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We're revisiting an in-depth 1977 House Beautiful article about keeping your houseplants alive—and the advice still resonates almost 50 years later.

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State, city and county inspectors have cited Iowa restaurants and stores for hundreds of food-safety violations during the past several weeks, including offenses related to expired meat, cockroaches ...