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"Cook with the sun for free"

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Dear Jim: I'm trying to save money and thought about using the sun to help cook our food. Are solar ovens really effective and is it possible to build a simple one myself? - Jill N. Dear Jill: It is possible to cook almost anything in a solar oven. Billions, of people around the world use solar ovens exclusively because they have no other fuel source. All the energy on the Earth, including fossil fuels, wood, etc. actually came from the sun at one time so all cooking is technically solar cooking in a way. I have used a solar oven for years during the summer and on bright sunny winter ...

What Americans can learn from World Cup fans

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The World Cup showed why you shouldn't be ashamed of America's heroes and heritage. While only Argentina and Spain made Sunday's World Cup final, citizens of many countries enthusiastically cheered on their teams. Norwegian fans became an internet phenomenon for their "Viking Row" cheer. ...

GOP has seen the John James movie before

Editorials and columns

Michigan Republicans face a simple question in the Aug. 4 primary.Do they want to nominate a candidate for governor who gives them the best chance of winning in November? Or do they want to replay a political script that has already produced the same ending? If the answer is the latter, then ...

My visit to the data center

Editorials and columns

Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ. A "cloud," by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of the Library of Congress and virtually everything else ever written, invented or retrievable online. The cloud is synonymous with "data center." Many people don't realize that without these massive data centers -- that have somehow been demonized by everyone across the political spectrum from ...

Workers of the world aren't uniting behind the DS

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What did the country ever do to white college graduates to make them feel so disaffected from its economic and political system? The wave of socialist victories in Democratic primaries is being driven by well-educated white voters who are more extreme than the rest of the Democratic ...