I Said, 'Not While You Study!'
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Memo to: Frustrated parents From: Health section staff At this point your teens may insist that their distractions enhance their studying. According to Poldrack, results from the UCLA study give researchers a good idea that active tasks -- involving "doing" processes, like counting beeps or singing...
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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.
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Server logs? what server logs? They should've known better than to flame law students.â¦
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âI don't like it when people say, âl really dug your message, man.â Or: âl really dug your play, man. I cried.â You know? I like it when people come up to me the next day, or a week later, and they say: âI saw your play. What happened?ââ Jeff Slater (Bill Murray), âTootsieâ [...].
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Beware, protÃ©gÃ© of the mentor who is jealous of your success.
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When it comes to open enrollment, don't be like me.
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Foolish advice to cut back on what you owe.
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One of the great things about working in a newsroom is that you're surrounded by lots of smart people who love to tell you what they know. Just try to stop them.
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Don't use a Sharpie. Don't watch "Desperate Housewives." Don't call yourself by your first and last initial.
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Life & style: My partner went back to the habit he said he had kicked and lied to me about it
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Bonjour mes amis! If you post a twit with my name in it following an at-sign that is exactly 140 characters in length, my little script will pick it up and add you Le Club 140. (Practicing my French!) For example... @davewiner, you are a very nice person and I enjoy sending you replies. I have actually nothing to say, but when has that stopped me before? If you posted that, your name would appear here... http://club140.org/  Of course you will be more original, won't you?  Meanwhile, in other news, Club 140 has caused at least one person to swear off Twitter forever. Too bad so sad! :-(
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So, you think you're stressed? Get a load of this dream I had last week. In my waking hours, I thought I was getting along just fine, despite an abnormally heavy workload (lots of assignments -- including this article -- due at once) and the daily travails of a work-at-home mother of two. But I knew it was time to reassess when I woke, panting, from a nightmare in which: ...
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Tycho:  The first part of this strip is from an actual conversation.  I'm pretty sure he was joking, though.
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Tycho:  He came into work yesterday with a prescription for something that will alter his brain chemistry, which I thought was a big step for the man who refuses to take aspirin.  We've long canonized our respective lunacies, believing it is like some artistic sacrament that makes our bizarre endeavor possible.  We have relied upon them.  Or, at any rate, we did.
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Tycho:  Did I not tell you?  Did I not suggest that when natural justice fails, another burning energy may deliver that result which is good and proper?  Despair, mine enemies!  Unless you like swamps, in which case you might find my wrath pleasant.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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I resisted shopping online for the longest time. I feared my credit card number would be stolen and I would spend a few years of my life trying to explain that I did not buy a Hummer with my Visa card.