Word: errand
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Take this homage as my own little directory. Cambridge harbors a panoply of treats, easily accessed on a walk home, an errand run, or a blind date. Forget cavities and fillings for a moment--it's the sweet tastes and memories of them that last, and, furthermore, give you the sweetest feelings about what you leave behind...
Billie Stewart, 64, of Asheville keeps a sticky pad in her car, and when she thinks of an errand that needs to be done, she jots it down. "If I write down bakery," she says, "I can let go of it and don't have to clog up my memory." Written reminders aren't cheating. Far from it. They make it easier for the brain to handle a larger quantity of information. Technology gives us an increasing number of things to remember--PIN numbers, passwords, all those pesky dotcom names--but at the same time provides excellent aids...
...mostly, we were bored. We paced in our sweat suits from formation to formation and chow line to chow line, getting an errand done here and there and enjoying the occasionally "serious" outing (try putting two platoons in a classroom for a chlamydia lecture and then telling them to be quiet). We weren't allowed to run it off - there were no drill sergeants who would supervise us, and we might get hurt out there. We were government property now, after all. Meanwhile chow at 05:30, chow at 11:00. Chow at 16:30. Full, free meals...
Frank Minna wasn't just any boss. He was the epitome of hustler cool, a guy who offered four teenagers, just about the only whites at a predominantly black orphanage, the distinction of becoming his errand boys. For Essrog the decision was a no-brainer. At St. Vincent's Home for Boys he was choking on a flood of words and impulses in need of release. "Language bubbled inside me now, the frozen sea melting, but it felt too dangerous to let out." Over the next 15 years Minna encouraged Essrog to speak (in shouts, non sequiturs, stupid riddles...
...program libraries, production studios and promotional muscle, when the behemoths put their full weight online, they'll be some of the biggest dogs on the block. What's more, predicting a paradigm shift based on a declining American appetite for ordinary TV may prove to be a fool's errand. Still, CBS's $36 billion price tag derives from its status as a network that dominates Madison Avenue's ad dollars, not as just another player in a new and unpredictable ball game. "The Web turns viewers into the programmers and the network," says Wagner. "That's what the revolution...