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Like many other modern workers, Klein takes pride in being a master multitasker, zipping through her daily to-do list: "I see the red lights go on or hear the beep, and I love it." But she has noticed some drawbacks and even some side effects: impatience, irritability and (gasp) some inefficiency. "Sometimes when e-mail goes down, I'm actually more productive, because I can concentrate on something," she says. She finds herself angry and snappish when callers make poor use of her endless availability. Although she feels anxious when her In box is empty, she feels no better...
...image shown on the cover, of the New Orleans Garden District aflame, reminded me of a Currier & Ives lithograph. Despite my dislike for the war in Iraq, especially for all the dissembling by politicians that got us into it, I couldn't help feeling a twinge of patriotic pride upon seeing the photo of an Iraqi woman voting. ALEXANDER WELLS Los Angeles...
...Madras. The first woman in her family to work outside the home, Kondababu makes $85 a month, a good salary by Indian standards. Whatever she can save, she says, she uses to buy gold, sometimes even in $12 installments?enough for tiny stud earrings. "It's a matter of pride for people like me to buy gold," she says. "Gold used to be a few hundred rupees for a sovereign [a measure of eight grams] in the time of our parents, and yet they couldn't dream of buying it. Now it's six thousand rupees for a sovereign...
...instance, always thought my brother and myself were the first of our relatives to row. After all, none of my uncles ever rowed and I certainly thought that the somewhat-patrician sport had been beyond the reach of any of my grandparents. I thus took a certain amount of pride in trailblazing, in being unique, in treading new ground for myself and my family. Well, it turns out, I was wrong. Not only did my maternal grandfather row for several decades out of Philadelphia’s famous Boathouse Row, he even coached there for many years...
...Verizon's BroadbandAccess highspeed wireless data Network - provided, that is, you live in within its service area and have the appropriate plan. It makes sense to have rapid access to the Internet, so the Today screen puts a web-search window within easy reach. The folks at Palm take pride in the fact that Microsoft let them use their first choice of search engine - Google - and I'm pretty happy about that...