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A friend burned her hand on a very hot pan handle. I grabbed the soy sauce and had her soak her hand in it after she ran the burn under cold water. She reported relief, and the next day she was fine. I was really worried it would blister. She smelled like marinade, but that's a small price. Thanks for sharing your success with soy sauce. We heard about this home remedy for burns from an Oregonian listener to our radio show. On my last visit to the dentist, our hygienist recommended we chew gum containing xylitol.

Mildred L. "Milly" Kopro, a homemaker and soap opera fan, died Aug. 17 of pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Towson resident was 83. The daughter of immigrant parents from Slovakia, the former Mildred Kopecki was born and raised in Kenosha, Wis. Shortly after graduating from high school in 1942, she married Richard J. Kopro. During the 1940s, she held several office and bookkeeping positions, most notably at Snap-on Tools headquarters in Kenosha. In 1956, she moved with her husband, who was an AT&T career salary administrator, to Fanwood, N.J., when he was transferred to company headquarters in New York City.

In the old days, it used to go like this: Mom watched soap opera. Kid got home from school. Kid sat down and watched soap opera with mom. Kid grew attached to soap opera. Kid continued watching soap opera into adulthood, and passed the addiction on to the next generation. Soap characters like Luke and Laura from "General Hospital" and Roman and Marlena from "Days of Our Lives" became as familiar to kids as their friends at school -- extramarital affairs, demonic possession and diabolical twins notwithstanding.

Roman Hruska,94, a U.S. senator from Nebraska from 1954 to 1976, died Sunday in Omaha from complications from a fall that broke his hip.T. Justin Moore Jr.,74, a former chairman of Dominion Resources and retired chief executive of subsidiary Virginia Power, died Saturday in Richmond, Va.Arthur Boyd,78, whose talent for capturing Australian landscapes in oil helped establish him as one of that nation's leading painters, died Saturday in Melbourne.Konrad Henkel,83, a German industrialist who for five decades oversaw the expansion of his grandfather's soap business into a worldwide chemical concern, died Saturday in Dusseldorf, Germany.

THE SCENT of soap still pervades some of the buildings at the former Procter & Gamble plant in Locust Point, even though the soap-making operation ceased five years ago.Those industrial-strength fragrances apparently have gone to the heads of the new owners, who are converting the landmark to Baltimore's newest waterfront office center.They've renamed the five major buildings in honor of products once made there. Office tenants will be able to lease space in the Tide Building, the Ivory Building, the Dawn Building, the Cascade Building or the Joy Building.

The inventor wakes before daylight. He has loaded cardboard boxes into his Buick Regal and the car smells like soap. Alone, he leaves his split-level house and at the end of his driveway turns left, toward the chance to sell his dream.The idea came to him 10 years ago, when he worked in a factory. He was a supervisor at a liquor company, and he felt trapped. Everyone else in his family -- his mother, his father, his twin brother -- had the security of a second income. What he had was 18 years in manufacturing and a couple of dreams that didn't work out.Until one restless night when he awoke with three words floating in his head: "soap, mashing, machine."

Soap opera fans unable to watch ABC dramas during the daytime will soon be able to watch them at night, when Disney and ABC launch a 24-hour soap opera channel.The new venture, scheduled to launch in mid-January, will offer up same-day reruns of "All My Children," "General Hospital," "One Life to Live" and "Port Charles" in prime time and a mix of movies and original fare the rest of the day.The concept is the result of tests ABC conducted last year in Chicago and Houston, during which the daytime series were rerun on a cable channel at night.

NEW YORK -- When Agnes Nixon, doyenne of the American soap opera, was once asked to share the recipe of her sudsy success, she offered up three ingredients: make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait.It's not clear if Agnes had any purpose for "All My Children" beyond selling detergent. But somewhere along the way, it became clear that if soaps could sell soap, they could sell social change.Enter a young Ms. Greenleaf onto the Chinese television screen. On a rainy fall morning, I am sitting beside Chen Sheng Li of the State Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, watching a dramatic -- oh well, melodramatic episode of "Ordinary People."

Desperate to keep marauding deer from treating their plants like canapes, gardeners in the area are shaving pungent deodorant soap, blasting country music all night and decorating freshly tilled soil with cotton puffs soaked in coyote urine."

A CANDLELIGHT TOUR of a Civil War encampment will be a highlight of this year's Celebrate Taneytown Day on Saturday at Taneytown Memorial Park.Soldiers representing North and South will be dressed in period clothing, their tents will be lighted by lanterns, and soldiers and their families will sing Civil War songs and offer living history lessons during the tour, which begins at 7: 30 p.m."Last year, there were 200 tents set up by the re-enacters, and it [the candlelight tour] was just the most beautiful thing," said Nancy McCormick, director of economic development for Taneytown.

When Sandy Summers picks up her children - ages 6 and 10 - at elementary school, they're greeted with squirts of hand sanitizer. "When they get in the car, I put a glob on their hands," said the nurse, who lives in Homeland. "If they're going to eat a snack in the car, I make them use some. ... If I go to the grocery store, when I get in the car, the first thing I do is use the sanitizer. If I forget to use it before I touch the steering wheel, I put a whole bunch on my hands and just wipe it all over the steering wheel.

Question: : I had severe leg cramps and read about putting a bar of soap under the sheet. I tried this and found it stopped them immediately. Even more astonishing, it also banished my intermittent erectile dysfunction. I checked out the ingredients of Ivory soap and found it contains magnesium sulfate. Paramedics use this compound to treat heart attacks or asthma because it relaxes smooth muscle fibers found in blood vessels and airways. I wonder if magnesium is absorbed from the soap through the skin of the legs and feet, increasing blood flow.

ANGELA LYNN 840A W. 36th St., Hampden / / Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday / / 410-235-4446 ........................ ANGIE CHARLOW STRUGGLES A BIT to find the words to describe her boutique on Hampden's Avenue. "You have to come in and see it," she tells those who ask. But when pressed, she gives this description: "Gifts and accessories for you and the home." Here you'll find handmade jewelry, clean-burning soy candles, French soap, travel bags, purses, picture frames, furniture and all-natural cleaning products.

NFL Patriots@Ravens 8:30 p.m. [Ch. 13, ESPN] So obviously, we all know the pick tonight, Patriots-Ravens, preceded by attendant build-up with the obvious soap opera lines - New England's march to history; Baltimore's attempt to salvage something from a season gone terribly wrong. And the broadcast booth guest will be Don Shula, who we're hoping can be persuaded by Tony Kornheiser to pop the champagne cork right there on TV at the end of the game in the unlikely event of a Ravens victory.

When veteran soap opera writers heard ABC's official statement about the post-strike future of its daytime dramas - "We will continue to produce original programming with no repeats and without interruption" - they knew it was bad news. If history repeats itself, it meant they would be replaced, as soon as necessary, by strike-breakers, nonunion writers - or maybe even the producers themselves. "They'll write it however they can get it written," said Marlene Clark Poulter, a 17-year soap opera writer on strike from DirecTV's Passions.

PAULO AUTRAN, 85 Actor Brazilian actor Paulo Autran, whose work earned him the moniker "lord of the stage," has died, doctors said. Mr. Autran's final film was The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Brazil's Oscar entry this year in the foreign film category. He died Friday of complications from lung cancer, the Sirio Libanes hospital said in a news release. Born in Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 7, 1922, Mr. Autran had studied law and planned to become a diplomat before his work in amateur theater led him to the professional stage.

Mildred L. "Milly" Kopro, a homemaker and soap opera fan, died Aug. 17 of pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Towson resident was 83. The daughter of immigrant parents from Slovakia, the former Mildred Kopecki was born and raised in Kenosha, Wis. Shortly after graduating from high school in 1942, she married Richard J. Kopro. During the 1940s, she held several office and bookkeeping positions, most notably at Snap-on Tools headquarters in Kenosha. In 1956, she moved with her husband, who was an AT&T career salary administrator, to Fanwood, N.J., when he was transferred to company headquarters in New York City.

A friend burned her hand on a very hot pan handle. I grabbed the soy sauce and had her soak her hand in it after she ran the burn under cold water. She reported relief, and the next day she was fine. I was really worried it would blister. She smelled like marinade, but that's a small price. Thanks for sharing your success with soy sauce. We heard about this home remedy for burns from an Oregonian listener to our radio show. On my last visit to the dentist, our hygienist recommended we chew gum containing xylitol.

What, besides the food, comprises a good "restaurant experience?" Service and decor are important, of course, but very near the top of my list is the state of the restaurant's bathroom. First there are sins of omission - management's failure to keep the bathroom clean. But what drive me crazy are sins of commission - the bad decisions that restaurants make that ensure an aggravating restroom experience. One problem is not stocking enough toilet paper. If a restaurant hasn't invested in a toilet-paper delivery system that includes reserve rolls, and it has not charged its staff with constantly monitoring the supply, then it owes it to the customers to simply store extra rolls in the bathroom itself.

During my toddler's terrible, terrible 2s, I sidestepped the daily hand-washing battle by letting him use waterless hand sanitizer. My husband objected because he didn't think the alcohol-based products were as effective as good old soap and water. I argued that the quick-drying gels, now found in schools, hospitals, day care centers and health clubs, were better than nothing. We were both right. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers can be a great substitute for hand washing if soap and water aren't available, as long as they contain more than 60 percent ethyl alcohol or isopropanol or a combination of the two. And though they can kill bacteria, they differ from products labeled "antibacterial," which require water.