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Transformer Furniture: Trio Sofa Lets You Work And Play

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TreeHugger loves furniture that serves multiple functions; with Julia Hamid's Trio Sofa you can work, eat, relax, you may never have to get up again. ...

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Are Laser Printers As Dangerous as Smoking or as Making Toast?

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A laser printer isn't really that different from that new Xerox at Sterling Cooper; toner sticks to a charged medium (a selenium drum in the 914) is transferred to the paper and baked on.

Last year Warren reported on an Australian study claiming that Some Laser Printers are as Bad as Secondhand Smoke; now a new Austrian study commissioned by the industry confirms that laser printers do emit ozone, volatile organic compounds and particles. Sort of. ...

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15 Modern Sheds For the Move Home to Mom

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Sheds in the Great Depression

With the financial and market meltdown one of two things may be happening: You are moving home to live with Mom, or you are mom or dad and the kids are moving back with you. In such circumstances it might be nice to have a place to get away to. That is one of the great selling points for garden sheds; they often do not need building permits, there is now a wide selection of them, and they are the gateway drug for modern prefab.

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