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...fidgety, demanding, chattering, whirling dervish of a task juggler." They are not only addicted to their electronic gadgets, but they also take tremendous pride in overusing them. Your story says it is more productive to focus on one task at a time, but my cure for e-mail and cell-phone addiction was to quit the rat race altogether. I haven't touched a cell phone, BlackBerry or PDA in months-and after 15 years in the corporate world, I don't miss any of it. As a stay-at-home dad, I'm reaping rewards far superior to anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...culture conditions us to do as much as we can, as fast as we can. But is putting more effort into saving time and multitasking really going to help us? The fact is, the more we try to manage, the less manageable we become. Let's turn off our cell phones and e-mail and slow down. Sverre Tysl Berkeley, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named the U.S. Bank Tower. Later in the day, counter-terrorism czar Frances Fragos Townsend told reporters that two South Asian and two Southeast Asian countries had helped arrest all four cell leaders planning the attack, which was designed as a follow up to 9/11 and originally revealed in 2003. Townsend said all four cell leaders are still in custody, although she wouldn?t specify where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Finer Points of the L.A. Terror Plot | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...speech was about international cooperation and to show that actions taken have real consequences." Said the official, "You intrepid journalists can deduce whether there's a connection between the NSA program and [the West coast plot]. Was there a domestic component?" The answer, given that all the alleged cell leaders were captured overseas, would seem to be no. But at a time when the Administration is defending the wiretapping program by stressing how perilous the post 9/11 world is, nothing drives home the point like a foiled attack so close to home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Finer Points of the L.A. Terror Plot | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...propaganda and repressed youth culture. In jail, we tried to avoid political communication only to discover that everything is political: the fact that fuel is so expensive or that they like MTV more than ZTV (Zimbabwe Television). But we all joked about the difficulty of life in the cell and shared, through whispers, the telling stories that brought us there...

Author: By Amar C. Bakshi | Title: Subdued Voices | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

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