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...whole chapter to exposing the contradictions present within self-help books, like 365 Ways to Save Time. Gleick asks only that we acknowledge this condition. He states that the speed at which we accomplish our multitudinous tasks has its consequences. Not only may the quality of our work suffer, but also the quality of our lives. For example, leisure is no longer existent, having been replaced by the oxymoronic "leisure activity." We are also made aware of the effect speed has on times past and present. Those times that were once viewed as speedy are today viewed as slow...
...Lemann says in his brilliant history, The Big Test, an SAT honcho wrote to his colleagues of the dire consequences if U.C. decided to end its then limited use of the test: "If they drop the SAT, we will lose a great deal more than the revenue; we will suffer a damaging blow to our prestige...
High schools are changing too. Baby boomer parents have started movements against homework, stringent graduation requirements, class rankings; it's as though they believe their children should never have to suffer the indignity of being evaluated. Pity those kids when they get their first job. Last month Laila Kouri, 16, reflected on the SAT as she sat through an expensive coaching class in ritzy Westport, Conn. "I know people who blow off classes, are failing school and walk into the SAT and get a 1200 the first time," she sighed. "How can this be a fair test?" Well, as Kouri...
Knowing that many parents suffer mightily from separation anxiety, however, Courtiss updates the camp website daily with 80 freshly snapped photos. "It's the best thing since Cheerios!" she says. "The photos give the parent visual validation that everything is O.K." Patti Soboroff, a Los Angeles homemaker, started using a computer for the first time when her three daughters began spending summers at Camp Vega. "I saw my girls more by visiting the website than I saw my two boys, who stayed home," she jokes...
...opinion, you don't shoot at Gilo. All that achieves is the destruction of 200 Palestinian houses, so it's a losing battle. If you want to fight, you have to have a strategy, and part of that program is that you can't allow your own people to suffer without end. That's not happening. People are starving, and unemployment is near 50 percent. You can't feed people with slogans...