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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stage at any one time," he writes. "You are switching attention between tasks." For optimal use of brain cells, do one thing at a time, no matter how long your to-do list is. Otherwise, he says, "if you do multiple conscious tasks at once, you will experience a big drop-off in accuracy or performance." In other words, put down that cell phone immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...through his last, highly productive years before his death in 1988 from lung cancer. These are the years of his crowning achievement, Cathedral, a magnificent story collection with greater emotional range than his earlier published work. Lish edited that book too, but lightly. By then Carver was too big to be revised by anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of Constant Sorrow | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...Sammy Sosa hadn't also insisted that ... he had never used performance-enhancing drugs despite forearms as big as Popeye's, or if he hadn't failed [a] drug test, I would be more inclined to believe he is the victim of a bad batch of lotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...years ago, 13% of us got credit-card statements online only; today, 24% do. But as we stop holding that information in our hands once a month in favor of glancing at account balances on our computers or cell phones moments before we buy, could we be losing the big picture of where all the money goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Gets Lost When Our Finances Go Paperless | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...asks Joe Schwieterman, a DePaul University professor who specializes in urban planning and transportation. He recently published a study on intercity U.S. bus travel that showed a nearly 10% jump from 2007 to '08. "As Amtrak and the airlines have struggled with incorporating wireless, we think that's a big part of why it's suddenly cool to jump on the bus," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pimp My Bus Ride: Hip Intercity Motor Coaches | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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