Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming weeks might be a good time to acquire a flamethrower. It would come in handy if you felt the urge to go to a beach and incinerate mementoes from an ex-ally.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Genius inventor Thomas Edison rebelled against sleep, which he regarded as wasteful. He tried to limit his time in bed to four hours per night so he would have more time to work during his waking hours.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): South Koreans work too hard. Many are on the job for 14 hours a day, six days a week. That's why a new concept in vacations has emerged there.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In December 1915, the California city of San Diego was suffering from a drought. City officials hired a professional "moisture accelerator" named Charles Hatfield, who promised to make it rain.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When directors of movies say, "It's a wrap," they mean that the shooting of a scene has been finished. They may use the same expression when the shooting of the entire film is completed.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Climbing mountains has been a popular adventure since the 19th century, but there are still many peaks around the world that no one has ever ascended.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You'll be invited to make a pivotal transition in the history of your relationship with your most important life goals.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): We might initially be inclined to ridicule Stuart Kettell, a British man who spent four days pushing a Brussels sprout up 1,085-metre-high Mount Snowden with his nose.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1917, leaders of the Christian sect Jehovah's Witnesses prophesied that all Earthly governments would soon disappear and Christianity would perish.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Computer-generated special effects used in the 1993 film Jurassic Park may seem modest to us now. But at the time they were revolutionary.