quarters with more chances of spreading a virus” said Bradshaw People also catch more colds during winter because school is in session Children with their young immune systems catch more colds per year than adults And don’t forget that winter is host to the season of giving Holiday parties are a great place to exchange viruses The true reason a cold is called a cold may be impossible to find The word like the hy is a cold called “a cold”? According to a Web site dedicated to the common cold wwwcommoncoldorg the major symptoms of the common cold are sneezing coughing runny nose nasal congestion and sore throat Mild symptoms can include headache and mostly in children a fever or chills If feeling chilly is listed as only a mild occasionally felt symptom why is this illness called “a cold”? Is it because some people feel cold when they are ill or because people catch more colds during the winter? Or could it be as many mothers tell their children that people are more likely to catch a cold after being chilled or wet? A few cold facts may help sort out the true origin First of all mom was wrong Colds are caused by viruses not by getting cold or wet “It’s a whole family of viruses that cause the common cold” said Gary Bradshaw a Layton resident who has a doctorate in microbiology and works with viruses “Once you’ve had one you’re immune to it but because there are so many others you’re subject to getting whatever different one illness is so old and common A local librarian found a listing for the word “cold” on the Online Etymology Dictionary wwwgeocitiescometymonline It lists cold in the sense of the common cold dating back to the Anglican word “cald” in 1537 The entry states that the word came “from symptoms resembling those of exposure to cold” - Becky Wnght comes along” An “Infectious Diseases” book referenced by Bradshaw cites studies showing that ext time Rover startles you by planting his cold wet nose on your bare skin blame a gland The lateral nasal gland to be exact This small organ - located in the nasal cavity controls the condition of a dog’s nose says Eddie Doughty veterinarian at Mountain View Animal Clinic in Layton The gland is part of the animal’s thermoregulatory system Doughty says Based on surrounding air flow and the dog’s body temperature the gland produces a clear or serous fluid The fluid keeps the nasal passages moist when the dog breathes - important because panting is the primary way dogs cool off adds Reed Hanson of Ogden’s Burch Creek Animal Hospital Some of the moisture finds its way onto the exterior of the nose Hanson says where evaporation of the fluid makes the skin cool When Spot gets overheated - say he’s been playing hard - the gland actually produces more fluid Doughty says Or when a pup’s body temperature rises because of a fever his nose will likely get wetter So bury with a bone that oft-tol- d myth about the canine nose: A warm dry nose is not a sign of illness the veterinarians say Yes a dog’s snout is typically cool and moist but the lateral nasal gland is always making adjustments d and Doughty says If the nose happens to be un-col- See N0SE5D ££ i:CC"? 2S0CJIT j & V- r - -- William t i 1 1 f A A i w X )X I VI Part 2” V -- arest of corporations treated its employees like dupes in a con game And companies suqh as Black & Decker have shown - English religious leader themselves only too willing to William Kristol ship jobs overseas But no need to single out any By MICHAEL OLLOVE one transgressor According to a The Baltimore Sun recent survey fewer than half of you’ve been paying the employees of American comto the news panies believe their employer no doubt noticed merits loyalty one virtue in particular The mania for the better deal latehas been taking a drubbing has become the Holy Grail of an ly To say the least these have era Hot young MBAs jump for not been proud days loyalty from company to company with American Taliban John Walk- the fidelity of a lothario Doctors er Lindh is only one glaring exand patients barely stay together ample Enron the Mommie De long enough to get lab results “Yuppies don’t have loyalty “ K Shakespeare “Henry They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters” 4 " see the map of honor truth and loyalty 'V Trustworthy thrifty and IS ' 1 I 99 AX & I In thy face o rv’A gives to The Wallys The Silver from outer space It’s estimated that 40000 tons of “interplanetary dust particles” rain down upon the Earth every year As weighty as that seems John Sohl director of the Ott Planetarium at Weber State University points out that the Earth is a big place and spread evenly over the planet this space dust amounts to a little less than a per square mile per year Or in the average house that’s of a about I all the prestigious that the Spheres The Vinnys the glamorous For example some of it actually comes X 7 2002 itself m humble recognition of its own sheer fabulousness - the Emmys the Grammys the Tonys the Golden Globes plugs5D particles The next time you break out the dust rag to wipe down that coffee table you may want to think twice For although dust is thought of as the least exotic of all earthly substances - and has long been used as a metaphor for the most insignificant worthless and lowly concepts on this planet - dust can also be pretty darned nn 1 And we want to thank FWWWWT The importance of being a dust bunny i ts D Sunday March Standard Examiner - t' t If flighty: back Professional sports franchises demonstrate all the combus mitment of cross-count- ry tours The Boy Scouts should think about revising their ideal to better capture the age A Boy Scout is trustworthy thrifty and flighty? Hey even American spies aren’t what they used to be Julius Rosenberg remember was at least a true believer in the cause of communism What did Aldrich Ames and Robert Hans-se- n sell out for? Nothing but money baby See L0YALTY4D Shots of the always fascinating Jack Nicholson sitting in the audience: 4 hours 19 mmutes Jokes involving Enron: 1 hour Memorable unscripted moments 3 minutes People you never heard of thanking other people you never heard of: 87 hours x Of course this is the “best case” scenario usually the show runs long Nothing can be done about this The producers have tried everything to pick up the pace including last year sharpshooters As soon as a winner’s speech reached the mark FWWWWT a tranquilizer dart would lodge itself in his or her neck But this did no good The winner for Longest thank-yo- u two-minu- te Short Foreign Film hung' tough for more than 11 mmutes sustaining dart after dart until he looked like a porcupine but doggedly continuing to thank people some apparently picked at random from a telephone directory before staggering off the stage with enough sedative in his bloodstream to immobilize a water buffalo That’s the kind of adrenaline rush you get at the Academy Awards I know because I was there once in 1987 along with the movie critics who are very bitter because they know in their hearts that their teeth will never look as nice as the teeth of the people they write about The critics are also angry because in their opinion the Oscars always go to the wrong people Here’s how they explained it to me: Each year the Academy gives the awards to people who really should have won LAST year The reason they didn’t win last year was that the Academy was giving the awards to tuxedo-wearin- g people who should have won the year before THAT This has been going on all the way back to the first Academy Awards which apparently were handed out by total morons Who deserves to win this year’s awards? This is an especially difficult question this year because there were so many fine performances and movies and I have not seen any of them My wife and I have a daughter and on those rare occasions when we have a See BARRY4D XT |