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...postwar decade the do-it-yourself craze has become a national phenomenon. The once indispensable handyman who could fix a chair, hang a door or patch a concrete walk has been replaced by millions of amateur hobbyists who do all his work--and much more--in their spare time and find it wonderful fun. In the process they have turned do-it-yourself into the biggest of all U.S. hobbies and a booming $6 billion-a-year business ... The meaning of the tasks performed by white-collar employees and executives often becomes lost in the complexities of giant corporations...
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...case similar to Pring-Wilson’s arose in 1995, when a Brown University psychiatrist-in-training shot an East Providence handyman in an early morning fight at a gas station...
...accused, David Barrett, argued that he acted in self-defense when the handyman intervened in an argument between Barrett and the clerk at the gas station’s convenience store...
...admit it, but Nadarajah Shan-Mugam's vanity saved his life. The 49-year-old Malaysian handyman was riding his motorbike to work in Kuala Lumpur one morning last year when an irritating drizzle suddenly billowed into a blinding tropical downpour. Spotting a flyover a few hundred meters ahead on the highway, Raja raced for shelter. A dozen fellow bikers were there already. As three lanes of rush-hour traffic continued to roar past, more bikers squeezed in, huddling together and turning their backs to the windblown rain and the heavy spray from passing vehicles. Raja lit a cigarette, then...