Word: fixes
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...User Experience, Marissa Mayer, is that the company's two founders recently bought Windows PCs for family members, and were appalled at their out-of-box experiences. Once the computer was turned on, they had to spend time downloading the many applications necessary to actually use the thing. Fix it, they said. Mayer's team responded...
...langes of antioxidants and other chemicals. Teasing out the specific actions of each one and separating them from caffeine's could take years. For the patrons crowding Small World Coffee, all of that is beyond the immediate point, which seems to be nothing more than getting a morning fix of one caffeinated drink or another before setting off to conquer the intellectual challenges waiting at the university just up the street. "A mathematician," the legendary number theorist Paul Erdos used to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." Organic chemistry, neuroscience, psychology and pretty much universal experience suggest...
...team of NASA scientists was trying to fix the distorted lenses in the Hubble telescope, which was already in orbit. An expert in optics suggested that tiny inversely distorted mirrors could correct the images, but nobody could figure out how to fit them into the hard-to-reach space inside. Then engineer Jim Crocker, taking a shower in a German hotel, noticed the European-style showerhead mounted on adjustable rods. He realized the Hubble's little mirrors could be extended into the telescope by mounting them on similar folding arms. And this flash was the key to fixing the problem...
...place, legislators heard a chastened Governor offering a plan to please any populist?or teacher, bond salesman, union member, hourly worker, college student or construction-company owner. "The people, who always have the last word, sent a clear message?cut the warfare, cool the rhetoric, find common ground and fix the problems together," Schwarzenegger said. "So to my fellow Californians, I say?message received." Among other things, he proposes to repay elementary and secondary schools the $1.67 billion the state previously borrowed to close the budget gap. He would finance his public-works projects not with higher taxes but with...
...determined young separatist named André Boisclair to lead the province's still formidable sovereign party. That's why an election that started out as a mere annoyance may pull the curtain down on a political era. According to one survey, 60% believe the government can't fix the cronyism that permeates the federal bureaucracy. For the unlucky Martin, it has become the perfect storm. One of Canada's most accomplished Finance Ministers, Martin, 67, had long groomed himself for the national stage. The names in his personal Rolodex range from international bankers to Bono, the rock-star poverty crusader...