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...horror of this final wait for the Bottom is what really drains me. As the ratio of time spent studying to time until the Bottom increases without limit, my interest in things unrelated to schoolwork increases proportionally. The smallest curiosity, the dullest barb can hook my attention for hours. As the opportunity cost of stealing away time from studies increases, my irrational desire for shenanigans becomes unbearable. An hour and a half on amihotornot.com playing God of aesthetics. Forty-five minutes re-reading an utterly boring Times story on the profit margins of foreign car manufacturers. An hour faux-drumming...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: The Rack of Reading Period | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...many ecotourists find out about such places from television or magazines--and then use the Internet to research or book their trips. Knight Inlet Lodge's Internet site, www.grizzlytours.com has helped attract people from the U.S. and 17 other countries. Larry Jandrew chose Knight Inlet because his wife Barb, a bear fan, had watched an A&E television show, in which the lodge was touted as the fifth most exotic vacation on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Call Of The Wild | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...letter included a not-too-veiled barb against Johnson, saying her scholarly interests were dictated by what was fashionable at the moment...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider and Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Curricula Wars: Are We Learning The Rest of the Story? | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

Made dismal movie Yes, 3 Ninjas Yes, Barb Wire and choices? and Stroker Ace her honeymoon video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 19, 1999 | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...Barb Vogel's fifth-graders had just been through the Civil War. She had led her 27 pupils through tales of slavery and oppression, struggle and emancipation and how all of it changed America so long ago. But on a February day earlier this year, the class at Highline Community School in Aurora, Colo., listened in shock as their teacher read a newspaper story about a country in Africa called Sudan and the thousands and thousands of people, mostly women and children, who were being traded as slaves there. Recalls Vogel: "There was terror and disbelief in their little eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charity Watch: The Children's Crusade | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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