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...from schoolteachers asking you to give advice to students on how to read literature," Simic says, "or from a business association in Topeka asking you to read a poem at the opening of a convention. My cell phone would ring, and a high government official would ask me to fix a poem written by her late father to read at his memorial service. Sometimes I wanted to go just to see who these people were, but you can't do everything...
...cites a briefing on the booster seals given on Aug. 19, 1985, to the headquarters staff of NASA by concerned shuttle managers at both Thiokol and Marshall. While the briefing paper urged action to correct the faulty seal, it concluded that the shuttle was safe to fly until a fix was made. The commission sharply disagreed, declaring that the briefing was ''sufficiently detailed to require corrective action prior to the next flight.'' The commission's reluctance to assign personal blame, while excoriating the agency's ''flawed process,'' caused one commissioner, Caltech Physicist Richard Feynman, to seek stronger language. He lost...
...people will stop to offer me directions when they notice me standing still and staring at signs. A college student woke me up one morning to make sure that I did not miss my stop. And a trendy man once inquired if I might be able to help him fix the buckle on his cowboy boot...
...know anything about the nuclear deal," says Khursheed Alam Siddiqui, an electrician in New Delhi. "For poor people like me, who work all day, eat two meals and go to sleep, it's rising prices that are the real issue. That's what I want the government to fix...
...know that over time, Amazon will fix all the little--insignificant, really--things that initially annoyed me about the Kindle. And when it does? My gadget romance will no doubt be re-Kindled...