Word: brightness
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...spent focusing on a given task was about six seconds. They didn't have email to check, but they did have lots of other multitasking possibilities. Why only six seconds? Maybe this time limit is inherent to the nature of knowledge work. Thinking is, perhaps, like staring at a bright light. It's too intense, and you have to look away every so often...
...Nowhere has that fond rivalry been more evident than in the field of design. "Paris/New York," a dense, imaginative exhibit running at the Museum of the City of New York until Feb. 22, focuses on 1925-40 - the bright, anodized moment when Paris and New York were forging new ways of looking good. That was when Paris invented Art Deco (and New York improved on it), New York was alive with a new sound called jazz (and Paris went crazy over it) and Paris dominated haute couture (while New York industrialized it). "Let's work together," enjoined the French architect...
...mail category. Demand for deliveries has been further beaten down by environmentalists, who consider snail mail a waste of paper. Meanwhile, spikes in oil prices in 2008 drove operating costs for the Postal Service's fleet - which is 220,000 vehicles strong - through the roof. (Marking one financial bright spot, those surges have since subsided.) And perhaps most biting of all are the multiple billions of dollars the agency has had to dole out annually to a prepaid retiree health-benefit fund, which was created by the Postal Act of 2006. The overall picture isn't pretty. "We actually reached...
...bright spot in last night’s game was the return of tri-captain Jenny Brine, who had missed the last three games with an injury...
Last night against No. 8 Dartmouth at Bright Hockey Center, the Crimson missed yet another opportunity, this one to take first place in the ECAC and start its climb back into the national rankings...