Given the round-the-clock expectations that digital life has placed on executives, it may well be that holding a desk job is one of the most dangerous things you can do.

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When I first put the partial cremains of my father in a Tupperware sandwich box and placed it on my writing desk, that was the joke I felt like telling.

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Educationalists have spoken of the need to make schools safer, with metal detectors, security guards and conveniently placed cell phones (one Columbine student, cowering under a desk, failed to get through to the police but managed to use his cell phone to talk to a television station).

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Called to attention, a gangly Indian quickly straightened up in his seat and placed his hands, neatly folded, upon his desk.

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