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7 Things You Shouldn’t Clean With Dish Soap
Even the sweatiest, oiliest skin doesn’t need the rigorous stripping you’ll find in standard dish soap. “Dish soap and skin cleansers are based on the same ingredients—surfactants—but dish soap is usually formulated to be more cleansing, which might end up stripping skin a bit more,” says Michelle Wong, PhD, a cosmetic chemist in Sydney, Australia. Although they’re formulated to be…
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Best Dish Drying Racks and Mats
I ended up making the wrong choice—a silicone mat that got smelly and dirty and left hard-to-remove stains on my white countertop. Gross. So I made it my mission to find products that work. In our lab, I tested six dish racks and three mats. I assessed each model across several criteria, including maximum capacity, how well they could hold…
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From AOL Time Warner to DirecTV and Dish: 20 years of media mergers
This week, DirecTV announced it intends to buy Dish, Sling TV, and the rest of EchoStar’s television business for a dollar (while also taking on all of Dish’s debt), combining almost 20 million satellite TV subscribers from two companies that have been circling one another for decades. But it’s not just DirecTV and Dish. AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, General Electric, GM,…
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DirecTV’s Merger With DISH Might Be a Good Thing
DirecTV is acquiring DISH through a $9.75 billion debt exchange transaction. This deal, pending approval, would create a monopoly in the satellite television industry. Ironically, it would also contribute to the FCC’s 5G buildout goals by rescuing EchoStar, the current owner of DISH, from bankruptcy. The agreement is dense but fairly straightforward. DirecTV will own EchoStar’s television assets and liabilities—DISH,…
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I Put This Savory, Spicy Thai Sauce on Every Rice Dish
Some folks always put the same condiment on their food, whatever is for dinner. You know the type—maybe you are the type: The ketchup-on-eggs people. The hot sauce-on-everything folks. Well, I like to pat myself on the back for incorporating different condiments into different dishes, but even I make one exception, and it’s for prik nam pla. I simply must…
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