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...rewrite the cold war-era law controlling domestic eavesdropping in collaboration with House Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner, who showed his willingness to oversee the Executive Branch last week by sending 51 questions about the program to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. "The law was written in 1978, pre-cell phone, pre-Internet," Wilson says. "We need to do some updating...
...seems as if everyone has attention-deficit disorder. Our society is so invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from pointless e-mails, phone calls and other things, a lot more could be achieved. Ally Whitney Eugene, Oregon...
...demanding, chattering, whirling dervish of a task juggler." They are not only addicted to their electronic gadgets, but they also take tremendous pride in overusing them. Your story says it is more productive to focus on one task at a time, but my cure for e-mail and cell-phone addiction was to quit the rat race altogether. I haven't touched a cell phone, BlackBerry or PDA in months-and after 15 years in the corporate world, I don't miss any of it. As a stay-at-home dad, I'm reaping rewards far superior to anything...
...team," said David Raith, executive director of the US Figure Skating Association and the first to inform the Hughes family. By early morning, the media circus had already set up its tents outside the Hughes home in Long Island, New York, and the family had to unplug its phone at 4am so they could get some sleep...
...think in my heart I can be at my best," she said. "I have to be honest with what my body is feeling. At 2:15 (am), I thought I've got to do something about it, get it checked out, so I made some phone calls...