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Show w 4j, ,;- -& ;,- ,i ?,&, ,3 -- ?"?.. ii .fir wf x $.y esttf T 199 UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. September 14, i A JO y?n -- -T- -3 t inXiKrTTirviMje?r-inrr7old aon initiated a My converution with me the other day. It accma ho hod run out of hair gel and wanted to let me know. It waa the moot information he had volunteered in months. I cant say I waant warned. Ita just that I always thought my hide would eryoy sharing thoughts, their feelings, and all ofthose 16-ye- ar thr FUN FOR ALL-Ca- leb Jarman w as keeping his grandpa Frank Reynolds busy last Saturday evening during the Fiddle Fair. OVOVO momenta with their mom. Whidijuot goes to prove what they hove know noil along -- or at least since reaching the throes ofteenogerhood: am a dork. Of course 1 didnl start out being a dork. I started out being a cool mom. This dork thing just sort of happened oil at once. It sprung on me like a jaguar jumping out of his cage at the circus into the fearful faces of the unsuspecting crowd ... except that they usually don't have jaguars at the circus, so thats not even a good analogy. Anyway, this dork phase Fm going through has caught me totally by surprise. I must say, however, 1 am learning how to manage my darkyneas so that it is not so terribly transparent, particularly when it come to conversation. For instance. Ive learned that moot of the questions 1 ask my teenager (the hvLrzleeE Wilting who still has not the apparently not figured out that 1 am unstable and not to be trusted in conversation) ore totally unneccs- - ,Tly former comments which went something like this: "Hi, honey bunny, how was school? Do you ha ve any homework? Where did you go for lunch today? would elicit only s look (and mind you, not a "tender look") of exasperation from my teen. Even dropping the honey bunny part which 1 admit 1 used in a childish attempt to see if 1 could stir did not inspire mare comments him to open up and share the events thatl haa occurred that day. 1 shortened up my questions and tried not to moke them quite so invasive. "Want foodT I tried. - - "No." Not, hungry? Already ate." My next response, "oh. what did you have? was an obvious mistake oo my part which threw oflT my simplistic attempt at remedial caveman-like dialogue. "Why do youaways have to know everything OK. so 1 blew it. It's just this not talking thing is c 3 at the galaxy, and not j ust me trying ' A Pa-- vrt i leaving me - tom eon who believes in communication - a hit frauled. Whet sort at parenting technique had 1 missed out on, forgot or totally ignored during all at three years of listening to all of those Been There Done That parents of lee ns. my own included. It nil left me with the strong feeling that some people must indeed be good parents and well ... others, even though they used to be cool, are dorks. There art still some dsvs, when he comes home and is a fountain of d information and laughter and humor. Are these the days when I have shed the dork halo 1 usually have glowing at 10,000 kilowatts above my head? No. 1 have discovered, through vigorous investigation, that these are the days when everything goes smoothly in his life. School was great, his golf score was under par, some cute girl noticed him. On these days the conversation (lows He tells It me more than 1 want to know. all leaves me suspecting (if only for a day) that it's not me dorkyncss that so irritates him. Perhaps our getting along is all interconnected to the events of the day, the nhgn-meof the planets, the expanding good-nature- nt OVOVO Nielsen's Furniture to talk to him! It's a thought that , me some solace, and also the that w hen he runs out of hair gel again he will feel free to eume to me, hie mother, and start a Elves What a headache: who discovered aspirin? Associated Press The true discoverer at aspirin was not the scientist long credited with the achievement but tus German Jewish superior, whose role was rewritten when the Nazis came to power, an expert on the history of drugs said Tuesday. Bayer AG, which introduced the analgesic 100 years ago. disputed the claim by Walter Sneader. deputy head of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Glasgow's Strathclyde University. Sneader, who hoe written two books on the modern history of drugs, attributes the discovery of aspinn to Arthur Eichengruen not Felix Hoffmann, long credited with the achievement. At the heart of the dispute is whether Hoffmann discovered aspirin or merely synthesised pure aspirin under instruction from Eichengruen. Sneader aaid be became suspicious when, during research for a lecture three years ago, he found a romantic description in the History ofChemical Technology ofHnffmann discovering aspinn. It was dated 1934 a year after Hitler came to According to the story , Hoffmann synthesised pure aspinn in 189? because hia father had complained of the taste of a drug then used to treat rheumatism. "I believe the whole story was concocted oo the Germans did not learn the most successful drug in history was discovered by a Jew aid Sneader, who unveiled hie research this week at the annual conference ofthe Roy a! Society afChem ists in Edinburgh. Scotland. Bayer said in a statement from its headquarters in Leverkusen. Germany, that Hoffmann claimed credit for discovering aspinn in a work journal in 1 997 . The company aaid Hoffmann woo listed as the inventor on the U.S patent in 1899. and Eichengruen could have made a challenge any time. -- Anniversary Prices Qome Only Once A Year! 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