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Clean room $1.93 $2.61 Make bed $1.30 $1.64 Do homework $1.41 $2.86 Pick up/put away clothes $1.35 $1.29 Clean bathroom $1.73 $9.02 Do dishes $1.65 $2.56 Dry/fold clothes $1.52 $1.63 Load/empty dishwasher $1.07 $2.06 Vacuum...
...Help is on the way. Food researchers at Oklahoma State University have created individually wrapped slices of peanut butter, and Smucker's new line of frozen peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches is already available in some cities. Should you tire of this lunchbox classic, StarKist's new vacuum-packed tuna pouches mean you don't have to expend any effort draining juice from a can. To eat it, though, you'll still need a utensil. Not so with IncrEdibles' microwavable macaroni and cheese on a stick or its push-pop scrambled eggs. You'll appreciate the strength you save...
...miles away on Kwajalein Atoll, perched atop a Pacific coral reef, another rocket sits and waits. Nestled inside its nose cone is a $20 million bullet known as the exoatmospheric kill vehicle. It looks more like a mobile moonshine still than a snub-nosed round, but in the vacuum of space, there are no points for style. Its job is to find and then destroy the incoming "warhead" from Pyongyang or Tehran...
...treatment, said to have originated in India or ancient Egypt, involves lighting the wide end of a hollow conical candle made of waxed cloth and gently inserting the narrow tip into the ear. The heat generated by the flame purportedly creates a vacuum that sucks out all manner of nasty things, like ear mites, along with the earwax. Afterward, adventurous souls can cut open the candle and examine their ear debris...
That does not, however, mean that we will one day, as a species, submit to the indignity of the chip--if only because the chip is likely to shortly be as quaint an object as the vacuum tube or the slide rule...