Dear Abby advice column about love and honesty
A composite Dear Abby column covers a widower seeking a heavy woman, a reader asking about age disclosure before marriage, and a joke on grooming. It offers blunt humor about preferences and emphasizes honesty about age before marriage and beard maintenance pun.
Caution Urged For Unsupervised Exercise Programs
Dear reader questions warn against starting intense exercise in health clubs without medical exam. Dr. Lamb stresses gradual buildup, age-related risks, and heart disease prevalence. He condemns indiscriminate use by nonmedical staff and urges proper medical clearance before beginning any program.
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Rookie Cop Displayed Spirit in Accident at Training Run
Los Angeles AP reports rookie officer David A. Stearns, 25, kept jogging after being run over by a backing police car during training. He was sent to hospital. doctors said his condition was fine. A curious insertion about vaccines and venereal disease appears as irrelevant text amid the dispatch. Another AP brief notes Casper Wyoming fire truck misrouting causing minor damage en route to its destination.
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Starfish Lacks Teeth Unable to Break Up Prey
The starfish has no teeth and cannot break up or swallow its prey in the usual manner, relying on alternative digestive methods.
The Economy Car and the Freight Car Shortage
The piece explains how freight cars like refrigerator, tank, hopper, gondola, and boxcars move most goods in America and support low consumer prices. It warns of a shortage needing 100000 new cars yearly for ten years, with railroads able to fund at most 50000 annually, and suggests remedies such as government loans, tax credits, a nonprofit freight car corporation, and better fleet utilization.
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