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...Over Their Heads TIME's notebook item on the torrential rains and flooding in Bombay [Aug. 8] realistically portrayed the woeful state that India finds itself in as it tries to compete with China. Politicians in India are constantly asserting their resolve to put Bombay on a par with Shanghai, without even giving a thought to reality. The fact that a day's rainfall can paralyze the economic hub of India speaks volumes about the complete lack of basic infrastructure and disaster-management techniques in this country. The government machinery was totally overwhelmed by the floods and started providing relief...
...material for any human being to comfortably digest. Plus, there's no way of knowing when your favorite sites are updated. Some of the best blog writers publish once a week or less, and who has time to keep visiting these sites in the hope of finding a fresh item...
...from time to time by information overload: the blogosphere creates way too much material for any human being to comfortably digest. Plus, there's no way of knowing when your favorite sites are updated. Who has time to keep visiting these sites in the hope of finding a fresh item? But as most blog readers these days know, there's a solution to these problems, and it's simple. Actually, it's called Real Simple Syndication, or RSS - you've probably seen the little orange rectangles on your favorite sites. You start by downloading free software called a newsreader...
That's because love of a different sort took hold of me instantaneously. As I was reading the Kansas City Star on my grandparents' front porch, I noticed an item about an upstart 100-watt radio station called KCMO. I knew immediately I wanted to work there. After auditioning by reading articles I'd adapted from the Star, I was hired as a newsman and sports announcer. So I scratched my plans to reunite with my would-be flame in Illinois...
Knocking off one item after another on a seemingly endless to-do list is certainly one way of passing the time—but there is no reason to resign ourselves to such a state of affairs. Sadly, most of us don’t seem to be fighting back—over 20 percent of working adults said they would actually be “happy” to take a call from work that interrupted a social occasion...