Word: do-it-yourself
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...personalities. And he doesn't run to the cameras." Cheney's reputation during his days on the Hill was for blandness. In his book The Ambition and The Power, John M. Barry recounts the time a group of House members visiting the Soviet Union amused themselves by taking a do-it-yourself psychoanalytic test. Cheney added up his score and discovered that the one profession to which he was particularly well suited was funeral director...
...Just Calm Down day spa will begin to offer the Grape Gatsby, a pedicure in which patrons' feet are treated to a 30-minute exfoliating soak in red wine and a moisturizing rubdown with crushed red grapes. Of course, to replicate this experience in the privacy of their own home, do-it-yourself types can always uncork a bottle and stomp on a few grapes instead. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...every state allows do-it-yourself medical testing, but that may be changing. Matthew Schulze of the American Society for Clinical Pathology says 32 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, permitted some form of direct-access testing last year--up from 27 in 1999. In states that bar the practice, labs often get around the restrictions by retaining physicians to order the tests...
There are disadvantages: interference from microwaves and baby monitors; ranges that vary from several hundred yards to just a few dozen feet; and installation procedures, although marketed as do-it-yourself, that turn out to be complicated and not at all intuitive. They can easily eat up an entire weekend. They can drive you to drink...
...lies a curious little structure known by a single ungainly syllable: yurt. A yurt--also known as a ger, if that sounds any better--is a small, round, roofed structure that looks like something Bilbo Baggins might have used as an outhouse. But it has become the trendy choice for do-it-yourself shelter...