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...years ago while she was an au pair for a fellow golfer. Around that time, Woods' father predicted his son wouldn't marry before age 30, saying, "A wife can sometimes be a deterrent to a good game of golf." Upon hearing this, presumably, Woods' rivals all raced to fix him up with the hottest nanny they could find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How She Caught the Eye of Tiger | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...around 31,000 in annual tuition - and the more "democratic" ones, is that the former works. A manageable number of students actually show up in a classroom designed to accommodate them, bringing with them the books from which they can actually learn. If it ain't broken, don't fix it, goes the old American cliché, the flip side of which may well be more pertinent to the French: if it is broken, why not go ahead and try? The French system of higher education is broken to the core. At the level of higher education at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Whom the School Bell Tolls | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

...injure those inside. So why didn't the Army anticipate such a problem? It did: future versions of the Stryker will sport four tons of custom-made, high-tech armor, but those currently bound for Iraq are early models, making the ungainly $100,000 cages a necessary, if temporary, fix. --By Mark Thompson

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bulking up for Baghdad | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...projects in Kazakhstan and Russia. He's now back to fast-paced work, converting biochemical-warfare facilities into peacetime factories and, in tandem with U.S. agencies, finding jobs for former government scientists. "It's incredibly rewarding," he says, being "so closely linked to something that is trying to fix mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Volunteer Army | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...don’t expect you will see a fix in time for the election,” the employee writes, “since it is tomorrow...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diebold Won't Sue Students | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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