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How to Make Hard Cider with Wild Yeast

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Published Aug. 20, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.

How's this for simple? Canning jars or just large glasses; cheesecloth or any cloth; water, and frozen concentrated apple juice. Yeasts are everywhere, and will arrive uninvited to brew your apple juice from bland sweetness into a frothy soda or a crisp, dry, nutty-tasting hard cider ...

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Older People Are Binge Drinkers, Too

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Published Aug. 17, 2009 at 12:03 p.m.

Older people as well as aging baby boomers may be turning to booze and binge drinking, a new study says ...

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How to Make Kombucha Tea

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Published Aug. 16, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.

Kombucha with ice made from black teaKombucha tea is a sweetened tisane produced through fermentation. Plain kombucha has an acidic, vinegar-like flavor in addition to the original sweet tea flavor. The strength of the tea flavor can be adjusted with the amount of tea bags brewed per volume of water. Kombucha is available at most health food stores, and the organic section of some regular grocery stores. The steps below outline how to make it at home ...

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How to Make an Air Rifle Scope Detachable

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Published Aug. 15, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.

There are times when you want to hunt, but your air rifle's scope is not as useful as the sights. For example, when it's raining, you don't want water drops on your lenses; and when hunting by twilight or moonlight, often you can see better without the scope. Here's an easy, inexpensive way to make your scope quickmount, so you don't need to fiddle around with screwdrivers, and possibly lose the tiny pieces that hold the scope on ...

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Why is the world's biggest landfill in the Pacific Ocean?

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Published Aug. 15, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

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What's as big as a continent and sitting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? A pile of garbage that extends 100 feet (30 meters) below the surface of the water ...

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How to Make Caramel

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Published Aug. 13, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Caramel is sugar that's been melted and browned. At such high temperatures, however, sugar can be finicky. You can start the caramel off by heating a mixture of sugar and water (wet caramel) but it's tricky to prevent it from crystallizing. Or, you can heat the sugar by itself (dry caramel) in which case you have be more attentive about it burning. These instructions will outline how to make a simple dry caramel, while the video below offers some advice for making wet caramel.Note that this is

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13 Land and Water Speed Records

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Published Aug. 13, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.

World speed records are kept for just about everything that goes. Here are records for some of the world's fastest vehicles on land and sea ...

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How to Install Permeable Pavers

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Published July 30, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Permeable pavers are used to allow rainwater to be absorbed into the ground, rather than run-off into the storm drain system, where it can contaminate local water supplies and interrupt the natural water cycle. Using a permeable or porous paving system has many advantages over and above being environmentally conscious, including durability, stability, and ease of maintenance/repair ...

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Blue Dye in M&Ms Helps Spinal Cord Injuries?

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Published July 29, 2009 at 2:48 p.m.

A compound that's similar to the blue food dye in Gatorade and M&Ms may hold promise for people with spinal cord injuries, new research says ...

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How can you make water invisible?

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Published July 24, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.

It's colorless, odorless and definitely life-sustaining, but is it invisible to the naked eye? Not usually. So what's going on with everyone's favorite liquid? ...

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