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Consumer Reports Investigation Finds Arsenic In Variety Of Rice Products
Rice is one flexible little grain. It’s found in cereal (hot and cold), baby food, rice cakes, crackers, pasta, vinegar, syrup, flour and beverages. But a new Consumer Reports study of 60 rice products...
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So There's Arsenic In My Rice… What Can I Do About It?
Earlier today, we told you about the Consumer Reports study that found varying levels of inorganic arsenic — a known carcinogen — in a wide variety of rice products. Since so many of us chow down on...
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Consumer Reports: A 4-Year-Old Can Break The Emergency Trunk Release On 2013...
(Consumer Reports)Our benevolent benefactors over at Consumer Reports are nothing if not very, very thorough when testing just about anything you can buy. So thorough, in fact, that CR’s auto...
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Ford Continues To Sink Toward Bottom Of Consumer Reports’ Reliability Ratings
(blue387)In 2010, Ford was among the top 10 auto brands in Consumer Reports’ Annual Auto Reliability Survey, with more than 90% of its models rated average or better by CR readers. But in the two years...
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Move Over Santa: Consumer Reports Issues List Of Naughty & Nice Companies
(Consumer Reports) They’re making a list and checking it twice, and you’re about to find out who’s naughty and nice. Get it? Because Consumer Reports is coming to town? Or rather, it’s issued its...
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Ford & EPA Try To Figure Out Why C-Max, Fusion Aren’t Getting Advertised MPG
Ford claims the Fusion Hybrid gets 47 mpg. The Consumer Reports test puts that number at 39 mpg.Following last week’s announcement that Consumer Reports’ real-world fuel-economy testing of Ford’s C-Max...
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Putting Jay Glazer’s Perfect Punch And Other Infomercial Workout Systems To...
The Perfect Punch advertises a full-body, fat-burning workout, but you might as well just hit the treadmill.If those jeans you got as a gift this holiday season don’t fit because of the all the food...
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Should You Take Back That GPS You Got For Christmas?
( jennymcb) You might have ripped the wrapping paper off a shiny new GPS unit earlier this week, but should you keep it? A well-meaning loved one might have bought you a new one this week, but that...
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If You’re Looking For An iPhone 5, Consider Going No-Contract
(bikeoid) If you’re looking for an iPhone 5, do you want to pay an extra $450 now, or an extra $1000 over the next two years? Buying an unlocked phone and using a no-contract carrier can give you...
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Perhaps You Would Like A Fridge With A Built-In Sodastream Or Hot Water...
Also, it has four doors for some reason.Many of our friends and readers are big fans of the Sodastream, a device that lets you make your own sweet (or not-so-sweet) fizzy beverages at home. What if you...
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Consumer Reports Tests Prove: Generic Twinkies Not As Good As Original
(Great Beyond)Since negotiations broke down between management and workers and the mass-consumption snackery Hostess liquidated, American consumers have been left bereft and Twinkieless. No one really...
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There Is Always A Best Way To Cook A Frozen Pizza
(frankieleon)Looking to get the best culinary experience out of your frozen pizza? That’s not an oxymoron. The smell of tomato sauce and cheese is drifting down the hall from our colleagues at Consumer...
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Will The Edge Of Glory Really Let You Slice A Tomato WIth A Credit Card?
Chop chopHave you always dreamed of slicing vegetables with the sharpened edge of a plastic credit card? Yeah, us either. But pitchman Anthony Sullivan does just that in the ad for the Edge of Glory,...
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Save Electricity: Don’t Turn Off Your Printer
(mava) Do you turn your printer off when you’re not using it? You might be wasting electricity…and ink. Our watt-measuring colleagues down the hall at Consumer Reports Electronics note that letting...
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How To Save Money By Not Using Your Health Insurance
(voteprime)We’ve covered the topic of low-cost generic medicines in the past, helping a reader save more than $300 in out-of-pocket expenses every year by filling his prescriptions at a discount store...
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Can I Replace My Smartphone Screen Myself? Yes. Should I? Maybe.
(MeneerDijk)Can you replace a cracked smartphone screen yourself? Yes, and there are plenty of tools, kits, and online tutorials available to help you. Should you do it? Maybe, say our colleagues down...
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Watch As Consumer Reports Goes Drifting In $90,000 Tesla S
Earlier today, our test-track-lovin’ kin at Consumer Reports surprised an awful lot of people by announcing that the completely electric (and completely expensive) Tesla S scored the highest in its...
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Store-Brand Sunscreens From Target, Walmart, Walgreens Outperform...
(frankieleon.)If you think you get what you pay for when you buy sunscreen, you might be in for a surprise. Our less-sunburned cousins at Consumer Reports recently put a dozen sun-protection products...
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Consumer Reports: $1,500 Ultra HD TV Is Just a Mediocre LCD TV
The Seiki 50″ Ultra HD TV sells for around $1,500, but Consumer Reports says to save your money.With many Ultra HD (or 4K) TVs ranging in price anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000, early adopters who want...
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Why Should I Care About New Fuel Economy Standards? Because Money Is Nice To...
(Great Beyond) Don’t you just loooove watching the dollars and cents tick up as the gallons slowly glug into your car’s gas tank? No you don’t, because no one likes spending large chunks of change to...
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