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EEO, D @ LANDERS, D-5 NOVEMBER 22, 2001 PROFILES BY DAN EGAN Lois Carlton Born Snoop Specializes In the Truth People probably don’t ever wantto call Lois Carlton. Butif they haveto, they're glad sheis there. Carlton is a professional snoop, a private investigator who specializes in catching people cheating — cheating on their wives and husbands,or cheating their insurance companies. Hertools: a video camera, a van, patience and perseverance. “SometimesI feellike I work 200 hours a week,” she says. Carlton figures she is a natural for the job, thoughit is a career she never thoughtabout until she had to gojob hunting backin ’94 following herdivorce. “Thad to becomeselfsupporting,” she says, “I saw an adfor a detective schoolin the paper, and I thought —I’m born to snoop. I can do that.” Carlton graduated from the course and optedto specialize in surveillance. The productshesells is the truth. “When peoplecall me, they are usuallyat the endof their rope,” she says. “Mostsay they feel guilty and have neverdonethis before, but they are at apoint where theyreally need to know the truth.” So Carlton findsit. Sometimes it is painful, but shesaysit is better to know than to wonder. “Most peoplejust wantto ver- ify that they are beingliedto,” she says. “No matter howpainful, people need to know one way or the otherso they can get on with their lives.” Carlton says manyinvestiga- STRESS tors steer clear of this type of workbecause it can be so emotionally draining. Shefigures that is part of her job. “Of course, you haveto be detached,” she says. “But mosteveryone needs someone tolisten to them, becauseby the time they call me theyare feelinga lot of pain.” Herjob typically entails capturing a cheaterwith his or her loverout in public. She finds them walking the street, eating at a restaurant, leaving a motel room. She never peeps in windows. “That's illegal,” she says. Carlton says there are basically two typesof cheaters: “The chronic cheater and the onethat just kindoffell into it and should have known better.” As for the people whofret that they are being duped by their spouses, Carlton offersthis simple advice: “I usually tell everybody to trust their gut instinct,” she says. “You usually know when War, financial woes makingit extra hard to eat in healthy way during holidays BY HILARY GROUTAGESMITH ‘TE ALT LAI to myself: ‘I knowthey'reall spinning out of youcan't,’shesaid. So nowthedietitian had given clients control.’” permission to blowoff healthy eating for a could think about was my clients. I thought RIBUNE n the eveningof Sept. 11, Manhattan dietitian Sara Ryba went to dinner with friends. The city smelled strange and people were packed into restaurants seeking comfort from friends, food, drink and tobacco. “You should have seen it, they were standing around the street smoking their brainsout and drinking theirheadsoff like And they were. And so were weall. It seems whateverfoodissues people happen to while, but for howlong?It was a few weeks before peoplestarted to trickle back to the beafflicted with eating too muchoreating toolittle the condition worsenedafterthat office because they had overindulged and under-exercised to thepoint offeeling awful “Of course if you think you're going to dayin September. It was no surprise whenall but three of Ryba’s clients cancelledtheir visits the week ofSept. 11 following the terrorist attacks in NewYork and Washington, D.C. “They would call andtell me they just there is something wrongin your I've never seen,” Ryba said in a telephone couldn't think about their food planri relationship.” interview from her New York office. “All I now and | wouldagree andsay, ‘Of course BERRIES FOR HEALTH Medical researchers are finding more proof that cranberties, like these in a Massachusetts bog, are good for more than tasty dish on the Thanksgiving table. See story page D-8 die, you're going to eat the chocolate cake. For while, we all thought that. How could I talk themout of that?” Rybasaid. She couldn't. So here weare, anxious about war and the economy,heading straight See ANXIETY, Page D-3 USU Boosts High School Science Out of This World BY GREG LAVINE ‘THESALT experiments into space. Box Elder High School students in LAKETRIBUNE BrighamCity came up with an experi A groupof Idaho high school stu: dents met after school for nearly yee to think about urine nowthe of their work are set to be| into space through a UtahState University program. When the Space Shuttle Endeavour blasts into orbit next Thursday,part of its payload will include an experiment called “Fun with Urine.” Theproject was the brainchildof 10 students from Shoshone-Bannock Junior/Senior High School anall-AmericanIndian schoolof150 students, The southeastern Idaho school, along with onein Utah and anotherin Idaho,is participating in the Get Away Special program at USU. The program gives college and high school students the chance to send science ment to see how microgravityaffects bubbleformationas wateris boiled in space, Moscow HighSchool students in Idahowill try to growcrystals usingsix chemicals foundin the humanbody. alindo, a science teacherat the jone-Bannockreservation school, said his group's experiment will at tempt to extract water from urine in space travelers, About 95 percent of urineis water. “Weurinate everyday. If we could filter out the urea, we would have wa ter needed to grow crops,” said Galin do, also a graduate student at USU. In the space-bound experiment, a mineral called zeolite would trap the urea present in urine, The resulting recycled water could be put to other u he urea could be condensedinto a pellet for useas afertilizer on Earth orin space. Galindoandhis students were con cerned that without fresh vegetables, astronauts could becomeconstipated. Waterfrom urine could help produce ptables to keep di ive tems running smoothlyin space. “We're trying to help out with growing vegetables and plants in space,” said junior Skyler Smith, who helpedwith the filtering procs This marksthethird Space Shuttle experiment for Shoshone-Bannock students belonging to NASA the Native American Science Association, Clubparticipants range from students in junior high to the first year of college. Several students were seniors See SCIENCE,Page D-B8 |
