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NEWS OF THE WEIRD by CHUCK SHEPPARD company's iconic RCZ model. The paint's molecular structure would be alterable by heat sensors in the steering wheel and elsewhere that measure a driver's stress levels. A calm driver might see his car turn green, for instance — but watch out for road-rage red! [Car and Driver, April 2012 (not online)] [DieselCarOnline (Leamington Spa, England), 3-31-2012] The Continuing Crisis The Marine Wounded Warriors Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., generally enjoys excellent support from the community, but in an April report of the Government Accountability Office, Marines complained of a "petting zoo" environment in which civilian charities and advertisers use the battalion to seek out "poster" faces and bodies that "looked the part" of wounded veterans, such as those severely burned or missing limbs. Warriors who suffer post-traumatic stress or brain injuries often appear outwardly "normal" and are likely to be ignored by the support organizations, thus setting a "bad tone" among the wounded. [Washington Post, 4-5-2012] Not Your Classic Perps: (1) In October, Dr. Kimberly Lindsey, 44, a deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control's Laboratory Science, Policy, and Practice Program Office, was charged with two counts of child molestation and bestiality involving a 6-year-old boy. (2) In April, Yaron Segal, 30, a post-doctoral researcher at a physics lab at MIT, was arrested upon arriving in Grand Junction, Colo., after arranging with a woman online to have sex with the woman's underage daughter (an adventure that was the product of a law enforcement sting). (Two weeks later, Segal was found dead in his jail cell of an apparent suicide.) [WSB-TV (Atlanta), 10-11-2011] [KMGH-TV (Denver), 4-17-2012] makes high-performance engines purr in relative silence, but automakers fear that their most demanding drivers are emotionally attached to the engines' roar. Consequently, as Car and Driver reported in April, the 2012 BMW M5, with 560 horsepower tempered with sound deadeners, has installed pre- recorded engine noise, channeled into the car's cabin via the stereo system. A computer program matches the amplitude of the engine's growl to the driver's accelerator-revving. In other automobile tech news, Peugeot technicians announced in March that they were preparing "mood paint" for the body of the COPYRIGHT 2011 CHUCK SHEPHERD WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Sophisticated automobile technology WEEKLY HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY For the Week of May 27, 2012 ARIES (March 21-April 19) Everyone makes mistakes. It's the way a person reacts to the mistake that separates the sure winners from the rest. The ones who can keep their ego out of it are able to take the lesson and turn it into future victories. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The hope of fast money can be an irrational lure that pulls you into situations that are not quite right for you. Ask yourself what you would do if money weren't part of the equation, and then try to make that same choice to whatever degree you are able. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Compromise can be the friend of business and the enemy of art. You'll like what you come up with. Just for this week, put something in the world that has nothing to do with anyone else. Years from now, you'll look back on it in awe of the purity represented. Chuck Sheppard CANCER (June 22-July 22) It's official. You're being much too hard on yourself. Back off. Expecting to get it right on the first try — or the first 10 tries for that mat- ter — is silly and possibly even mean. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The impression you make is always better when you're just being yourself instead of trying to create a particu- lar image you think people will like. Your only agenda is to learn the needs, wants and interests of others. This agenda is the secret to your charm. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) It's hard to give those you love plenty of room to make their own mistakes. Seeing them fail, lose or get hurt is far worse than experiencing those things yourself. But you wouldn't trade the lessons you've learned for anything. Know when to step back and let your loved ones take a solo lesson. WE'RE ALL ADVICE GODDESS Attila the Honey LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) You are important, and the people in your life want and need you to be the best you can be. Even if you don't feel like taking excellent care of yourself for your own sake, do it for them. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) Change happens exponentially during this fast-track week. One act of kindness will snowball into something bigger. When things can quickly get away from you, you want to make sure that it's good things you're letting loose in the world. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) As if on cue the tedium is broken by a new challenge. You respond with swift action and a willing- ness to take risks. But you have a way of minimizing the risk in your mind, so it hardly feels like the courageous act it is. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You may be surprised at how grateful you are for your past failings. You'll make superb decisions this week that you would not be able to make had you not learned from your mistakes. You'll build on experience and enjoy the advantage this gives you in the game of life. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You probably can't see how interesting you really are because you're too busy doing what you normally would do and thinking how you normally would think. However, there is a loveable quirkiness to you that is amplifi ed now, and it endears you to others. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You'll change your attitude about something that happened in your distant past, mainly because you'll realize that the way you previously framed that memory made it diffi cult to move forward. It will feel so good to shed cumbersome baggage that you'll continue the trend in the weeks to come. I asked my boyfriend for his email password so I could look at a message he'd mentioned. He grabbed my laptop and said he'd log in and forward it to me. He is a good guy and has never given me reason to distrust him, but if you aren't hiding anything, why would you care whether your girlfriend can read your email, Facebook messages, whatever? He says he feels that people should have a certain amount of privacy in a relationship and doesn't believe in sharing his passwords. Really? Not even with the woman he's been sleeping with for two years? — Suspicious By Holiday Mathis EARS Questions? Comments? Story Ideas? Let us know how we're doing. Your opinion is something we always want to hear. Call or email us your feedback. 208 Rowan St. Fayetteville, NC 28301 910.484.6200 I'm amazed by the amount of email I get, mainly from women, who think having regular sex with someone entitles them to roll back that person's privacy to that of a convicted serial killer (save for the fl ashlight-assisted cavity searches). This man is your romantic partner, not your new washing machine. He gets to choose which hopes, dreams, fears and tasteless jokes he shares with you; you don't get to harvest his email, his organs and his every thought. Keep in mind that you aren't suspicious of him because you found a thong in his travel mug but because you feel entitled to loot his digital life and he refuses to let you. (Why don't you just put truth serum on his salad?) A desire for privacy isn't evidence of sneakiness. People show different sides of themselves to different people, and he's likely to feel curtailed in who he is and what he writes if Big Girlfriend is always watching: "Um, you spelled 'trough- licker' wrong in that misogynistic email to Jeff." (Suddenly, NSFW — Not Safe For Work — has an alternate meaning: No Sex For Weeks.) You won't make a man trustworthy by turning your relationship into a police state. The time to fi gure out whether somebody's ethical is before you get into a committed relationship with him. If you can't trust your boyfriend, why are you with him? If you can, accept that his information is his property, and leave him be when he closes the bathroom door to his mind. Relationships are actually richer when those in them have private lives, when they're two people who come together to share a lot of things instead of two people who share absolutely everything — down to a single email address: JenniferNJason@ WeAreNowOneBigBlob.com. Amy Alkon Amy Alkon all rights reserved. MAY 23-29, 2012 UCW 23 www.upandcomingweekly.com