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...something about plunging headlong through space protected only by a steel cage strikes you as unnatural, you're certainly not alone - stick to the cotton candy. And if you've got kids who are determined to climb aboard a ride that gives you the willies, do your homework. Check the park's safety records and the incident reports (which parks are required to file in case of accidents that require first aid). Smell the breath of the kid operating the ride. Kick the proverbial tires (for in only a few rides, like Coney Island's legendary Cyclone, is apparent dilapidation...
Remember the young Woody Allen's cosmic angst in the film Annie Hall? Having just read that the universe is expanding, the boy is so worried that he can't do his homework. "Someday it will break apart," he tells his shrink, "and that will be the end of everything." But, his mother snaps, "you're here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding...
...proposal to prevent expungement in most cases. "Brokers shouldn't be able to buy a clean record," says Charles Austin Jr. of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association. If brokers remain branded by complaints of churning and misrepresentation, fewer investors--or at least the ones who do their homework--may get burned next time...
...primly on the edge of a sofa, she comes across like a college professor (she taught economics at the Jesuit-run Ateneo University) who doesn't hesitate to grimace when she feels a question is wasting her time. Her Cabinet secretaries sometimes feel chastised for not having done their homework, and they dread it when she dismissively bangs their dossiers on their desks, her dark eyes flashing with disdain...
...Enterprising students founded the "Radcliffe Couple-Sitting Service," which provided a female chaperone who would do her homework while the Radcliffe girl visited a graduate student...