Kids love hermit crabs. It's a fact. If I got 20 bucks for every time my mom took my brother and me to the beach and scolded us for sneaking hermits into the Corolla for the drive home, I'd be at my beachside Kahala mansion mainlining mojitos right now. (Don't worry — mom always drove us back to the beach to set the hermits free.) Take your 4- to 6-year-old to today's Home for a Hermit Crab program at the Waikiki Aquarium. Kids will get to check 'em out up close, learn about 'em and create their own hermit art. It's $12 for each adult-and-child team (nonmembers, $16). From 3 to 4:30 p.m. 923-9741.

— Derek Paiva

STUDY GRANT

Learn from Hiroshima Want to study in Hiroshima? The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i is accepting applications for the Goto of Hiroshima Foundation $5,000 Study Grant, which includes a research trip to Hiroshima. The grant was established

— Catherine Toth

FINAL WORD

"I'm not sure why everyone loves being scared. But it worked for me — and Stephen King."

Mia Farrow | who plays the sinister nanny in a remake of "The Omen," in Time