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...water and don't eat food. To give himself more leg room and use his time more profitably to get work done, he sits whenever possible in an aisle seat and never volunteers to exchange business cards. He is wary of the judgment-distorting dangers of jet-lag fatigue and rarely signs a contract on the same day that he travels through multiple time zones, whether east or west. On the other hand, he does not hesitate to strike a deal upon deplaning from a north-south trip where there are no time-zone changes...
...tranquillity, some of them are dunking themselves, in total darkness and aloneness, for an hour or more at a time in small tanks filled with 250 gal. of 93.5° salt water. Why? To achieve, through "sensory deprivation," surcease from tension, reconciliation with the id, relief from jet lag, hangover, back pain or nicotine withdrawal, for rediscovery of the womb, a flow of delta brain waves-or just a snooze. The experience might be called the caviar of self-indulgence. Float tanks, as they are called, originated on the West Coast. The idea behind them was developed in the 1950s...
Even when women do receive tenured positions, they suffer from economic discrimination. Their salaries lag behind those of men. In 1978, the average salary for a male professor was $19,313 but for a female professor, it was $15,941--17.5 per cent lower. These studies control for variables such as type of institution and field of study. The salary gap tends to increase over time and with increasing rank. For example, the salary difference at the level of assistant professor puts women 4 per cent below their male colleagues; 15 years after receiving their doctorates, women earn from...
...finest musicals are subject to sociocultural jet lag. The biorhythms of the societal clock seem organically out of kilter. No time machine can transport the audience to the 1943 spirit of Oklahoma! or the 1957 of West Side Story. Separate components (songs, dances, acting) can be marvelously exciting, but the core of the musical, what it is rather than what it does, recedes into an odd realm of detachment. The original galvanizing impact is dissipated...
This plan involves some sacrifices, to be sure: long periods away from the desk, jet lag, missing February in New York City. But journalistic fairness requires it. No expense should be spared to uncover what is buried under all this flapdoodle. Why not, say, $32,000 for the first leg of research in Venice? Can start packing at once. Eagerly awaiting your reply...