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STOVES: A standard, burner-plus-oven electric range swallows $26.91 of power a year. A microwave oven will do most of the same cooking jobs for only $4.35 a year...
...bakery we met Rocky Taurisano and saw two huge floor-to-ceiling rotary ovens. "These ovens were here when Eliot House was built," Taurisano instructed. "We're afraid to replace them--they might be structural." One by one he took cheese cake shells out of the oven. A junior on the tour started to steal a batch of chocolate cake, but the yard-long pan did not quite fit under his shirt and he replaced it undetected...
...Pinches of the East Lansing center wholeheartedly advocates force: "A karate chop to the Adam's apple can kill a guy. Or you can stomp down with your heels on his shins-rip out his skin there or smash his instep." In Washington, the center recommends carrying spray oven cleaners, plastic lemons for squirting juice or ammonia, lighted cigarettes ("smash out in eye"), or corkscrews ("jab quickly and directly, then twist...
...calculated, it fails to adjust for such nonmonetary penalties of industrial growth as pollution and the nightmare of city congestion, or for such additions to material well-being as the pleasure a husband derives when his wife cooks a gourmet meal instead of popping a TV dinner into the oven. Now, a more sensitive gauge has appeared in a place that guarantees it wide attention: the ninth edition of Economics, the classic college textbook by Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson...
...sense-and means-to refuse to join other patients in "the parking lot," a drab room in which they were expected to sit mutely in wheelchairs or, as a special treat, were asked to sing childish songs. There was also Charlie, who had stuck his head in his gas oven, and who complained when rescued: "But a man has a right to die, don't he? He don't have to just sit and wait, sit and wait for death...