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...Were you able to fix it?" someone asks. My head snaps to the right. A man in a fur hat and red ski parka pauses before answering. That's it, I think. There's some mechanical problem with the plane. My mind races ahead, spinning out of control. I hate 737s. They have bad rudders, right? Maybe there's another flight home. Or even better, I could take the train...
...deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...
...show children that they can be safely confided in. Once a young child brings information home, a parent must handle it with other grownups--taking it out of the child's hands. The act of telling is hard enough; parents shouldn't further burden kids by asking them to fix things...
...development is not a long-term solution to America's energy problems. Our nation is addicted to petroleum, with an ever increasing habit, and even the most optimistic estimates of what might be recovered from anwr would only briefly delay the inevitable crisis. Selling the family jewels for another fix may hold a momentary attraction for the junkie in the throes of withdrawal, but it is always a bad idea. Perhaps our evangelist-in-chief should propose a 12-step program instead. EARL P. JONES Redding, Calif...
...curriculum, such as how to give presentations and interpret school demographic data. "Today school nurses need to be marketers in some ways," Pelt says. Nurses must know how to communicate with administrators on the need to hire a health aide, for example, or how to lobby a principal to fix water fountains so kids can get a drink from somewhere besides the soda machine...