Here are some tips for safe and effective charitable giving online from networkforgood.org, the place to donate and volunteer for more than one million charities.1. Find your match The Internet has ma...Full Article
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Planning to spend part of the Labor Day holiday on the job? Blame your brain. Emory University researchers have found that earning pay excites the mind more than a windfall of cash or nabbing a lotter...Full Article
Wandering through the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, Calif., is a journey through an obsessive mind. The maze of some 160 rooms was built by the widow and heir of the rifle fortune.Sarah Winche...Full Article
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Admit it. You watch infomercials. How can you not? They make up roughly one-quarter of all programming on cable and local broadcast television. And sometimes, when they tell you to Buy Now, well, you ...Full Article
OK, so theyre not exactly must-see TV, but with 12,500 hours of airtime each week devoted to infomercials, you cant say youve never watched one -- even if you were just surfing for a fresh episode of ...Full Article
Create a Green Zone Get this: Your home is already an ecological wonder. Over the last 25 years the amount of energy used by the typical refrige...Full Article
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You cant miss them as you flip through the vast spectrum of cable channels. More than 225,000 half-hour infomercials and countless shorter ads air on TV each month. As Seen on TV products promise to s...Full Article
Got cable? then youve got infomercials. As many as 6,600 half-hour pitches air on any given day. Thats 200,000 a month, or 2.5 million a year. However you count it, thats a whole lotta loot. We keep w...Full Article
Havent scored yet at eBay? Marsha Collier, author of eBay for Dummies, offers these tips for improving your luck: Place your highest bidDoing this at the outset improves your odds of winning. Remember...Full Article
Q We’ve always used a setback thermostat to lower the temperature at night and during the day while we’re gone. My son-in-law says we’re not saving anything, claiming the ...Full Article
Moving With Less In this country, driving a car is the single greatestcontribution we each make to pollution, according to theEnvironmental Prot...Full Article
Clear Those Financial Hurdles Was there ever a time when any one of us turned our backs on a bargain? Probably not. But today theres even more r...Full Article
