Word: boredness
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"You have to feel like you're on a mission," says Ronnie Palache, who pulled Spencer, 9, from fourth grade in Tarzana, Calif., because the boy was bored and unchallenged but also has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. "I wake up every morning saying two things to myself: 'I'm on...
Spelke perfected a technique that capitalizes on one thing babies are good at: getting bored. Show a baby some objects, partly blocked by a screen, doing the same thing over and over, and most will tire and look away. Now show them what they had been missing. Some objects roll...
What was once the center of the world now seems to lie on the remotest margins. It's hard to believe that this torpid, sand-colored town, with its bored Indian shopkeepers sitting outside foodstuff-and-luxuries stalls and camels grazing outside the (largely empty) Hilton Hotel, was once the...
To chart the hazards, environmental consultants Halff Associates and HBC Engineering/Terracon pored over Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from the late 1800s and old city directories to locate chemical warehouses, junkyards and gas stations. Engineers walked the property with equipment that detected heavy-metal deposits, then bored some 600 holes and...
The trouble begins even before you enter. As authorities have banned fossil-fuel vehicles in the area, visitors must rent battery-driven cars or carts drawn by horses or camels. Despite fixed rates, overcharging is the norm. The drivers are rude, the hiring and negotiating shambolic. Flies swarm the animals...