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June 19, 2008

The Time Paradox

By Sarah Z. Wexler

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TIME BY THE NUMBERS:

- 7: Billions of hits retrieved by a Yahoo search for time, the most popular noun in English.

- 16: Average hours per workweek Americans describe as "unproductive."

- 266: Minutes a day Americans spend watching TV, our biggest leisure pursuit.


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