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...must be completed in solitude. The enormous cost of long-distance calls from Namibia, Malaysia or the Ukraine back to mom and dad in the United States precludes the use of Let's Go-provided phone cards for anything except calls to editors. Sending a second researcher for each route is also impossible due to financial constraints. And traveling even with a self-supporting companion leads to a certain loss of initiative. "When you're traveling with someone who isn't a Let's Go employee, they sometimes want to just chill out," production manager Stone says. "One person...
...this [hooded shirt] on because my roommate said I needed color and I always wear hoodies. Hoodies are like the thing that I live in cause I always wear tanktops in the winter just for no reason. This sweater my mom got at the end of Christmas--she works at Bloomingdales--I think it's some random department store brand. It's really soft, it's cashmere and I wear it everyday because I'm so lazy and it's black and it goes with everything. That's another thing--all my clothes basically are solid colors because then they...
...have is just sitting there and doing nothing. I don't know, it's fun. I go to final clubs, I guess. I don't have an I.D., but every now and then I'll go to Grafton. But I can count the times. I smoke...a lot. My mom has no shame, she will go anywhere to find out what's going on in my life and there's nothing wrong in her mind with going through my shit...
...within my earshot. But they were under the impression, perhaps, that this was all "just a phase," and in due time I would change to a more honorable concentration like social studies or biochemistry. "At least try to have your special field in psychology, or something more applicable," my mom tried to reason with me. My father was less diplomatic: "But you are on the pre-med track, of course...
...reason, she decided, was this: by the late '90s, women were swarming into all kinds of jobs--but without surrendering their traditional homemaking and child-rearing roles. Result: the bewildering juggling act that defines today's working mom--and a chance for the Web, in Carpenter's words, to "turbocharge women's choices...