Word: repairable
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...unawareness of time and difficulty with decision making is driving the partner crazy. Recalls former police officer Don Sherwood, 55, about the trying months between his retirement from the Torrance, Calif., force and his condition's diagnosis: "My home life was falling apart. I thought my marriage was beyond repair...
Your article on the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission ((Space, Nov. 29)) called the satellite a ''$1.6 billion disappointment that has kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago.'' In fact, the Hubble telescope has opened up new horizons for astronomy, allowing scientists to peer farther into the depths of space and more closely at nearby stars and galaxies than ever before. Whether the value of pure science is enough to justify the Hubble's cost is certainly a matter for debate, but the value of Hubble to astronomy is irrefutable...
...known for is being difficult to work with. Every interviewer is told by his publicist not to bring that up, and 10 minutes into every interview, Kilmer himself brings it up. As part of his new business plan, the usually press-averse Kilmer is going on the offensive to repair his image, which he says has been created by the media because of the eccentric roles he has taken, the fact that he is a Method actor or because he lives far from Hollywood on a 6,000-acre ranch near Santa Fe, N.M., with more than 100 animals...
With his baby-bottom complexion and piano-player hands, Weil is unlikely to find his advice accepted by those of us who put up drywall, frame houses, work with horses and repair trucks and cars. By age 60, we are so beaten up that at the end of the day, eating biscuits and gravy is like consuming the elixir of the gods. BILL CROOKHAM Caldwell, Idaho...
...electricity to pump it. Floridians were stunned to hear that power might not be fully restored until late November, and just as chagrined to realize that FPL, which serves the nation's most hurricane-prone state, has one of the most tangled and antiquated feeder-line systems to repair. "This is the greatest country, but I'm heartbroken," said Zhanna Turetskaya, a Coral Springs gas station manager who came here from Belarus seven years ago, as she scanned a throng of angry customers wanting to pump the 10,000 gallons she had ready for them. "We're spoiled here...