Word: fixes
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...According to his mother, Seth had had a nosebleed the day before that stopped after a few minutes. Though he had never had a nosebleed before, they told me that he was a frequent nose picker, a habit his mother and grandmother assured me they had tried to fix. Seth?s father also told me the little boy had had a fever three days earlier, a temperature of 101.3 that hadn?t been elevated since. Other than that, there seemed to be no worrisome symptoms: he was acting and playing normally, wasn't congested nor did he cough...
...Republicans fix their problem...
...wait that long to get your crime-and-fraternal-struggle-in-working- class-America fix, there's Showtime's Brotherhood, which debuts in June. That drama, which features two brothers--one a rising politician, the other a small-time crook--is set in Providence, R.I., but also explores fate and circumstance in the mournful, urban-blighted Northeast of a generation ago. "Without getting too highfalutin," says creator Blake Masters about the trend toward villain protagonists, "post-9/11, we hit some of our darkest days, and now we're in a war that will go on for years against...
...Being able to fix anything with whatever lies to hand is a proud tradition in Australia, says Adelaide author Mark Thomson, who's writing a book about the people he calls "resourceful problem solvers." Some backyard tinkerers and rural handymen, he says, "will spend an enormous amount of time and effort doing a repair job with bits and pieces they've got in their shed. When it's fixed and it works, it's a real victory that you've done it yourself and it hasn't cost a thing." That frugal ingenuity is shared by many rural women, says...
...neighbors they don't talk to over the fence, or the grandparent they never see. And a way to take creative control of at least the few square meters of the world they call home. When everything else looks like a mess, it's neat to know you can fix just about anything with a dash of vinegar and a sprinkle of bicarb soda...