Word: fixes
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...could modify and rejigger it exactly the way they wanted to. Torvalds' real stroke of genius, though, was to give Linux away for free, and to make its code open to all, so that any hacker anywhere in the world could improve it, add to it, and, when necessary, fix its bugs. MORE...
...within the earth's atmosphere, changing global weather patterns. If this theory is correct, then the basic equilibrium that has maintained the earth's natural heating and cooling system for the past 10,000 years is about to be thrown into turmoil. We will be left to try to fix...
...heroes. No glamorous moon to go to, no John Glenn. All the same, in a nation where 44 million people don't have medical insurance, and where a lot of the insured aren't happy with the care they get, there are probably more people rooting for an HMO fix than were ever waiting for a lunar landing. When voters tell pollsters that health care is among their top election-year concerns, that's because the frailty of the body is one issue that touches everybody--aging baby boomers, their vulnerable children, their fragile parents...
...after the takeover, the Times ran an editorial noting that corporate behemoths are a danger in a country that permits them to buy influence. Its solution: "The remedy to this political threat is not to scuttle mergers but rather to fix campaign-contribution laws...
...down version of the rigged show from the '50s. But it's refreshingly unafraid of its past, choosing to copy its set design from the Robert Redford movie about the scandal. "If anything, our history helps us," says Harbert. "The joke around our show is that we didn't fix the original, we're repairing it." All publicity really is good publicity...