Word: slothful
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...seems only yesterday Ronald Reagan declared Washington the headquarters of the seven deadly sins (vanity, greed, sloth, avarice...). And when Bill Clinton proclaimed the era of Big Government over, the revolution seemed complete. But on Sept. 11, America fell in love with government all over again. Suddenly politicians looked like dignitaries and the capital was again a place people turned to for guidance and protection...
...this recreational multitasking is not only a technical change but an assault on the very couch-potato philosophy of leisure, which I hereby dub chaise-pomme-de-terrisme. In today's productivity-minded, techno-Puritan culture, you are a sloth and a loser if you aren't doing at least two things at all times: making a cell-phone call while checking messages on your Blackberry, checking stock quotes while making love to your partner, and so on. It's strange to think of watching the tube as a throwback to a simpler, more contemplative day, but that's what...
...society encourages sloth and gluttony," he says. "Obesity and related illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer cause as many deaths as tobacco." C.S.P.I.'s monthly Nutrition Action Health Letter, with a circulation of 850,000, combines articles on serious research--such as the questionable benefits of garlic supplements and St.-John's-wort--with healthy recipes and lobbying advice. Last month's issue urged readers to write the Food and Drug Administration asking it to label the "shocking levels" of added sugars in many foods...
...this country without ever getting out of our cars, we're a pretty sedentary lot. You can bank at the drive-up and grab dinner at the drive-through. For the ambitiously lazy, there's the drive-by shooting. But a suburban Pittsburgh man has taken sloth the extra mile. Who else but an American would open the world's first drive-through strip joint...
...entryway, contemplating his freshly-acquired knowledge of the sins, he was suddenly drawn to the fire extinguisher. The extinguisher showed no directly apparent blemishes. But Kenley's intuition made him look closer, and as he moved, the sunlight illuminating the glass on the extinguisher's case revealed the word "sloth" etched into the glass. It was scratched out and barely visible. It sent a chill up his spine...