Archive for 2010
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
I couldn't find the telephone number of the telephone company anywhere. Our phone wasn't working.
Finally I found the number. A customer service representative told me to expect a visit from a repairman on Friday between 8 a.m. and 12 noon. But nobody showed up at our apartment on Friday.
Late on ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Instead of using pesticides to kill bedbugs, use heat. As Dr. David Williams wrote in his popular health newsletter Alternatives:
It takes only 113 degrees F to kill them, once it's determined that bed bugs are present. Researchers simply built a foam box around the furniture to be treated, using the ...
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
When your boss calls you an idiot, you will react as if he had put a gun to your head. Brain-wise, social threats are as powerful as physical threats. You will go limbic. The limbic system is the part of the brain related to our emotional life.
What You Can Do: ...
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
A sign said that Queen Anne gave some land in my neighborhood to a church in 1705. How was this land hers to give away? In 1705, Queen Anne lived 3,000 miles away in England, across the Atlantic Ocean.
The answer is that Dutch traders had purchased Manhattan Island from Native ...
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Say this whenever you do not understand English: ‘Please repeat that, using different words.’ Say using different words so they will not repeat the same sentence you did not understand.
The six usual reasons you cannot understand English are:
(1) English is always changing. In everyday life we use idiomatic expressions most ...
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