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Hygienic and cosmetic therapy. Showering, shaving, moisturizing, clipping, plucking, tweezing, waxing, tanning, spraying, cutting, washing—each hygienic and cosmetic directive becomes more important when delaying completion of that final paper. After all, who can write about Kant with uneven brows, dry skin or greasy hair? This method of procrastination often involves trips to CVS to stock up on more chapstick, shaving gel or skin care product...
Trips to Lamont reading room. It is common knowledge that work cannot be completed here—and yet we go anyway. While students in the basement and upper floors actually write papers and do course reading, students in the reading room divide their time between cruising freshman, catching up with old acquaintances, asking people to turn off their cell phones, answering calls in the stairwell and downloading pornography on wireless. And yes, for all these reasons students are lobbying to keep Lamont open 24 hours...
There needed to??be??a??monster. That, in a nutshell, was what J.J. Abrams and his co-creator, Damon Lindelof, decided soon after Lloyd Braun, then ABC's entertainment chairman, gave them this assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain...
...partly to blame. Donor countries do not want their aid to overwhelm a country's bureaucracy or feed corruption, so in the name of accountability, they give very carefully. The pledges of aid made by governments are just that--pledges to help, not outlays of cash. Rather than write the U.N. a $4 billion check, governments pick and choose which relief and reconstruction efforts they want to fund. "It makes no sense just to give money," says German Chancellor Gerhard Schr??der. "Our people don't want that." At the donors conference in Jakarta last week, the U.N. launched...
Seligman has tested similar interventions in controlled trials at Penn and in huge experiments conducted over the Internet. The single most effective way to turbocharge your joy, he says, is to make a "gratitude visit." That means writing a testimonial thanking a teacher, pastor or grandparent--anyone to whom you owe a debt of gratitude--and then visiting that person to read him or her the letter of appreciation. "The remarkable thing," says Seligman, "is that people who do this just once are measurably happier and less depressed a month later. But it's gone by three months." Less powerful...