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...tore his Achilles tendon. "The doctor said I couldn't climb again for 18 months, but about 10 months out I realized something: he wasn't so concerned that I climb again; he just didn't want me to fall again," Dodgen says, chuckling. He headed back out pronto, climbing in a cast and using crutches to traverse trails...
...Nanny Diaries and I Don't Know How She Does It--that comically examined mothering anxiety (at least among affluent, educated white women), even as Sylvia Ann Hewlett was warning young women, in Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, that they had better get married pronto if they ever wanted to have children. With bad men on one side and indifferent men on the other, biological and career clocks hammering in both ears--and with Oprah no longer serving up female-positive fiction to her book club--what was the stressed-out career woman...
...First you have to take it around and introduce it to each gadget in turn, punching in the proper code for each make and model, so that the remote knows what signals to send to which device. With some remotes, this phase is sheer torture. The extremely fancy Philips Pronto ($399), for example, forced me to watch 20 minutes of Chains of Love before I could figure out how to change the channel on my TV. No one should have to go through that...
...next thing you do is find out why the company failed to meet expectations. If you read anything about accounting irregularities being behind the disappointment, then you pick up the phone, or go to your computer, and turn that unrealized loss into a realized loss, pronto. My rule is simple: companies nailed or fessing up for bogus numbers can't be owned. Many never come back. Waste Management, HBO McKesson, Sunbeam--these were all worth booting the moment the accounting problems surfaced. Don't try to rationalize or waffle. Just...
...today's louse, a.k.a. Pediculus humanus capitis, which nests in 12 million new heads annually, is a hardier bug, having grown resistant to the prescription drugs lindane and Elimite and the over-the-counter permethrin drug Nix, which remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate] aren't working as well as they used to either," says University of Miami lice expert Terri Meinking. Such insecticide products all have side effects. And none are 100% ovicidal, which doesn't cut it with today's "no-nit" policy in schools. Some parents have...