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...Rearrange your closet so that all your pants are on brown hangers, all your oxford shirts are on blue hangers and all your sport shirts are red hangers. Then stack your sweaters by color and the type of wool (or, God forbid, acrylic) they are made...
Here's how the top Harvard freshmen stack...
Geller probably says less than any other broadcaster in America and has more time to say it. On this particular Sunday, as on almost every other day of the week for the past 18 years, he will sit in front of an 8-ft.-high stack of broadcasting gear from 6 a.m., when the station signs on, until 10 p.m., when it signs off. WVCA's studio is atop the Whale-of-a-Wash laundromat. The scrap of paper next to the apartment buzzer says simply WVCA-GELLER. When Geller plans to go to the movies or on an errand...
...flight-flow procedures. Instead of letting airliners circle jammed airports waiting to land, the FAA has forbidden them to take off until air controllers are sure that the planes can touch down promptly at their destinations. This saves fuel, which the cost-conscious airlines love, and reduces the sky stack-up, which overworked controllers appreciate. It is also safer, which everyone should admire...
...this point Cameron did his usual unusual thing. He went into hibernation with a stack of legal pads, denying himself all sensory stimulation except music he deemed appropriate to the project (Gustav Holst's The Planets). He believes in junk-food diets as an aid to inspiration, "provided you don't take it past four months." Four days, fortunately, was all the time it took him to work up a treatment for Aliens that typed out at about 45 single-space pages...