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...until it exploded, and then made things worse by running up your credit cards. Or while your investments were booming, you decided you could afford to save less. With stocks cratering and the economy slowing, you don't feel so flush anymore. It's time to get real and fix those giddy-times mistakes...
...writing this column. But he never read any of my writing as far as I can tell. He never bought me a Christmas present, never asked me how classes were going or showed much interest in my daily life. But he did teach me how to dig up potatoes, fix toilet plumbing, catch Japanese beetles at twilight in a jam jar. How to talk to a dying man. That's slowly, waiting until he has caught his breath, not asking too many questions, getting him water or melted sherbet, sitting quietly, being there. Switching on the golf...
...fix that. Bush will likely send the plan to Congress as is already, but he knows that's just the beginning. ("The president proposes, Congress disposes" is the official catch-phrase.) And Bush has signaled his willingness to frontload the plan a little to get that spending cash on the street in time for it to do some good...
...JUNIOR FIX-ITS Children as young as eight are replacing parents as the modern household's repair experts. New surveys show that the technological generation gap between adults who grew up with simpler appliances and the e-generation of computer-game-literate kids has grown to the point where three out of four parents admit that they depend on their children to program new phones and stop VCR clocks from blinking...
...what to do with the now outdated box. You can convert that old PC into a write-off rather than a doorstop--provided it's not too ancient. Groups like Share the Technology match PC donors with worthy charities. Or, for $29.99 IBM will take your PC and fix it up for a charity or recycle...