08 November 1, 2008 - ObserverXtra

32 | CLASSIFIEDS
SOLUTION FROM LAST WEEK
The Observer | Saturday, November 01, 2008
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ACROSS
1. Flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as
an antifreeze
9. Bad spots?
13. Come together
16. Crack
17. Canaanite deity
18. Australian runner
19. Swabs
20. Capital of India
22. Common Market inits.
23. Trick taker, often
24. Fizzy drink
25. Batman and Robin, e.g.
26. Mr., abroad
27. Bundle
30. The sound of sheep
33. Stores use this to bring in business
34. Messy dresser
37. “If the ___ is concealed, it succeeds”: Ovid
38. Washington locale, with “the”
40. Order by letter
45. Countercurrent
46. ___ bit
47. Leafless East Indian vine
48. “___ say!”
49. A stupid person
51. Hold sacred
56. ___ Day
57. Jollity
58. Bleat
59. Way, way off
61. Bottom of hierarchy
65. Arm bone
66. Mozart’s “L’___ del Cairo”
67. ___ podrida
68. Indicating person responsible for creative
authorship
69. Pummel
72. Put in
76. Astern
78. “___ the fields we go”
79. Craving
83. Altar avowal
84. Do it yourself
85. Rising to a higher point
87. Attack
88. Clairvoyance, e.g.
89. Atlantic City attraction
90. Advice
92. “___ Cried” (1962 hit)
93. Thailand, once
94. Purposefully arranged but lacking any
uniformity
DOWN
1. ___ boy
2. Age
3. Crow’s home
4. “48___”
5. Expresses position
6. Women in habits
7. Sundae topper, perhaps
8. Bawdy
9. “How to Succeed in Business Without Really
Trying” librettist Burrows
10. Volcano that collapses into a depression
11. Uto-Aztecan language
12. “Four Quartets” poet
13. Orders to plow horses
14. Beryl variety
15. In a clear manner
21. Apply gently
28. Bat wood
29. Conspicuous display
31. Anita Brookner’s “Hotel du ___”
32. Refine, as metal
35. “O” in old radio lingo
36. Area around the altar
39. Improvises
40. Carpentry tool
41. Romanian monetary unit
42. Scribe
43. Bit
44. Verb to be
48. “...but I didn’t ___”
50. Fort Knox unit
51. “Dear” one
52. “Giovanna d’___” (Verdi opera)
53. “___ be a cold day in hell ...”
54. Dumfries denial
55. Neon, e.g.
57. Objective form of “I”
59. Open air concert in the morning
60. Angling method
61. Danger for sailors
62. Egg-shaped instrument
63. Functioned as
64. “Casablanca” pianist
70. Tarsal joint
71. Airline’s home base
73. Discrete unit of living matter
74. Bring out
75. Was sweet (on)
77. Sort
80. Baltic capital
81. Lions’ prey
82. Auspices: Var.
86. Delivery person?
87. Keep out
91. Bride and groom say “I __”
There’s a place in heaven
for our canine friends too
» Q. For longevity
in your love relationship,
you and
your partner would
be well-advised
to... a) have each
other write down
25 times, “I will remain
faithful” b) go
out drinking together
more often c) make love an extra time
each week d) sit down together and write
parallel essays recounting times you made
love e) write parallel essays detailing a few
memorable romantic moments.
A. Best to choose e). New research is crediting
love with a truly amazing power: the ability to
resist temptation, says University of California-
Los Angeles writer Meg Sullivan. UCLA researchers
and the online relationship service eHarmony
asked coeds to reflect on the love they felt for
their boyfriends or girlfriends after being presented
with photos of strangers from “Hot or
Not.” They were specifically asked to write an
essay recounting the time they felt most affection
for their current partner or the time they felt
the most physical desire. Those who reflected on
their past affection were SIX TIMES LESS LIKE-
LY than a control group and FOUR TIMES LESS
LIKELY than those writing about physical desire
to dwell on a highly attractive stranger. In fact,
the affection-reflectors even had trouble recalling
attractive aspects of the stranger. “It’s almost
like love puts blinders on people,” says UCLA’s
Martie Haselton. In other words, simply mentally
reliving loving moments with a partner can help
keep those moments coming ... a lovely idea!
» Q. When you arrive at work one Monday
morning, your boss asks you to talk into a
computer microphone before starting on the
job. What’s she want to know about you?
patterns, says John Bohannon in Science magazine.
A team of linguists at the University of
Cincinnati recorded people giving directions
after a good night’s sleep and after 34-58 hours
of sleep deprivation. By analyzing phonetic
features of their speech -- pauses and dropped
syllables -- a computer was able to spot a pattern
associated with drowsiness. Said University
of Cambridge linguist Sarah Hawkins,
“This is exciting work. It promises not only to
help with practical applications such as detecting
when machine operators like airline pilots
are tired but also to give us greater insight into
how speech is produced.”
» Q. Are there dogs in heaven? Who might
say so?
A. Certainly any place where dogs were
banned wouldn’t be worthy of the term “paradise,”
says psychologist and dog-lover Stanley
Coren in What Do Dogs Know?” Declared author
Robert Louis Stevenson, “I tell you they
will be there before any of us.” English writer
George Eliot put it this way, “Shall we, because
we walk on our hind feet and wag our tongues
and not our tails, assume to ourselves the privilege
of imperishability?” And when a child
asked Martin Luther, founder of the Protestant
church, whether her dog would be allowed in
heaven, he gently patted the dog’s head and
said, “Be comforted, little dog. Thou too in the
resurrection shall have a tail of gold.”
Coren himself had a dream shortly after the
death of his old cairn terrier Flint, in which the
dog was lying beside the gates of heaven when
an angel came out and asked why he didn’t
come in. In the telepathic speech common to
celestial beings, Flint answered, “Can’t I just
stay out here a while? You see, I’m waiting for
A. Whether you’re alert enough to do your someone I miss very much. If I went in alone,
work well. Just as a slumped posture and it wouldn’t be heaven for me.” Says Coren,
bloodshot eyes are dead giveaways of ex- “I woke from that dream to find tears on my
treme lack of sleep, so too are certain speech face.”
»BY THE NUMBERS | SUDOKU
EASY MEDIUM
HARD
HOW TO PLAY:
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column
and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1
through 9 only once.
Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line.
You already have a few numbers to get you
started.
REMEMBER: you must not repeat the
numbers 1 through 9 in the same line,
column or 3x3 box.
Find the answers to this week’s puzzles on
page 38.
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