Word: automaticism
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The Right Stuff is “an introduction network for graduates, faculty, and students of Ivies, Seven Sisters, Stanford, and other excellent schools,” according to an automatic reply at the company’s telephone number.
In the hours just before the Tenerife crash, Paul Heck did something highly unusual. While waiting for takeoff, he studied the 747's safety diagram. He looked for the closest exit, and he pointed it out to his wife. He had been in a theater fire as a boy, and...
Manuel Chea, then a systems administrator on the 49th floor of Tower 1, did everything right on 9/11. As soon as the building stopped swaying, he jumped up from his cubicle and ran to the closest stairwell. It was an automatic reaction. As he left, he noticed that some of...
It was only the second day of voting by the 80 cardinals who had gathered there to name Pope John XXIII's successor. But no one anticipated a long conclave--and the expectations were not wrong. At 11:22, smoke began billowing from the rickety metal chimney that led upward...
Got a humdrum task you need to do over and over? Want to tell your computer to download all mom's emails to your iPod? Automator makes such jobs, well, automatic. One window (searchable with Spotlight) displays all tasks your various applications can do. Drag and drop them in order...