Word: washings
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According to its website, DormAid offers to wash, dry, fold, and deliver laundry for $0.54 a pound. HSA Cleaners charged an average of $0.62 per pound last year...
...When fresh spinach returns to the shelves, wash it thoroughly before eating. It's not as good as cooking when it comes to killing bacteria, but a good dousing with water will remove a lot of bugs clinging to the leaves...
...extinction for their luxuriant fur--the thickest of any mammal's--the sea otters of California were making a comeback until they started mysteriously dying off. State wildlife officials recovered a record 281 dead otters last year, and this year looks to be even worse. Five or six wash up on California's beaches and rocks each week. In August alone, 28 dead otters were cast ashore, including an alarming number of full-grown females. "When we start losing breeding females," says veterinarian Mike Murray at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, "that's not a healthy population...
...Malvar was among 500 to apply for 35 spots at the Bellevue, Wash., software giant. "Here I am, I'm 16 and working with 46-year-olds on the same projects," he'd marvel. Tasked with finding bugs in a flight simulator, he didn't know which was harder to learn: the programming language or the language of work. "I had to speak and write in a way that adults would understand, or the project would be at risk," he says. "They dress in shorts there, but it's still a very serious business...
SARA BORDEN Maple Valley, Wash...