Dear Abby and the Second Guessing Debate
A reader-letter exchange critics a Dear Abby column about reporting students using drugs on campus. A Drug Prevention Specialist urges parental accountability and intervention, while others defend reporting to authorities and school. The discussion includes a bereaved parent stressing consequences of drug use and legal responsibility.
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Test Your Skills Vious Puzzles Across Down
Crossword puzzle clues mixed with typographical errors. Readers solve across and down entries, including record ing kin of et al and other wordplay items. The grid hints at names, numbers, and themed terms across a newspaper puzzle page.
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Valhalla
Enterprise
Sudoku.com
Freedom Newspapers
USA
Puzzle Clues From Pappocom Day and Access
A scrambled crossword style clue list appears with numbers and partial hints such as UD 6 K U P and references to Pappocom day and a website. It includes entries like 22 Former attorney general 23 From the beginning make et may be preferred 26 Tea variety 27 Demolish 28 Vivacity 29 Show Boat composer 31 Get . Trendy 34 Longing 35 Dark purplish shade 37 Obtained 38 Filly's 39 State with certainty 40 Tinkertoy alternative 41 Alpha follower 44 Ultra modernist 45 Put away 46 Prompt 47 Family.
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Tinkertoy
Alpha Fallower
Water does not cause cavities says dental adviser
In a letters page Dr Donohue explains that cavities arise from bacteria rather than water. He notes nonfluoridated bottled water may have contributed if tap water was fluoridated, but emphasizes biweekly dental visits and fluoride prevention.
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Paul Donohue
Bonohue
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Anay Orlando
Daily Horoscope: New Year Brings Shifts in Goals and Bonds
Horoscope notes direction matters in a dynamic year with financial ups and downs. Singles may evolve, friendships form, and couples may reinvent bonds while pursuing personal goals. Cancer pairs well with the reader’s sign as Aries through Gemini pieces offer career and relationship guidance.
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Wee Ee Pee Wee
Horoscope and Bridge Column Mix of Advice and Play
A daily spread blends sun signs with a bridge problem. Virgo advises stepping back in a tense moment while Libra notes home disruptions. The card concludes with a detailed bridge deal where declarer rides a diamond and club sequence to nine tricks, regardless of defense.
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North
Zia Mahmood
West
Declarer
Zia
Benito Garozzo
Bast
Arer
Garezzo
This Day in History Highlights Jan 30 Entries
On January 30 with ties to 1968 Tet Offensive Charles I beheading in 1649 Roosevelt born in 1882 Ritty and Birch patent in 1883 Hitler named chancellor in 1933 Lone Ranger debut in 1933 Wallendas pyramid collapse in 1962 Bloody Sunday in 1972 and Iran hostage parade in 1981 summarized from Associated Press.
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Charles I
United States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hyde Park
James Ritty
John Birch
U.S
Adolf Hitler
Germany
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Detroit
Northern
Ireland
Iran
Cryptoquip puzzle explanation and sample substitution note
A 2002 King Features Syndicate Cryptoquip sample explains substitutions and clues from single letters and short words. It notes vowels appear with apostrophes and advises trial and error to solve the cipher.
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Trial and Erray
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