Word: awkwardness
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...surprisingly helpful and creative. For weight loss, the site suggests everything from the obvious (eat fewer calories than you burn) to the offbeat (consult a hypnotherapist). If you want to become a vegetarian, myGoals.com includes links to veggie websites and support groups. The site falls short, however, in its awkward, blank templates that users are supposed to fill out to achieve goals not already mapped by the site. And while the e-mail reminders are handy, it's a little too easy to cheat by clicking the "goal accomplished" button as you down another ice-cream sundae. --By Anita Hamilton
There's a learning curve, however. Because the headsets are little radios with their own power supply, you have to remember to keep them charged up. Average talk time is about three hours before they peter out. With Bluetooth models you must also endure an awkward process called "pairing," which involves entering a four-digit code and pressing buttons on both the headset and the phone in precisely the right sequence to persuade the two devices to talk to each other...
Family. Marco’s youngest sister, DeShanna, was a Division I First Team Field Hockey All Star this season—which probably salvaged some awkward family dinners. Family is good, especially in the worst of times. Here’s hoping they’re no worse for the wear...
...enter an awkward freshman prone to awkward silences and exit a smooth-talking senior? Is affability one of the “approaches to knowledge” that we spend our years here cultivating? Or is this too simple a view to take of the well-rounded intellectual and personal evolution that takes place over four years? In some ways, the question at the root of all this is whether our education develops primarily our public or private selves, and to what extent we get to choose...
Principals of the districts’s 15 elementary schools found themselves in an awkward position. On Wednesday night, all 15 had signed a letter endorsing the closure of two schools, but they left the choice of which two up to the superintendent...