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...tight is George W. Bush's choice for director of the Office of Management and Budget? Mitch Daniels sold off wedding gifts he couldn't return, made a job applicant split the bill for a lunch interview and years ago fished coins from a tavern toilet to pay for a pitcher of beer. Even as a millionaire drug-company executive, he buys suits off the rack and golfs at the Indianapolis, Ind., club with the lowest dues...
...this column. But he never read any of my writing as far as I can tell. He never bought me a Christmas present, never asked me how classes were going or showed much interest in my daily life. But he did teach me how to dig up potatoes, fix toilet plumbing, catch Japanese beetles at twilight in a jam jar. How to talk to a dying man. That's slowly, waiting until he has caught his breath, not asking too many questions, getting him water or melted sherbet, sitting quietly, being there. Switching on the golf...
...year's clear (ahem) buzz word. Some of the year's top buildings played with teasing, gauzy see-through effects, and you could scarcely buy consumer goods not skinned in Technicolor plastic: the Handspring Visor personal digital assistant, the Power Mac G4 Cube, translucent trash cans and toilet-brush holders from the likes of Ikea and Target. And magazines and books were rife with die-cut covers. The luminous transparent things of 2000 thrummed with Jell-O-colored energy, as if so jazzed they could hardly contain their insides...
...time to don my captain's hat. Question was, Could I drive, er, pilot a two-story house? During the next several hours, Steve gave us a crash course on how to operate the high-powered generator, prime the engine, use the toilet, work the marine radio and anchor the boat. Under his watchful eye, I soon settled into the captain's chair to take over the wheel. And then, good news! It became obvious that driving a houseboat--even a 60-footer--is a snap. Its dual engines powered us so smoothly over the lake that we wouldn...
COOL PUPS INVENTOR: JO WIDNESS If dogs had thumbs, they would probably stop drinking out of the toilet. They also might turn on the air conditioning when their owner leaves them in a hot car. Until evolution, there's the Chilly Dog, a car system with a preprogrammed temperature setting that automatically starts a car's engine and turns on the AC when things get too hot. The vehicle runs for a programmed period of time and then shuts off. The process repeats whenever the threshold temperature is reached...