Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Get plenty of rest. Use a humidifier. Drink fluids. Eat a healthy diet. Eat soup. Gargle with warm salt water.

Answer: One of the most effective ways to get rid of a cough and cold is to rest. This means getting extra sleep, up to 12 hours a night. Take a day off from work or school if you need to, which will have the added bonus of avoiding getting coworkers and classmates sick. Keeping the air humid can help make you feel better when you have a cold. You can use a vaporizer or humidifier. Another way to breathe humid air is by taking hot, steamy showers. Put essential oils in your humidifier, like eucalyptus oil. You can also place a cloth with eucalyptus oil on it in the shower with you. Let the water hit the cloth and release the scent. Drink plenty of warm fluids, especially water. Drink lots of water. At a minimum, try to drink eight to 10 8-ounce glasses of water a day. Drinking water helps with congestion and mucus. You can also drink juices, clear chicken broth, herbal teas, or vegetable broths. Avoid alcohol and caffeine. You can add honey and lemon to the water or tea. When you are sick, it is important to get the nutrients your body needs to heal itself. Good food full of vitamins and minerals also boosts your immune system, which can help you fight your cold. Make sure you are getting enough vitamin B complex, vitamin C, zinc, and copper. You can take supplements to make sure you get enough of these vitamins and minerals. Sipping, or eating, warm liquids like soup is a traditional remedy in many cultures. This includes chicken soup. Hot, spicy soups are used in Asian healing treatments. The soups include red pepper, lemongrass, and ginger. Spicy foods can promote sinus drainage and help ease cold symptoms. Garlic, onions, and mushrooms are foods that help with inflammation and provide anti-oxidants. The salt water helps reduce any swelling in your throat, making a cough less likely. Add one teaspoon of sea salt (or table salt if you don't have any sea salt) to about six ounces of water. Stir to dissolve and gargle. The sea salt may also help supply various minerals that can be useful for the immune system, like zinc, selenium, magnesium.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Read successful essays. Pick a narrow topic. Hook the reader. Show, don't tell. Don't discuss a particular field of law. Do your due diligence. Proofread!

Answer: If you're in college, your career counseling office should be able to provide you with sample essays that worked. If not, you can buy books that contain personal statements that helped get the writer into Harvard Law, or you can find personal statements online here. The best way to know what works is to read what worked in the past. Don't try to encapsulate your life in a short essay. Instead, you'll have better luck picking one powerful experience and explaining its impact on you in a way that highlights some of your strengths as a candidate. Write about something you care about, even if it has nothing to do with why you are going to law school. The goal is to let your personality, strengths, and way of thinking shine through. They already know you want to go to Harvard Law. You applied. Don't write about how your study abroad experience transformed you. It's been done way, way too many times. If you are going to write about why you want to be a lawyer, know that this is probably the most common type of essay. That doesn't make it a bad topic, but you'll need to tell a particularly engaging story to avoid boring your reader. Your first paragraph should be engaging, or it might be all that an admissions officer reads. Consider opening with an honest statement about your values or something important to you, such as "I believe in freedom of expression," and then going on to tell a story that develops why, and how that relates to your application. Or start with a sentence that leads into and explains the story you are about to tell, such as "I never thought much about what it meant to be blind until I met my best friend, Jim." Do not start with an overly dramatic story. This is a cliched technique that has been used far too many times. If you are going to tell a story, make sure you first frame why it matters. Definitely don't lead with something like "I've always dreamed of attending Harvard Law" or "I have a passion for the law." (Unless you follow that statement with a twist like, "But then a professor told me what a terrible idea that was.") It's true in all writing: showing a vivid scene that illustrates your point is more effective than simply telling someone your point. So if you want to convey to Harvard Law that you have a passion for immigration law, for example, a story about your experience with an immigrant will leave a much more powerful impression than a simple statement about an internship. Unless you just got your PhD in medical research and are certain you will be entering patent law, you should steer clear of being too specific. Law school offers the opportunity to explore multiple fields of law and choose one that appeals to you. If you mention why you want to go to Harvard in particular, be sure you can back up your statement with accurate facts. If there is a particular professor you want to work with, make sure he or she is tenured and teaching regularly before you mention him or her in your essay. Re-read your essay multiple times to remove all errors, then have several people you trust closely read it as well. A simple spelling or grammar error will have a negative impact on the reader's impression of you.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Don't try to mask or dilute the sample. Drink a lot of water starting the day before the test. Urinate as much as possible before the test. Consider substituting synthetic or clean urine for your own.

Answer:
Urine analyzers have seen it all and know to test for commercially available test-masking chemicals. Most household substances, such as bleach, salt or vinegar, will radically alter the pH of your urine, which will make it obvious that you have tampered with the sample. Diluting the sample by adding water can also raise red flags by changing the color and/or temperature of your urine; a clear sample will probably be rejected offhand, as will a lukewarm one. Ignore the rumor going around that drinking bleach will purify your urine. Drinking bleach can corrode your mouth, throat, and stomach, potentially killing you. What's more, it won't even mask your sample. Don't fall for false advertising on products that say your test will come up negative if you add the substance to your urine. They don't work. By increasing your intake of liquids, you will be able to (somewhat) dilute the test sample. This won't work very well if you're a heavy user, but it could do the trick if you've only used a few times. There's no special drink or ingredient that will help to "flush" your system or cleanse you any better than water does. There is no evidence that substances like goldenseal, vinegar, niacin, or vitamin C have any effect on your levels of drug metabolites. Take some vitamin B pills the day before your test to make your urine look yellow. If it's too clear, test evaluators will be suspicious. This will help pump drug metabolites from your body. Drink a lot of water the morning of the test and make an extra effort to pee a lot before you take it. Boost your fluid output with some sort of diuretic. This will stimulate urination and will help flush your system. Diuretics include coffee, tea, and cranberry juice. Stronger diuretics, such as furosemide, are available by prescription only. Drug metabolites build up in your body while you're sleeping, so your first stream of the day will have a higher concentration. Make sure you urinate before you have to take the sample, and drink plenty of water so your urine will be more diluted. If you aren't being watched, make sure to pee in the toilet first and then in the sample cup; your initial urine stream will contain more metabolites. This is a lot trickier than it sounds, so consider it a last-ditch attempt (and one for which you'll likely be penalized if you get caught). You can either buy fake urine or find a clean donor. The trick will be to maintain the sample at the proper temperature for the urinalysis (around 91 to 97 F) and smuggle it into the testing area. Kits containing both fake urine and the equipment needed to keep it at the right temperature can be purchased online or in smoke shops. Synthetic urine passes most tests, but some states have started testing for uric acid. Make sure your sample has uric acid listed as an ingredient. The synthetic urine should also have a smell. Scentless urine is suspicious to test evaluators. It's essential to keep the sample at the right temperature. If the temperature is too cold or hot, it's a dead giveaway that the sample has been tampered with. Using a donor is more risky than using fake urine, because you never know what else might show up in that person's test. You can test it yourself using a test strip available at smoke shops and most drugstores. Use the sample within 48 hours, after which it gets dark in color and the pH level begins to change.