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From The April Cover Try These For Openers

By Richard Lederer
Babies And Dogs, Not Wolves April 4-10 marks National Library Week, this year’s theme being “Welcome
Make The Same Classic Mistake to Your Library.” Some book starters are so famously effective that readers can
look at them and identify the literary works they lead off. Identify the novel or
A new study shows that dogs and short story started by each passage.
young human babies both make the 1. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry,
same classic error in a famous psychol- who was a farmer, and Auntie Em, who was the farmer’s wife. — L. Frank Baum
ogy experiment—while wolves raised 2. All children, except one, grow up. — James M. Barrie
by people do not. 3. You don’t know about me without you have read a book called The
The experiment was originally de- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter. — Mark Twain
vised decades ago by the well-known 4. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank,
child psychologist Jean Piaget. He and of having nothing to do. — Lewis Carroll
found that if babies 10 months old or 5. Call me Ishmael. — Herman Melville
younger repeatedly see a toy placed in 6. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of
location A, they will look for the toy there even after watching the toy a good fortune must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen
being placed in location B. 7. It was love at first sight. — Joseph Heller
This is called the “A-Not-B Error.” By 1 year of age, children have 8. What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
grown out of it. But it’s such a weird observation that psychologists — Erich Segal
have been talking about it for decades. Some think it has to do with 9. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that
how babies perceive the permanence of objects. But others think it they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people
has something to do with how infants learn from people. you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just
Adam Miklosi of Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, is didn’t hold with such nonsense. — J.K. Rowling
interested in how dogs have evolved to live with people, so he decided 10. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
to see how dogs and their wild relatives, human-raised wolves, would wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the
do on this test. epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
In their experiment, wolves were generally not misled by what they it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before
had seen humans do before, according to a report in Science. They’d us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all
make a beeline for the right hiding place. going direct the other way. — Charles Dickens
11. It was Wang Lung’s marriage day. — Pearl Buck
But dogs would act like a 10-month-old baby, going to screen A 12. “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying
even though they’d just seen someone put the toy behind screen B. on the rug. — Louisa May Alcott
To read this entire article, go to BoomerTimesFL.com. 13. To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains
came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. — John Steinbeck
From The April Cover toilet where Luca is standing. — Jeanine Cummins
14. One of the very first bullets comes in through the open window above the
15. James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat back in the
How To Cook Artichokes final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.

Learn how to cook artichokes using two sim- — Ian Fleming
16. Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted
ple methods, boiling and steaming. Master the archway of the museum’s Grand Gallery. — Dan Brown
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leaves to make the plant meat easier to eat.
This article will show you how to remove the
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