By Colleen Thomas From Tribune News Service Niagara Falls–The grandeur of Niagara Falls keeps tourists seeking new and better views of the natural wonder—and it’s easy to find them. On both the U.S. and Canadian sides of the river, you can gaze from lookouts, boat tours, a bridge, towers with wide windows, helicopter rides and…
Install an Electric Water Heater
When an electric water heater begins to produce lukewarm water, replacing it is an obvious choice. The simplest solution is to replace it with a new electric unit that will be more efficient and consume less energy than the old one. While a home improvement like decorating is more enjoyable and visible, an electric water…
How to Clean a Bathtub Anti-Slip Bottom
If you have a bathtub with a slip-resistant bottom that still looks dingy, grungy and downright grimy no matter what you use to clean it, I have really good news and at least one surefire solution that will even bring an older tub bottom back to being clean and like new! Since the Americans with…
You’ll Find a Sweet Surprise Inside This Flourless Chocolate Cake
Apples and walnuts add a delicious twist to this flourless chocolate cake. Serve this treasured family recipe for Passover or anytime you crave a bit of sweet dessert. Flourless Chocolate Torte Serves 8 Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes Ingredients 1/2 cup matzo meal 1/3 cup walnut pieces 2 large eggs 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar, divided…
A St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Means It’s Time for Potatoes!
Potatoes deserve to be piled high next to thin slices of corned beef for this year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Ever so versatile, potatoes offer big satisfaction for the buck. These days we eat them rarely in favor of less carby offerings. Not so, on one of our favorite food holidays. We’ll boil and then…
You May Not Need Statins, Even With Elevated ‘Bad’ Cholesterol
For decades, the answer to lowering cholesterol to prevent heart attack or stroke was a statin prescription. Unfortunately, many people prescribed statins stop taking them due to side effects, while others question their efficacy. One study even found that doctors have overprescribed statins worldwide, which can potentially be harmful. Is statin therapy suitable for you? A…
Deep Dive: A Closer Look at Life in the Galapagos
The waters were unusually calm, the last rays of an equatorial sun just starting to heat up the surface of a loping Pacific swell. The broad rollers transformed, changing from a deep blue to warm tones of orange and red. The cushy couches on the stern’s upper deck slowly filled, with everyone showered, changed, and…
Big Flavors in a Cloud Forest: Discovering Ecuador’s Yunguilla
The streets of Quito can be chaotic at the best of times. Rolling out from the heart of this high-altitude city, a place where the heart quickens and your breath gets short, real fast—we only climbed. Soon enough, we found ourselves in the clouds. Literally. Turning off the main highway, we curled up a dirt…
Searching the Pacific for the Mutiny on the Bounty
It had been a long and difficult voyage, to say the least. Setting sail from England in November 1787, stormy winds accompanied the ship right from the start. With the goal of reaching Tahiti by the shortest route possible—around Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America—the timing was urgent. Summer there is brief….
Beyond Paradise: Going Deeper in Bora Bora
When you first see those peaks, you blink your eyes, a little. Shake your head. Tell yourself it’s not a dream. An imagination-stretching, mind-bending sight, the mountain’s verdant, craggy heights look like something from a cartoon, or maybe one of those hand-drawn, vintage postcards. For decades, the beautifully angled and uneven upper stretches of these…
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