Word: righting
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...uncomplicated as she probably was. You wrote it, stuck a stamp on the envelope and dropped it into a mailbox. Off it went in a red-white-and-blue truck, and a couple of days later the friendly neighborhood mailman walked it--through rain, heat or gloom of night--right to Auntie's door...
...critic of the USPS Although details are still sketchy, the deal would reportedly give the government carrier access to the air network of the company, which is based in Memphis, Tenn. In return, the blue-uniformed postal workers would pick FedEx packages up from your door and deliver them right to your door. In effect, that would hand FedEx the Postal Service's crown jewel: the exclusive, government-mandated right to open the mailbox at the end of every American driveway, known in the industry as "the last mile." For all their planes and trucks, none of the private carriers...
...ones that reflected his interest in practical knowledge. (That's the reason there is no prize for pure mathematics, not--as the oft-told myth has it--because a prominent mathematician ran off with Nobel's girlfriend.) Over the past century, the Nobel committees have, by and large, done right by their eponym. Winners have included Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Niels Bohr. But the prize has not always succeeded in covering itself--or its recipients--in glory. Nobel-worthy achievements have been overlooked. Dubious science has been rewarded--and later debunked. And some of the people honored with...
...category for Murder on Music Row, a duet that condemns country's pop trend with lines like "The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame slowly killed tradition and for that someone should hang." Spooky. Making light of it all is a song called I'd Give My Right Nut to Save Country Music, sung with deadpan earnestness by C.M.A. Single of the Year winner LEE ANN WOMACK and the lesser-known Ray Driskoll. "It's really meant as a gag," says Nut co-writer Jim Beavers. "We don't take sides; we just think the song's really...
...betrayals that dent relationships but do not, in the real world, end them. Because, for a lonely person, something is better than nothing. "Mirabelle needs a companion," says Martin, "someone to talk to. I think that happens in life too. People get together, even if it's not right, to have someone to talk...