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Lesson one: Once a klutz, always a klutz...
...seat, white-noise machine and night light, it's easy to placate babies and very young children, who are highly portable and often refreshingly inarticulate. Five-to-12-year-olds, on the other hand, require distraction from their two main travel pastimes: whining and bathroom humor. Fortunately, companies like Klutz and Rand McNally make great travel games and activity books to help you provide just that. For teenagers, a little autonomy goes a long way: for instance, you might let them share the driving or bring an especially well-behaved friend. And while age-appropriate planning is all well...
There is also the Lucas who wants to dazzle filmgoers with his luxurious bestiary. The Gungan klutz Jar Jar Binks, who talks (sometimes unintelligibly) like a Muppet Peter Lorre and walks as if he had Slinkys for legs, is more annoying than endearing. But the junk dealer Watto is a little masterpiece of design: cinnamon stubble on his corrugated face, chipped rocks for teeth, the raspy voice of Brando's Godfather speaking Turkish, hummingbird wings that give him the aspect of a potbellied helicopter. He, Jar Jar and the other computer-generated critters are seamlessly integrated into live action...
...under the hood and learn about How Things Work. A few minutes later (after I'd dropped the socket from the wrench irretrievably into the engine compartment but before my dad taught me a bunch of new and colorful words), I realized that I am a 10-thumbed, butterfingered klutz. Now, when so much as a light bulb burns out in my house, I'm inclined to call...
...Brenda Klutz, deputy director of licensing for California's health department, calls that decision "very distressing and emotional," but she doesn't call it wrong. In fact, she echoes the nursing home's argument. "In an era of alternative medicine, maggots are being used for debridement of dead tissue," she says. "The fact that these sorts of eggs and maggots can hatch in a 24-hour period may not even mean that there was improper wound care." With regulators like that, the elderly in nursing homes may have more to fear than either the maggots or the nursing-home operators...