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People also put carbon into the air when they heat homes with oil or natural gas, or use electricity that comes from burning fossil fuels. Household conservation tips should be familiar: close off unused rooms, seal up cracks and openings, and insulate roofs. Look at the energy-efficiency rating when buying appliances. And one more idea that few people know about: replace ordinary incandescent light bulbs with "compact-fluorescent" models sold by major light-bulb manufacturers. They can give off the light of a 60-watt bulb while using only 15 watts of electricity. These fluorescent bulbs cost at least...
...invitation to declare a war of attrition. It opens at a level just beyond practical joking: he saws the heel off every shoe in her closet; she totals his collection of Staffordshire. Soon enough, fires are started. And not long thereafter, the situation turns life threatening, first to household pets caught in the cross fire, then to the combatants...
...bottom line is much the same. In The Second Shift, a study of 50 mostly middle-class, two-career couples published this year, Arlie Hochschild, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, found that wives typically come home from work to another shift: doing 75% of the household tasks. "Men are trying to have it both ways," she charges. "They're trying to have their wives' salaries and still have the traditional roles at home...
Wallis was able to cope with this story because of a flexible work schedule, good child care and a husband who shares responsibility for household chores and the children, particularly when she works late...
American manufacturers eventually learned what the Japanese already knew: that new markets can be created by making things smaller and lighter. (The popular phrase in Japan is kei-haku-tan-sho -- light, thin, short and small.) Ten years ago, Black & Decker scored big when it shrank the household vacuum cleaner from a bulky 11.2 kg (30 lbs.) to a 0.75-kg (2-lb.) device dubbed the Dustbuster. Tandy and Apple Computers put the power of a room-size computer into something resembling a television-typewriter and created an industry worth $75 billion a year...