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...probably often would," says David Kennedy, Director of Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "The problem is, as an operational matter, how would it be done?" Plucking actionable tips from the deluge of leads is a time-consuming chore, Kennedy says: "You are going to drown in false positives...
Earlier this month, as many Harvard students asked for extensions on midterm assignments, countless Americans dealt with a deadline of their own: April 15th. All over the country, taxpayers hustled through piles of incomprehensible paperwork, a chore not unlike the problem sets in quantum mechanics many of Cambridge’s student inhabitants have to tackle...
...like a hamster on a wheel.” To train for the marathon, many of the runners adhered to a regimen of three or four-hour runs on weekdays, followed by incrementally lengthening “long runs” on weekends. For these runners, training was no chore. “It feels good to work up some sweat, breathe a little heavier. After spending all day with computers, reading books and stuff, and with Annenberg giving you unlimited food, you gotta shake off the crust,” Novey said. Levenson described her weekday runs with...
...other moms who heard about the system, Allen sent an e-mail inviting friends to her catering kitchen. "I told them that we'll make this a girls' night out once a month," she said. "I'll bring the wine and the music, and [we'll] get a chore done...
...uphill chore to socialize them, to get them to come into more relaxed contact with humans. They probably come from a feral cat background, and were not touched or socialized as babies. You're working against their genetic and early childhood experience. But you can get them out of it with an understanding of what makes a cat tick, which is not to go to them and not to try to urge, coax or demand anything of them. You have to let them come to you and ask for it. That of course takes a lot of patience...