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...Read your bank statements. You'd be amazed by how many people just toss those statements without checking for strange transactions...
...disease hits, even doctors may not know what the signs of the illness are and what to do when patients turn up in their waiting rooms. If HHS, the CDC and other government agencies are jostling one another on the podium, the message is often mixed. And when you toss in the local police and the FBI--as was the case with anthrax--that mixed message turns to gibberish. During the hantavirus outbreak of 1993, the government handled the problem well, with Dr. C.J. Peters, then chief of special pathogens at the CDC, taking the lead in answering questions, even...
...catching as LSD. On many U.S. campuses, buttons declaring FRODO LIVES and GO GO GANDALF--frequently written in Elvish script--are almost as common as football letters. Tolkien fans customarily greet each other with a hobbity kind of greeting ("May the hair on your toes grow ever longer"), toss fragments of hobbit language into their ordinary talk. One favorite word is mathom, meaning something one saves but doesn't need, as in "I've just got to get rid of all these mathoms." Permanently hooked Ringworms frequently memorize long passages from the trilogy and learn how to write Tengwar...
...past, businesses like law firms and banks didn't dare toss out documents for fear that they might need them in a lawsuit. But inexpensive scanners now let companies save the data without using paper. Since Sept. 11, many companies are creating electronic copies of documents and storing them off-site. Iron Mountain, a data-storage company with headquarters in Boston, will save computer tapes or provide online backup for as little as $250 a month...
...many people and their pets, we were embroiled in a co-dependent relationship that prompted me at times to play games I knew would annoy him. One of my favorites was to take a doggy treat--a biscuit, say, or some hamburger--drop it into a glass bottle and toss it in front...