Word: pump
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...near. In the ensuing weeks, oil would come crashing down to earth as traders everywhere - including hedge funds, banks and pension funds - unwound their positions. And as SemGroup demonstrated, getting the timing wrong on this great unwind can have catastrophic results. (Read "Iraq's Pain at the Pump...
...even treats athlete's foot - in your hotel tub. (Better yet, for your own home-bathroom spa, try Masada's Relaxing Foot Bath kit, which comes with a jar of minty antibacterial foot cream, two packs of soaking salts and a surprisingly luxurious inflatable foot bath, with a pump.) The salts come in four varieties, including eucalyptus, which is supposed to draw out toxins. I don't know if it did, but I was pleased that it did battle with my calluses. Price: less than $3 each for soaking salts; $33 for foot bath...
...something that billions of people in the rest of the world lack. But if you live on the right kind of land, you can dig your own well - as more than 17 million Americans currently do. The process is simple - dig a hole into the ground and get a pump that will pull out the water. Generally the deeper you drill, the better the water - but the cost can range from $3,000 to $15,000 depending on how far down you go. If you want to go cheaper, you can also build a cistern to collect rainwater...
...change was a good idea - not least because it gave drivers a more accurate measure of how much they'd end up spending at the pump. So, you would expect that the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) ratings - the industry-wide minimum standards that the government uses to push automakers to improve gas mileage - would also use the updated tests. But guess what? They don't. (See TIME's special report on Global Warming...
...going to die anyway, but not until it had been properly fattened up in the breeding factory where Long, then 12, was required to work in the waning days of China's Cultural Revolution. The ducks were force-fed through a tube operated by a foot-pedal - a single pump per meal. One day Long got careless and accidentally pumped twice. End of duck...