The whimsical title of Dave Eggers's cancer-and-family memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" was catnip to the curious.

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Mr. Perrottet tells of two authors, Dave Eggers ( A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and Nora Ephron ( I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections), who use a computer program called Freedom that blocks Internet access for up to eight hours.

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He calls it the most "heartbreaking" aspect of his design work.

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"Just being in the classroom and just knowing that I'd been given up on sometimes, that I'm not receiving the work, it was heartbreaking, " he says.

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"It is heartbreaking to pull the garden up and see all our hard work go to nothing, " said Mrs Rolfe.

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And we will likely see further job losses in the coming days, a fact that is both troubling for our economy and heartbreaking for the men and women who suddenly find themselves out of work.

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All of the actors do admirable work (especially Ribisi, who's the key element of a gruesome, truly heartbreaking scene) but this grab-bag sampling of The Great Melting Pot is a staple of the kind of war movie that Spielberg is supposed to be deconstructing.

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