Word: fixes
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Priced at under $4 each, the patch delivers a steady fix of nicotine, the addictive part of tobacco, without the 4,000-plus other nasty components that make up tar. Long-term studies are lacking, but initial data suggest that the patches can double the success rate for quitters in the short run when coupled with behavioral therapy...
...sick of democracy and want a guy who can sell his personal series of fix-it plans to the country, fine. If you want a guy who doesn't mind trampling on the Constitution to achieve his ends, then go ahead and pull the trigger. And if you want a guy whose accomplishments through government illustrate everything--particularly the marriage of money and power--that's wrong with American politics, then Perot's your...
There is a growing consensus among policy experts that tinkering with the existing system will not fix its fundamental problems. Some, like conservative Charles Murray, say the solution is to abolish welfare altogether and force its clients to fend for themselves. In his influential 1984 book, Losing Ground, Murray claimed that AFDC actually increases poverty by serving as a disincentive to work and encouraging women to have illegitimate children they cannot support. Others argue that the dole should give way to an entirely new system based on social insurance and jobs...
Julie and Eric are starting to have, like, a thing for each other. Not a romance exactly; sort of a badgering flirtation. She lets him eat off her plate of spaghetti. He goes to her hip-hop dance class. When Becky, one of five other roommates, wants to fix Julie up with a blind date, Eric is dismayed. "He gave me this look," says Becky. "I thought fire was going to shoot out of his eyes...
...surfaces can do no better than to turn to Wilde, who kept up appearances as if they were the only reality he knew. His championing of masks, his preference for style before sincerity, his unfailing conviction that there was nothing wrong with reality that a little artifice couldn't fix, might all be prototypes of a certain kind of Japanese aesthetics (the Japanese Book of Tea reads almost like a pure invention of Wilde's, with its "cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence"). Yet Wilde also saw that silver generalities conceal...