Duct Tape

Is there any way to get rid of warts other than duct tape? I have more than 20 of these ugly things on my hands, and I can't imagine trying to get on with daily life with that much duct tape on. I have had these warts frozen off, burnt off and surgically removed, but they still grow back. I am desperate, but I must say the duct tape really does not appeal to me. There are many home remedies for warts besides duct tape. We will skip some of the stranger ones. That still leaves taping a piece of banana peel to the wart, with the inside of the peel against the skin.

My husband's doctor told him to put duct tape on his foot to get rid of plantar warts. Do you just cut a small piece and place it on the wart? How long does it take? The duct-tape treatment for warts is quite controversial. The few studies that have been published provide contradictory results. Nevertheless, it is cheap, easy to use, and some readers report surprising success. Here's just one example: "I had a cluster of plantar warts treated by a dermatologist. She used a liquid nitrogen spray, which was excruciatingly painful.

There is nothing simple about building an underwater robot to probe for salinity or look for water creatures. Wires come loose. Cameras fall off. Measuring string sinks to the bottom. "It's fun, but it's kind of frustrating," said Edwin Pena, who will enter eighth grade at Annapolis Middle School this month. Edwin and a dozen other rising seventh through ninth-graders spent the past two weeks building underwater devices made of PVC pipes, duct tape and small motors. The students sent the crude Remote Operating Vehicles, or ROVs, on missions to collect water samples and take pictures.

In a disheveled office just north of Baltimore, Chris Harring is aiming lights at a wall and framing a shot in a nearby camera. In less than four hours, this scene - however it turns out - will wind up in front of an audience at the Senator Theatre. Far from big-budget Hollywood - but smack in the middle of the city of John Waters - 20 independent film crews raced through the region yesterday attempting to produce a short movie on deadline for the Creative Alliance's sixth annual CAmm Slamm competition.

Astronomy Solar blast debris photos received Scientists with NASA's STEREO mission say their twin spacecraft have sent back the first-ever views of debris from a solar blast called a coronal mass ejection as it races across the gulf between the sun and Earth. "The panoramic view is absolutely unique," Russ Howard of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington said yesterday. "Seeing the evolution of this material as it's going out into planetary space, and seeing the interaction with the solar wind.

Baltimore police released yesterday the names of three men killed in apparently unrelated slayings in recent days, but added two more killings last night to a growing city homicide toll in the new year. Detectives also were investigating another man's death as a homicide after he was found last week in woods in North Baltimore, reportedly bound with duct tape. The steady pace of violence that closed out last year with 275 homicides in Baltimore -- six more than in 2005 -- shows no sign of abating in 2007.

What with Mark Foley and all, you may have missed some of the news that came perilously close to falling through the cracks this week. As a public service, here's a glance backward: Mongolia's legislature on Thursday began debating a law on regulating the use of Genghis Khan's name in a bid to prevent the memory of the legendary conqueror from being cheapened, an Associated Press writer named Ganbat Namjil reported. Since Mongolia emerged from the shadow of the Soviet Union in 1991, the isolated Asian nation has applied the moniker of its favorite son to more than half a dozen brands of vodka and beer and a variety of other commercial products.

During a daylong visit to Baltimore yesterday, Bill Cosby urged fathers to help raise their kids, stressed the importance of education and spoke of the evils of hip-hop. In vintage Cosby style, the five-time Grammy-winning comedian mixed dashes of humor with his challenge to predominantly black audiences to become involved in their children's lives. The message was directed toward absentee fathers. "This is a great evening because we're calling on men to come claim their children," Cosby said last night at Heritage United Church of Christ in Northwest Baltimore, the last of his four stops.

Some of the people in my multiple sclerosis support group use the gin and raisins remedy for achy muscles and joints. Does the alcohol evaporate entirely? Would there be cause for worry if a person ate 15 or 20 raisins and was pulled over by a state trooper? The recipe for gin-soaked raisins calls for barely covering golden raisins with gin in a shallow bowl. Allow the gin to evaporate, and eat nine raisins per day. Under these conditions, there is only about a drop of alcohol in the daily dose.

Glen Burnie burglar binds woman, 3 kids A woman and her three young children were bound with duct tape after walking in on a burglar in their Glen Burnie home, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. Detectives were going though old police reports and asking for cooperation from other jurisdictions to track leads in the case, said Officer Sara Schriver, a spokeswoman for the department. "I know that this is especially frightful and traumatic," she said. "In that area, we haven't had a situation like this."