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...second day in this country, in 1963, he visited Harvard Square and told himself that one day he would own a show repair store here. he liked being around "young people, smart people, all sorts of kinds of people, poor people, rich people, all the happy people. "He spoke only Greek, worked three jobs simultaneously, saved money. On Saturday and Sunday nights he worked in Harvard Square's Felix shoe Repair, then located in the Massachusetts Avenue lot occupied toddy by Gnomon Copy. In 1969 Christos bought Felix Shoe Repair from the grandson of the original owner...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Fixing Shoes the Old Fashioned Way | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

More often, Felix is only asked to rebuild aheel or repair a sole. Customers often bring in anew pair of shoes so he can attach a rubber bottommade by Pirelli, the Italian tire company. Thisrubber bottom protects the leather sole from wear.Most jobs cost 10 or 20 dollars, but he works onshoes that cost $200 or $300, or more. Shoes asdressy as a Brooks Brothers suit but ascomfortable as a well-worn flight jacket. "My timeis your time. I'm gonna be taking the time toexplain to the customer what it is that I'm doing.That...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Fixing Shoes the Old Fashioned Way | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...removed laparoscopically. Other common operations, from hysterectomies to hernias, seem likely to follow suit. At Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago, a trauma team has begun using the technology to diagnose injuries from knife wounds and automobile crashes. Soon the team expects to move from diagnosis to laparoscopic repair of tears to the diaphragm and abdominal wall. Eventually, if doctors become convinced that operations performed in this manner do not inadvertently spread malignant cells, this kinder, gentler surgery will touch the lives of an even larger group of people: cancer patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kindest Cuts of All | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...apartments are in bad repair, andthe questions are whether there was a firehazard," said Booth...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fire Ruled Accidental; Residents Suspicious | 3/3/1992 | See Source »

...name Tikkun comes from the Hebrew, meaning to heal, repair and transform the world. Given that name, it's not hard to figure out that this magazine is a liberal/progressive alternative to Commentary and its neoconservative readership...

Author: By Daniel E. Markel, | Title: Liberal Jewish Thought | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

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