Designing small spaces with color and furniture scale
The text explains how empty rooms feel smaller without properly scaled furniture and color. It suggests using a single large piece, see through furnishings, mirrors, monochromatic schemes, and color accents to visually enlarge spaces. It also covers clutter control and strategic placement to preserve flow. A later section gives step by step sprouting instructions for kitchen crops in five days.
Combating 1980s quackery and consumer vigilance
The piece condemns fraudulent health claims in 1980s advertising, urging skepticism toward so called scientific breakthroughs and miracle cures. It cautions readers to scrutinize ingredient lists, demand identifiable research, and rely on controlled studies while reporting scams to the FDA FTC and postal inspectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FDA
FTC
Rockville
Consumer Protection
Division of Food and Drug Advertising
Washington, D.C
U.S. Postal Service
Metric kit helps convert gallons to liters for consumers
The National Bureau of Standards offers a wallet size chart for liquids and solids as gallons are replaced by liters under the Metric system. The Metric Kit includes a small later, a booklet, and costs $2 from the Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington DC 20402 with stock number 003-003-01736-1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bureau of Standards
Superintendent of Documents
U.S. Government Printing Office
W. D.C
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