Although not recognized as a cause of action in most jurisdictions, "desk rage", abusive or threatening conduct at the workplace—is a growing problem and a growing concern to employers and the lawyers who advise them. At its worst, the occupational violence that can result from stressed and angry employees facing increasing pressures in a difficult economy can be deadly. But even when the problem is relatively minimal, it can result in reduced productivity and increased attrition, according to a New York Law Journal article reprinted by New York Lawyer (registration required).
http://www.abajournal.com/news/beyond_traditional_tort_law_desk_rage_is_now_a_potential_claim/

The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 8-24, 2008
http://en.beijing2008.cn/

“One World, One Dream”: three main themes
http://www.chinaorbit.com/2008-olympics-china.html

The Olympian
Lang Lang, China’s “first for-export pianist,” has so much commercial potential that lawyers are trademarking his name. His signature, which he fashions into the shape of a piano, is protected by Chinese law.
The New Yorker August 4, 2008

Definitions of olympian on the Web
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:olympian&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

boustrophedon
A method of writing in which lines are written alternately in opposite direction. I was first introduced to this word by an exceptionally educated land surveyor, Ted Rollheiser. The USGS Township and Section surveys are numbered boustrophedonically. Within each Township, the first Section is at the northeast, and the last at the southeast, like this:
6 5 4 3 2 1
7 8 9 10 11 12
18 17 16 15 14 13
19 20 21 22 23 24
30 29 28 27 26 25
31 32 33 34 35 36
A Township is approximately six miles square, so each Section is approximately one square mile. From Sarah Yardley
You are reading this thanks to the boustrophedonic experience of a 14-year-old boy, Philo T. Farmsworth. While plowing a potato field, he realized that the back-and-forth lines were a good way to make images on a screen, thus inventing television and, from that, the computer monitor. From Mark Chartrand
A.Word.A.Day

Books and other items are flowing out of public libraries in record numbers as the price of gas goes up and the economy sours. Librarians throughout Northeast Ohio report seeing more people coming through their doors and leaving with more books, movies and CDs than ever.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5920609.html

August 5 is the birthday of Wendell Berry, (books by this author) born in Port Royal, Kentucky (1934). He grew up on farmland that had belonged to his family since 1803. As a boy, he was taught by his grandfather how to work a farm with nothing but a plow and a team of mules, no mechanized sprinkler systems or tractors. Berry had an uncle he described as "an inspired tinkerer with broken gadgetry and furniture ... and a teller of wonderful bedtime stories." His uncle kept a ramshackle cabin up in the woods, and Berry often went up there as a kid to get away from everything. It was in that cabin that he first read the work of Henry David Thoreau, and where he first fell in love with poetry.
He lived in California and Italy and New York City. But through all those years, he never stopped thinking about the place where he grew up, and he often went back to his uncle's old cabin. He finally decided to move back to the area permanently. He began farming it the way his grandfather had taught him, without any machines. He grew squash, corn, and tomatoes, and he got a flock of sheep, a milk cow, and some horses. And he wrote about his experiences as a farmer in more than 40 books of poetry, fiction, and essays. His collections of poetry include The Farm (1995) and A Timbered Choir (1998). But he's best known for his essays in books such as The Gift of Good Land (1981), What Are People For? (1990), and Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000).
The Writer’s Almanac

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