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Perfect Lemonade
Lemonade needs more than just lemons, water, and sugar. It also needs the right technique to make it perfect. Instead of just mixing the ingredients together, make a sugar syrup first. That way you will never have sugar floating down undissolved to the bottom of the pitcher. To make a...
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Time to Tackle Your Fridge
If you are like most people, cleaning out your refrigerator is not high on your list of things to do. It is easy to close the door and forget it, venturing in with a sponge and some cleaner only when there is a spill or leak. But it is an important task, not only to make things neater, but to...
Earth Day
In September 1970, at a conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on the environment. Senator Nelson first proposed the nationwide environmental protest to thrust the environment onto the national agenda. "It was a gamble," he recalls, "but it worked." Each year, the April 22 Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day is the only event celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all backgrounds,...