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    <title>Slate Magazine - Procrastination</title>
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    <description>A brief history of wasting time.</description>
    <copyright>2008 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC</copyright>
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  <title>Letter to a young procrastinator.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Dear chronically procrastinating young person,<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2190918/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>procrastination</category>
  <author>Seth Stevenson</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 16:46:37 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Slate's special issue on procrastination.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Maybe you didn't care for our package on weddings last summer. Perhaps you weren't interested in the fall book blitz. You might even have skipped over our blowout neuroscience spectacular. Hey man, that's cool. Different strokes for different folks, am I right?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2190909/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 16:46:37 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Why we can't stop playing computer solitaire.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In a 2000 Wall Street Journal essay, Slate's founding Editor Michael Kinsley wrote that this here magazine once "thought of adopting the slogan 'Slate: The Thinking Person's Solitaire,' but rejected it as too honest." This is a reasonable assessment of our audience—you are reading this alone; you are brilliant—but a bit uncharitable when it comes to solitaire. The canonical single-player game is an easy punch line, most often cited as the preferred hobby of the office slacker or the intellectual playground of dullards. (George W. Bush was known to play the occasional hand while governor of Texas.) But the poor, benighted game is also—according to a Microsoft employee who worked on reprogramming it for Windows Vista—the most-used program in the Windows universe. We mock solitaire because it is our secret shame.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2191295/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>procrastination</category>
  <author>Josh Levin</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 16:46:37 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The procrastination rituals of everyone from cattle ranchers to CIA agents.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  We already know plenty about how college students and office workers waste time: They check e-mail, send Facebook status updates, and—ahem—read online magazines. But what does procrastination look like for everyone else?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2191403/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4135" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4135" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 06:42:54 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How economists think about procrastination.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  We are an impulsive and weak-willed species, we human beings. On the one hand, we are masters of delay: The lawn will get mowed tomorrow, the paper written after one more game of solitaire. Yet we are also very good at seizing the moment: overeating, drinking too much, and generally indulging in behaviors that lead to hangover and regret.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2191140/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>procrastination</category>
  <author>Ray Fisman</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 06:42:13 EST</pubDate>
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