Word: fixedly
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...mean that the “Pub” inevitably only ever attracts the rowdy late-night drinking crowd, as opposed to the stressed student, (probably under the drinking age), looking for a place to study or relax with friends. Fortunately there’s an easy fix: open its doors during the day, and let it become a common space that also serves alcohol, instead of a space solely aimed at noisy beer-guzzling...
...Boatright and his colleagues are working on a technique that would let ophthalmologists fix genes that not just fail to express themselves, like Robert Johnson's, but that have mutated in a way that they express themselves abnormally, a trickier proposition because doctors need to add something and suppress something else at the same time. (Boatright and co. would inject short DNA strands that, where they bound with the patient's DNA at the point of the fault, would alert the body's existing repair mechanisms to the problem). The future looks bright indeed...
Once all the apologies were spoken, a battered Administration was searching for more tangible ways to repair the damage. Major General Miller has been hustled back to Baghdad to fix the prison system. He promised to halve the number of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and end the practice of hooding captives. But he refused to entirely rule out the use of other tactics, like sleep deprivation and "stress positions," if they were approved by a senior officer. A senior Pentagon official says Rumsfeld has taken a personal interest in coming up with a dollar figure to compensate Iraqis who have...
...most outlandish story about the Eurovision singer appeared in the Serbian tabloid newspaper Press a few days before the contest took place. It claimed that an alliance of Western powers was looking to fix the event in order to ensure Serifovic's victory. Explaining this conspiracy theory, the paper wrote: "Lulled by a triumph in Helsinki, Serbs are expected to calmly swallow the imminent secession of Kosovo." The status of Kosovo, the southern Serbian province populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, is currently being debated in the United Nations Security Council. The E.U. and U.S. favor granting the territory independence from...
...also under way on new terminals in New Delhi and Mumbai (formerly Bombay), with completion set for 2010 and 2012, respectively. The improvements can't come soon enough for travelers like Mehta. "We've got all these new planes and flights," says Mehta. "Finally they're starting to fix the airports...