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Forever being the designated non-driver has had an impact on my relationships with friends and loved ones. My permanent passenger status has led me to the infinitely important, yet seriously overlooked, role of Chief Navigator. My skill with maps has grown legendary. I am also often left with the thankless role of keeping the driver awake on long trips. While not driving can leave me feeling dependent and childlike, it also means that I can drink without guilt. Shotgun inevitable awaits me, much to the annoyance of those who, sober as a judge, must take me home...

Author: By Elisabeth A. Mayer, | Title: Baby, You Can Drive My Car | 4/13/1995 | See Source »

...emphasizes very easy basic techniqueswhich are very easy to learn. Any average womancan go through the program. It's not martial artsbased. There isn't any phenomenal skill that isneeded," said Sheri L. lachetti, co-founder ofRAD...

Author: By Jennifer . Lee, | Title: HUPD Teaches Defense Course | 4/12/1995 | See Source »

Headline writing, like any other skill, is one which can only e perfected through practice and experience, two things Crimson editors don't get enough of in this area...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Reader Representative | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

...troubling trends persist. For one, even with Proposition 187 on the ballot last fall, very few eligible Latinos made it to the polls. For another, African-Americans are growing increasingly resentful of Latinos, who are winning away Blacks' service and government jobs because they have a newly marketable skill: they speak Spanish...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: California Dreaming | 4/5/1995 | See Source »

Eventually, he may learn to apply this editing skill to the excesses that mar the novel--a rich attachment to vulgarity, including a deadening level of profanity and a comically exaggerated preoccupation with smells. Clearly, Weiss wants the reader to accept Burry as a fatal temptress. But it does not help to be told early on that her aroma is "part B.O. and maybe patchouli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARTY ANIMALS | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

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