11.   Before Elian was picked up at sea on Thanksgiving, Gonzalez fixed dented cars for a living and rarely gave politics a passing thought.

12.   A Saab dealer fixed the car for free.

13.   After he fixed the car, Celestine invited him to dinner.

14.   After spending eight years fixing cars at four local garages, she says, she was ready for a change.

15.   But his love for fixing ailing cars soon turned to healing sick turtles in the saltwater pool that came with the motel.

16.   But most of the reports have nothing to do with fixing cars.

17.   Doctors have been fixing people much longer than mechanics have been fixing cars.

18.   Even Avanesian, who could not find work in his field repairing electric generators, took odd jobs fixing cars.

19.   Evernham taped up his cut, then helped the crew get the car fixed.

20.   From that moment, she says, she knew that what she wanted to do for a living was fix cars.