Toast to baking soda as emergency fire aid
Dear Heloise notes a toaster oven fire contained by baking soda from the freezer, recommends keeping a box ready in key spots for quick response. Letter from M.K. in Florida highlights practical tips, while Heloise endorses baking soda for fires, cleaning, and resale pamphlet offers.
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Treatments for aortic aneurysms and surgical choices
A 72 year old man asks about prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms in men over 65 and the risks and benefits of open abdominal repair versus endovascular stent grafting. The article explains aneurysm basics, prevalence by age and sex, repair thresholds, open surgical grafting with about 8 percent mortality, recovery in months, and endovascular stent grafts with quicker recovery but potential need for later reinterventions and leakage risks. The final decision rests on patient health and physician judgment.
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Workplace makeup side business eyed by boss
A reader asks how to handle a coworker who sells makeup from the office and uses desk supplies to serve customers. The group should tell Rachel they cannot risk their jobs by covering for her, stop assisting her customers, and suggest customers pick up elsewhere to avoid triggering a workplace discovery. Annie's Mailbox by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar.
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Marcy Sugar
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