HOT TIPS; A GLASS ACT.Byline: Carol Bidwell and Phil Davis
Coca-Cola is going old school in the new millennium. The Atlanta-based cola giant is reissuing Coke in those 8-ounce embossed em·boss tr.v. em·bossed, em·boss·ing, em·boss·es 1. To mold or carve in relief: emboss a design on a coin. 2. glass bottles that were phased out in the 1950s. And, with a nod to the collectibles market, Coke will be putting the names of 24 cities on the bottom of the bottles - from Niagara Falls Niagara Falls, waterfall, United States and Canada Niagara Falls, in the Niagara River, W N.Y. and S Ont., Canada; one of the most famous spectacles in North America. The falls are on the international line between the cities of Niagara Falls, N.Y. , N.Y., to Hollywood with stops in between at odd locales such as Roswell, N.M., and Death Valley. Hang on to the bottles. In the early 1980s, my grandmother got $50 for a vintage Clifton, Tenn., Coke bottle that had been forgotten in her basement for decades. The ``Georgia green'' glass bottles will be everywhere in the near future. Next month, Coke plans to plug the new-old bottle by giving away 1 million bottles at movie theaters, malls and ski areas. - Phil Davis SAY BUY-BUY TO FIRST HOME Buying your first home can be an exercise in terror. The alphabet alphabet [Gr. alpha-beta, like Eng. ABC], system of writing, theoretically having a one-for-one relation between character (or letter) and phoneme (see phonetics). Few alphabets have achieved the ideal exactness. soup of strange vocabulary involved in preclosing inspections, amortization tables, RESPA RESPA Real Estate Settlement Procedure Act statements often invites more questions than answers. Ilyce R. Glink's ``100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask'' (Times Books; $17) cuts through the mess with mess with Verb Informal, chiefly US to interfere in, or become involved with, a dangerous person, thing, or situation: he had started messing with drugs well-researched, straightforward answers to questions ranging from ``How do I know what I want?'' to ``How does my deed get recorded?'' with stops at every step in between. There are sections on evaluating mortgage brokers and real estate agents, finding the right financing and closing the deal. There also are helpful sections that list everything from the Top 10 first-time home buyer mistakes to helpful Web sites. Considering Southern Californians routinely pay $250,000 for an average home, a $17 investment in Glink's book should pay for itself at least 100 times, if not more. - Phil Davis GETTING THE HANG OF GROWING STRAWBERRIES Get a head start on your spring garden with Triumph Plant Co.'s new Hanging Basket Strawberry strawberry, any plant of the genus Fragaria of the family Rosaceae (rose family), low herbaceous perennials with edible red fruits, native to temperate and mountainous tropical regions. The European everbearing strawberry (F. Kit, which will be available beginning in early February in KMart, Wal-mart and Target stores as well as local garden centers. A kit includes three ever-bearing strawberry plants and coconut coconut, fruit of the coco palm (Cocos nucifera), a tree widely distributed through tropical regions. The seed is peculiarly adapted to dispersal by water because the large pod holding the nut is buoyant and impervious to moisture. fiber soil plus an all-weather hanging basket. The berries can be grown on a porch or patio or even inside, hanging in a sunny window. A three-plant kit retails for $5.99. - Carol Bidwell CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) no caption (Coca-Cola bottle closeup of logo) (2) no caption (stack of Coca-Cola bottles) (3) no caption (book cover ``100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask'' (4) no caption (label Strawberry Hanging Basket Kit) |
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