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I INTENTS The Old Farmer's Almanac • 1994

12

110 Sunday Morning, November 12, 1933

Consumer Tastes

& Trends

for 1994

148 The 26

Is

44

46

Epact?

page 12

Dear Mr. Robert B.

Thomas

All

About

.

the

How to Appear to Know More Than You Really Do

86

154 The Day J. Edgar Hoover Arrested Canada's

94

Lost Victories

98

Ten Little-Known Facts About

.

Moon and You 82

Women Who

Tamed the West

What on Earth

Solving the

Mysteries of

Love

Greatest Crook

156 Buddy, Can You Spare an

the Lewis

and Clark

1894-S

Expedition

About Your

1

Hair and

66 Eleven Rules for

How to

Hand-Taming

Make It

Wild Birds

Beautiful

(and Sex)

Dime?

1

69

Ways to

Store

Everything So 92

The

Possible

Secret of

Our

Founding Fathers'

It

Stays Fresh

page 94

174 Buying by the Gallon

Longevity

176

A Handful of Savory Turnovers to Try

182 The Amazing Story of Freckles the

Cow

194 Three Muskie Tears

214

How Your Vegetables Can

Win a Blue Ribbon at the Fair

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33

Aphelion, Earth

Stars, Bright

43

34

at

162

Calendar Pages

33

Sun Fast

33,55-81

Sundials

224 Getting to Know the Toad That Lives in

Classified

Ads

A Eulogy for

Dawn and Dark

203 31, 54-80

31,54-80 31

203

Tidal Glossary

Tides,

...

32, 54-81

West Coast

204

Time Correction Tables

....

203

Windchill Table

101

Eclipses

42

Zodiac

160

Eras

33

Days

192 Weather:

198

for

To Patrons

4

Forecast Methods

36

114

General U.S. Forecast 208

Seasons

38

Glossary

Map of U.S.

115

Regions

Regional Forecasts

116-146

36

1.

New England

30,209

2.

Greater N.Y.-N.J

42

3.

Middle Atlantic Coast

164

4.

Piedmont &S.E. Coast

Useful and Curious

Astronomical Place 32,54-80

Reference Matter

Full,

Supplement: Great Americans Hall of Fame, plus

Holidays

Key Letters

A

Compendium of

Meteor Showers Moon: Astrological Place

...

164,206

7.

Greater Ohio Valley

54-80

8.

Deep South

30, 54-80

9.

Chicago-S. Great Lakes 132

10.

N. Great Plains-

34

11.

Central Great Plains

164,206

12. 13.

Texas-Oklahoma Rocky Mountains

138

184 188

14.

Southwest Desert

142

242

15. Pacific

Northwest

144

219

16. California

34 32,

Symbols for Puzzles

Answers

to

Rainy Day Amusements

Answers

to

124

Florida

Upstate

and Set

Planting Tables

120

...122

6.

Perihelion, Earth at Planets: Rise

118 ...

5.

Phases of Rise and Set

116

42

1994-1998

Gardening by

page 214

209

Twilight, Length of

33

Frosts and Growing

249 Special Bookstore

30, 54-80

Earthquakes

Foreword,

Wish Book

Rise and Set

Tides, San Francisco

Essay Contest

Your Garden

the

229

Conjunctions.

Fishing, Best

244

....

9 54-80

Sun: Declination

248

Day, Length of

Worry

Substitutions Table

Chronological Cycles

Astronomical ...34,40,55-81

and the Psychology of

54-81

Calendars, 1993-1995

Church Holy Days

Risk Assessment

190

Seasons

Astrological Timetable

220 Taking Your Chances: An Examination of

Recipe Contest

Anecdotes and Pleasantries 234

...

New York

126 ....

Great Lakes

40

128 130

134 ....

136

140

146

Almanac

presents an interesting

challenge to us present-day editors.

TheOn one hand, each

year's edition

must be filled with nothing but brandnew, up-to-date stories, charts, and information. On the other, it must look and feel like what it is, the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. In other words, we need to be both new and old at the same time. Improvements, then, must be made carefully. When our typesetter used a slightly different style of astronomical symbols one year, a Galveston, Texas, reader wrote to us, saying, "I wish the man who changed the Moon signs in this year's Almanac had died before he'd done it." Nonetheless, over the years since 1939, when the present owners took over (the fourth family since 1792), we've made quite a few improvements that went by

Or maybe we should just seem to bother anyone.

virtually unnoticed.

say they didn't

In 1980, for instance,

we enlarged the Almanac by

outside dimensions of the

The Old Farmer's Almanac headquarters

in Dublin,

about a half inch

all

around. Didn't hear one

word from Galveston, Texas. We've also more than doubled the number of annual pages over the past few years; and obtained the services of some ofthe best writers from

around the United States and Canada. Perhaps one of the biggest improvements made in the past few years is adapting issues distributed in the western states to be more useful and appropriate to readers living in that section of the country. This in-

cludes basing tions

all

the astronomical calcula-

on San Francisco instead of Boston

(with correction tables for other localities)

and giving the tides for San Francisco, with supplemental tables for San Diego and Seattle. These days we also make sure we include major stories about the West by topnotch western writers. Regional editions of The Old Farmer's Almanac are not a modern phenomenon. From 1825 to 1852, for instance, editor Robert B. Thomas and his successor put out an edition specifically adapted to the state

New Hampshire

(population 1,474).

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several thousand old cheeses he

l

Scientists are striving to

develop a microwavable

french fry that has satisfying crispness.

®* And consumers have led a tomato mutiny of sorts

—

we want our tomatoes to be "as tasty as they used to be," his

basement.

according to a study done for the Dole food company. we should see a genetically improved tomato

"I

This year,

have always loved cheese ever since

I

was

a kid

and started

eating cheese triangles," Perry told the Associated Press. "But

won't be eating this....

It

I

would

taste rather unpleasant, and

anyway,

it's

Blear

Is

Here

clear dishwashing detergent, clear gasoline, and other clear

products. Clear, especially

if

will

in style

in

Manners for the Nineties

only

the actual purity can match

Smoking will

the perceived purity.

become

For now, most of

right in public.

seltzers

as

like spitting.

Just doesn't look

the seeming

contain just

^

The etiquette of

many

sweeten-

call-waiting:

ers (and

As Miss Manners calories) as the old

brown colas

and root beers. What transparent arein.

foods

is

why

so

blue foods

Mostofthem are"fun" like Jell-0,

(Judith Martin)

advises, don't

abandon one

call

candies,

and even popcorn.

16

isn't

be the next rage.

most 900 million pounds of spices

Some

soda and beer join

beverages, will stay

* Caribbean food

"^ We're moving away from "meat and potatoes" as standard fare and embracing more eclectic, exotic foods as part of a weekly diet. Americans now consume al-

too valuable."

"Clear"

and more flavorful. But will it be as good as home grown? *" Anise will be the "new spice" in 1994.

that is softer, redder,

to take another.

a year.

®* Looking for a cultural

barometer? Keep your eye on sour

cream.

The more ethnically diverse our diets become, the more sour cream

is sold. Since 1977 the market has tripled. Though some of the 600 million pounds of sour cream we eat annually is still used

on baked potatoes, the huge increase is due almost entirely to

having to cool off

spicy fajitas, Indian curries,

or Thai peanut sauces.

Old Farmer's Almanac

1994

11

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Consumer Tastes

Trends for 1994

Blast-Off "Celestis

is

DEMOGRAPHY

a postcremation

service. ...

We

OLDIES BUT GOODIES: Some gerontologists

2080 men

further

will live to

correct, the

reduce and encapsulate

age 94 on average and

number of people aged 85

predict that by the year

women

or older will

to 100.

If

grow to 72

this is

million

(compared with 19 million today), which could

them, identify each by name,

have a profound effect on retirement funds.

Social Security number, and a religious symbol,

them

in

Look for more attention —fashion, mar-'

and place

keting, life-style in general, being paid to

"Woopies," the "Well-Off Older Persons"

a payloader."

(both aging

- John Cherry,

in

The Boston Globe,

describing a plan to send into

to spend. This

elders)

who

means

de-

human remains mand

permanent orbit 1,900 miles above the Earth.

News on

boomers and youthful

now have money for

more

flattering clothes,

50" fashion models.

the Dental Front

Thirty years ago, Americans aged 65 and older had an average of only 7.2 teeth (of their own) in their mouths. Today the same group has average of 17.8

5.6 billion teeth in all of

—

America double what there is now. That's good news for toothpaste companies.

Now the bad news: Because our teeth will last so

much

longer, we'll

have fewer and fewer dentists per tooth. In 1980 there were 48.3 dentists

per million teeth.

By

the turn of the century, that

will

number

drop to only

35.5 dentists per million teeth. Simple

supply and

demand

teeth.

means

And

dental services

the well-fluoridated mouths of the

more "over

that prices of

may go

Ideas Were Guessing

W0FTCATCH0N *& PERMANENT MAKEUP. This rather alarming innovation takes the idea of

smudge-proof cosmetics and really runs with it. Now

women may have makeup tattooed on their faces. No messy nightly cleanups, no time-consuming morning rituals. We have to hand it to the hundreds of women who have so far taken the $1,600 plunge: They must feel very confident about the particular color they

choose to have permanently smeared on their lips

or above their eyes.

up, out of reach of

baby boomers will many people. Watch have even more teeth for efforts to have den-

— two dozen or so —

golden years. By the year 2000, there will be a total of

in their

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tistry

covered in health

packages. Dentistry will

become

a popular

field again.

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1994

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