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The Evening Sun UN TYLE 1 Sunday, February 1, 2004 -j, SECTION 4, t-ovi Jr 1 Ann Diviney Ihmn to Eaitli Yesterday: Remembering Beatlemania Newspaper account, February 1964: A mass shriek of delight erupted yesterday afternoon at Kennedy Airport the moment the Beatles plane touched down, and the frenzied adulation from fans never ceased during the Liverpool quartets first day in America Evening Sun Illustration by James Robinson A literary puzzle For once, my parents had let me stay up late. All week long, the television had teased viewers with blurbs about the upcoming Ed Sullivan Show. The show aired 8 p.m. Sunday nights, well beyond my bedtime, but Mom and Dad must have sensed we would be witnessing a moment in history that February night because just this once -1 would be allowed to stay up to watch. All week at recess, the other second-graders had been jabbering away about The Beatles.

I had no idea where my classmates got their information, but I wasnt about to miss the big event. I had never heard singing bugs before. Where are the bugs? I bawled when the Beatles appeared on the television screen that night. Not beetles! Not Japanese beetles! my all-knowing older brothers scoffed. Theyre English.

B-E-A Beatles. I folded my arms across my chest and frowned. And I had missed my beauty sleep for this? Some sheeeeeuuuuuow, Ed. Some really big sheeeeeuuuuuow. Newspaper account, February 1964: "Police struggled to contain a wild surge in the crowd at 1:20 p.m., when the plane finally landed, and again soon after, when the group, their shaggy hair tousled by the breeze, emerged to wave Somewhere on public property within the borders of the United States, there lies a key to a 'treasure chest Your mission, should you accept, is to locate the key by using clues you have gleaned from Duck Miller's little book of short stories.

The book is called The Whistle Pig' after those furry rodents who stand on two feet and whistle when threatened. Some people call them groundhogs. Everything changed that night. Beatlemania had rocked the land. See BEATLES, Page B-6 look in the park, look in the park.

and Has anyone noticed that this animal looks like the entire United States tilted on its side? And, oh yeah, the hunt starts Monday Groundhog Day. Each year on Candlemas Day, 4 thousands of groundhog fans flock to Punxsutawncy in Pennsylvania to see if Phil sees his shadow. This year, Duck Miller plans to be there, too, publicizing his newly released collection of short stories, The Whistle Pig. Only you might not see him. "Duck (no, that is not his real name) is determined to remain anonymous.

Thats because he has no idea how many months or years it will take for someone to solve his literary puzzle, an 86-page book (or is it 85?) with clues scattered throughout its pages. Says Duck: "I have a happy life and Id like to keep it like that." The book itself takes its name from the whistle-pig. a furry rodent also knowm as a groundhog, a woodchuck or a marmot. The stories are works of fiction that can be read for themselves or used to ferret out hints about the key and its location. Clue hunting takes someone very dedicated, the author says.

You can sometimes solve a single clue. Its much more the greater work. Whistle-pig stickers come with the book so that treasure hunters can mark sites theyve already searched. One sticker has already turned up in the mountains north of Gettysburg, according to the author's website, www.the-whistlepig.net. Although the book's official release date is Monday, the website has been up and running for some time.

Advance copies of the book have started a buzz that has led to postings by a dozen or so readers, with such comments as: Please answer me why there is no page 1 1 and hy page 22 is the only page written as a numeral? and "I played the book backward. I heard the message, Look in the park, By ANN DIVINEY Evening Sun Style Editor OMEWHEREINTHE UNITED STATES Duck Miller grew up loving a good Indiana Jones-style mystery and combing East Coast beaches for lost coins in the sand. Theres something fun about the hunt, he says. If you think about Easter egg hunts as a child, theres always one more egg to find. Fishing theres always one more fish to catch.

Its really intriguing to know theres something out there. Something is out there and Duck wants you to find it. He has hidden a key somewhere in the contiguous 48 states and its your job to track it down. Duck Miller says he grew up on a small farm in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the United States. He has been to Hanover.

He has been to Gettysburg more than once. According is the biographical note in the baditof the book, Dudc studiedat a competitive college, here he focused on storytelling and orienteering. He worked for a while as a biblical scholar, specializing in the book of Revelations, but stymied by the rider on the white horse, eventually turned to writing. He is 33, majored in American studies in college, graduated in 1993 and likes to spend his free time traveling or roaming about the See WHISTLE-PIG, Page B-6 Constellation Taurus chock full of delights By JOHN STANLEY The Arizona Republic Winter skies hold an amazing number of astronomical riches. No matter here you look, bright constellations, beautiful clusters and astonishing telescopic sights abound.

Take Taurus, the bull. The ancient constellation, charging through the evening sky midway between Perseus and Orion, is chock-full of astro-delights: delicate clusters, loads of double stars and one of the most famous, and frequently photographed, nebulae in the sky. The main part of Taurus is a distinctive V-shaped cluster of stars with one bright orange star at one tip. Look for Taurus high in the east a couple of hours after sunset. The brightest star in the constellation is Aldcbaran, the 13lh-brightest star from Earth.

Aldcbaran is an orange giant, 20 to 30 times bigger than our sun, about 65 light-years away. Like many star names, Aldcbaran comes from Arabic and means the follower. probably because it rises about an hour after the Pleiades and follows it across the sky. The northern tip of Taurus horns is El Nath (aka Nath, Elnath or AI Nath). It is about 300 light-years away.

The star at the tip of the southern hom, 8 degrees south-southeast of El Nath, is zeta Tauri, more than 900 light-) ears away. Taurus is home to two brilliant star clusters: Hyades (a shaped group) and Pleiades, known as the Seven Sisters. Pleaidcs and Hyades are fine sights with binoculars, bringing dozens of fainter stars into iew. Telescopes, of See TAl RI S. Page B-2 Iraqi women deal with a mixed legacy Ashwaq Sami, a 29-year-old Sunni housewife in Baghdad, wears a veil but says that shouldn't stereotype her as oppressed or backward.

She worries that a U.S.-style women's rights would threaten Iraqi culture. SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press Writer With the backing of the U.S.-led coalition, Nidal Jreo was appointed in July as the first woman judge in the conservative Shiite Muslim city Najaf. Six months later, she has yet to hear her first case. As she as about to take her oath of office, male lawyers barged into the ceremony, protesting that women had no business serv ing as judges. The ceremony as suspended, and her appoint-, ment remains on hold.

Many women professionals in Iraq fear that the gains they made during the early years of Saddam Husseins Baathist secular rule in education, the work place AP Photo I Julie Jacobson nght now, we wont be able to do it later. said gynecologist Lina Abood, 28. whose father as an opposition activ ist against Saddam. Despite liv ing in a dictatorship. women Saddams Iraq had more rights than many in the Middle East They could vote, attend school, hold public office and own property.

Men could have only one wife. However, with the collapse of Saddams nominally secular regime the influence of Islamic traditionalists has grown, especially in the majority Shiite community but also among the minority Sunnis. Secular figures such as Ahmad Chalabi. a Westernized Shiite backed by the Pentagon, are widely perceived as losing ground to religious leaders such as Shute Grand Ay aiollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistam. Many See IR.XQI.

Page B-6 Iraqi lawyer Nidal Jreo prepares some paperwork to present to a judge at her courthouse office as her 5-year-old son Mohammed Sahib waits at her desk in Najaf, Iraq. Jreo was appointed In July as the first woman judge in the conservative Shiite Muslim city Najaf. Six months later, the 45-year-old jurist has yet to hear her first case. and marital status arc at risk from rising Mamie con- sen atism. If we dont, reaffirm our.