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...Quarasan, an educational-product developer in Chicago, workers take "focus blocks" of up to three hours when they absolutely cannot be interrupted. "They know they don't have to jump when someone comes to their desk or have a Pavlovian response when the phone rings," says president Randi Brill. In any week, about 25% of the staff use the technique. Signs hang on cubicles, chairs or doors with such declarations as I AM FEELING TOTALLY FOCUSED RIGHT NOW. PLEASE RESPECT THIS PROCESS...
...East and Nigeria persist. Nazarbayev's government has signaled it wants a more active role in managing those vast resources. In 2003, it decreed that the state oil company, KazMunaiGaz, must be a 50% stakeholder in all new domestic oil and gas ventures. "This is not renationalization," says Martha Brill Olcott, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington and an expert on the Caspian region. "This is re-evaluation. Kazakhstan is learning to play with the big boys. This is the Kazakh definition of national interest." The government's move doesn't necessarily amount...
...Murfreesboro, Tenn., did not vote for George Bush and still thinks he stole the election from Al Gore. But when it comes to what the Administration has done against terrorism, she admits, "I think everything they've done is necessary. I absolutely support them in this." Adds Terri Brill, a 42-year-old mom from the Denver suburbs: "Personally, I think we need to close our borders; the threat is out there, it's coming after us, we need to protect ourselves...
...They held him in jail for a number of weeks, and the FBI was interviewing him on a regular basis,” Brill says. “On their end they thought he was suspicious—which was groundless...
Ultimately, Brill says, the court granted Abouazza voluntary departure to return to Canada in early July, but because he still has criminal charges against him—and was not released from INS custody to appear in court—Abouazza cannot return...