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...nesting. Spooked by the scary world they see on the evening news, more American homeowners are burrowing in the house and finding pleasure in bringing order and perfection to even the most boring and neglected nooks--like the laundry room. And why not? After all, Americans produce a quarter ton of dirty laundry per person every year and collectively do 35 billion loads of laundry, according to Procter & Gamble, the leading purveyor of detergents. Every second 1,100 loads are started in households across the country, with U.S. women--yes, still mostly women--devoting seven to nine hours each week...
...analysts at J.D. Power are predicting that by year's end, SUV sales will have posted yet another increase. At the luxury end, the jump could be significant: the hottest SUV on the market now isn't one of those crossover hobbits but the Hummer H2, a three-ton beast with the attitude and fuel efficiency of a battleship. The H2 has led the luxury-utility segment in sales since last summer; many dealers have months-long waiting lists of drivers eager to pay an average of $53,000 for them...
...visit. To start mining a new section of ore, a drill is used to dig a 15-in. pilot hole from the upper level to the lower one. Once the drill bit punches through the ceiling of the lower horizontal shaft, the drill is removed and a 10-ton, 10-ft.-wide reamer with tungsten-carbide teeth is attached. At the upper level, a raisebore machine pulls the rotating reamer slowly upward, carving out a much bigger hole. As the reamer climbs, ore tumbles down the shaft to the lower level, where the scoop tram waits. Once its bucket...
...crisis. All my friends were going to graduate school and I thought, ‘I’m not qualified for anything,’” she says. “I had three books published. I wasn’t making a ton of money yet. So I went back to the people at Yale and begged them to take me back into the class...
...Whether we have a ton of fans or not, we just try to play our game,” said Harvard freshman Julie Chu. “But it’s definitely an advantage to have that extra crowd support there...