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There is a light that never goes out. It is small, and you can only see it at a distance, hovering over a long straightaway on a country road outside of Oxford. It’s not always there—you can’t see it in the daytime. But if you drive out after dark, preferably around midnight, turn your car so that it’s pointed back down that straightaway, switch off the engine, and flash the headlights three times…you will see the light.

Cue the eerie monster mash music if you like, but I speak from expe-rience. Twenty-plus years ago, when I was still in college, I made the trek up to Oxford on spring break to visit some friends. Somebody brought up the legend of the Oxford Ghost Light and suggested we head out of town to see if we could conjure it out of the cold night air. Be-fore I saw it, I was more than a little skeptical. But after we flashed our headlights, the small, singular quavering beam appeared. It looked like the headlamp of a motorcycle, or a car with one light out, moving toward us. Except there was no engine noise. There was no sound at all.

Weird, huh? I couldn’t explain it then or now, but I know what I saw and it was strange and fascinating. A few months back we got talking about some of the still-unanswered questions and un-classifiable phenomena floating around Cincinnati and it dawned on us that there might be a larger story (or two…or three) to tell.

Editor’s Letterphoto by stefano azario

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12 Learning To Fly14 Alice In Anotherland16 Mirror Effect18 Do We Deserve A Break?22 Follow the Leader

People

Places26 A Community Affair28 Home, Cool Home32 Paris, je t’aime34 Weekend Wanderings

ThingsLet There Be Light! 38

Organising Ourshelves 40Numbered Walls 44

Date Night 46Button Up 50

Tell Me, What’s Your Color 52What’s Up, Doc? 54

Features

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Time To Wash Our Hands 58Living In The Mineral World 68

Totally Bazaar 78

Arms Wide Open 82

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Learning To Fly

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Make-believe is more than child’s play. It’s crucial to the development of creativity, empathy, learning and problem-solving. by nanci hellmich

There was a little girl whose parents told her she was going to have a new sibling, so she slid off the couch, picked up

a baby doll, whomped it on the floor a few times and hurled it across the room. Then she turned to her parents with a big grin and said cheerfully, “No more baby.” She couldn’t say, “I’m afraid I’m going to be replaced and you won’t love me anymore.’ She didn’t have the words to express the powerful feelings she was having, but she could play about it. She continued to play about babies through her mother’s entire pregnancy. She diapered her doll babies. She literally walked in her mom’s shoes and stuffed babies under her shirt to pretend to be pregnant. Children often play about what they are working on. For some children, that might be new babies, or sharing, or scary monsters. Others, with more challenging lives, may play about illness, death, loss or abuse.

Kids are spending about 40 hours a week engaged with electronic media after school. That’s time taken away from creative play. The combina-tion of this screen time and all the toys based on TV shows and movies narrows children’s options for make-believe. So do these best-selling electronic toys where all you have to do is push a button, and the toy talks, walks and does back flips by itself. It’s like the toy is having most of the fun, but it’s not giving children a chance to be creative. When it comes to toys that encourage creative play, less is more. A good toy is 90% child and only 10% toy.

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Alice In Anotherland

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland brought in 116 million dollars in the United States alone on its opening weekend. In addition to its box office success, Alice in Wonderland was extremely successful in the fashion department.

While watching this movie, I could not take my eyes off the incredible and inspirational clothes worn by the various characters.

Alice, as most of you know, is the main character of the movie. Her style is feminine, but not overly feminine, and she is always wearing a beautiful shade of sky blue. Alice has a very effortless look that’s never rigid, because she tends to partake in adventures that require comfy clothes. In addition, most of her dresses have a vintage feel, so a thrift shop would likely be a great place to find Alice-inspired clothes.

Take your wardrobe on a trip down the rabbit hole with powder blue tea dresses, sassy hearts and mad accessories. by philippa morgan

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For Fall 2012, designer Clare Waight Keller showed a sporty, effortless collection filled with chunky knits, longer hemlines, and lovely, wearable outerwear.

Mixing the casual vibe of English sportswear with the

dressier sensibility of the French.

Mirror EffectAfter years of more-is-more fashion, it’s going to take some serious shopping to achieve Fall’s pared-down, ultraclean look. by philippa morgan

After years of more-is-more fashion, it’s going to take some serious shopping to achieve Fall’s pared-down, ultraclean look. by philippa morgan

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Do We Deserve A Break?Why our schoolchildren get to take three months off.by juliet lapidos

Ever wonder why adults are expected to labor through the summer months, with a meager week or so off in August, while kids get leisurely eight- or 10-week breaks? In a 2007 Explainer, Ju-liet Lapidos found out why school kids get such generous summer vacations.

Most American school kids are about three weeks in to their three-month

summer vacation. Yet working adults (the Explainer included) spend the bet-ter part of June, July, and August toiling away as usual. Why do kids enjoy such generous summer breaks?

Fiscal limitations, century-old developmental theories, and outdated medical concerns. The now-standard 180-day academic calendar with a

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long summer holiday didn’t come about until the early 20th century. Previously, urban schools oper-ated year-round with short breaks between quarters. In 1842, Detroit’s academic year lasted approximately 260 days, New York’s 245, and Chicago’s 240. But since education wasn’t mandatory in most states un-til the 1870s, attendance was low. Despite the official schedule, many kids ended up spending the same amount oftime in school back then as they do now. Brooklyn school offi-cials, for example, reported in 1850 that more than half their students showed up just six months a year.

Poor attendance got some people wondering if such a long academic calendar was worthwhile. Why keep schools open year-round if most kids don’t even go? Reformers also

warned that goody-goodies who did show up every day might burn out. Many physicians at the time felt that students were too frail, both in mind and body, for so many days at their desk. Too much education, they ar-gued, could impair a child’s health.

Physicians no longer believe that children are too feeble for year-round instruction, and most school build-ings now have effective ventilation systems. So why don’t we go back to having school in the summertime? For one thing, it’s expensive to keep schools open, just like it was in the late 1800s. But some nonprofit organizations argue that the long breaks hinder the learning process. According to the Johns Hopkins Cen-ter for Summer Learning, kids score worse on standardized tests in early September than in late June.

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Poor attendance got some people wondering if such a long academic calendar was worthwhile.

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Follow The LeaderWhen does hanging out with parents become “uncool?”by peter billings

I just joined a group called “Moms of Kids Who are Embarrassed They Have a Facebook.” It was founded just a few days ago, and last I checked it had grown to more than 152 mem-bers. Hope Greenberg, an attorney and mother of four on Long Island, created the group when she asked her 12-year-old daughter to “friend” her and the girl pushed back. “Make your own group,” the girl said, so the mother did. She recruited three friends and let the Internet do the rest.

The most meaningless words in parenting, I have found, are “when I was your age.” What I did, or thought, or was permitted, when I was their age has become irrelevant. Kids today do most things younger than their parents ever did, and do many things that their parents never did, because those things hadn’t been invented yet.

My first real understanding that my past was no guide to their present came when deciding the ground rules for the computer a few years ago. Is it a typewriter? Or a telephone? Or a television?

“When I was their age” the rules were very different with each device. My parents raced to get me the first, waited until I was a teen to allow me the second and the third was always rationed and monitored and never allowed in my room.

But along came this mutation that was all three at once. And I found myself making up the rules as I went along.

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Places

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A Community Affair

ach fall, numerous wineries across Ramona harvest their grapes to make delicious bottles of chardonnay, zinfan-del, petit syrah, merlots and more. But the large vineyards need help picking all of those bunches of fruit.

That’s where you come in.Vineyards across Ramona ask

for volunteers each year to help harvest the fruits of their labor and one vineyard owner, Elaine Lyttleton, sat down with Patch to give the scoop on this com-munity affair.

it’s time for wineries to start harvesting their grapes and volunteers are needed to help pick. by melissa phy

Lyttleton said that wineries send out calls to volunteers each year for help with the harvest, but the timing is tricky.

“Harvest is always last min-ute,” she said.

Wineries help each other out and on Lyttleton’s vineyard, Hatfield Creek, about 30 volun-teers will take to the fields this weekend and pick the grapes.

“You don’t necessarily pick your field in one go,” Lyttleton said. “It’s a lot of hard work... but a great deal of fun.”

Lyttleton’s vineyard will gather up about 30 pickers this weekend to harvest her petit syr-ah and zinfandel grapes, which will then be sold to some nearby wineries and some will be kept to make wine at Hatfield, which is not yet open to the public.

“We kind of swarm on each other’s vineyards,” Lyttleton said of the harvest. “The locust of the vineyards!”

The volunteers get started early in the morning, around 6 a.m., to avoid the heat. Afterward, helping hands are treated to a feast and, of course, plenty of wine.

“When we’re done, there is al-ways a lot of food,” Lyttleton said.

Some Tips For First-Time Harvesters: Wear sunscreen Wear a hat and close-toed shoes

When grapes are ready to harvest, they look “terrible.”

Bring your own gloves and clippers if you have them

No perfume, clogone or aftershave.

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When architects Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe built their respective glass houses in the late 1940s, the idea that anyone would want to live in such structures was unheard of. But their bold experiments yielded amazing houses, and introduced us to the pleasures of floor-to-ceiling transparency.

Unfortunately, even if the walls are made of glass, houses are generally private places. (No trespassing, please!) And it’s hard to see or appreciate what’s going on behind closed doors. Some of America’s coolest houses, however, let you peek

No, you won’t be trespassing: America’s coolest houses welcome visitors.by karrie jacobs

Home, Cool Home

behind the curtains to inspire and satisfy your curiosity.

Cool houses are always experiments, domestic laboratories where designers, builders, and homeowners work out better ways to live.

When you think of experimental archi-tecture, you usually think big: a museum by Santiago Calatrava or a city library by Rem Koolhaas. But the innovations that truly change our lives happen at home.

Arguably, homeowners who take risks with the way their houses look, feel, or behave are far braver than big-city develop-

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ers who hire some rock star architect to built an office tower. They are tinkering with their own lives, testing just how much architecture their suburban neighbors can tolerate, or jeopardizing their personal net worth to try something that no one else quite gets.

Johnson and Mies, of course, weren’t alone. When Frank Lloyd Wright cantile-vered Fallingwater over the biggest waterfall on his clients’ property, the Kaufmanns were upset that they wouldn’t be able to see it from their windows. The architect argued that they would hear the falls constantly, and it would be better to truly live with their roar all the time than look at them occasionally.

And developments like Sea Ranch, CA—built by a group of idealistic architects and landscape designers in the 1960s—pro-foundly influenced home-building in this country. Now these innovative homes are offered as vacation rentals, so anyone can live in a laboratory for a weekend.

America’s coolest houses may have started out as experiments, but today they’re guaranteed to be an interesting visit. Even if you can’t sip your morning coffee in the kitchen of California’s Hearst Castle, spending a little time in someone else’s pad might give you a few new ideas about your own.

To see the rest of Amer-ica’s Coolest Houses, visit us at http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-cool-est-houses

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America’s coolest houses may have started out as experiments, but today they’re guaranteed to be an interesting visit.

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Paris, je t’aimeThe soaring Eiffel Tower, the mammoth Louvre Museum, the cathedral of Notre-Dame — even at street-level, Paris rises above its own hype. by rebecca ascher-walsh

Ah Paris…the city of romance; with its delicate and artistic food, its clean neo-classical stone architecture, and its strong influence in art, fashion

and all things luxury it’s easy to see why. Paris is unlike any city in France, or the world for that matter. Though the pace at which people move is quite a few notches faster than in any other area of France, people here still take the time to relax. Whether it's a picnic at one of dozens of beauti-ful parks or people watching on the terrace of the local cafe with a coffee and a buttery croissant, Parisians certainly know how to enjoy life.

After dinner we decided to walk off our food and see a bit of Paris by night. We walked along the tree-lined street of Champs Elysées to see the Arc de Triomphe. Then we made our way over to see the beautiful Eiffel Tower in all its lit up glory. Paris was given the nickname, “the city of light” for its early implementation of street lighting, but they certainly live up to the name in other ways. The Eiffel Tower at night, with its delicate twin-kling lights, is a beautiful sight to behold.

10 Must See Sites in & Around Paris

Eiffel TowerArc de TriompheChamps Elysée

Palais de VersaillesJardin du Luxembourg

Père Lachaise cemeteryChâteau de Fontainebleau

Cathédrale Notre Dame de ParisBasilique Sacré Coeur & Place du Tertre

Palais du Louvre & les jardins des Tuileries

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Weekend WanderingsSpending time with the family is just as easy as a walk to the nearby park. Take a lunch, pack some various toys, like a Frisbee or a baseball, and figure out where you would like to go. by beth spainP

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With the younger children, the parks that have playgrounds are likely to be good bet for the little ones to enjoy their time, especially if there are several

other children there. It is good for their social skills to be around other children their age, so if they are raised by a stay-at-home parent or live in an area where they do not have a lot of nearby friends, it is a great way to help them develop important social skills that will come into play later in life.

The Frisbee and baseball mentioned earlier are geared towards the slightly older children in the family, seeing as it not only promotes a sense of family togetherness with simple games such as catch, but also provides a good source of exercise without requiring a great deal of effort or equip-ment. The Frisbee or a soft, foam rubber ball would help to develop good hand-eye coordina-

tion in younger children without the risks of using something harder, such as a baseball or softball, so the option is there to get the entire family in on the game.

Even if the younger ones have problems getting their throws to go far or straight, just cheer them on. The smiles and sense of accomplishment, even in managing to throw the object behind them, that come with positive family support will help the children to continue developing and believing in their personal strengths. Considering the self-es-teem issues seen in a lot of children and teenagers today, forging a strong sense of self-accomplish-ment and self-worth is of vital importance.

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Things

38 Let There Be Light!40 Organising Ourshelves44 Numbered Walls46 Date Night50 Button Up52 Tell Me, What’s Your Color54 What’s Up, Doc?

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The tubular-type compact fluorescent lamp is one of the most popular types in Europe

An indoor bulb used for direct-ing light such as a spotlight or recessed light

All the benefits of halogen, like longlife and good color, in the classic shape

This bulb last six times longer than standard A-line bulbs

Made for incandescent dimming circuits. Dims to as low as 10 percent light output. It lasts 13 times longer than a 100-watt A-Line

Outdoor flood bulb that is resistant to damp areas. PAR bulbs are used for spotlighting or as flood lights

Great for table lamps. Lasts eight times longer than a regu-lar A-line bulb. Spiral shape provides better light distribu-tion than other CFLs.

Fluorescent bulbs specifically made to provide “natural” light to indoor plants

Made for incandescent dimming cir-cuits. Dims to as low as 10 percent light output

With incandescent, fluorescent, compact fluorescent or halogen, you have more choices than ever when it comes

to buying light bulbs.by don peters

Let There Be Light!

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Bookshelves do double duty as storage space for books and display space for accessories. Learn how to arrange shelves so they are both fully functional and pleasing to the eye.by lauren frandsen

Organizing Ourshelves

Keep It SimpleTo style a bookcase to perfection, resist the urge to pack in accessories on every shelf. Keep a clean look by choosing a one-color or tone-on-tone scheme for vases and figurines, and make sure to mix up shapes. Every so often, step back to assess the overall balance of your arrangement. Place items off-center or try larger or smaller ones until you like what you see.

Color SmartCarry your color scheme onto your bookshelf to give the room a sense of unity. Here, accent

accessories on the shelves match the light blue wall color. Storage boxes conceal items such as toys and movies that you may not want out in the open.

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Outside InterestUtilize a built-in bookcase as a fashionable and functional headboard. Baskets hold eyeglasses and lotions, leaving plenty of room for a library of nighttime reading materials. Add more appeal with adjustable reading lights mounted inside the bookcase. Hang a favorite piece of artwork on the front of the shelf for visual interest.

Pleasing PrintsAdding wallpaper or printed fabric to the back wall of shelves creates a unique look and is an easy way to

personalize a bookcase. Add woven baskets and decorative storage boxes to easily organize magazines and maintain a clean look. Attach fun labels to shelves to establish an organizing system for your books.

Bold Yet SimpleIf your book spines lack visual style, paint your bookshelf a vibrant color to make it the focus. To highlight the color even more, choose a single contrasting shade for accessories.

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Dispose of it. Much of clutter is trash you either thought you would need or figured you’d throw out later.

Everyone has some degree of clutter lurking at home. When you’re tired of moving it around, stepping over it, and losing important items in it, it’s time to take control of the clutter. by barbara myers

Numbered Walls

Put it away. About half of the remaining clutter in most homes consists of items that simply haven’t been put away. Fill a laundry basket then deliver the items to the proper rooms. Avoid this trap by making things easy to put away and by enforcing a family “use it and put it away” rule.

Donate it. If you don’t use it, it’s not a treasured decorative item or memento, and it’s not an important piece of paper, get rid of it. Pass it along to someone who can use it.

Refer it. The novel you’ve been saving for Debbie, the recipe you copied for Aunt Jan and the gloves borrowed from Mom need to be sent or delivered to their rightful owners. Gather them and make your rounds tomorrow.

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Date Night

1. Go out for pizza — ask them to cut the pie into the shape of a heart.

2. Try live entertainment, such as a band at a local bar, instead of a movie.

3. Pick a TV show, get a season’s worth on DVD and make a running date to watch it together.

From silly to sweet to flat-out scorching, we’ve got togetherness tips for your every mood by amy keyishian

4. Head out to a midnight cult movie, like The Rocky Hor- ror Picture Show, Showgirls or Donnie Darko.

5. How about dinner and some stargazing at the planetarium’s evening show?

6. Try brunch and a matinee; fancy restaurants are way more affordable in the a.m.

7. Take turns singing cheesy out-of-tune ballads at karaoke.oddcast.com or free karaoke.com.

8. Have your own version of trick-or-treating: Put on a sexy outfit and knock on the den door. Don’t forget the treats!

9. Make a mixed tape or CD.

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10. Create a beer garden: Scour local stores for unusual beers.

11. Invest in an ice-cream maker or a bread maker; then invent your own homemade treats.

12. Curl up with the Sunday crossword puzzle.

13. Order live lobsters, plop them in a pot and have yourselves a shore thing.

14. Bring home your favorite fast food, but serve it on your best china.

15. Museums usually have one free night a week, so hit one then.

16. Find a happy hour with 10-cent wings and two- dollar draft beers.

17. Take a sketchpad to a scenic bluff and draw your own version of the vista.

18. Grab a basketball and hit the free courts at the park.

19. Sample international food at a street fair.

20. Hit the local video arcade.

21. Go to the library and page through the coffee-table art books.

22. Suit up and spend a late afternoon at the indoor pool of the Y.

23. Head to the highest point in town. Spend an early evening watching the twinkling lights turn on.

24. Find a bridge and walk across it; the view can’t be beat.

25. Visit the hothouse at your local botanical garden.

26. Drive out to a country field, lie down and snuggle under the stars.

27. Make yourselves the biggest, craziest ice cream sundae ever.

28. Take a tour of the house you’d love to own.

29. Paint coffee mugs at a paint-your-own-pottery place.

30. Get your palms read.

31. Fly a kite.

32. Sign up for a one-night class at your local col- lege.

33. Hit a farmers’ market and scavenge for your dinner.

34. Get an easy-to-operate remote-control plane, go to a park and take turns trying to avoid the trees.

35. Take a hayride.

36. Hit a flea market and find a beautiful blanket to snuggle in together.

37. Take a tour of garage sales in the ritziest neigh- borhoods.

BeautyDo’s and Don’ts

DO wear lipstick or lip gloss that is flattering to you

DON’T wear a harsh red [lipstick] or other colors that will look like you sucked back a box of cherry popsicles. A lip stain is helpful in this regard

DO pay close attention to your makeup. Over-blending concealer is better than under-blending. We want to enhance our look, not look like someone we are not

DON’T wear mascara that makes your lashes look like spider webs. You may be thinking he’s gazing into your eyes when he’s really think-ing you look like Tammy Faye Baker.

DO wear a light scent to turn him on.

DON’T wear so much of it that he gags. You’d rather be safe then sorry, so mist some into the air and walk into it rather than spray-ing it all over your neck and clothes.

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Button UpThe most popular boyfriend-inspired shirts

for the fall season.by katelyn wills

Fitted boyfriend Swiss dot shirtGap, $49.95

Fitted boyfriend plaid shirtGap, $49.95

1969 western floral shirtGap, $41.99

Shrunken boyfriend gingham shirtGap, $49.95

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Preparing your walls with primer be-fore you paint is the best way to ensure a lasting finish. Priming not only adds to the durability of the paint job it also saves you time, especially if you have the primer tinted the same color as the finish coat.

Tinting primer improves the color of your paint and reduces the number of coats needed to achieve the truest color or hue. Primer is formulated to adhere to a variety of surfaces and seals them to prevent stains and discoloration from bleeding through the final coat. The finish coat sticks more effectively to a primed surface than it does to plaster, wood or an earlier coat of paint.

Blue gives a feeling of dis-tance. Artists use it to to show perspective. This is a good way to understand the energy of the color blue - it allows us to look beyond and increase our perspective outward. It contains a cool vibration that is helpful to communication.

Red is associated with fiery heat and warmth. It can also mean danger (burning). Red is the color of blood, and as such has strong symbolism as life and vitality. It brings focus to the essence of life and living with emphasis on survival. Red is also the color of passion and lust.

Brown can mix into many surroundings. Brown can be a stabilizing color. Brown gives a feeling of solidity, and allows one to stay in the background, unnoticed. Some shades of brown create a warm, comfortable feeling of wholesomeness, naturalness and dependability.

Like the energy of a bright sunny day, yellow brings clarity and awareness. The shade of yellow determines its effect: Yellow-green can mean deceit, and creates a disoriented feeling. Orange-yellow imparts a sense of establishment. Clean light yellow clears the mind, making it active and alert.

Tell Me, What’s Your ColorAdding paint to your walls can dramatically change the look and feel of your home. But first you must start with the basicsby julie power

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The actors have joined with other national autism advocacy groups to press for the elimination of toxins from children’s vaccines and to change chil-dren’s vaccination schedules.

“In 1983 the shot schedule was 10. That’s when autism was 1 in 10,000. Now there’s 36, and autism is one in 150,” McCarthy said today in an exclusive interview on “Good Morning America.” “All arrows point to one direction.”

There has been heated debate about the pre-valance of autisim among children and a link to vaccinations.

Celebrities are hoping to use their star power to raise awareness about the dangers of childhood vaccinations that they believe are linked to dis-eases like autism.by jonann brady

What’s Up, Doc?

Many parents of autistic children believe that vac-cines, especially those containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, are to blame for bringing on their children’s autistic symptoms.

But the mainstream medical community has repeatedly said there is no proven link between vac-cines and autism.

The Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, reviewed 19 major studies that tracked thousands of kids, and all showed no link between vaccines and autism.

Still, thimerosal was removed from essentially all childhood vaccines in 2001 in response to autism fears. But autism rates have continued to rise, leav-ing many experts to conclude that thimerosal could not be the cause.

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Time To Wash Our HandsWith all the battles going on over guns, now there is a new one: whether there is a constitutional right to carry a firearm in public. by nicole saidiphotos by vincent peters

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It’s not about government agents swooping down in black he-licopters to seize the guns of innocent, law-abiding citizens.

“As a hunter and gun owner, I will not give up my guns and I will not ask other law-abiding Americans to give up theirs,” says Thompson, 62, a former state legislator and eight-term congressman. “But as a father and grandfather, I also know we have a responsibility to keep our kids, communities and country safe from gun violence.” He resists the term “gun control.”

“My philosophy is it’s not gun control, but gun violence prevention,” he asserts. “We ought to have reason-able laws that protect the 2nd Amend-ment and keep our communities safe, and I think we can do both.” The U.S. Supreme Court, the congressman points out, ruled five years ago “that individuals have a right to own guns. Period. It also said that the government has a right to regulate firearms. Period.” Thompson has been a shooter practically all his life.

The NRA’s contention that gun owners need to protect themselves against gun grabbers is “ridiculous,” he says. “I just think it’s an argument ginned up as a means to generate more members for the organization.

“I know a lot of NRA members and I don’t know of any who think they should have the same weapons as the police or military — or should be able to buy a gun without a background check. What we’re hearing from is the real extreme.” Thompson’s portfolio exceeds a per-sonal hunting arsenal. He’s chairman of a House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, composed of Democrats. It re-cently issued a “set of policy principles” aimed at respecting gun ownership while reducing gun violence. Among the panel’s recommendations was reinstate-ment of the national assault weapons ban, championed by Sen. Dianne Fein-stein (D-Calif.).

“I’m a gun guy, but I carried an

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Thompson is practical. He brings common sense to the debate. He believes too much time and rhetoric may have been wasted on trying to ban assault weapons — and more focus should have been placed on outlawing the sale of mega-maga-zines holding more than 10 bullets. They are, after all, what turn assault weapons into such mass-killing machines.

The congressman calls them “as-sault magazines.” “Take the assault magazine out of an assault weapon and all you have is an ugly semiauto-matic,” he says.

Thompson says he hasn’t given up hope that the Senate will vote next month to ban high-capacity magazines. Reid has said he’ll allow Feinstein to offer it as an amendment to the bill, and she intends to. If the magazine limitation were to pass the Senate, its prospects would improve

assault weapon in Vietnam. And if I never see another one, it’ll be too soon,” says the former Army infantry-man, who earned a Purple Heart. As-sault weapons “give a bad name to gun owners,” Thompson continues. “There are more people who don’t own guns than do. If they think all of us gun owners are running around with assault weapons, that’s going to do us a real disservice. And we’ll just fall out of favor with the voters.”

But Feinstein’s proposed assault weapons ban was stripped from Sen-ate gun legislation by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Reid contended it had no chance of passage and only weakened the rest of the bill, which apparently will include requiring background checks for all purchasers of firearms at gun shows. Currently the checks are required merely when a gun is bought from a licensed dealer.

Firearm Ownership

Households 42%30% Individuals

Male 47%13% Female

White 33%18% Nonwhite

Republican 41%27% Independent

Democrat 23%

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in the Republican-controlled House, Thomp-son believes. At any rate, Thompson intends to push bipartisan legislation to require background checks at gun shows, but exempt transfers within families or sales to hunting buddies. He’d also increase the penalties for illegal gun trafficking.

California, of course, has among the most restrictive gun controls of any state. And the Legislature is plowing ahead with even tougher legislation, much of it aimed at clos-ing loopholes pried open b y gun manufactur-ers. Sales of assault weapons and magazines holding more than 10 rounds long have been banned in California. But old weapons and magazines were grandfathered in and remain legal.

There is new legislation to ban even the possession — not just the sale — of mega-

mags. Another bill would bar the sale of any detachable magazine. Still another would require a license — issued only after a back-ground check — to buy ammunition. There’s also a bill to prohibit anyone twice convicted of drunken driving within five years from own-ing a gun for a decade.

“That makes perfect sense; it’s almost a forehead slapper,” says Garen Wintemute, director of the UC Davis Violence Preven-tion Research Program. “Alcohol abuse is a huge risk factor for being a perpetrator and a victim.”

The mass murder of first-graders at a Connecticut school in December “reawakened

“My philosophy is it’s not gun control,

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everybody that there’s more to do,” Sen-ate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) says. “Our attitude is we ought to do more that is smart, reasonable and aggressive.” But Thompson says he’s concerned that Sacramento — unlike Washington — may be “overreaching” on gun laws. “I just hope state legislators talk to people who know guns.”

Two days after 20 first-graders were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in what Obama has said was the worst day of his presidency, he took the podium at the memorial service with a simple message: Americans’ approach to guns was wrong, and it had to change. Too many children had died,

and he wouldn’t let more follow them.And yet more than 100 days later, no

bill has passed either house of Congress — and members are now off on a two-week spring break. In interviews, gun control advocates’ frustration with — and mystifica-tion over — Washington is palpable. So far, their anger has not turned specifically on Obama — though people in Newtown itself and gun control advocates beyond ques-tion whether he could have done more to turn the post-Sandy Hook momentum into tangible results.

“There are more people who don’t own guns than do. If they think all of us gun owners are run-ning around with assault weapons, that’s going to do us a real disservice.”

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Living in the Mineral WorldThough most women know that mineral cosmetics are all-natural and good for their skin, some women are still hesitant to make the switch from traditional cosmetics.by kori ellisphotos by david prince

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M ica, a mineral widely used in eye shadows, powder, lipstick, and nail polish, is added to give luster or pearlescence to a product. Mica is resistant to ultraviolet light,

heat, weather and chemical attack and adheres to the skin. Like talc, it has excellent slip characteristics and may be used to replace talc in a makeup. When coated with

iron oxide, mica flakes sparkle with a gold tint.Kaolin, a clay, is added to makeup to absorb moisture. It covers the skin well,

will stay on the skin, and is resistant to oil. Kaolin and another clay, bentonite, are added to the earth-based face masks or packs predominately for their

cleansing effects. Clays are also used as fillers in different products.Powdered calcite, a calcium carbonate, absorbs moisture. Because

of this, calcite and a magnesium carbonate, processed from dolo-mite, are added to powders to increase the ability of the makeup to

absorb moisture.When it comes to makeup, color is the name of the game.

Minerals provide the color to eyes, cheeks, lips, and nails. Iron oxide, one of the most important color minerals, was

used by Cleopatra in the form of red ochre as rouge. To-day, iron oxides give red, orange, yellow, brown, and

black tones to makeup. Chrome oxides are used for greens; manganese violet for purple; ground

lapis lazuli may be added to makeup for blue. Ultramarine blue and pink coloring is made

from a mixture of kaolin, soda ash, sulfur, and charcoal. Even gold has historically

been used as a colorant. Ancient Egyptians used gold to color skin

and hair. Gold can still be found in powders and makeup to add

a ‘rich’ golden sheen to the skin.

As an artist starts a painting with a bright

white canvas to give the colors

brightness and intensity,

titanium di-oxide is

added to

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Bavarian CremeSome things are just naturally deca-dent — like our creamy, long-lasting lipcolors, which are made from only the best all-natural ingredients. That means no artificial dyes, preservatives or irritants whatsoever. Instead, our nourishing blend combines pure bar-eMinerals, exotic oils, natural waxes and conditioning plant extracts. Think of it as healthy nutrition for your lips.

SparkplugUnleash your inner Moxie with a fabu-lously full, pillowy pout. This luscious lipgloss delivers sheer, vivid color and a shiny mirror-like finish that lasts for hours. Infused with natural ingredients, exotic oils, botanical extracts, and antiox-idants, the refreshing formula smoothes and hydrates lips for superior comfort.

CheerfulGet cheeky with a pop of color that brightens your face and defines your features. Our creamy, lightweight bareMinerals Blush gives your skin a healthy, fresh vibrancy that looks and feels natural — because it is natural.

The High DiveBronzer buffs on rich golden bronze color for a beautifully even, buildable glow. With antioxidants and cold-pressed carrot oil, this silky long-wearing formula delivers incredible anti-aging benefits. Solid mineral color lasts for up to 8 hours.

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Flawless Definition MascaraWink, blink, and bat your eyes. With Flawless Definition Mas-cara, you’ll enjoy every lash. The tapered wand lengthens, darkens and lifts, separating each individual lash for preci-sion definition.

The Love AffairLuminizer enhances your com-plexion with a radiant, lit-from-within glow. Powered by the proprietary SeaNutritive Miner-alTM Complex, this silky smooth formula delivers incredible skin-nourishing benefits. Formulated without parabens, binders, fillers or harsh chemicals.

brighten and intensify the color of makeup, and to give whiteness and opacity. Titanium dioxide is also a natural sun block and, like talc, iron oxides, and gold, it has been used for centuries. Titanium dioxide can be found in any makeup--shadow, blush, nail polish, lotions, lipstick, and powders. Titanium dioxide also makes Oreo cookies frosting extra-white and is the ‘M’ on M&M’s candy.

Minerals also find their way into health-care products we use daily. Salt is effective in treating skin disease and is used in some soaps. Fluorite, processed for fluoride, is added to toothpaste and drinking water to help pre-vent tooth decay. Calcium carbonate (calcite) and baking soda (nahcolite) are abrasives in toothpaste. A borax and beeswax mixture is added to cleansing creams as an emulsifier to keep oil and water together. Boric acid is a mild antiseptic and is added to powder as a skin-buffering agent. Zinc oxide is added to creams to allow the cream to cover more thoroughly. Zinc oxide ointment, which con-tains approximately 20% zinc oxide, is used to heal dry, chapped skin. When an unlucky hiker runs into poison ivy, calamine-base lotions are often used to soothe the itchy skin. Calamine is another name for hemimorphite, a zinc silicate mineral.

Pure mineral makeup binds to oils not water. This gives the makeup a natural water resistance and is much better for your skin then

conventional cosmetics. Conventional makeup contains chemicals, oils and other additives that can either irritate sensitive skin or cause unnecessary breakouts. Makeup is actually good for people to wear, as long as they are not wearing products harmful to their skin. Most of the cheaper foundations on the market have a list of ingredients that potentially harm-ful to your skin. Mineral makeup is the safest because it adheres to the natural oils in a person’s skin and doesn’t seep into the pores. Makeup acts as a protecting agent against free radicals. Almost any barrier between your skin and the environment is good, so long as it’s still letting your skin breathe, which most makeup doesn’t. Mineral foundation allows your skin to breathe while still offering protec-tion. Because of the use of titanium dioxide in most mineral products, it’s also an excellent SPF. You can’t beat a makeup that works with your natural body chemistry.

When mineral makeup is done right, it is much more versatile than most makeup. You can mix the mineral foundation with water, moisturizers and cremes to make a liquid foundation consistency if that’s what you like. You can conceal with it or just use it as a light coverage. Loose powder mineral pigments can turn into anything you can think of. The loose powder pigments are what companies use to color cosmetics. Nature’s Source carries these loose powder pigments with no

“Almost any barrier between your skin and the environment is good, so long as it’s still letting your skin breathe, which most makeup doesn’t.”

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additives, fillers, or dyes. It can be used as eye shadow, eyeliner, lip gloss, hair highlights, colored mascara, nail polish, body shimmer, blush, etc. When work-ing with the pure pigment it blends with almost anything.

Most pure mineral makeup has a very long and stable shelf life. Everyone wants to have their makeup collection without having to worry about throwing items out because they have gone bad. Some women don’t like wearing founda-tion everyday, they want to have some-thing that they don’t have to throw away after spending good money on it. Most companies put fillers and additives in their products for that exact reason ... to make you use them up quicker, or make them go bad faster. Mineral makeup is simple and inert, it does not harbor bacteria because there is no organic material in it for the bacteria to grow. It

is beautiful and comforting to know the same simplicity is on your face.

Mineral cosmetics should have very few ingredients. Most mineral makeup has a base ingredient of mica. Mica does have a nemesis in the cosmetic industry, the nemesis is named “talc.” Do beware that talc is technically a min-eral and used by almost every cosmetic company as their #1 ingredient, however it is a cheap and wasteful filler. Talc is soft and appealing to the touch yet it’s adherence to the skin is incomparable to the elite mineral, mica. Mica has incredible skin adhering properties and is less cakey then talc. Mineral formula-tions do vary from company to company, researching the ingredients a company may use is very important because there are many companies on the market sneaking talc into their formulations.

FlamencoLike fine wines and wildflow-ers, these plush purples are simultaneously sophisticated and playful, rich and delicate, soft and striking.

Exotic TaraUltra smooth and unbelievably blendable, these velvety, stay-true shades can be applied dry for rich color or wet for a high-sheen “foiled” effect.

Ell-If-I-KnowBlue is the epitome of cool and let it spruce up your style in waves of luscious color. Choose soft and subtle or bold and bright. Each graceful shade will enliven your eyes with cool refreshment.

OasisFrom deep forest to fresh cut grass, our range of gor-geous greens will give you a spectrum of looks that are anything but basic.

DemureTurn up the romance with delicate petals of pink. From pale to powerful, these clas-sic rosy hues give your lids a flirty floral flush.

SundressGo for gold with a range of sun-lit shades that give your eyes a hint — or a splash — of yellow light.

Chic NudeBorrow some beauty from our lady Mother Nature, capturing the pure pigments of stone, seed, and soil.

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Take a tour through the market's outer fringe, still frequented by more Turks than visitors.by rick steveillustration by ben watts

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LeatherGold JewelryAntiquesHandbagsFabricCeramicsCopperware

where to find:

Egin Tekstil

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Go inside and say hello to owner Süleyman or his assistants, who’d be happy to tell you all about their shop’s history...and, of course, what they’re selling.

Perdahçilar Sokak

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A combination of carpet stores, souvenir shops, “genuine fake items” stands, and shops selling tourist knock-off versions of traditional clothes — like fake pashminas or a tongue-in-cheek “one size fits all” belly-dancing outfit.

Ayhan Usta

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His shop is the third one on the left as you enter, across from the teahouse. Cautious at first, but sweet and easygoing, Ayhan enjoys showing travel-ers what he does.

Sahaflar Book Market

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For two centuries, this was a magnet for bibliophiles — even 20 years ago, you could find rare old collector’s items with fancy illustrations. While most others carry textbooks, books that are hard to sell at a mainstream bookstore, and books on religious topics.

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Mahmutpasa Gate

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If you went through this exit and walked five blocks down the hill, you’d reach the Spice Market. The area between here and there is a huge outdoor textile bazaar, with retail shops, wholesalers, and workshops.

Kizlaragasi Han

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This humble courtyard is where you’ll find middlemen who recycle secondhand gold and silver — or shavings and unwanted fragments from other workshops — and turn them into something usable.

Kalpakçilar Caddesi

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Stepping through the door into air heated by thousands of watts of electric bulbs — and by bustling shoppers and merchants — you’ll no-tice the temperature rise by several degrees. This scene is a little overwhelming at first sight. You’re standing on the bazaar’s main street, which leads straight from the Nuruosmaniye Mosque to the Beyazit district.

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According to Emmanuel Levinas, a generous person will display these qualities even if they know the people or group he is helping is not going to do the same in return.by emily gipple

Arms Wide Openphoto by bela borsodi

AltruismFirst and foremost, generous people are altruistic. They give without hopes of receiving compensation for their good deeds. Personal gain may occur, but it is not a motivating factor for the most generous people.

OptimismGenerous people are idealists. They have a certain image of the way the world should be, and strive to achieve that end. Although the world is not a perfect place, these people do not stop giving their time, energy or money.

TrustTrust is a major quality amongst the most generous people. They trust completely that their cause is a worthy one, and they trust that the people involved with that cause will do their best to help achieve the goal.