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TAKE SMART BREAKS. Even downtime can advance you toward your goals. Chen reports that he plays the piano as a hobby. "I don’t have the time to commit to playing an hour every day, but when I’m tired of working I take a break and play the piano." While Rahman does admit to watching TV from time to time, she says that she usually takes breaks from homework to do tasks required for her extracurricular activities. "If I have a block where I’ve been studying for an hour, I’ll take 15 minutes and browse through the yearbook pages," she says. Needless to say, she has the whole yearbook staff on a schedule of deadlines they’re all working toward meeting—to get yet another big project done on time.e. THE ULTIMATE LIST OF SUMMER ESCAPES By Anita Wren Photographs by Pat Santos deadline environment means that copy editing often takes the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary point in the story corresponding to the dictates of available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid style, with all the most important information in the first paragraph or two. If the less vital details are pushed towards the end of the story, then the potentially destructive impact of draconian copy editing will be minimized. A news article can include accounts of eyewitnesses to the happening event. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc. YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT Quoted references can also be helpful. References to people can also be made through the written NOMADIC | 24 12