Lay Your Own Extraordinary Hardwood Floor
It's hard to beat the natural beauty, warmth and durability of a hardwood floor. A well-laid floor will last for a century or more and can be rejuvenated by resanding and finishing to look brand new. A real wood floor isn't cheap, but neither is ... [... more]
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How to Raise an A+ Student
By William Beaman From Reader's Digest Originally in Reader's Digest When it comes to education, our children are in trouble. Up to a quarter of them don't finish high school. Of those who do and go on to college, more than four in ten need ... [... more]
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How to Fix America's Energy Crisis
Record-breaking temperatures, unprecedented natural disasters, corroded oil pipelines, brownouts, blackouts and gas prices that make your head spin. The energy crisis of this new century demands innovation, conservation and legislation that will ... [... more]
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Deadly Games
Patrolman Arnold Strickland eased his cruiser to a stop in the parking lot outside the darkened Triangle Grill. Just a few yards away sat a white Toyota sedan. When a quick check of the plates confirmed that it was the same vehicle reported ... [... more]
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Fixing America's Schools: 2 Schools, 1 Big Idea
Public education in America is a mess. Too often, parents are absent or indifferent; teachers don't know their own subjects; administrators are powerless to fire the worst and hire the best. Daunting problems, yes. But a number of schools have ... [... more]
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How Americans Can Improve the Country
While our suggestions for upgrading these systems were sometimes bold and controversial, one message proved consistent, simple, and certain: an improved life -- for yourself, your children, the country, and the world -- begins with the ... [... more]
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Create a Transportation Plan
In this country, driving a car is the single greatest contribution we each make to pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It's ironic, then, that there are more vehicles registered in the United States than there are ... [... more]
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Do voting machines work as well as they should?
By Lisa Goff From Reader's Digest Here we are at the dawn of the 21st century, the height of the Information Age, mere months before a major election, and Americans Much of the uncertainty involves the rapid conversion in the last decade from ... [... more]
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Best of America: Highway Helper
By Bridget Nelson Monroe From Reader's Digest One thousand forty dollars: That's how much Thomas Weller shelled out to keep his gas tank full in July. The self-employed 60-year-old mechanic doesn't have to spend his spare time on the road, but ... [... more]
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Reader's Digest Global Presidential Poll
Synovate's Global Omnibus was used to conduct interviews in 15 countries from June 2 to July 7, 2008: Telephone interviews were conducted via Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) networks in Online interviews among nationally ... [... more]
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Cattle Farmers Leave Millions Behind
A year ago August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a dump truck for a small excavation company in west Michigan. Dave and his wife, Gerrie, lived in Alto-a small community (population: 8,694) only 20 miles outside Grand Rapids that even now is ... [... more]
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Claude and Kenneth Roy
During the nail-biter that was the 2004 presidential race, while newscasts reported a too-close-to-call vote, they also regularly flashed versions of the map above, which, as an electoral college map, seemed to show a Republican win. See the next ... [... more]
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