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...polish off the sheets, they've done it with products that cost next to nothing and were likely already in the kitchen cupboards. Lush's cleaning staples are the same ones everybody's great-grandmother used: vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, methylated spirits, detergent, glycerine, milk. Shoe polish on the carpet? Eucalyptus oil. Rusty pans? Bicarbonate of soda and cut potato. Musty clothes? Put tea bags in the wash...
...break it down. But if you understand your stain and what it's made of, you can work out what will get rid of it." Take red wine. "Wine is an acid. Bicarb soda is an alkali. So when you spill red wine on the carpet, you mop up as much as you can, then sprinkle on bicarb soda. The alkali negates the acid. You'll see straight away the stain change from red to pale gray as the pH swaps over and the pigment starts to break down and the wine loses its staining ability." Lush hopes the book...
...November 2005, Hiscox discovered that consumers were willing to pay more for products that were labelled “fair trade.” Hiscox and Nicholas F. B. Smyth ’05, who wrote his thesis on their research, carried out the social labeling experiment at ABC Carpet and Home, an upscale Manhattan housewares store. They compared the sales of towels and candles, to which a “fair trade” label had been applied, to similar products that did not carry the label. The label included a statement that certified that the product was made...
...being filtered through the company's risk-management department." Court documents seen by TIME back up that contention. In one case, a passenger who was examined on board for evidence of gang rape sued the cruise line after ship security, by allowing housekeeping to repeatedly steam-clean the carpet, failed to preserve the alleged crime scene. In another case, a passenger accused of sexual assault testified that a ship security officer coached him to state that "no sex was performed by anyone." Cruise lines, says maritime lawyer Charles Lipcon, "are silently working against the victim. They're busy trying...
...respects.” To celebrate the achievements of queer-themed films, the BGLTSA served somosas at an Oscar screening in Lowell Grille. That was just one in a cast of on-campus parties on a night that Harvard went Hollywood.While the stars took their walks down the red carpet and into Los Angeles’ Kodak Theater, the students took their places in Cambridge’s Eliot, Pforzheimer, and Lowell Houses to enjoy the show. The festivities varied in size and scope, but the common thread throughout seemed to be free food. Popcorn was the standard, but some...