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...allergy sufferers unconcerned with domestic decor, the National Institutes of Health recommends the following steps to achieve a dust-free, and therefore dust-mite-free, bedroom: Get rid of carpeting, upholstered furniture, heavy curtains, venetian blinds, fuzzy wool blankets and comforters stuffed with wool or feathers. Empty the room, scrub it and everything that is to be returned to it, and thereafter thoroughly clean the room every week. If replacing curtains, hang some that are lightweight and can be laundered weekly. Replace the comfortable chairs with wooden or metal ones that can be scrubbed, keep clothing in plastic zippered bags...
...stone foundations sit in water year round. The moisture percolates up into the sandstone and allows mold and moss to destroy the intricate carvings and eventually the integrity of the structures. The antidote used so far has been to scrub the facades. Since 1986 the Archaeological Survey of India has spent the six-month dry season sprucing up Angkor Wat. A team of 15 Indian specialists supervises more than 300 unskilled Cambodian workers, who scrape the fragile sandstone carvings with brushes and chemicals...
...likes to see the Dr. J who could not hit a jumper to save his life, the Larry Bird who scores 49 points one night and 7 the next, the Jim Palmer who could not strike out a spring training scrub or the Franco Harris who ended his career rather inauspiciously in Seattle, far away from...
...will not allow sociopolitical agendas to stand primary in the interpretation of art. Of Renoir, Berger writes, "Feminist reasoning applied retrospectively to Renoir is too easy." Feminists might play up Renoir quotes like "the best exercise for a woman is to kneel down and scrub the floor" without bothering to uncover the profound and across-the-board fearful fanaticism of which that quote is only one facet. Berger effectively warns us not to let our methodologies for "seeing" obstruct our sight...
Most perplexing of all was the terra-cotta bath scrubber, a $5 cookie-shaped object with the texture of a cheese grater. Its purpose is to scrub off skin flakes. This object seemed to symbolize the Origins mentality: "Look at me! I'm mortifying my flesh even though I'm also indulging in expensive toiletries!" Maybe the bath scrubber would make a good gift for your favorite ascetic, but a real cheese grater would work just as well--and be more useful around the house...