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Show 52 PUZZLES & GAMES TheSaltLakeTribune SUNDAY,January 24, 1999 ‘Emergency’ keys an invitation to burglars THE WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE By Richard Thomas tT i v vy > 4 PUZZLE i v a y Broker Brutes LANDERS Dear Ann: I am a member of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Crime Prevention Officers Association. I am concerned abouttheletter signed “Ohio Nightmare Without End.” Shesaid herin-laws Dear Ann:I am getting married next year to a wonderful guy. His mother passed away when he was very young. often show up on Sunday morninguninvited and let Myfuture father-in-law never remarried, but he has had a “significant other” for about themselves into their home. The in-laws use the emergency 82888 e 2 8 Nao 1 Extinct Mauritian 5 Parisian pie 10 Chose 15 Talk back 19 Sculptor key the couple keep hidden near the door of the house. Please, Ann,tell your readers not to hide keys outside their homes. No matter how secret they maybelieve a hiding place is, a criminal is sure to find it. Burglars know exactly whereto look. After all, breaking into homes is their business. No one should leave an extra key underthe mat, over the door, in the mailbox or anyplace someone could find it. If your readers feel they MUSThavean emergency key, it should be left with a trusted alternative 30 Jacket 61 62 63. 64 65. 66 67 31 Hard to find Doctor of literature 33 Diminish 37. Interwind 38. Sugar-free, lowcalorie and Thicket Carried In pursuit of Ark contents Bluish purple Panama 48 Leader leader 49 Liveliness 50 Here in Hainaut 51 BEAR 55 First seat of English government in dgcarsiorial fuer 0 Not case 61 Underground spaces 62 Toot key in any of the commercial devices advertised as “hiding places”because, believeit or not, criminals read those ad- vertisements, too. — Richard D. Pontes, security specialist, Bosto: n the like 42 Twist or tango 43 BEARS 45. 45 inches 46 Perfume ingredient 47 Gulf of San —, friend or neighbor. MayI also suggest that they not leave the 65 — metal(nickel- copper atioy) 66 Joined metal pens 70 BULL 76 Mega or giga follower 77 Absorb 78 BULLS 107 “Ghosts” author 108 Scatterbrained 109 Flower toa florist 1 2 3 4. 5 6 7 8B 9 10. 11 Actor Hogan and writer Horgan 12 ‘Lug 13. Loop loopers 14 Renaissance 79. Florida university 80 Pisa's river 81 Gave the origin of 82 Political prison 84 Muscat people 86 Affliction 88. Dull finish 89. Speakers’ symbols 90 Dateless 91 Quester's vessel 92 *—ho!* 93. Fam. set 94 Thin fog 95 Pickle 96 Gaelic 98 Poet's eye 100 Yes in Yokohama 101 Resistance unit 15 16 17 18 24 26 29 32 33. 34 35 Waste Nev. neighbor Whereabouts Very,to Wagner Niles or Frasier Poet Syivia On the wall Rustle Earliest Usher in Bordelaise or mornay 36 BULL 37 1990 Beatty role Accomplished After take or make They're often raw Kind of mind Some Russians Guthrie's restaurant owner Get around Foot unit Sculptor Jacob Takes on Dear Ann:I need help — fast. I have a very dear friend whowill be flying to California next month to visit her family. She has never flown before. This woman is large — I am talking nearly 300 pounds at least. “Ruth”is not going to fit into a coach seat, and I am not sure she couldfit into a firstclass seateither. I don’t want her to be embarrassed when she boards the plane. You know how cruel people can be about those who are overweight. Howshould I approach her? ShouldI askif she is flying first class? I don’t want her to be humiliated, Ann. Thanks for your help. — A Heavy Problem in the MotorCity Dear H.P.in M.C.: Call the airline and explain the situation. Ask if they would advise Ruth to buya first-class seat 18 years — it just happens to be another man. Myfiancé is very close to his father’s partner. He says it is like having two wongerful fathers. Would it Hic Oper to put his partner’s ake on the wedding invitation? Myfiancé says his father would marry his partner if it werelegally possible and that his name should be ontheinvitation. I don’t want to embarrass anyone by making a public announcementoftheir living arrangement, but neither do I want to offend-my fiancé by not including this man. How can I diplomatical- ly resolve this? — Fiasco in L.A. a Dear L.A.: Significant others, whethergay orstraight, should not have their nafnés on wedding invitations. Your father-in-law’s partner will be very muchin evidence at the festivities, so he should not Dear Richard Pontes: Your letter is sure to prevent or two coachseats. Thentell a great deal of anguish. Thank you for giving my readers some extremely valuable advice today for the price of a smaller, and let her know what the airline recommended.It is wedding invitation as if he were a spouse would, in my important that she call ahead so therewill be no surprises at the airport. You are a thought- opinion, be improper and,invite a lot of criticism. 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The methane gas explosion trapped 25 menfor 49 hours before being rescued. Eighteen mendied at the mine located near Moab. 4. Athenian schnoz(1) 5. Braggart on a tcen’s wall hanging (2) 6. Role player's farm machinery ©1998 Unted Feature Syndicate. ne Time is money at Tokyo restaurant (2) 7. Tel Aviv version of Victorian P.M. (3) ravusia11g USI'L SUOLOVUL SHOLOV ‘9 Ud. A.LSOd“9 MVad MAAN9") “> WIVHO @UVE 'E MNIS ONI *% AOL AOL'T MaAMSNY @ Since July, the Totenko Chinese restaurant in Tokyo has beenoffering the all-youcan-eat luncheonbuffet (regularly about $16) to thefirst 30 (Clue To The Total Popuiaton of Naplas, Fonda « ANAND RESIGNS after 29, ... @6 R facing not a single computer adver- cal resources. That was the situation faced by Viswanathan Anand — the second-rankedplayer in the world — when he played an eight-game matchin July with the commercial computer program Rebel10. The computer was the winnerbya score of 5-3. For the occasion, a cooling system had been connected to the Pentium 200 Mega-Hertz processer on which the Rebel 10 program was run. As a — 6 5 to boostits opening preparation which included not only all lines that Anand usuallyplayed but other opening systems as well. In addition, the programmer Ed he endures massive pain, told 3 2 1 abedefgh BLACK MATESIN 2 Schroeder employed a new algo: rithm, called Anti-GM, which looked for complicated variations likely to induce errors in calculation byits human opponent. Theinnovation also exploits the human tendency to play safe but often inferior moves rather than slug it out with the computer in unclear positions. Such a response — apparently one employed by Garry Kasparov in his games against Deep Blue — can have fateful results as we saw dur. ing their historic 1996 match. In the game below, human and machine each had five minutes to play all their moves — a time limit very much ‘avoring the computer. ages on the per-minute menu ‘TheRiverfront Times (St. Louis) in Decemberthat he broke from the similar but better known Jim Rose Circus over “artistic differences." Among Zamora’sfeats: the traditional skewers through the cheeks 4 WHITE TO PLAY report, and some have found that including alcoholic bever- entertainment show in which result, the computer's search was boosted from a “mere” 75,000 chess positions per second to a total of 200,000. Elaborateefforts were also made cember Wall Street Journal tends to get people to stay longer. @ Tim Cridland, touring as Zamora the Torture King in an 7 Her weeRUaAn Oe sary but a corporate team backed by formidable financial and techni- oe CORNER 3 sured by a time clock that diners punch when entering and exiting. Other restaurants have copied the idea in recessiontorn Japan, according to a De- Sue LH 'S WOT joyeur T WAN “HOO SMANNIDAE 0 WoRNIOS 18, Qd2 . ReB 19. Ng 20, HXGE 21. 22. 23. 24. Ril Kfl Rxd2 £3 . 25. Rid)dl 26, fxe4 27, Rxd8...... vorc s sese e e Nxg4 QOT Qc2 Qxd2 b5. Bae! so imate OL sevn £04 exd3 28, Nf4....... Re2 29. BxdSch e6 White resigns(a) Note (a): If 30. Bxe6ch, then Rxe6 31, Nxe6 Rf2ch 32. Kel d2ch 33. Kd1 Rfich followed by 34 Rxal, ete. Copyright 1999 by Shelby Lyman A and neck; swallowing swords and fire; jumping up and down barefoot on broken bottles; and his occasional “piece de resistance”: swallowing a length of twine, then removing it from his stomach through on-stage surgery with scalpel and forceps. @ Menin Peril (continued). According to police in Lake City, Fla., in November, Felisha Ann Copeland, 31, on learning of her ex-husband's new girlfriend, dumpeda pot of boiling grits in his lap while he was seated, naked, on the gnats swarming around ondinary garbage at Hanford the next month, and Hanford man- agers feared that additiona} contamination might be spread CHUCK SHEPHERD Latest Spills @ Amongthecargo spilled in tractor-trailer accidents in 1998: 25 tons of pudding (West Virginia, September), 2,000 cases of beer (Michigan, July); 4 tons of flour (Ontario, August); tons of noodles, which expanded in the rain (Mary- land, July); 20 tons of cheese, which caught fire, producing fondue (Wales, October): $45,000 in quarters (Illinois, June); 50,000 $1 bills (Kansas, November); 500,000 honeybees (Washington, October, and an- other 4 million in Wisconsin in November); 12 tons of garbage (Rhode Island, March); 6,700 gallons of animalfat (Ohio, May which was cleaned up with liquid detergent); and 20,000 gallons ofliquid deter- gent (elsewherein Ohio, 10 dayslater), @ Amongthereally gross highwaytruck spills of 1998: a load of frozen dough that thawed androtted beforeit could be scraped up (Massachusetts, September); 22 tons of mad-cow-tainted blood toilet of the home theystill (England, September); a load of hog intestines and cow Husman, 41, was charged with ‘Texas, September; and a slow spill in New York in July that share. He suffered severeblistering. And in Middletown, Conn., in December, Raquel K assault for allegedlyslashing her ex-boyfriend's scrotum with her fingernails when she discovered him with another woman. He needed 24 stitches. ants in the soil at the Hanford nuclear complex near Rich- land, Wash., were found-to-be radioactive, as wereflies abd diners a day at the price of about 30 cents a minute, mea- Chess-playing machine a multiheaded adversary When a humantakes on a top chess-playing machine, he is usually NEWSOF THE WEIRD heads (Ohio, November), and sewage (RhodeIsland, April; coated five miles of roadway just north of Albany). oO Life imitates the movies In September, red harvester i by mice, insects and vegetation such as tumbleweeds. (An Associated Press report on Aanford in October reminded; « readers of the 1954 movie” “Them!” starring James Atness, in which “huge, marauding ants are spawned byt‘huclear experiments.) oO Weirdo Americans i : *** Tyrone V. Henry, 26, was arrested in Septemberin Tucson, Ariz., and charged with possession of child pornogra- phy. Police said they weré léd to Henry's homeaftersix female University of Arizona students complained of a man supposedly conducting a test of facial cream, using a substance that (according to the women) tasted like semen. However, police said they do not have enough evidence to charge Henry on the facial- cream tests. Oo Smoking kills A 78-year-old woman in Winnipeg, Manitoba, froze to death on her apartment's balcony in December when she stepped out for a cigarette and accidentally locked the door behind her, exposing her overnight to below-freezing tem: peratures and winds around 40 mph, And a Livermore, Calif., high school junior was killed in December in a fight with a man who became annoyed with himafter the student gave him one cigarette but refused to give him a second. |
