Swimmers in Orange County can be more confident this summer that inspectors are checking regularly on the cleanliness and safety of the 2,200 hotel, apartment, neighborhood, school and club pools splashed across the county.

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MoneySaver Tip #1

Alrighty, I've been trying to think about ways that I can help my readers stretch out their dollars until George Washington screams and tries to file charges for torture with the Justice Department. ;-)

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Oddly enough, the world's most filthy restaurant may just be in the metropolitan down under. This McDonald's restaurant in Australia may just take the cake for the world's most filthy restaurant! (See video on full article)

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Excerpt: The language of love in real life all too often comes down to the mundane. But that's no reason to go profane. Here is a list of ten things you don't want to hear your lover say during sex (according to my client's experiences):

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Ask mothers why babies are constantly picking things up from the floor or ground and putting them in their mouths, and chances are they'll say that it's instinctive - that that's how babies explore the world.

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To put things in even grander perspective, feast on this juicy fact: There is an estimated five nonillion (5x10 to the power of 30) bacteria alive and thriving on the Earth today.

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TV remote controls, bathroom taps and refrigerator doors are hotspots for the common cold virus, experts have warned. Researchers at the University of Virginia swabbed these common household surfaces in 30 homes and found traces of rhinovirus 42% of the time.

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"They're lying in wait for you at the ATM machine and on your computer keyboard at work. Secretly, they attach themselves to your hands when you push a shopping cart at the store.

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Keep your System clean and healthy.

There was I last evening, happily working away on my Newsvine Column, when, Phut! My monitor screen went out, and my computer just stopped running! It's times like these that you are glad your Partner is a computer engineer, who always keeps spare parts to hand.

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When you check into a hotel room, ever wonder how clean it is? FOX reporter Dana Fowle has an exclusive story that has county health inspectors reacting.

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The crux of that scientific revolution is a bit of role reversal. The parasites that we have been told to avoid - such as hookworm and pinworm - may be the good guys, while excessive hygiene may be the bad guy.

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The thought of a daily shower would have filled the 17th century Frenchman with fear. To splash away with abandon, to open your pores and leave your body vulnerable to all that disease, would be practically asking to get sick.

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The New Jersey-based company d-CON released a report this month ranking Boston third of the nation's 32 cities most likely to be infested by rats.

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From bedbugs to toxic moths, the number of pests in UK homes is on the rise. Why is this, and what can be done to curb their populations? What you read below may not leave you sleeping so easily in your bed tonight - or any night.

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The first true toothbrush, consisting of Siberian pig hair bristles wired into carved cattle-bone handles, was invented in China in 1498. But tooth brushing didn't become routine in the United States until it was enforced on soldiers during World War II

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Treat all your vegetables as though they've been pooped on

WASH your vegetables. Wash them again. Then wash them a third time. If you have ever helped prepare dinner with a family in China, you have observed a meticulous protocol for handling food. It speaks loads about this ancient culture.

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Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds (who reap higher salaries than those with neat "office landscapes") and that messy closet owners are probably better parents and nicer and cooler than their tidier  …

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