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...busyness. Why should we embrace the speed? It really is the solution to having the time to enjoy the significant things. This book, in some ways, is about choice. Our productivity has gone way up, but it just means we're filling our extra time with even more productivity and not making the choice to say, 'wait a minute. I'm going to choose to shut my cell phone off. I'm going to choose to enjoy this time watching a sunset with my wife, or reading...
...think we're in some dangerous times and I think it is a bad thing. We are not choosing the extra time that all this technology and all the products and services that are supposed to provide. We aren't making the choice in many cases to say, 'wait a minute, I'm going to use this extra time with my kids...
...June without a vote at the polls, was widely expected to call a snap election this fall to secure a new five-year term. Party chiefs were so sure the well-received Brown would seek a fresh mandate that they had drawn up detailed campaign plans and taken on extra staff to carry them out. Donors were tapped for additional funds. Constituents mulled their options. All that remained was for Brown to take the short drive from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace and ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament. He was expected...
...quick look at a skin rash told Bell that the patient had once lived in Bermuda. In 1886, Conan Doyle - by now an eye doctor - outlined his first novel, A Study in Scarlet, which he described as "a simple tale of mystery to make a little extra money." Its main character, initially called Sherringford Hope and later rechristened Sherlock Holmes, was based largely on Bell. But Holmes' debut went almost unnoticed, and the struggling doctor devoted nearly all of his spare time to writing long historical novels in the vein of Sir Walter Scott - novels that he was convinced would...
Gary S. Katzmann, the state judge who awarded Currier the break time two weeks ago, rejected the board’s argument, citing the potential for pain or medical injury if Currier were not given the extra time. Failure to express milk every two to three hours can lead to medical complications, such as breast engorgement, fever, or infection...