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...might make money similar to i-banking bucks. Such as a top-of-the-line house of ill repute. Or a strip club. Or “helping” the couple of female friends you have who fit nicely the description in the egg donor ads, providing the workless team with some cash. There’s also the slightly more Hollywood idea of becoming a band of highly skilled thieves...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman | Title: An Anxious April | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...year women the confidence to opt for those tough science courses despite orientation week science advising, which might better be termed orientation week science intimidation. Furthermore, programs scheduled during the often stressful academic term will certainly receive less attention and prove less engaging than those that occur during the workless bliss of summertime. Discussions and events similar to those suggested by Dean Avery are already occurring under the auspices of WISHR (Women In Science At Harvard and Radcliffe), but they can hardly be considered fitting substitutes for the intensive, week-long Science Alliance...

Author: By Gabriella S. Rosen and Dalia L. Rotstein, S | Title: Women Well Served by Science Alliance | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...statistics are kept on student cases of suchinjuries, she says. Although injuries are morecommon among full-time computer users such asdata-entry operators, recent studies have foundthat even those who workless than full days at thecomputer are falling victim to such disorders...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Student Injuries On Rise | 5/3/1994 | See Source »

...self-destruction, that "the entire population of the earth could live compactly on a properly designed Haiti and comfortably on the British Isles." He once declared that "man has the capability through proper planning and use of natural resources to forever feed himself and house himself and live in workless leisure." He dreamed of mile-high floating cities and of a Manhattan enshrouded in a gargantuan plastic dome. But he was more than just a dreamer. When he died of a heart attack last week at 87, while visiting his wife at a Los Angeles hospital, "Bucky" Fuller left behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man Who Believed in Mankind | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles is a wastebasket for crumpled lives. On its grimy benches and littered walks gather the old, the warped, the baffled, the embittered, the workless, aimless flotsam of a great city. A faded woman in an antiquated ball dress and long black gloves glides along, clutching a parasol. Two fat, coarse-faced girls stroll hand in hand. An old man sits limp and vacant-eyed, numbed by the weight of his loneliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Of Ducks & Men | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

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