Author Archives: Colman Andrews

Knowing This One Word Can Save You Big Bucks at Walmart

Posted: March 21, 2019 at 9:35 am

People expect to save money when they shop at Walmart. From 1988 through 2007, in fact, the Arkansas-based maxi-chain Walmart’s slogan was “Always Low Prices.” Today, it’s “Save Money. Live ...
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The 5 Cities with the Best High School Graduation Rates Are All in One State

Posted: March 18, 2019 at 10:40 am

Almost 85% of public high school students in the United States now graduate with a regular diploma within four years of starting ninth grade -- a record high -- according ...
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This Corner of Paradise Has the Highest Food Prices in America

Posted: March 18, 2019 at 10:13 am

Palm trees, beaches, balmy weather, a famously laid-back lifestyle…Hawaii is truly an American paradise. There’s a downside to living in this tropical eden, though: It’s very expensive. According to a ...
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America’s Poorest and Richest States Are Next-Door Neighbors

Posted: March 15, 2019 at 5:45 pm

The northeastern corner of the poorest state in America borders, and is partially surrounded by, the northwestern corner of the richest state. (The boundary between the two was a matter ...
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Healthy Versions of Old-School Junk-Food Snacks

Posted: March 15, 2019 at 5:14 pm

Americans love to snack. The market research firm NPD reported that we consumed nearly 386 billion ready-to-eat individual snack foods in 2018. Another marketing survey forecast that the salty snacks ...
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Want to Stay Sharp As You Age? Eat This Common Vegetable

Posted: March 15, 2019 at 2:27 pm

A study published Wednesday in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease has found that regular consumption of even small portions of a common, versatile, inexpensive vegetable may result in a 50% ...
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Who Knew This Was the Wealthiest State in America?

Posted: March 15, 2019 at 9:23 am

California’s San José-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara agglomeration — Silicon Valley — is the richest metropolitan area in America, with San Francisco not far behind. In all, California is home to seven of ...
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Restaurant Chains With the Happiest Customers

Posted: March 13, 2019 at 10:30 am

Restaurant chains of all kinds — from coffee and doughnut shops to upscale steakhouses -- value customer loyalty. Regular customers provide a steady revenue stream and are said to generally ...
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Spring Superfoods That Won’t Break the Bank

Posted: March 7, 2019 at 8:06 pm

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “superfood” as “a food considered especially nutritious or otherwise beneficial to health and well-being” — though, amusingly, the first printed use of the term it ...
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12 Ways You’re Not Using Your Instant Pot Right

Posted: March 7, 2019 at 7:44 pm

The Instant Pot is a kitchen workhorse -- an all-in-one slow cooker, pressure cooker, steamer, yogurt maker, sterilizer, rice cooker, sauté pan, food warmer, and probably a few other things ...
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Daylight Saving Time? Non, Merci, Say the French

Posted: March 7, 2019 at 4:03 pm

The French are apparently tired of changing their clocks twice a year. European Union regulations have long required members to observe the spring-ahead/fall-behind reset “in order to cater for the changing ...
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Foods You Couldn’t Buy Frozen 35 Years Ago

Posted: March 5, 2019 at 4:48 pm

After seeing how locals froze food in the winter while working as a fur trader in Labrador, Canada, New York businessman and inventor Clarence Birdseye returned to the U.S. and ...
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The Most Popular Slow Cooker Recipes on Pinterest

Posted: February 25, 2019 at 4:11 pm

Pinterest, today the third most popular social media platform in the world (after Facebook and Instagram) -- making its co-founder one of the richest millennial entrepreneurs ever -- launched in ...
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They’re Not Really White and 19 Other Fascinating Facts About Polar Bears

Posted: February 21, 2019 at 8:56 pm

If the polar bear is an international icon, Coca-Cola has something to do with the situation: It first used an image of the animal in a print ad in ...
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The Healthiest Option at Every Fast Food Restaurant

Posted: February 14, 2019 at 2:02 pm

Almost 40% of Americans patronize a fast food restaurant at least once a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Maybe some people actually frequent these ...
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