Word: fixes
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...with the audience of children as Charlie found his golden ticket, making him one of the chosen few to enter the magical chocolate works. Childhood memories die hard, but for another generation bent on nostalgia, Burton’s “Charlie” might be just the fix their sweet tooth craves...
...finance department of Best Buy, and one of the company's electronics suppliers is furious because he claims he has not been paid. "He told me, 'I'm not going to ship any more product to your company unless I get this issue resolved,'" she says. She has to fix the problem by the end of the day, but the 35-year-old mother of 5-year-old twins also has to pick up her children from day care. What happens next? Perhaps she makes a sheepish call to her husband, asking if he could skip out early while...
...DAVID LYNCH is opening his Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace this week in Hollywood. Lynch, a daily practitioner of Transcendental Meditation for more than 30 years, wants to promote teaching it in schools. "It's a hellhole out there," Lynch says. "This is the way you fix it. The students start getting bright as a shiny penny. It's the home of total knowledge." And we thought we had total knowledge when we figured out who killed Laura Palmer...
...9/11. The first was sheer scale. Mercifully, the atrocities in London were a fraction of the human cost of 9/11. And the second was related to that but not entirely explained by it. Americans often react to crises with action and emotion. They see a problem and want to fix it. Brits' reflexive instinct at such times is often calm and steady endurance. In London last week, the immediate quiet was perhaps the most striking thing--followed by an insistence on normality. "Work's over, but there's little chance of getting home right now," one Brit e-mailed...
...sabotage in Greenwich will be added to a national bill that is already of staggering proportions-and it is rising steeply every year. No one can fix an accurate price tag on vandalism, which is not always reported, not always identifiable as such and covers everything from toilet graffiti to arson. But the U.S. Office of Education in Washington sets the annual cost of destruction in public schools alone at more than $100 million. In New York City, the cost of school vandalism amounted to an estimated $6,500,000 last year. Public telephones are another prime target; some...