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91Mice in Your Motor cause Manifold Problems
You may have heard of people with bats in their belfry, but how about rats in their manifold, or mice in their motor? It is only a rumor that small autos are powered by hamsters running full speed on...
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89How to Write Humor: What's So Funny?
An editor I once worked with asked if I could teach her how to write humor. Until then, I had never thought of humor as being something that is taught. I've always thought that people have a humor gene or...
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85Sprout a Tiny Vegetable Garden With Big Nutrition
You want to sprout a garden you can grow in any season or climate. You want a garden you can harvest in only four or five days. You don't want to mess with dirt, soil or growing medium. You want to sprout...
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83Harebrained Names for Beauty Salons
Fanciful and attention getting names are apparently mandatory for hair and nail salons. But you can tell that salon names are not to be taken seriously, because people fearlessly and intentionally walk into...
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86Why You Don't Want a Wild Animal Pet
Wild animals do not make good pets, as a rule. Despite my story of the baby ground squirrel caught in the High Sierras of California, there are too many things that argue against keeping wild pets. When we...
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78Tenaya Lodge Resort: A Luxury Hotel in the Wilderness
Tenaya Lodge Resort , near the south entrance to Yosemite National Park, could be the ultimate destination for those seeking scenic wilderness, rustic charm and the modern conveniences of a four star hotel....
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81Gold Rush Medicines: A Dose of Deception
The westward movement in the United States started in the mid-1800's at the same time as the rise of mass advertising and the marketing of patent medicines. Many pioneers, concerned about the challenges...
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83Pitcher People: A Collection That Grew Out of My Family.
People are like pitchers. They come in different sizes , colors and shapes. They might be attractive or homely, but they can be also be practical and useful. Both pitchers and people are often defined by...
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77My Wild Pet Pocket Mouse
No, he wasn't really a mouse. He was a baby ground squirrel. Well, come to think of it, I'm not even sure Joe was a he... he might have been Josephine, but he did come from the wild, and did fit in my shirt...
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78Peas on Earth for Christmas
All I really wanted was an egg beater that Christmas when I was 5 five years old. Since I rarely asked for anything special, and was always happy with whatever presents I got, I thought there might be a...
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