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DISPATCHES | Issue: "Exit strategies" August 05, 2006

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Oddball occurrences

One clean machine

Perhaps major appliance makers will adopt a warning label just for folks like Gerard Dougher of Scranton, Pa.: Don't clean your washing machine with gasoline. The Scranton man noticed smoke rising from his washing machine after cleaning the inside and setting the machine on its wash cycle. Firefighters had to haul the engulfed machine from the house to douse the flames. Dougher says he was trying to remove a sticky substance from the inside of his appliance.

How low can they go?

A grape glut has sent Australian wine prices plummeting. Some winemakers are even stocking Australian stores with merlots for about $1.50. Experts blame three years of bumper grape crops for the discount wine prices. While Australians can pick up a bottle of merlot for less than a liter of water, the price isn't as low as it can go: Winemakers have storehoused billions of liters of wine around the country to avoid below-basement prices.

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August 05, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 30

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