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March 16, 2011

“Feed & Bleed”

Defective Designs — & Their Fallout Usually when a nuclear reactor is first shut down, an electric pump pulls heated water from the vessel to a heat exchanger, and cool water from a river or ocean is brought in to draw off that heat. But at the Japanese reactors, after losing electric power, that system could not...
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How to Get $1,500 of Free Staging

Tom Sawyer would be impressed by one of my favorite stagers. Sawyer, of course, managed to get paid both by the homeowner whose fence he painted, and the boys who paid him for the privilege of actually painting it. By contrast, depending on the project, my stager gets paid by one of four parties:  1) my client (the homeowner); 2)...
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