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...having trouble managing finances, he might be asked to keep a diary of expenses. If a salesperson is seeking to improve performance, she might have to make a set number of cold calls that week. Burned-out overachievers may be advised to "get a massage or lie in a hammock for an hour," reports Lynn Nodland, a coach in Excelsior, Minn...
...call Felix Savon's boxing record Herculean: 266 wins, nine losses; six world amateur championships since 1986 and gold medals in the past two Olympics. You'd think a Cuban fighter who has owned the ring like that for the past 15 years could retire to a beach hammock with a tall glass of Havana Club and a Cohiba...
Then there are the specialized applications. Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles take Palms on their rounds and have instantaneous access to patients' charts and lab results. Electronic Data Systems has a program that lets you do your banking from your backyard hammock. If you need to communicate with a deaf person, SignIt! will walk you through sign language. MSN Mobile alerts you through your PDA about important events that you preselect--e-mail from your boss, say, or when a stock drops below 60 and you want to be reminded...
Here's hoping John McCain caught a few hammock naps during his post-primary jaunt to Bora Bora. By all accounts, he's going to need as much energy as he can muster to deal with the attention - from the media and from his congressional colleagues - piqued by his return to the Capitol Monday. The Arizona senator "suspended" his quest for the Republican presidential nomination 10 days ago, after his insurgent bid was crushed by George W. Bush's powerful Super Tuesday showing. Never a man to stay out of the action long, McCain dusted off his senatorial stationery...
...into the landscape, and you have a two-hour-long painting on the stage. Yeremin's staging makes every use of this artistic ingenuity. His actors move more like dancers than farmers. Yeremin has a brilliant sense of space, horizontal and vertical. The simple act of swinging in a hammock becomes a study of one man's motion across an empty plane. In Yeremin's hands, the A.R.T.'s corps of performers become points in space--tiny, beautiful additions to the landscape, like the figures in a Hiroshige print...