Even higher though is the thing the Internet cannot do: Provide human contact and real focus.
Conferences offer the same endorsement, plus another scarcity afforded by the Internet, human contact.
Bath time is stretched to a leisurely 22 minutes per child to extend tactile human contact.
Also, by increasing human contact, video conferencing may increase travel, as did the telephone.
Concerts are human contact with the band, with other fans, and they disappear after a few hours.
The hallmark of all of these self-service transactions is that they take place with little or no human contact.
He had no human contact, just a cell phone charged by solar power.
Positive human contact is as important as, if not more so than, a good night's sleep or a proper diet.
Resultantly, certain areas at the site have been affected by the careless human contact and with the accumulation of garbage.
"For a sustained pandemic, it needs to be able to maintain human-to-human contact without killing its host off, " he said.
The power of human contact to our aging parents is often underestimated.
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Mr Long is not worried by his encounter and says whatever the 'Beast' is, it is clearly a timid creature that shies from human contact.
Has our relation with machines made us feel so deprived of human contact that we befriend anyone and shack up with whoever has a mattress?
The myth surrounding Thoreau is that he scaled the heights of literary productivity by retreating into the wilderness, away from all manner of human contact.
For most of his life, Faustino's sole human contact has occurred once every two years, when he herds his cattle to the nearest town to sell.
On Tuesday, police said they found the site where the so-called North Pond Hermit was said to have lived for 27 years with virtually no human contact.
There they may be free from the hunter's rifle, but they are not completely free from human contact or immune to the conflict between the two sides.
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Its strategy is based on combining electronic access with human contact for consumers all, unlike at traditional full-service firms, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
One day, while he was at Tamms, he was given a new defense lawyer, and, whatever expertise this lawyer provided, the more important thing was genuine human contact.
Hybrid websites can serve as a useful screen, solving some customers' problems immediately, and gathering enough information about the customer's request to make the eventual human contact speedier.
"They have had no direct human contact for some time to ensure that, after the intensive care they first had when they arrived, they are de-sensitised from people feeding them, " Mr Byrne said.
Juvenile rants in the blogosphere replace fruitful human contact.
He lacks the driving need to be loved, the craving to excel, the desperation for the warmth of human contact that compels Clinton to be a far better practitioner of the art of politics.
Such terms gloss over the fact that, just like the pipes that carry water, the tubes that carry bits are reliant on old-fashioned, low-tech spadework, human contact and the geographical reality in which all that exists.
When women think about careers in science and technology, they may wrongly believe the career would be one of isolation and lack of human contact, envisioning a lone scientist working in a lab or on a computer.
After so many months in which his primary human contact had been an occasional phone call or brief conversations with an inmate down the tier, shouted through steel doors at the top of their lungs, he found himself unable to carry on a face-to-face conversation.
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And be reminded that even the people who run the world, when seen in ski clothes struggling for footing on a slippery sidewalk or sweating like veal calfs in an overcrowded conference hall, are pretty much like the rest of us: affable, irritable, hungry for human contact.
Raising a boy, for instance, is quite different from raising girls. (In our first time as parents, my husband and I had two daughters.) While my girls were emotional, easily upset, demonstrative and clingy, boys often slink into the house after school, trying to avoid all manner of human contact.
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"As concerned ... restrictive conditions and lack of human contact, the court found that, if the applicants were convicted as charged, the U.S. authorities would be justified in considering them a significant security risk and in imposing strict limitations on their ability to communicate with the outside world, " the court ruled.
A. wrongly accused of being a double agent and held for three years in total isolation (no reading material, no news, no human contact except with interrogators) in a closet-size concrete cell near Williamsburg, Virginia, made chess sets from threads and a calendar from lint (only to have them discovered and swept away).
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