Word: junked
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...siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...
STEP 1: ADMIT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. Mark Ellwood, author of Cut the Glut of E-Mail, calculates that white-collar workers waste an average of three hours a week just on sorting through junk mail. If you spend any more than that, you had better read...
...French Navy's submarine-detection equipment. Exclusive rights to the magnetometer's civilian use give Goddio his edge over the competition. "Wherever we dive, we find something," says Susan Henrickson, an American member of Goddio's underwater team. In the 1980s, Goddio concentrated on excavating shipwrecks, including a Chinese junk and the Spanish galleon San Diego, off the coast of the Philippines. Since then, he has focused on Egypt. In 1999, his team excavated the remains of L'Orient, Napoleon's warship sunk by Lord Nelson in 1798 during the Battle of Abukir. Turning to the antique world, Goddio used...
...report also found that a majority of respondents thought environmental factors, such as access to junk food, helps determine whether people become obese. This belief, according to Lee, spurs Americans to support government involvement in stemming obesity...
...There's the 27 Fling Boogie, where you run through your home with a plastic bag and find 27 things to throw away. Or you spend five minutes cleaning up a particular "hot spot," a place where messes tend to pile up, like the bedside table or the junk drawer in your kitchen. The so-called Weekly Home Blessing Hour is actually 60 minutes of intensive cleanup in which you spend no more than 10 minutes on each area. To avoid feeling overwhelmed, Cilley encourages everyone to set a 10-minute timer for each task and stop when the buzzer...