Word: cleaners
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...While cleaner-burning fuels have cut down significantly on car emissions, Americans' love affair with SUVs and light trucks has virtually arrested larger environmental gains. "Even though emissions standards for cars have been pretty tough, we were seeing ever-increasing pollution because more people are driving trucks and SUVs," says TIME environment editor Charles Alexander. While the new gas and emissions requirements will cost consumers a little bit more at the pump (estimates vary between 2 and 6 cents a gallon) and at the car dealerships (about $200 for the extra equipment), the bulk of the outlay will be borne...
DUST BUSTER Why hire a housekeeper when technology can do the dirty work for you? Dyson's DC06 robotic vacuum cleaner, unveiled last week and due out in May, uses three onboard computers and 50 sensors to navigate its way around your plants, pets and furniture--all without tumbling down the stairs. The DC06 hums along at 1.5 ft. per sec. and can negotiate small inclines up to 1-in. high. If it sounds too good to be true, perhaps the price will bring you back to earth: at $3,500, it's more expensive than hired help...
...Methods: The first germ sample taken became the control, the gold standard against which the rest of the samples were measured. What better benchmark to use than the inside of a reporter's mouth? Between excellent oral hygiene habits, good health and minimal cursing tendencies, how much cleaner...
...vacuum cleaner lulls babies to sleep, a professor lecturing from a podium causes college students to drool with dreams. There's something about listening to the monotone of an educated person saying important things for an important test that makes them think it's nap time...
...which things can be done and which should not be. Our fate will depend on what we do of our own free will. What can we do to raise the standard of living in the U.S.? And what can we do about human rights, health care, education and a cleaner environment? Genuine change does not come from the government. Real change begins with ourselves. RICHARD D. MCKENNEY Lynn, Mass...