Word: uselessness
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...buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees, just like in the song. I sit in my pajamas and work the Times crossword and sip peppermint tea and, it being almost Labor Day, I sit and think about work. And then I write a limerick. Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing...
...then She enjoyed redneck men Who didn't know A.D. from B.C. "When it comes to the masculine specie," She said, "I like vulgar and greasy. Sensitive guys Tend to theologize And I am not St. Clare of Assisi." It takes half an hour to write this. It is useless work. But I'm quite happy about rhyming greasy with Assisi. Happiness is in the details. An indolent man awakes in the morning and thinks, "Wow. A shower with shampoo with aloe in it. Then orange juice not made from concentrate. Seven-grain toast with butter. Jamaican coffee. One Across...
...means some paying customer has to leak it to Reuters before we can hear about it, while the CB's numbers are free to all. (This explains why the UM number is considered slightly more credible, though for my money the reports on consumers' emotional states have been singularly useless for most of this year.) That said, folks are expecting a slight bump...
...shark's fin and sea cucumber exporting business in Mombasa. Farther down the coast, Mohamed Oloya lops dorsal fins off great whites, then sells them to a middleman who transfers the shark bits to the brothers Cen. The Malindi-born fisherman is unsure why the Chinese crave a useless chunk of cartilage. "The Chinese know how to make money," he shrugs, "even from something that no one else wants...
...more than 37,000 teachers don?t have credentials. Hundreds of districts, from Boston to Chicago to Seattle, have begun experimenting with alternatives to certification in order to find new teachers. Which may not be a bad thing if you think teacher education programs waste everyone?s time on useless blather like "metacognition" and "modality processing." But as districts race to lower their entrance barriers, it isn?t clear whether staffing classrooms with amateurs is simply a short-term fix (that could have lasting harmful consequences) or a cost-effective long-term solution to our nation?s teacher shortage...