FROM THE EDITORS August 10, 2009 Issue

BEYOND THE BUZZ OF GOSSIP NEWS

HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO FOCUS ON THE PERMANENT GOODNESS THAT IS A FACT FOR EACH ONE OF US.

NO NEED TO WAIT for the office kitchen conversation or the over-the-fence chat. The latest gossip is always just a click away. A recent comScore poll shows that visits to entertainment websites such as TMZ.com and TheInsider.com are on the rise among Americans—and that almost half of these visits occur during the workday ("Don't tell the boss: millions of Americans browse gossip sites at work," csmonitor.com). This May, according to the poll, Americans spent more than 893 million minutes—something like 15 million hours—on gossip sites, with 44 percent of that time attributed to hours during the typical workday.

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