1.   Get a tube and float the clear, cold Frio River in Garner State Park.

2.   Most grew up in an era of scarcity, when just getting a tube of toothpaste or a nice fat chicken was a personal triumph of perseverance and luck.

3.   One group got ear tubes right away.

4.   The second group waited and got tubes at six months if they still had fluid in both ears or at nine months if fluid remained in one ear.