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...master of juggling e-mail, voice mail, cell-phone calls and the like? No, you're not, says this slim fable-cum-manifesto against multitasking. The author, a business coach, gently ridicules the idea that anyone can concentrate on two things at the same time. What we're really doing, he says, is "switchtasking"--switching back and forth quickly and inefficiently from one task to the next. And when we give people our segmented attention and piecemeal time, says Crenshaw, "we end up damaging relationships." So put down that damn BlackBerry, as it were...
...think we did him a great service,” an unnamed Gossip Geek correspondent wrote in an e-mail on Tuesday night. “His name recognition has skyrocketed, and that can’t hurt for a UC hopeful...
...Martinez said he is running in part to meet more freshmen. “The greatest push or pull comes from door-to-door contact,” he said. “You can’t get that through e-mail...
...Nobel Prize in medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. The Harvard professors named in the Reuters list were not overly concerned with their selection. “I frankly don’t know anything about how [Thomson Reuters] does this,” Feldstein wrote in an e-mail. “These are low probability events. It’s flattering to be on the list but even if it comes to pass it would not affect my research.” Professor Roy J. Glauber, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, also expressed some skepticism about...
...heatedly to the accusations, calling Engdahl’s comment misguided and uninformed. “Mr. Engdahl’s unfortunate statement seems to stem from a certain historical and literary myopia,” English professor Werner Sollors, a specialist in American literature, wrote in an e-mail. “American writers have received a good share of Nobel Prizes in literature. From Sinclair Lewis (1930) to Toni Morrison (1993) there have been a total of ten winners.” Sollors added that the United States has long been a destination for other writers, citing Russian...