Even my teen-age son found the sight of their proverbial busyness hard to resist.

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When I caught myself slipping back into busyness, I took a few deep breaths and stopped immediately.

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And yet, amidst day to day busyness, the small things, like a quick thanks, can fall off the to-do list altogether.

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Now, designers are creating bags for both men and women that have exteriors that are stylish and interiors designed for modern busyness.

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One of the surprises in their findings was that an airport's ranking on the researchers' list was not necessarily tied to its size or busyness.

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And mobile devices have made the situation even more acute because browsers on phones have a hard time keeping up with the obsessive busyness of our hands.

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Designed for both the first-time smartphone user and the mass 4G LTE market, Lucid2 by LG helps smartphone users effortlessly and intuitively manage the fun and busyness of everyday life.

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From a strictly design perspective, a lawn is a cool green place for the eye to the rest, a place of calm apart from the busyness of a mixed border.

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Ms. ALICE ROSSI (Co-founder, National Organization of Women): There was a period of Nina's life that I felt was critical, where I was a neglectful parent because of the busyness of my life, and I took shortcuts in parenting.

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Yet busyness lures us.

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