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Show SumU. JuU :o. I'M? Mil DAII By PAT MARTINEZ Wesley writes to his family rlfrom the isolated interior of niture and walls. Our steps are slow, but l I Siberia. ' r There is a fantastic new star evening, has a tail and is very bright. Is it a comet? Please write and tell me what it is." We, on the other side of the world are abunduntly blessed ; :, Tj ; ! ; ;! ! , J, ; ' with information about . five feet off the floor. "I'll go first so I can help you up," I whisper softly so we do not wake her father. I take a forbidden Btep on the white, wing-bac- k Hale- - Bopp. I decide to arise in the early morning to see this glorious V comet before it is visible in the I try to get some tak-'- . , night sky. " era for the 5:30 adventure, but alas, no one is interested, except Jillian. my She is enthusiastic about ris-- ! ing at 5:30. I set my alarm but ' ' awake before it rings. I search dut my bedroom window in the ' direction of the comet and am ; ; L. , taken aback at the brilliance ' . ' .' , chair and pull her up after me. I settle her in my lap, wrap my legs around her, and cuddle her tightly in my arms. "Where is it?" she impatiently asks. I lift up the blinds. We lean together like members of a bobsled team taking a curve in the luge. She sees the comet I find. ' filled with playful urgency like trying to get to a stadium seat before the kickoff. The picture window in my bedroom is perfectly positioned T for our comet watch. It sits rr in the sky. It appears every I I I. ih fleeting moment in time in A -. III KM IV The clarity of the science textbook picture of the Hale- Bopp comet is amazing. It's true, it really exists! I anxiously make my way through the dark house and into Jillian's room. I lean over her cherubic white face and whisper, "It's time to see the comet." She wakes instantly from what seems like a Sleeping Beauty spell. We walk arm in arm, to protect ourselves from the fur- - and instantly recognizes the magificence of the moment. I wonder how she will ever fall back asleep. Her excited oohs and aahs have awakened Dad. He joins us at the window and suggests we get the binoculars. Jillian and I head downstairs as if it is Christmas morning. We down the hunt binocualars and warm jackets. Once outside, I realize what we i ! t ; j might have missed. The massive sky is brilliantly lit with all her stars. With the comparison now of the north star and the big dipper, the uniqueness of the comet stands out even more profoundly. I licc&c tile IllUMieill. Juuan and I alone. on a deserted street, cloaked m the precious wv . ce ana Thp sniffs tha in flowerbeds. Jillian sits on the sidewalk. Her eyes look like they are the protruding BILL SONES and STRANSE BUT TRUE RICH SONES, PH.D. can be completely removed with 1 no noticeable loss in hearing, would there have never fusion," although its removal will not J I been anyone's appearance." help Day," "Independence Q. At the movies, you eat two ; "Godzilla," "Gone With the I Wind," or any other famous or jumbo buckets of buttered popv infamous flick. What the devil is corn and feel sick later. For a flicker fusion? long while afterward, you can't A. Turn a bright light off in a stand the sight of buttered popi I n corn. ;dark room and your What happened? System won't register the turn off for a split second as the image A. You developed a "taste fades in memory. If you could aversion," which is quite comturn the light on and off mon and quite powerful, says extremely rapidly say 24 psychologist Spencer A.Rathus, times a second the brief who had the above experience. ' 'bright bursts would fuse into one In fact, some 30 years later he still can't eat buttered popcorn, teeeming continuous light. That's the frame speed of though his taste for plain popmany motion pictures, leading to corn was not affected and he apparent continuous action even enjoys butter on other foods. P. though if you could slow things John Psychologist .' down enough and take a look, Dworetzky adds that he used the screen would in fact be total- - pears until a couple of years ago . ly blank much of the time. when he bit right through a Q. Maybe it's not much to large worm in a piece of the brag about, but some people can fruit. "To this day I can't eat wiggle their pinnas. Some peo- - pears. It doesn't matter that pie can wiggle one pinna, then they're canned or chopped thor" the other, separately and inde- - oughly, so that I can tell there's pendently. What's a pinna? nothing in them. It doesn't matA- - It's the big fleshy satellite- ter that I can look carefully and dish-lik- e appendage we call an see no wormholes... I even hate ear, though it's not the "outer writing about it." ear," which technically termi-;- . Q. Lie detector tests have lost much of their credibility in nates at the eardrum. Actually, the pinna is the least recent years. For instance, CIA ;;;important part of the hearing agentspy Aldrich Ames reportedly fooled the device more than ;!;system, say James R. Cameron once while selling U.S. secrets to ;!,et al in Physics of the Body. "It How might this be only slightly in tunneling Russia. 'sound waves into the canal and done? eye-brai- f- ST . binocu-lare- "Remember this moment, Jillian. You ean't see a comet every day; this is n once in a mm lifetime experience. Look how it see it moving." picture her later that I morn- ing at school sharing her experience for show and tell. I imagine her most meaningful woi'ds, "My Mom and I got up together to see the comet." I am content and think that this is what life is all about. Post script: The next night after tucking her into bed, Jillian calls out to me, "Will you wake me in the morning so we can see the comet again?" And I did only this time she wouldn't wake up. Like the passing of a comet, certain opportunities only come once. theory behind lie detectors is that liars feel either strong guilt or fear, which steps up heart and respiration rates, blood pressure, skin perspiration. But nervousness or worry over being found guilty when innocent can also trigger these responses. In controlled tests, lie detectors indict truth-teller- s up to 40 percent of the time while letting many practiced liars slip on through, reports Rod Plotnik in Introduction to Psychology, 4th Edition. How can a guilty person beat the device? By some accounts, up to 50 percent of liars may fool the machine by biting down hard on their tongue and pressing their toes into the ground while control questions are being asked, thus artificially altering the recorded physiological "baseline." 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