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When I first came to Harvard, I was one of those overeager freshmen who attended every debate, meeting, and political discussion I came across. Then, November hit. Deterred by the cold and my tendency towards sloth, I started to pick and choose my events wisely, and largely based on their location and the availability of food...
...October. The delay is, to say the least, quite inconvenient. But what is more unsettling is the flabby lack of resourcefulness that this situation has revealed in students at the (second) best university in the world. I too have been afflicted with a sort of wireless-induced intellectual sloth. Unable to log onto Facebook from bed last night, I was forced to begin the reading for my Social Studies tutorial. Rousseau argues that man in his developed state is no match for man in his state of nature, untainted by tools. Our temporary wireless troubles reveal how dependence on technology...
...just published a book on sloth, assuring readers they have "the right to be lazy," but playwright Wendy Wasserstein doesn't claim that right for herself. Her new play, Third, opens next month at New York City's Lincoln Center. A musical based on her children's book Pamela's First Musical debuts in April. And her first novel, Elements of Style, comes out in May. Wasserstein talked to TIME's BARBARA ISENBERG about what fuels all that prose...
...hallmark of Garc�a's program has been his vigorous attack on inefficiency and sloth. In recent weeks he has been engaged in a running argument with Peru's civil servants, who have resisted his effort to curb the five-hour workdays that have become traditional during the hot months, from January to March. The new President was even bold enough to attack extravagance in the pampered military, slashing an $800 million deal to purchase 26 French Mirage jet fighters back to twelve...
...from the city center, this animal sanctuary, open daily from 7:30 p.m. to midnight offers one of the best ways of viewing tropical fauna, as so many species are nocturnal. You can see striped hyenas howling at the moon, endangered greater one-horned rhinos wallowing in the mud, sloth bears eyeing you suspiciously from overhead branches, and the newest feature, flying squirrels the size of cats, gliding among the treetops. Visitors can walk along paths that cut through the park's 16 lush hectares or take a 45-minute guided tram ride. There's also a special 40-minute...