Dear Ann Landers on motherhood and sterilization choices
A reader age 31 rejects motherhood after two pregnancies and abortions. She is urged to discuss vasectomy or tubal ligation with a doctor, amid critique of abortion as contraception and concerns about contraception failures.
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Ann Landers
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Ann Landers letters on addiction denial and family approval
A reader urges printing to reach an addict mother and warns about intergenerational drug abuse. Also a fiancée seeks guidance on winning over a grandmother who disapproves of him and their religion and social background. Vermont reader cautions against insincere flattery.
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Saving dough and kitchen hacks from Heloise
A reader shares money saving ideas from Heloise columns including freezing partial cookie dough for variety, extending ground beef with wheat germ and carrots, greasing bundt pans with folded paper towels, rolling bags for storage to stay neat, snipping beans with kitchen scissors, turning spice containers upside down for longer shelf life, using rubber gloves to save stockings, and using cereal box liner paper for cake decorating as a penny saver.
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Dear Susan column on dating and relationships across three questions
A Dear Susan column addresses Dan in New Orleans seeking a meaningful relationship amid casual sex expectations, Jonathan fearing marriage, and Bella in Indianapolis seeking guidance with an engagement. The counselor urges patience, self knowledge, therapy, and a pause to reassess priorities before marrying or pursuing a long term commitment.
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Voyager Ballard maps ocean abyss and unseen life
The diver explorer Ballard pursues undersea frontiers mapping the Mid Ocean Ridge with Argo and Jason. The project, funded mainly by the U S Navy, aims to reveal seafloor life, geology, and the origins of life on earth as it journeys from abyss to mapped panorama.
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