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Cleaning Up

  1. free ideas
    Cleaning Up After a Party Doesn’t Have to Be HellHere’s how to make it painless.
  2. purge or be purged
    Introducing the Purge, a Rage-Based Cleaning MethodA necessary corrective to the KonMari approach.
  3. advice
    The Best Ways to Fake a Clean HouseHow to make your home look presentable in under an hour.
  4. cleaning up
    Sorry, Germophobes: You’ve Been FooledAntibacterial soaps with this active ingredient don’t work any better than regular suds.
  5. q&a
    She Had a Cat Hair Ball in Her Vagina — or Did She?We caught up with the xoJane essayist. “Now I wish I’d taken a picture of it,” she said.
  6. so fresh so clean
    How to Keep Your White Clothes Looking FreshThe struggle against pit stains and makeup smudges is real.
  7. Are You a Workweek Slob?A scientific investigation of the way we live in the messes we make.
  8. Marathoners, Hard Hit Residents, and Other New Yorkers Volunteering Side by SideIt warms the heart, even as temperatures drop.
  9. cleaning up
    DMX Gives Back With Random Acts of Public CleanlinessHe’s vacuuming at nightclubs.
  10. cleaning up
    BP Reaches Settlement With Deepwater Horizon PartnerAnadarko Petroleum will help to compensate victims of the 2010 oil spill.
  11. cleaning up
    BP Could Face Manslaughter Charges for Deepwater Horizon DeathsBut don’t worry, the executives are still safe.
  12. snowball fight
    Mayor Bloomberg Is ‘Angry’ About City’s Slow Blizzard Cleanup“It is a bad situation.”
  13. cleaning up
    Gowanus Canal Residents to EPA: How About That Raw Sewage While You’re at It?Please?
  14. cleaning up
    A Short List of What Federal Oil-Rig Inspectors Aren’t CheckingA short, semi-terrifying list.
  15. cleaning up
    Obama Administration Changes Its Mind About Offshore DrillingNow that we think about it, maybe that wasn’t the best idea.
  16. cleaning up
    Yotam Solomon Designed a BP Oil Spill–Inspired CollectionThe proceeds will go to the NRDC and Defenders of Wildlife organizations.
  17. cleaning up
    BP Is Back to Being ProfitableHeckuva third quarter, BP!
  18. cleaning up
    Four Advance Tests Showed That the Cement Halliburton Was Using to Close BP’s Well Was UnstableHalliburton only told BP about one of them.
  19. cleaning up
    Moratorium on Offshore Drilling Will Now End Before the MidtermsMy, that was quick.
  20. cleaning up
    Report Criticizes Adminstration for Response to Oil SpillGovernment retort: response was “in full force and immediate.”
  21. bp
    New BP CEO: We’re Coming Back From ‘Near-Death’“[We need] a fast evolution, not revolution.”
  22. cleaning up the prequel?
    Shell Wants to Build the World’s Largest Floating Natural-Gas PlantWhat could go wrong?
  23. cleaning up
    The BP Oil Well Is Now ‘Physically Incapable of Leaking Another Drop’Were all of your other issues from last summer resolved?
  24. cleaning up
    BP Completes Relief Well, Now on to ‘Bottom Kill’BP sensors detect that the relief well has connected with the original Macando well 18,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf.
  25. cleaning up
    Multiple Choice Photo: (A) Gravel Road or (B) Enormous Fish Kill in the Gulf?Guess which?
  26. twitter
    Creator of Fake BP Twitter Was Struck With Idea While ‘Taking a Whiz’“It was very obvious to me BP was more worried about its image than about actually letting people see and understand what was happening on the Gulf.”
  27. cleaning up
    You Know What They Say About People Who Like to Start FiresAnother week, another fire.
  28. cleaning up
    BP Report Blames a Series of Failures and a Number of Companies for the Spill“No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy.”
  29. cleaning up
    Louisiana’s Shrimp & Petroleum Festival Doesn’t See What All the Fuss Is AboutCelebrating Louisiana’s harvest since 1967.
  30. cleaning up
    Employees From the Company Whose Oil Rig Just Exploded Spent Yesterday Protesting Restrictions on Offshore DrillingJust yesterday, Mariner Energy employees objected to restrictions on offshore drilling.
  31. cleaning up
    Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf of Mexico [Updated]Yes, this is happening again.
  32. cleaning up
    BP Executives Should Be Thankful Brad Pitt Isn’t PresidentThe actor takes a stand in new Spike Lee documentary.
  33. cleaning up
    A 22-Mile Plume of Oil Has Gone Missing in the GulfScientists lost track of the oil “mist” after Hurricane Alex.
  34. james cameron
    James Cameron Says Government Ignored His Oil Spill Response Plan“At the end of the day, they did exactly what we recommended.”
  35. cleaning up
    BP’s Cement Plug Has HardenedCrew now beginning the final phase of drilling.
  36. cleaning up
    Static Kill Completed in Deepwater Horizon WellThe oil leak is now double-stopped.
  37. cleaning up
    BP Will Keep Killing the Well Until It Is Killed for GoodThe static kill worked, and the bottom kill will finish the job.
  38. cleaning up
    New Report Claims Oil Spill Is Essentially Under ControlThree quarters of the oil has been eliminated.
  39. cleaning up
    BP Gets Hit With a New Lawsuit and (Surprise!) It Has Nothing to Do With the Spill$10 billion in damages for a benzene leak in Texas. Add it to their tab.
  40. cleaning up
    Oil Spill Estimate Increases Yet AgainAnd “static kill” is postponed.
  41. cleaning up
    Oil Spill Not Actually That Big a DealThe environment is doing fine!
  42. cleaning up
    BP Exec Warns Congress About Risks of Restricting Offshore Drilling“It would harm the ongoing effort to increase America’s energy independence.”
  43. cleaning up
    Tony Hayward to Get Annual Pension of Close to $1 MillionBP CEO will be sitting on piles of money in Russia.
  44. cleaning up
    BP May Literally Banish Tony Hayward to SiberiaWell, Moscow, at least.
  45. cleaning up
    Tony Hayward Reportedly Stepping DownFor real, this time!
  46. cleaning up
    Denied Reports of Tony Hayward’s Dismissal Make the Rounds Again [Updated]Will he leave soon, though?
  47. cleaning up
    Oil-Spill Cleanup Commences AgainBonnie was pretty weak.
  48. oil spill
    Oil Cleanup Paused While Bonnie Passes ThroughIt’s like Mother Nature is a cutter.
  49. in hot water
    Deepwater Horizon Workers Knew Something Was UpEven before the rig exploded.
  50. cleaning up
    Oil Companies Aiming To Impress Public, White House With ‘Rapid Response System’Four companies are each donating $250 million.
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