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"Why are working mothers so furious all the time" I was asked recently. An answer, not entirely rational, springs to mind. "Personally, I could use a travel agent." It’s a joke, sort of. School vacation is coming up. I’m swamped at work, and trip planning has become a time-consuming hell. A simple family vacation requires innumerable visits to destination websites; a suspicious scouring of rankings and reviews; and, at the heart-stopping final moment, a purchase on a site where prices and availability seem to change by the second.The yearning for an old-school travel agent is a metaphor for deeper and probably unsolvable problems of domestic life. First, any illusion that mothers might have had about full-time employment as a "lifestyle choice" has, in this economy, been stripped away. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data, 77 percent of American women with school-age children work; a quarter says they sometimes work from home; a third works on the weekends. Why Women fare better than men in this employment market.Second, the "service economy" of the boom years has become a nightmare of self-service. Individuals, under increasing pressure to perform at work, have to do for themselves all kinds of things that other people---middlemen, customer-service agents, HR managers, and administrative assistants-- used to do. This has given rise to the most tedious household chore of all. domestic administration, health-insurance forms, 401(k)planning, personal banking, tech support, expenses, gift returns-- these have become existentially (真实存在的) torturing, a maze of entrances and passwords. And on the phone Robot voices that lead nowhere in the direction of human help."You’re focused on making the reservation, and the email, and the deadline at work tomorrow," says Ellen Galinsky, president of Families and Work Institute. "We’re supposed to be paying attention to all of it, all the time." Beneath these newer realities of modern life lies an unquestionable truth: American corporate structures and marriages still do not fully accommodate the working mom, which means that women are still in charge of haircuts, doctors’ appointments, and birthday parties. That’s why vacation planning on the Internet, though harmless in itself, feels like the very last straw. From the passage we know that as a working mother the author is terribly busy with her work, and it has become a time-consuming hell for her to（）.
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In an age of perpetual digital connectedness, why do people seem so disconnected In a Duke University study, researchers found that from 1985 to 2004, the (62) of people who said there was no one with whom they discussed important matters tripled, to 25%; the same study found that (63) , Americans had one-third (64) friends and confidants than they did two decades ago.Another recent study, by researchers at the University of Michigan, found that college students today have (65) less empathy--the ability to understand and (66) the feelings of another-- than students of generations past did. The reason, psychologists (67) , may have something to do with our increasing (68) on digital communication and other forms of new media.It’s possible that instead of (69) real friendships off-fine, e-mail and social networking may take the place of them--and the distance (70) in screen-only interactions may breed feelings of isolation or a tendency to care less about other people.The problem is, (71) empathy recedes, (72) does trust. And (73) trust, you can’t have a cohesive society. (74) the findings of a new study co-authored by Kevin Rockmann of George Mason University and Gregory Northcraft, a professor of executive leadership at the University of Illinois. Northcraft says high-tech communications like e-mail and videoconferencing strip away the personal interaction needed to (75) trust. In a business setting--as in all other social relationships outside the workplace--trust is a necessary (76) for effective cooperation within a group.In Rockmann and Northcraft’s study, 200 students were divided into teams and asked to manage two (77) projects, one having to do with nuclear disarmament (裁军)； the other, price fixing. Some groups (78) via e-mail, some via videoconference and others face to face. In the end, those who met in (79) showed the most trust and most effective cooperation; those using e-mail were the (80) able to work together and get the job done.Northcraft thinks this is because real-life meetings, during which participants can see how engaged their colleagues are, breed more trust. Over e-mail, (81) confirmation of hard work gets lost, which tends to encourage mutual slacking off (懈怠). 63（）
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