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ROB B KENDRICK
Reader's Digest — In 1865 John B. Stetson took $100 and a vision to a Philadelphia apartment, handcrafted a sharp-looking beaver-fur hat with a wide brim and a middle crease, and brand-named an enduring symbol of the AmericanWest. That's one version, at any rate. ...More…
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Four Ways of Looking at a Shoe
Reader's Digest — These lifts from the early 1700s were the Manolo Blahniks of their day, though at the time, high heels were by no means for women only. Louis XIV was especially enamored of towering footwear (the Louis heel was later named in his honor). Across ...More…
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Hello Smart pills, Goodbye Dentures
Reader's Digest — Philips Research has developed an Intelligent Pill, or iPill, designed to deposit medicine in specific places in the human body and radio information to doctors as it travels there. When times get tough, cops get ticket-happy. Researchers Thomas ...More…
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Quick Study: Standardized Tests
Reader's Digest — In October, it presented a new, SAT-style exam-for eighth graders. Critics pounced, blasting it as a cynical ploy to make more money by extending the angst of college-bound teens to mere tweens. The College Board insists that the test, known as ...More…
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Quick Study: Twister
Reader's Digest — By Mark Svenvold From Reader's Digest Doppler radar truck? Check. Unmanned aircraft? Check. Mesonet, StickNet, distrometer? Check. This month, 50 storm-chasing scientists will descend on the Great Plains for the largest study of tornadoes in ...More…
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Four Ways of Looking at a Rope
Reader's Digest — Japanese Shinto priests first wed these two hulking rocks off the coast of Futami more than 1,300 years ago to symbolize the sanctity of marriage. Today, husband rock (the strong, silent type at 30 feet high) and wife rock are still yoked ...More…
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Big Idea, Small Detail: Money,
Reader's Digest — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and a couple of long-gone Obama nominees had trouble calculating and paying their taxes on time. But Americans are expected to pony up by April 15-no excuses. (A related sore point: the $4,700 raise ...More…
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Simple answers to 13 common questions.
Reader's Digest — Turn off incandescents if you're leaving the room for more than five seconds; CFLs, if you'll be gone at least 15 minutes. Unplug. Even easier, plug everything into power strips with on/off switches. Washing your clothes in warm or even cold ...More…
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The Reader's Digest Version of
Reader's Digest — By Andy Simmons From Reader's Digest See the slideshow of 13 Ways to Go Green Let your bulb answer that. You save energy with the lights off, even for a few seconds. But flicking that switch shortens every lightbulb's life. Incandescent ...More…
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Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records
Reader's Digest — Chad Fell of Haleyville, Alabama, holds the top spot for "largest unassisted bubble," as recorded by Guinness World Records. A reporter for the Northwest Alabamian newspaper, Fell, 40, smacked, puckered, and puffed his way to a 20-inch-diameter ...More…
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Quick Study: The Future of Work
Reader's Digest — By Mattathias Schwartz From Reader's Digest Here's a look at the forces that will shape your time on the job through the recession and beyond. National statistics show a shrinking workweek, dropping from 38.5 hours in the mid 1960s to around 34 .. ...More…
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Four Ways of Looking at an Egg
Reader's Digest — Put 10,000 eggs and just as many kids together for a few hours and it could be a recipe for disaster. Not so, according to CL Arbelbide, author of a book about the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll. "The event has always been about the ...More…