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CHEMICAL TOXICITY FOR NONSCIENTISTS
If you don't know anything about a chemical's toxicity, count the syllables in the chemical's proper scientific name. The more syllables it has, the more toxic it is. If a chemical is abbreviated by letters (e.g., DDT, TCE, PCB) or an abbreviated or common name (e.g., perc, dioxin), it's probably very toxic and common. Any chemical with "chlor" in the name is much more toxic than a similar sounding chemical without it.
Charlie Kufs, Statistician, Willow Grove, Pa, US
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PULLING TANGLED CABLES
If you want to pull a cable out of a tangled mess, don't pull on one end. Instead, find a loop near the middle of the cable and start pull it from there. You'll encounter more than half the resistance of pulling it from one end.
Bruce Alderson, Software Guy, Canada
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PIANOS
It is easier to sell your piano and buy a new one than it is to keep enough friends to move the same one, again.
beth mack, circulation manager, fort atkinson, wi, usa
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ADVICE TO LOST CHILDREN
If your kids get lost in a mall or amusement park teach them to as for help from a mother who has children with her. A woman with children is statistically the least likely person to victimize a child and most likely to help. Kids should avoid single men and security guards.
TS, Oregon, USA
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WATCHING A BUILDING COLLAPSE
The TAG Heuer réplique montres of an adobe structure going to ruin usually will fall outwards because the outside bases have been coved out by water rising through capillary action.
Chris Wilson, architectural historian, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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MOVING TO A NEW PLACE
The urge to fix up a house you've just moved into is strongest during the first 30 days. To save money, wait for a month before you do any repairs.
John H. Beauvais, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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THROWING AWAY CLOTHING
Wait one year before throwing out a piece of clothing. If you haven't worn it in a year, you will never miss it.
Betsy Wackernagel, Ithaca, New York
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MANAGING A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
In supervising construction work, your logic is better than a craftsman's explanation.
Captain Haggerty, animal trainer, actor, author, and philosopher, New York, New York
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CREATING PROBLEMS
A creative person is 35 times more likely than the average person to need treatment for a mental problem.
Scott Parker, quoting Omni, Beaumont, Texas
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RIDING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN BOSTON
When riding public transportation in Boston, allow one-half hour per transfer plus walking time. For example, a subway to trolley to bus trip would take an hour and a half plus any time spent walking to and from the stations.
Leslie Simpson, Wollaston, Massachusetts
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MIXING CONCRETE
The largest stones in a batch of concrete should be one-fourth the thickness of the slab you are going to pour. A driveway six inches thick should have stones no larger than one and a half inches in diameter.
A. D. Elliot, Muncie, Indiana
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