Word: repairable
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When is it too late to repair the damage wrought by physical and emotional abuse or neglect? For a time, at least, a child's brain is extremely forgiving. If a mother snaps out of her depression before her child is a year old, Dawson has found, brain activity in the left frontal lobe quickly picks up. However, the ability to rebound declines markedly as a child grows older. Many scientists believe that in the first few years of childhood there are a number of critical or sensitive periods, or "windows," when the brain demands certain types of input...
While Chewie never seems lonely, it's difficult to believe the great brown fuzzy animal could be anything but depressed. Sure, he can take orders from Han Solo and Han seems to understand his growls. But anyone who can repair the Millennium Falcon surely has more on his mind (her mind?) than periodic shrieks of approval and disdain...
Poor Mel Harbaugh. The executive vice president of Toledo Molding & Die, which makes machine tools and automotive parts, says his company spent a full year finding a qualified tool-and-die repair worker for one of its seven plants. But now, with another tool-and-die specialist injured, the company must truck parts between plants for repair...
Richard M. White, shift supervisor for University Operations confirmed the break, saying that Cambridge crews would repair the leak by early this morning, leaving students "a little inconvenienced" for the rest of the evening...
...energized Washington residents who had begun to think that the District could not manage to solve its intractable problems: ?There?s a chance to make the city into the gem it should be, instead of the dump it is now. The potholes from last year have yet to be repaired, and are now filling up with this year?s snow.? If Congress agrees, the resulting law effectively would reverse the 1974 agreement which granted the District control over key aspects of city financial and administrative management, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. While the District would benefit from extensive new federal...