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...seconds into the conversation; makes sounds like "ughh, ughh" to seem engaged; and asks no questions, but inevitably lets you know the "meeting" is over by either picking up documents to read or turning completely around to read e-mails on his PC ... Ironic how such "micro" inequities have such a HUGE demoralizing effect on employee morale. I always trudge away from his desk totally disgusted...
Harvard’s shorter semester means less teaching time, but Miron says teaching at Harvard is more interesting than at BU, where tighter resources meant the economics department had to “stick to the nuts and bolts of having faculty teach macro and micro...
...Spyware usually gets onto a user's computer by hiding behind other software downloaded from the Internet. "The first ones we saw were attached to end-user license agreements,"says David Perry of Trend Micro, a computer security services provider with a presence in 26 countries. "You were unwittingly agreeing to it [by not reading the agreement]. But the vast majority of spyware today is installed entirely without your knowledge...
...micro level, I had an up-close look at the loosening of concerns in one of the places you?d think would be most paranoid about security: a commercial flight. Over the holidays, the FAA temporarily resurrected the post-911 rule forbidding passengers from leaving their seats during the final half hour of any flight headed into Washington?s Reagan National Airport. Inconveniently, the crew of my Reagan-bound flight failed to warn passengers of the approaching limit (as was commonly done), until we had passed it, leaving me not only in need of a bathroom break, but also holding...
...beneath all those grand ambitions, there is another force at work: they get a kick out of sharing these pilgrimages as a couple--talking with transgendered sex workers in India or women who start businesses with micro loans in Bangladesh. In these situations, they prefer it if people don't know who they are. "We're just people from the moon, as far as they know," says Bill. Later, they spend hours talking about everything they've seen. Says Melinda: "That's a huge side benefit. We love doing this together...