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...jack about six inches under the rear passenger door. This particular jack was made to be compact, and because of this, it requires rotating a small lever for approximately 45 minutes in order to raise the car one inch off the ground. Eventually, I got the old wheel off, and I only sliced my right hand once while trying to remove the hubcap...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Lessons Harvard Hasn't Taught Me | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...into the ignition and started to put the car into gear when I realized that I had no desire to ride in or drive a vehicle on which I had performed any kind of maintenance work. I drove very slowly at first, quite convinced that my bicycle wheel would in all likelihood fall off. As I eased back into the evening traffic, I found solace in following a VW van trying to pull a U-Haul up the mountain. My mind began to wander again and I thought about all the things that Harvard hasn't taught...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Lessons Harvard Hasn't Taught Me | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

Most men have it: the fantasy of one day sitting behind the wheel of an expensive sports car or climbing into the cockpit of a jet. Many outgrow the urge, but Kevin Stamper went out and bought a brand-new Boeing 737 and then, for the fun of it, launched Pro Air, his very own little airline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motor City Air Raid | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

BOTHERSOME BIOPSY Even if a breast biopsy detects no cancerous cells, you may not be out of the woods. A small number of biopsies show a microscopic abnormality in which tiny ducts in the breast tissue fan out like the spokes of a wheel. Women with this tissue pattern face twice the normal risk of developing breast cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Feb. 22, 1999 | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...Today, we can place our chips on different parts of the table hoping the roulette wheel will award us with a winner. Maybe one of these possibilities can come true, we say as we toss some names to the lovedocs at Datesite. If I receive a Datesite message, the odds of guessing your intentions are slim. Maybe I think that you put me because you thought I put you because I thought...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, | Title: Endpaper: Due Apprehension in a Brave New World | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

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