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...Amtrak: Greyhound upped fares 1.5%, and airlines added fuel surcharges, but good ol' trains are running full--and it's not because of the cafe car's tuna log...
ORDINARY.COM Why do some men shave while others grow a beard? Why the sudden hush in an elevator? A new online periodical called the Journal of Mundane Behavior mundanebehavior.org analyzes these and other quotidian activities. Why bother to log on? Because the ordinary reveals more about ourselves, says managing editor Scott Schaffer, a sociologist at California State University at Fullerton: "Most of us don't lead Jerry Springer lives." True, but his show should still get the ratings...
...System for Travel and Reimbursement (STAR), which business travelers must use if they want their money back, is a common sore spot. Travelers, or their assistants, must answer dozens of sometimes unrelated questions just to log a simple expense...
...have been on only a week, and I am hooked. You log on and post how fast you want to play (five minutes for the whole game is customary) and how strong an opponent you want. Within seconds, your screen is alive. A chessboard has appeared; your opponent has already moved; your clock, posted onscreen in ominous Apollo-countdown mode, is running...
However, while Burkett freely airs complaints from childless workers that they continually log longer hours so their colleagues can attend soccer games and school plays and cites a 1997 study documenting anger over family-centric policies at two companies, she ignores a finding in the same study--by Mary B. Young for the William Olsten Center for Workforce Strategies--that there was in fact no difference in the number of hours worked by parents and nonparents. Similarly, Burkett profiles a well-to-do mother who claims child-care tax credits for a job undertaken for "stimulation" but fails to acknowledge...