Nov 17th, 2008 · The University of Virginia has opened a new high-tech laundry room for its students. Students can look online to see if washers and dryers are available. The machines can even send text messages to the students' phones when the laundry is ready. The only problem ... they can't teach students how to wash their clothes.
Jul 7th, 2008 · A woman outside the nation's capital spent the holiday weekend considering our nation's freedoms. Wei Wang of Maryland wants to hang clothes outside to save money and energy, but her homeowners' association says that's banned. Wang is not alone. A number of states are considering laws to guarantee homeowners what's called the "right to dry."
Jul 3rd, 2008 · Anne Hartridge and Matt George are about as "green" as it gets. They bike to work, have solar panels, dry their laundry on a line. So when they stopped watering their lawn in drought-stricken California, who would have thought they'd get fined more than $700 for letting their grass go brown.
Mar 4th, 2008 · In 2006, the most e-mailed story in The New York Times was an op-ed about one woman's attempt to get her husband to pick up his dirty laundry using the same techniques employed by animal trainers. Now, author Amy Sutherland has turned the op-ed into a book.
Nov 30th, 2007 · In Mumbai, India, a caste of people toil away doing the city's laundry by hand. It is grueling work, often done in 100-degree heat by hundreds of men, women and some children who beat the laundry on rocks they rent for $8 a month. They are Dhobis, a Hindu caste born to the job.
Nov 17th, 2007 · Look around your house. You've probably got soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, dish soap and a host of other cleansers. They are full many different chemicals. But at the heart of almost every soap is the same basic set of ingredients.
Jul 2nd, 2007 · Assertive Community Treatment is a method for helping people with severe mental illness. ACT is a comprehensive approach that addresses a patient's basic needs -- how to do laundry, how to manage a budget, how to get a job -- as well as dealing with deeper psychological issues.
Jun 5th, 2007 · An extraordinary collection of historical letters has been found in a filing cabinet tucked away in a Swiss laundry room. Thomas Venning, director of Books and Manuscripts at Christie's of London, talks about the collection of almost 1,000 documents, including a love letter written by Napoleon.