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...shocked group on our first night, necessitates the use of a pile of clear plastic bags sitting next to the roll of toilet paper. Lugging to the raft the tightly sealed steel box in which those bags will accumulate is no one's favorite job. But the cruelest chore of every morning is simply getting dressed: crawling out of a warm sleeping bag, throwing off beanie and thermals, and submitting to the clothes that are just as cold and damp as they were the night before, checking them for leeches and squelching in wet sneakers. After three days of pulling...
...hunt. Indeed, at the CIA, keister covering was in full swing long before the attacks of 9/11. In January 2000 the head of Alec station told his bosses he still had the two men under surveillance when in fact he had lost them in Bangkok. That bureaucratic chore completed, Alec station then dropped its chase altogether. It would be more than a year before a conscientious FBI agent assigned to the CIA re-examined the evidence and realized how badly the agency had blundered. The two names were finally given to the State Department...
...held back from competition so they can devote at least "their first 100 hours of (cricketing) activity to triggering intuitive learning." Coaches are trying to compensate with intensive teaching, but bombarding tyros with instruction is counterproductive because it transforms what could be an effortless process into a chore...
Other than filing expenses, it's hard to imagine a duller office chore than updating your address book. But help might be at hand. Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster, is here to help. The onetime online-music exec is the mind behind Plaxo (plaxo.com), a company providing free, easily downloaded software that integrates with Microsoft Outlook to keep your address book up to date. So long as your contact is also a Plaxo user, any changes to his or her phone number, e-mail address or postal address will be automatically sent to your...
Perhaps the virus affected Harvard students’ ever-bemoaned social lives in a more tangible way, too. As the march of the virus continued to make oh-so-convenient online communications an interminable chore, maybe SoBig moved a few to ignore their natural tendencies. At a school where many choose to hide away in cramped dorm rooms and conduct all interpersonal communications via a keyboard and an LCD screen, is it so lamentable if the bug’s author pushed a few ivy-leaguers out of their caves...