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...site, Callis delivers analysis of gossip's causes and destructive potential, along with tips for improvement. She focuses on creating solutions rather than assigning blame, and she makes listeners responsible for stopping rumors by refusing to pass them on. Gossip Stoppers kits include paper clips to remind rumormongers to fasten those loose lips and breath mints to help them remember to sweeten what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Agents: Meet the Nicheperts | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...fasten-your-seat-belt sign is ON,” shrieked the frazzled flight attendant as she chased me down the carpeted aisle. “I’m sorry,” I stammered, feeling like a frail gazelle in the clutches of a rabid hyena, “but I’ve been drinking coffee all day and we’ve been flying for two hours...

Author: By James H. O'keefe | Title: Leaving On A Jet Plane? | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

Albright looks and sounds like a latter-day Margo Channing (Bette Davis) in All About Eve on the verge of uttering her famous line, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Go get 'em, Big Mama! ERROL ALLAN Guntersville, Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1997 | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...could mail them to other newspapers on other coasts. I kept them in a discarded purple plastic bag. Last night I dared to open it, leaf through the careful sheets, each dated and paginated. My thumbprints were engraved in the tiny pieces of tape I had used to fasten the flimsy paper...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where I Was “Miss April” | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

Inside the aircraft, the flight attendant has to remind Horowitz to fasten his seat belt. "I don't like these things," he tells her, but he complies. Across the aisle is a blind man. Wanda, who each year anonymously contributes funds to provide blind people with Seeing Eye dogs, comments, "Putting together the right dog and the right person is like matchmaking. They both have to be properly prepared. The dog and the blind person stay together much longer and more happily than a good many marriages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Meeting with the Stunks | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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