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- Clothes Washers - Energy Star Clothes Washers (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Provides information on clothes washers that are energy efficient. Includes selection and location of Energy Star clothes washers. 5-01
- Electrified Clothes (CNN News)
"A new generation of 'soft' electrical devices has been made possible by a fabric with built-in touch sensor technology."
"The innovative material, known as ElekTex, could be used to incorporate phones or music players into clothes, remote controls into sofas, or light switches into walls or carpets." 3-05
- -09-22-05 Victims Finding Clothes that Fit (ABC News)
"When Hurricane Katrina hit, many people evacuated with just the clothes they were wearing. But for many women who made it to safety, finding plus-size clothes that fit them among the garments donated to evacuees proved to be difficult or impossible." 9-05
- Clotheslines (Awesome Library)
Discusses clothelines as energy saving devices, including how to build one." 08-07
- Clotheslines Make a Comeback (Christian Science Monitor)
"As an energy-saver, the clothesline makes a comeback." 08-07
- How to Make a Clothesline (eHow.com)
"A clothesline will save you money, conserve energy and give your laundry that fresh, outdoor aroma." 08-07
- Rotary Clothesline (eHow.com)
"The top frame will rotate easily in a light breeze no matter how unevenly the load is distributed, and the PVC clothes lines is wired using a special loop back technique which virtually eliminated line sag." Awesome Library does not endorse this product but provides it as an example. 08-07
- Folding Clothesline (Handy Line)
Provides a portable, folding clothesline. Awesome Library does not endorse this product but provides it as an example. 08-07
- Folding Clothes Hanger (PopupHanger.com)
Provides a portable, folding hanger for clothes. Costs around $20 and each of three arms holds about 30 pounds of clothes. Awesome Library does not endorse this product but provides it as an example. 08-07
- Study: Men See Women in Provocative Clothes as Objects (CNN News)
"It may seem obvious that men perceive women in sexy bathing suits as objects, but now there's science to back it up." 02-09
- Greece - Daily Life in Ancient Greece (Donn)
Provides information on toys, pets, food, slaves, clothes, and other day-to-day information. 03-06
- India - Daily Life in Ancient India (Donn)
Provides information on toys, pets, food, jobs, entertainment, transportation, clothes, and other daily life details. 03-06
- -Daily Life in Ancient Times (Donn)
Provides information on toys, pets, food, jobs, entertainment, transportation, clothes, and other daily life details. Includes ancient China, Egypt, Greece, Rome and India. 03-06
- Daily Life for Ancient Egyptians (Donn)
Provides articles about daily life, such as toys, pets, food, jobs, entertainment, transportation, clothes, and other details. 03-06
- Clothing of Ancient Romans (Roman Empire)
Provides drawings and descriptions of clothes worn by Ancient Romans. (Includes some grammatical errors.) 11-00
- Brave Children of Afghanistan (BBC News - Miron)
"There was no furniture, no cupboards, no spare clothes left hanging, not even any glass in the windows - just cardboard. And no fire to keep them warm at night." "Nasim earns about 30,000 Afghanis a day - about $1 - cleaning shoes. With that he buys the basics for his family, mostly just bread and sugar." Like many other children in Afghanistan, Nasim is literally the family breadwinner.
"I asked him how he felt about his situation. 'I am happy and not happy,' he told me. 'Happy because I work, but not happy because I cannot earn enough to bring my family everything they need.' " 7-02
- Rainforest People (ChristianAnswers.net)
Provides information about the daily lives, such as food, clothes, and environment, of the rainforest people of South America near the Amazon River. 11-04
- Airport Security to Use Strip Check (USA Today)
"The agency in charge of the nation's air security expects later this year to begin using a controversial X-ray machine that will show airport screeners a clear picture of what's under passengers' clothes — whether weapons or just bare skin."
"The ACLU says the scanners invade personal privacy." 4-05
- -10-10-05 Victims Plead for Help (MSNBC News)
"The Pakistani government has called for and accepted aid from every corner of the earth, even nuclear rival India, which also was hit by the quake. Some hailed the thaw between the two sides as a historic opportunity to work toward lasting peace in the region."
"But such optimism offered little comfort to those left homeless, widowed and orphaned."
"In Garhi Habibullah, Nawaz’s fingers blistered from the clawing at the earth that entombed his young niece. His pale yellow shalwar kameez, a traditional loose-fitting outfit, was stained with sweat."
“ 'I don’t have any other clothes. Everything else was buried when my home collapsed. I haven’t seen any help,' Nawaz said, clinging to a small plastic bag of flour. 'This is to feed a family of 12, my brother’s children, mine and my sister’s.' ” 10-05
- -Editorial: Overcoming Our National Polarity (NoneSoBlind.org)
Schmookler argues that "it is essential for those who oppose the forces presently ruling America to remember that the heart of the problem is not that these ruling powers are too conservative, or that they are too aligned with 'traditional' rather than 'progressive' values."
"To wage the struggle in those terms is not only to misunderstand the nature of our adversary. It is also to continue to fall into the trap that they have so successfully set for their opposition, and to abet their continuing seduction of millions of good people on the conservative side of America’s cultural divide. It is to help foster that spirit of divisiveness on which they feed."
"The heart of the problem, rather, is that these powers are not what they pretend to be. The darkness of the spirit that animates them is manifest in their ruthlessness and arrogance and dishonesty."
"Only by selling their false image of righteousness to good, conservative Americans could these forces gain power. But that which depends on moral lies can be defeated with moral truth—for, if these good people can be helped to see that these emperors have no moral clothes, they will withdraw their support." 12-05
- Bulletproof Clothing (DefenseReview.com)
Describes clothes available for mediuim risk professions. Awesome Library does not endorse these products but provides them as examples. 04-06
- Bulletproof Clothing (NewScientist.com)
"Clothes woven with electrically conducting threads are a significant step closer with the creation of super-tough carbon nanotube fibres up to 100 metres long. They can absorb more energy without breaking than any natural or synthetic organic fibre known."
"Materials made from such threads could be used to make bullet-proof vests as light as a T-shirt." Awesome Library does not endorse these products but provides them as examples. 04-06
- Editorial: Self-Promoting Values and a Sham (New York Times)
"But despite Rudy’s fleeting stabs at fudging his views, they are well known now, and still he leads in national polls of Republican voters and is neck and neck with Fred Thompson in the Bible Belt sanctuary of South Carolina."
"But the most obvious explanation is the one that Washington resists because it contradicts the city’s long-running story line. Namely, that the political clout ritualistically ascribed to Mr. Perkins, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Gary Bauer of American Values and their ilk is a sham."
"These self-promoting values hacks don’t speak for the American mainstream. They don’t speak for the Republican Party. They no longer speak for many evangelical ministers and their flocks. The emperors of morality have in fact had no clothes for some time. Should Rudy Giuliani end up doing a victory dance at the Republican convention, it will be on their graves." 10-07
- Men Dressing for Success (DressforSuccess.com)
"The basic men's wardrobe has three primary elements: the suit, the dress shirt and the necktie. The suit is the foundation, the base of your wardrobe. Buying a suit is one of the most important clothing decisions you'll make - consider it an investment. If you don't wear a suit everyday, choose a suit from the gray family and one from the blue family. You will also need a navy blazer or sport coat with a pair of Khaki or gray trousers. If you wear suit everyday, then you should have at least one suit for everyday of the week." 11-07
- Your Boss Really May Be Clueless (Live Science)
"The standard job interviewing attire for men is a conservative dark navy or gray two-piece business suit (of natural fibers, such as wool, if possible), a white long-sleeved button-down dress shirt, a conservative silk tie (that matches the colors in your suit), and nicely polished dress shoes." 11-07
- Your Boss Really May Be Clueless (Live Science)
"The standard job interviewing attire for men is a conservative dark navy or gray two-piece business suit (of natural fibers, such as wool, if possible), a white long-sleeved button-down dress shirt, a conservative silk tie (that matches the colors in your suit), and nicely polished dress shoes." 11-07
- Your Boss Really May Be Clueless (Live Science)
"Tailored suits are individualized and customized specifically to fit at its best for each man's different body frame. All these comes with a higher price attached. So it is important to know the basics in the making of a suit to make it look best on you." 11-07
- Dress for Success for Men and Women (SelfEmployedWeb.com)
"When women entered the workplace in the 1970's and 1980's in greater numbers than ever before and began to move into positions which had traditionally been held by men, many of them believed that they needed to imitate male business attire. The result was women showing up at the office in skirted suits or coordinated skirts and jackets with tailored blouses finished off with an accessory item that looked very much like a man's tie. Happily those days are gone." 11-07
- Water Magnets (CostPlusWater.com)
Provides magnets designed to neutralize minerals and salts in water to reduce buildup in appliances and/or for cleaner clothes or hair. Awesome Library does not endorse this product but provides it as an example. 04-08
- Water Footprints (Waterfootprint.org)
"People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc. The water footprint of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or nation."
"The water footprint of a nation shows the total volume of water that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of the nation. Since not all goods consumed in one particular country are produced in that country, the water footprint consists of two parts: use of domestic water resources and use of water outside the borders of the country. The water footprint includes both the water withdrawn from surface and groundwater and the use of soil water (in agricultural production)." 08-08
- How to "Survive" a Nuclear Attack (Ted.com)
"The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack." He has these suggestions: 1. Don't look toward the bomb; you could be blinded; 2. You have 15 -20 minutes to get at least 1.2 miles away from the bomb site before the nuclear materials fall upon you and kill you; go away from the direction of the wind 3. If you cannot get away, go at least 9 stories up in a building or down into a basement that is closed off; 4. Get rid of your clothes and shower off quickly to get rid of nuclear material that may have gotten on your clothes; 5. Keep your mouth and nose covered with cloth while you are escaping to minimize material that you breathe; 7. Stay sheltered at least 48 hours; and 6. Get medical attention as quickly as possible.
Editor's Note: There may be a drug that will act as an antidote for nuclear poisoning. 09-08
- -04-20-09 Memo: C.I.A. Used Near-Drowning Technique 266 Times (MSNBC News)
"C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported."
"The Times article, based on information from former intelligence officers who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Abu Zubaydah had revealed a great deal of information before harsh methods were used and after his captors stripped him of clothes, kept him in a cold cell and kept him awake at night. The article said interrogators at the secret prison in Thailand believed he had given up all the information he had, but officials at headquarters ordered them to use waterboarding."
"He revealed no new information after being waterboarded, the article said, a conclusion that appears to be supported by a footnote to a 2005 Justice Department memo saying the use of the harshest methods appeared to have been 'unnecessary' in his case." 04-09
- 05-10-09 Economy Puts Families on the Streets (CNN News)
"Salinas has been working to help the homeless here for eight years now, driving the streets every day looking for people hiding under bridges and in abandoned properties. More and more of late, there are people in business clothes, heading off to work. More and more, they are women with young children." 05-09
- Teens Create "Free Department Store" (Time.com)
"With the help of an army of volunteers, Zoe Bairs and Samantha Zabell set up the Fairhill Center in Cleveland with all the donated clothes they've collected, then let the children shop like they are in a department store." 08-09
- Researchers Disagree on Use of Body Signals in Screening (CNN News)
"The Homeland Security-funded project is Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST. Instead of focusing on whether you have hidden explosives or whether you're carrying a weapon, sensors and cameras located at security checkpoints would measure the natural signals coming from your body -- your heart rate, breathing, eye movement, body temperature and fidgeting."
"Those physiological signs, measured together, will indicate whether you might have the desire or intent to do harm, project manager Robert Burns said."
" 'We're going to look for the elevation, but we're also going to look for the absence of signals, which is just as indicative of being something that has to be resolved,' Burns said."
" 'I haven't seen any research that shows that those measures from the autonomic nervous system ... measuring blood pressure, measuring breathing, measuring heat on the face, are at all related to intent,' said Stephen Fienberg, professor of statistics and social sciences at Carnegie Mellon University."
"Fienberg, who participated in a government study critical of the use of polygraphs, said he worries that a lot of money is being spent on a program that in the end will show 'the emperor has no clothes.' " 12-09
- -08-04-10 Be Sure Exercise Is All You Get at the Gym (New York Times)
"When you go to the gym, do you wash your hands before and after using the equipment? Bring your own regularly cleaned mat for floor exercises? Shower with antibacterial soap and put on clean clothes immediately after your workout? Use only your own towels, razors, bar soap, water bottles?" 08-10
- Treating Bedbugs ( University of Kentucky)
"Infested and infestation-prone bedding and garments will need to be bagged and laundered (120°F minimum) since these items cannot be treated with insecticides. Another effective and efficient option is to place clothing, toys, shoes, backpacks, etc., in a clothes dryer set at medium to high heat for 10 to 20 minutes. This will kill all bed bug life stages and can be done alone or in conjunction with laundering. " 09-10
- -Manufacture (Time.com)
"The San Francisco-based company [Levi's] discovered that over the lifetime of its jeans, from the cotton fields needed to make the fabric to consumers' tossing their dirty dungarees in the washing machine, each pair used up 3,480 L of water, which is the equivalent of running a garden hose for 106 minutes."
"Fashion may seem low impact — after all, consumers don't use electricity or burn gasoline when they put on their khakis — but growing cotton and other fibers involves a lot of water and fertilizer, and a great deal of energy is needed to manufacture, ship and, eventually, wash and maintain the clothes that wind up in your hamper. Some 25% of the world's pesticides, for example, is used to grow cotton, and on average, 15% to 20% of the fabric that goes into producing clothing ends up as scraps. One way to shrink fashion's environmental impact is through efficiency initiatives that reduce the need for water, pesticides and energy in the manufacture of clothes — just as Levi's has done with its new line." 01-11
- -Editorial: Where Are the Protests Against the Killing of Shaima Al Awadi? (Time.com)
"A muslim mother of four gets beaten to death in her California home and left with the message 'Go back to your country, you terrorist.' But there won't be a million hijab march for her."
"The police in El Cajon are still looking for Al Awadi’s killer, whose family reported that they had found a similarly menacing note tacked to their door a week before the attack, which they had dismissed as a joke. The hijab is not the hoodie—yet. Police do not profile muslim women as they most certainly do black men. But only when we see people for their humanity and not their clothes or religious beliefs are we living up to the principles on which this country was founded and should now be evoking." 04-12
- -06-07-12 Dawn Loggins, Homeless High School Student Makes It to Harvard (CNN News)
"She was homeless at the start of the school year, abandoned by her drug-abusing parents. The teachers and others in town pitched in -- donating clothes and providing medical and dental care. She got the janitorial job through a school workforce assistance program." 06-12
- -08-25-12 Things You Need to Know about West Nile Virus (Time.com)
"Apply insect repellent to exposed skin when going outdoors. Make sure repellents will last for the full time you plan to remain outside; products with more active ingredients will last longer. Don’t let kids handle repellent on their own, and don’t let them get it on their hands. Click here for the repellent ingredients that have been reviewed and approved by the Environmental Protection Agency."
"Since mosquitoes can bite through thin clothing, it’s a good idea to spray your clothes (and shoes, bed nets and camping gear) with insect repellents that contain permethrin or another EPA-registered repellent. But don’t apply permethrin directly to your skin or under your clothes." 08-12
- How to Conduct a Yard Sale (Move.com)
"Yard sales are a great way to make a little money while lightening your load in preparation for your move. Do you really want to take that huge old couch with you? Your plants need new homes. And what about all those clothes you never wear? Don't throw them away! You'd be surprised at what people will buy, especially if they can get a deal on it. " 08-07
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