| Chew This Over: Munchable Ice Sells Like Hot Cakes
When Kyle Burkhalter gets up in the morning, he goes into the kitchen and fixes himself a nice cup of ice. The 24-year-old director of research for a Web site chews the ice in the car on his way to work in Atlanta. He downs two or three more cups before lunch. He orders ice from drive-thru windows and dips into the office ice machine. Sometimes, his tongue gets so numb he can barely talk to clients. Still, he munches on. "It's something that you want to do and you think about doing on a constant basis," he says. Ice isn't just for chilling drinks anymore, or for packing fish and treating sprains. It's a hot snack. Some Sonic Drive-In franchises sell it in cups and in bags to go. Ice-machine makers are competing to make the best chewable ice, with names like Chewblet, Nugget Ice and Pearl Ice.
Abington hospital moves patients after smoky odor
Ten patients at Abington Memorial Hospital were relocated to another building yesterday after a "smoky" smell was detected on a maternity floor. The fire department was called at 3:17 p.m. after sparks from workers' tools landed in some insulation and smoldered, causing the smell, according to hospital officials. The workers were installing a heating and air-conditioning unit in the basement of the Highland Building. The patients were on the second floor. There were no injuries and the move was precautionary, according to hospital officials. - Mari A. Schaefer .
January 2006 Archives
It's official: Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen are snogging. View the evidence. Update: Wrong, wrong, wrong. Although some people would like to think that See-See has moved on from Jude, it's simply not true. The photos on Egotastic.com were in fact of Hayden and his longtime Lola Skye. They were not of Hayden and Sienna. Read the correction. .
Ridges, soffits can effectively draw air
Q: I need help making a decision. We own a 30-year-old house with a low-pitch roof. We replaced the roof about four years ago, added a ridge vent and put an extra soffit vent between each original soffit vent. Other than the ridge vent and the gable vents, there is not another venting system. My question is (and I hope that I can explain it easily) — would more air be drawn up through the soffit vents to the ridge vent if the gable vents were closed off? It seems that the majority of the air being pulled through the ridge vent would be from the gable vents, since the ridge vent is higher. I hope this makes sense. .
DAVID LAVOIE: Don't take the amenities for granted
HOW easily the lives of those who live in the developed parts of the world can be disrupted. We rely on our amenities and utilities to such an extent that being without them, however briefly, becomes a huge hardship. We have water with which to wash, cook and flush away waste, we have electricity for lights and air-conditioning, we have food on demand, we have shelter. We want for little except, maybe more. But every once in a while a wake-up call comes knocking.
I live in a pleasant set of condominium buildings. Recently, everyone in my building received a notice saying simply: We would like to inform all residents that due to unforeseen repair work to the suction tank, there will be a disruption of water supply from Wednesday until Friday this week.
Three days without running water! No water for cooking! No showers or baths, no hand-washing, no laundry, no way to wash dishes, no way to flush ever-smellier toilets! Catastrophe!
Yet, how many people in our world live this way each and every day of their lives? I had immediate images of women in Africas Sahel walking kilometres a day while balancing huge pots of precious water drawn from a communal well on their heads.
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