WORLD VOICES

CORONOLOGY
  BY CLAIRE BATEMAN

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A   The advantage of bearing an asbestos crown is that your thoughts always remain perfectly insulated. Never does your brain bubble and burn with bewilderment or ire, nor does your memory freeze up the first time you hit the buzzer during your long-awaited Jeopardy! debut. But though the crown itself with its slender curls isn't unattractive, most people tend to avoid your immediate vicinity. As for the members of your family, who must love you no matter what, in your atmosphere they too become cool-headed, though also short-lived.