Word: bothered
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...same place. Why the man on the corner asked me for spare change, and when I said I didn’t have any, he said to call him on his cell when I did. Why fat people order five buckets of chicken and a Diet Coke. Why skydivers bother wearing helmets. Why all the people that sing in the subway have...
...home to a three-bedroom house in a predominantly African-American area on the north side of Wilmington, Del. He lives with five of his six children and his girlfriend. His younger brother was robbed at gunpoint and shot in the head a few years ago. "I don't bother anybody," he says. "I try to do right, keep a cool head." He needed one on Sept. 3, when seven or eight cops descended on him as he was leaving the corner deli. They jumped out of an unmarked van and, according to Mills, knocked over his 1-year...
...probably fewer than 50 percent of registered Massachusetts Democrats will vote today. Among those, students will make up a tiny fraction of the electorate, and Harvard students an even smaller number. Most students don’t bother to register in the state where they attend school, and only a small number of people who are registered in another state go to the trouble of sending absentee ballots...
...Blueshirt Group, a boutique investor-relations firm in San Francisco, makes extensive use of IM. But Erica Abrams, 37, a partner in the firm, has opted out. After trying IM for about a year, she removed it from her PC. "It bothered me too much," she says. She found the constant pinging of messages intrusive and ultimately overwhelming. "Why bother?" she asked. "My clients are satisfied with my service already. I'm not sure I need to be more responsive than that. Isn't e-mail fast enough...
...Little problem. "We need to bury the notion that the biological world is going to collapse and we're all going to be extinct," he says. "That's nonsense, and it can make people feel the situation is hopeless. We can't have people asking 'So why should we bother...