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During the first few weeks in ROWE, employees call "sludge" out loud when they hear an offending comment. They try to keep a sense of humor about it--some teams put a dollar into a kitty for every sludge infraction. Yes, it sounds weird, but it can help people break their bad habits, says Phyllis Moen, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota who is studying Best Buy's ROWE employees. "These are all examples of the way we use time to say how valuable we are," she says...
Rowling certainly isn't afraid of sex, as Order of the Phoenix--which had Harry making out with the beautiful, grieving Cho Chang--ably demonstrated. Harry and his friends are now 16, and it would just be weird if Harry didn't have more on his mind than wands and snitches. "Because of the demands of the adventure that Harry is following, he has had less sexual experience than boys of his age might have had," Rowling allows. "But I really wanted my heroes to grow up. Ron's hormones get fuller play in book six." Cue the throaty alto...
...Every weird thing that happens, happens there. Florida is also a very good place to hide: everything that grows, grows there. It’s a very good place to hide between the weirdness and the growth...
...listen to him all day, because he's so detached from any kind of reality as you or I might see it. I have no idea what he's talking about half the time; I don't think that he does, either. It's sort of this weird free association that he does. I thought it was a very telling quote about things in our world today...
Bergman's need to scream out his fears and hatreds is also evidence of a weird vitality. His gift was always to find universal significance in his private agonies. In a 60-year film career, he has picked at the scabs of his psyche, turning wounds into eloquent words, nightmares into indelible images...