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In today’s world, the skyrocketing prices of gasoline makes a huge dent in your expenditures, and we are always looking for ways to improve this situation. Who wants to continue spending large amounts of their hard-earned money on gasoline?  Nobody of course!

Did you know that this year marks the 100th year of America’s reliance on chlorine to disinfect drinking water? Jersey City, NJ was the first US city to routinely chlorinate it’s municipal drinking water, followed by Chicago’s union stockyards and many, many more cities around the country.

Just in time for John’s 27th birthday, Burger whipped up an original paw painting for his doting dad. He’s a regular Jackson Pawlock, I tell ya. It was actually a cute little project that Burger and I took on together, and he had an inordinate amount of fun throughout the process (even afterwards at bathtime).

How Safe Is Your Water Bottle? Recently there has been much debate in the scientific community about the affects of the chemical bisphenol A. This chemical is found to varying degrees in plastic water bottles, making them unsafe and possibly hazardous to the health of those consumers who drink water out of plastic bottles on a regular basis.

From baked beans to barbecue, treasured trade secrets benevolently guarantee a monopoly on happy holiday gatherings. But some carefully guarded recipes are not so benign. A recent inquiry suggests the brew used during natural gas drilling may be poisoning water nationwide.

By David Williams The Indian Navy has said that one of its warships in the Gulf of Aden has destroyed a pirate ship in the area. INS Tabar, an Indian frigate dispatched last month to the area to protect the country’s merchant fleet, attacked the pirate ‘mothership’ when it refused to respond to warnings.

[IMG INS Tabar [File picture]]The Indian navy is now patrolling off the Somali coast The Indian navy has said that one of its warships in the Gulf of Aden has destroyed a ship belonging to pirates operating off the coast of Somalia. The INS Tabar opened fire on a pirate “mother ship” after it came under attack, a government statement said.

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Sanitation needs to be given priority in development policy approaches, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday, and suggested a four-point roadmap to make this universally available to all citizens.”Good sanitation should be a birthright of every citizen of South Asia,”

The stress crack between Environmental Protection Agency and its outside science advisers just got a lot deeper. In fact, these days it looks a lot like a thousand-foot crevasse. The proximate cause: perchlorate, a rocket fuel component, potent thyroid toxin and ubiquitous water and soil pollutant,

By Alisa Miller They say bad habits are hard to break, but maybe not if you replace them with good habits that reward you with good health and financial rewards. The following habits range from daily routines to activities that will keep you mentally and physically fit to ways you can keep more money in the bank.