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...WHAT'S THE TRICK TO STRIKING THE PROPER BALANCE? We need to develop a new set of protocol about answering messages and all the rest. I have a cell phone and fax machine and I check my email several times a day. But I don't answer the phone during family dinner, for instance. You can't make love by e-mail-yet. But you sure can court by e-mail and it can be wonderfully helpful to relationships. On the other hand, I have a patient who calls her husband's computer his plastic mistress because they hardly ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Defining a New Deficit Disorder | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...luck. The breakup of his parents' marriage comes just as Frank has hit puberty?hit it like a crash-test dummy slamming into a granite wall. In no time he has become a heavy drinker and a chronic masturbator while somehow remaining a sweet, devoted kid. The great trick is in the "somehow." Somehow Owen Kline embodied that bundle of complexities, found the pathos and comedy in poor Frank's turmoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Owen Kline | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...there's nothing like physical activity to promote cardiac fitness. For some people, that will mean participating in an aerobics class three or more times a week. For others, walking as fast as they can half an hour a day most days of the week will do the trick. In fact, all other things being equal, people who engage in a wide variety of physical activities?like walking and biking and dancing and swimming?seem to be better protected against cognitive decline than those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Can You Prevent Alzheimer's Disease? | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...these books don't do the trick, don't forget-there's always next New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Books for a Better You in 2006 | 12/27/2005 | See Source »

...fabled tome of rhymes, which opens to reveal strings of rearranging words that, in a fashion reminiscent of Beck’s ASCII-chic “Black Tambourine” video, briefly form an outline of his face. Aesop easily laps Mr. Hansen’s one-trick pony, as he quickly takes corporeal form...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Ben B. Chung, Bernard L. Parham, Will B. Payne, and Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen Sleepers 2005 | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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