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...danger list is the keyboard. It may sound silly, but you'd be surprised how many people spill coffee or beer on their keyboards. The keyboard can look speciously abuse-resistant, but in reality the electrical contacts of the keys are exposed to the outside world. Any liquid that finds its way into the keyboard may short-circuit these contacts and literally fry the whole device...
...notebook, as many Harvard students now do, extra care should be taken regarding the liquid-crystal display (LCD) screen. Poking the screen with your finger nails or a pencil, for example, could result in a hole on the screen, and replacing an LCD could incur some not insignificant expenses...
...Sometimes, when you're feeling really daring, you can squeeze out the tuna juice into a glass and eat the contents completely dry. Not only will this provide a change of pace, but tuna liquid and orange juice isn't half...
...sentences on the average 50 times more severe than penalties for other drugs? Part of it is due to a quirk in the federal law which mandates the vessel in which the LSD was stored is included in the weight of "the drug." For instance 100 hits of pure liquid LSD (which is unusable for commercial purposes and unheard of at street level) would get you 10 months, the same amount soaked into blotter paper would warrant 5 years and those doses in sugar cubes would result in 16 years...
...acre site in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, the EPA cited 160 responsible parties. At the Petro Processors sites near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where 62 acres of land are saturated with liquid petrochemical wastes, cleanup is expected to last well into the 22nd century, in part because of endless lawsuits filed by and against the large corporations -- including U.S. Steel, Dow Chemical, Exxon Corp. and Allied Chemical -- charged with polluting. Bryant Conway, an attorney who represents a landowner with property near the Petro Processors sites, says the companies he deals with use lawyers to stall the cleanup process by legal means. "None...