On a package of raw bacon, does the calorie content refer to cooked or uncooked bacon?
—James Taylor, Denver, Colo. It refers to raw bacon. If you cook the bacon and discard the fat, the calorie count plummets. A medium slice of raw bacon contains about 125 calories. After broiling, it contains only 35 calories. The mission control rooms at Kennedy Space Center and Johnson Space Center look huge on TV, but when I visited in person, they seemed much smaller. Why? —John Boeglin, Fort Worth, Tex. To shoot a panorama of an interior scene, a cameraperson may use a wide-angle lens. The result offers the viewer more information, but it also presents a wider image that creates a misleading impression of greater size. You often see the same phenomenon in photos of rooms such as a kitchen in a house for sale or a suite at a resort hotel. When you arrive on the scene, the same rooms may look much smaller. WordTeaser This week’s word is: ZABRA What’s the definition? A) The Egyptian goddess of fencing. B) A type of harp strummed with the tongue. C) A deep-fried dumpling filled with a
