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WHAT IT ISN'T: Occasional serious worry that doesn't markedly diminish quality of life...
STEP 6: TURN OFF THE CHIME. Nothing triggers a Pavlovian response faster than a ringing bell, but a flashing icon in the task bar comes close. Turn both off and your urge to check will diminish over time...
...Harvard Corporation’s low profile, this year disrupted by the controversy surrounding the Enron ties of Corporation member Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65, does not diminish its power, which extends from approving the selection of deans to giving the nod for capital campaigns to begin...
...STEP 6: TURN OFF THE CHIME. Nothing triggers a Pavlovian response faster than a ringing bell, but a flashing icon in the task bar comes close. Turn both off and your urge to check will diminish over time...
...Secretary-General Mahmoud Abbas--an Arafat ally who has recently been critical of him in private--as Prime Minister, responsible for creating an accountable administration. Among other proposed reforms: folding Arafat's nine security organizations into one police service. The hope among U.S. officials is that greater democracy will diminish the power of gunmen in Palestinian society and make a compromise peace deal more likely. But that outcome is far from guaranteed. A senior Palestinian official says that the regional peace conference the U.S. had hoped to stage in Turkey this summer "is dead" because of Syrian reluctance...