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Kareem shows me how to fill out an order. He is very proud of the company and tells me that he joined on February 14, the day the company started. I congratulate him on being its oldest employee, making him blush. My stint with manual labor does not last long. I am sent back upstairs to my keeper's dismay. "Deja! (Already!)" she cries incredulously. "I don't think he had room for me on the team," I reply...
BURNOUT The benefit of a pallidotomy, a treatment for Parkinson's in which a tiny area in the brain is cauterized, is dramatic and immediate. Long-term effects, though, may be another story. Five years after patients in a study underwent pallidotomy, characteristic problems like difficulty performing manual tasks gradually returned, though improvement in tremors, twitches and muscle stiffness was sustained. Overall, ability to bathe, dress and participate in other activities of daily living was no better than before the surgery...
What if Abby from "Dear Abby" married Cliff from Cliff's Notes? What if somebody spiked Chicken Soup for the Soul with Harvard's Core Curriculum? What if a hapless humanities major condensed his four-year, $120,000 liberal arts education into a 100-page, $9.95 self-help manual...
...It’s in the (Big) Bag: Chem 5 textbook and lab manual, Fly-By lunch, slant-ring binder, Harvard planner, miniature stapler, emergency phone numbers...
...nature. Pope also points out a stunning little feature of the three-year-old video game Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown, developed by GT Interactive Software. When Duke gets tired, he can find a bottle of steroids to get him going. "Steroids give Duke a super adrenaline rush," the game manual notes...