Washing Machine
The invention of the washing machine relieved householders of an age-old drudgery--for centuries, clothes had been cleaned by soaking them in stream water and pounding them with rocks....
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Don't clean your kids in the washing machine. Don't dry your cell phone in the microwave. And be sure not to read the phone book while driving. Those are among the winning entries in this year's Wa...
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A small Russian city has welcomed a large new citizen: a 7.75-kilogram (17 pound, 1 ounce) baby whose mother had already delivered 11 other children.Tatiana Khalina, 42, delivered the girl by Caesa...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Some 500 patients of hospitals in Oss and Veghel
in the southern Netherlands have possibly been infected with the HIV
virus or hepatitis B or C, Dutch pres...
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LONDON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - If you want to help poor people
in developing countries this Christmas, a fly-proof latrine or
an elephent-repelling chilli hedge could be just the present to
set your m...
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Japan's average monthly household spending rose a
weaker-than-expected real 0.1 percent in March from a year earlier to
313,563 yen for the third straight month of expansi...
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A baby sitter already accused of killing a pregnant friend was charged Friday with drowning the woman's three children in a bathtub and hiding the bodies in a washing machine and dryer.Grand jurors...
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Nearly 100 residents were taken to hospitals Wednesday with burns or rashes after the town's water supply was accidentally treated with too much corrosive lye, officials said. No serious injuries w...
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