It’s been an egg-frying-on-the-sidewalk kind of summer here even for the nation’s capital, but the other day, we got a refreshing break as the temperature mercifully stayed in the 80s. But when I got out of the car and hit the black asphalt in the parking lot of a local shopping center, I swear the temperature jumped 10 degrees. 
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The nation’s commercial airlines deserve a little credit for consistently carrying out their jobs. Rain or shine, their 35,000 daily flights ferry people of all kinds — the college graduate, the business executive, the vacationer — throughout the country and around the world.
...Here’s something you need to know before you read any further: I have no mechanical skills. None. The best thing about those impossible-to-open plastic packages for things you have to assemble at home is that they save me the frustration of struggling to put things together. I can’t open the hard plastic wrapping, so I don’t have to spend an hour reading instructions I can’t follow. There are times, though, when there is no packaging, and that’s when I get scared.
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