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...center. The computers also help orient the station to avoid space debris and move into position for docking with the shuttle or arriving cargo ships. For now, the shuttle's thrusters and the station's own gyroscopes will keep things reasonably stable, but that is not a permanent fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Space Station a Money Pit? | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...vice president of the Royal Bank of Canada with his own private dining room--hid an edgier side, the side that rides a Harley and reads palms, a skill he picked up from his European grandmother. In ING Direct, Kuhlmann saw a revolution, a chance to fix the things he knew people hated about banks. Companies in other industries had succeeded with stripped-down versions of competitors' products--Southwest flew airplanes without assigned seats; Ikea sold design-minded furniture without assembling it--so why not do that with banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ING Direct's Man on a Mission | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...population of 300 million, the Lifesharers membership is tiny, and so far no member of the group has received an organ from another member. But Undis believes that as a proof of principle, Lifesharers shows how to fix the donor mess. If UNOS demanded what Lifesharers does and patients were required to register before they fell ill, he believes, the nation could essentially eliminate its organ shortage within three years. "It's a fair trade," he says. "I'll give you mine if you give me yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gated Community for Organ Donors | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...assurances that improvements would be made at the leaky lab. Referring to the reams of classified Los Alamos documents found in the New Mexico trailer park last year, Lab director Michael Anastasio told lawmakers, "My board finds [this incident] totally unacceptable... They're going to hold me accountable to fix this." Even as Anastasio spoke, some of the 11 members of the LANS board that manages Los Alamos were cooperating with an investigation of the undisclosed Jan. 19 security breach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anger Over Nuclear Secrets Leak | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce's proposal This proposal to fix the deteriorating public school system takes the funding and much of the control of public schools away from local school boards and gives power to the states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Klein's Research | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

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