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The List Of The Top 10 Best Books of 2007
1. Man Gone Down: A Novel
By Michael Thomas. Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, paper, $14. This first novel explores the fragmented personal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer’s life.
2. Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
By Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born. Graywolf Press, $22. In this short yet spacious Norwegian novel, an Oslo professional hopes to cure his loneliness with a plunge into solitude.
3. The Savage Detectives: A Novel
By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27. A craftily autobiographical novel about a band of literary guerrillas.
4. Then We Came to the End: A Novel
By Joshua Ferris. Little, Brown & Company, $23.99. Layoff notices fly in Ferris’s acidly funny first novel, set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle.
5. Tree of Smoke: A Novel
By Denis Johnson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27. The author of “Jesus’ Son†offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War
6. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone (Vintage)
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95; Vintage, paper, $14.95. The author, a Washington Post journalist, catalogs the arrogance and ineptitude that marked America’s governance of Iraq.
The Top 10 Scams Online You Should Watch Out For
Here are the top ten scams online you should watch out for:
1. The Nigerian e-mail scam. Have you received an e-mail claiming to be from a Nigerian government official asking for help on transferring millions of dollars into your account? Don’t even bother replying, it’s a popular scam that have been victimizing hundreds of people for years now.
2. “Phishingâ€. Watch if your mailboxes contain e-mails that seem to come from the IRS or other huge companies. These e-mails are used to collect your SSN, credit card numbers and other personal details that scammers can use against you. The e-mail may disguise itself as genuine and may lead you to a false website that “looks†like the original. If your
3. Get rich quick scams. Get rich quick e-mails abound online. They entice people with the promise of earning thousands or even millions of dollars in no time simply by signing up. The catch? You’ll have to pay a membership fee or a processing fee to start getting paid. The thing is, you may wait a long time for nothing.
4. Work at home scams. Although there are indeed legitimate home based businesses or jobs on the web, there are also thousands that are fake and are out to get your money. Watch out for job opportunities that require you to submit payment or businesses that require you to invest a huge sum of money.
5. You’ve won the lottery. Don’t fall for e-mails that announced you’ve won a big cash prize when all you have to do is give your bank account so they can transfer the money over to you. Yeah right. Maybe they will transfer your money over to them is the better way to put it.
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26 Things You Can Do With Toothpaste
- Removes stain from cloth
- Even out scratches on CD / DVD
- Cleans diamond ring
- Cleans silver
- Placate burns
- Removes crayon from painted walls.
- Removes carpet stains.
- Relieves insect bites.
- Keeps girl babies’ bows in their hair.
- Clean your nails
- Clean shoes
- Put up posters
- Use it to temporarily seal holes
- Clean around the bathroom
- Clean your vehicle’s headlight lenses
- Clean model cars
- Remove scratches on your watch crystal
- Treat acne
- Prevent fog in your swimming goggles
- Clean piano keytops
- Deodorize smelly hands
- Remove scratches on glassware.
- Remove beach tar
- Deodorize baby bottles
- Cleans clothes iron
- Remove water marks from furniture
Top Ten Uses For Vinegar
Vinegar is good for many things and is cheap and non toxic. Always keep a jug of it handy because you never know when you may want to use it.
Number Ten: Air Freshener
Nine: Flea Control
Eight: Clean Stainless Steel
Seven: Unclogging Drain
Six: Cleaning grease
Five: Clean and polish wood
Four: Anti Static for Plastic
Three: Ant Killer
Two: Hair Care
One: Itching Relief
