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Posted on: Friday, March 5, 2004

THE LEFT LANE
The momless prom

Advertiser Staff and News Services

High school proms are traditionally a bonding experience for mothers and daughters: shopping for that perfect dress and choosing the right hairdo and makeup together.

If you're a high schooler getting ready for your first prom, but your military mother has been deployed, we want to hear from you.

How are you preparing for prom without mom? Are you and your mother still planning for it via e-mail or snail mail? Who will zip up your dress and make sure your curls are perfectly in place on that special day?

Tell us — as soon as possible, for an Advertiser story — what it's like to get ready for your first high school prom when Mom is half a world away.

Share your story with us. Contact Zenaida Serrano Espanol at 535-8174 or zespanol@honoluluadvertiser.com.

Versed in haiku

Where were some of the poets on Valentine's Day? Here are three 17-syllable silver tongues from Nohea Gallery's haiku contest.

Charlene Akina of Honolulu won the "most romantic" category with: "Rainbows in the sky/ Mahana whispers softly/Here comes Hilo rain."

Darryl Jung of Kuli'ou'ou won the "most humorous" category: "V-day is today/ Overpriced flowers to buy/ Out of the doghouse."

And third-grader Malia Murphy of Sunset Beach Elementary won the 17-and-under category with: "Sun sets like a fire/Blazing the way for the moon/ Can you fix the path?"

It's all about speed

Forty years ago, Japan National Railways introduced the world's fastest trains, dubbed bullet trains because of their shape and speed. Bullet trains cruised at 127 mph, slashing travel time between Tokyo and Osaka from 6 hours and 30 minutes to 3 hours and 10 minutes — dramatically increasing business trips between the two cities. The trains' success revolutionized thinking about modern railroads.

Today's fastest bullet trains (shinkansen) cruise at 186.4 mph, and make the Tokyo-Osaka trip in 2 hours and 30 minutes. Even a delay of less than a minute calls for an apology to passengers. Down the track, electro-magnetically elevated trains have been successfully tested by Japan Railways. Cruising speed?

Almost 300 mph.

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