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Try Hanging Your Laundry Out To Dry

Dear Heloise: I read your column whenever I can. I saved one of your columns, “Tips to Save Electricity,” that was published long ago. You missed a great opportunity to suggest reviving an old practice: hanging laundry out to dry. It conserves energy, saves money and prolongs the life of clothing or linens. It is a practice rarely seen today. Many will say, “My community won’t allow it.” If you care to do the research, you will find that there are federal statutes that allow measures to be taken for the conservation of energy. Guidelines may be written (e.g., only in your ...

Employer-Matched 401(k)s: Too Tempting To Cash Out?

By LIZ WESTON NerdWallet Many companies try to help their workers to save for retirement. Employers often offer 401(k)s, company matches and automatic enrollment to encourage saving. Much of that effort goes to waste, though, when employees leave. A study published last year in Marketing Science, a peer-reviewed research journal, found more than 40% of departing workers cashed out at least part of their 401(k)s, and most of those drained every dime. What’s more, employers may bear at least some of the blame, according to researchers Yanwen Wang of the University of British ...

Britney Spears’ Memoir Sold 1.1M Copies In First Week

NEW YORK (AP) — Britney Spears’ memoir “The Woman in Me” has sold 1.1 million copies in the U.S. alone through its first week. “I poured my heart and soul into my memoir, and I am grateful to my fans and readers around the world for their unwavering support,” Spears said in a statement released Wednesday by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. The sales figures include pre-orders, print sales, e-books and audiobooks. “The Woman in Me,” released Oct. 24, has been praised by critics as a compelling account of her rise to global fame and her ongoing struggles, ...

Oldest Hatred Comes Roaring Back

In one day of savagery, Hamas brought the world’s oldest hatred into the mainstream. The upwelling of antisemitism around the globe, and especially in the United States, mocks the naivety of those who imagined that the oldest hatred was mostly in the past, that Israel could be a normal nation or that a two-state solution to the Palestinian issue could be realized in the near future. American Jews, stunned by the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, are reeling from the lack of basic decency shown by many progressives. No more hiding behind “anti-Zionism is not ...

A Reminder for Everyone: Understand Evil or Perish by Its Hand

Last week, the Metropolitan Police in London were videotaped removing posters with pictures of hostages taken by Hamas. The posters were being removed from Cullimore Chemist in Edgware. The chemist’s CEO, Hassan Khan, recently retweeted posts branding Israel and the IDF “filthy animals” and encouraging Iran and Hezbollah to attack Israel. This naturally caused some properly earned angst. After all, the removal of such posters has become the domain of antisemites across the world. What was the police’s excuse for removing the posters? They explained, “We do not wish to ...

GOP Isolationism Is Dreadful

Explaining his support for U.S. aid to Israel but not Ukraine, Sen. J.D. Vance, the shape-shifting Ohio Republican, wrote: “Israel has an achievable objective. Ukraine does not.” Actually, their objectives are identical — national survival while living in proximity to enemies whose objective is national annihilation. Vance’s categorical conclusion, that Ukraine’s survival is unachievable, makes him a momentous symptom of Donald Trump’s transformation of the Republican Party. If Trump becomes, for the third consecutive time, the party’s presidential candidate, one of our ...