Those that can afford to get out of town do, and those that can't tend to stock up on provisions and hole them selves up for a few days.

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Instead of paying half its workers with the new method and comparing them with the other half, a company could pick five or 10 workers and compare them with their synthetic selves.

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More than 3.6 million Koreans have avatars, or virtual selves, representing them in chat rooms and e-mail.

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So you might alter something to try to get them in line with their own selves somehow, and that changes the music.

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Nearly everyone, in recalling Rogers, talked about his great strength as a listener his habit of drawing people out and making them feel as though their best selves had been understood.

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She believes it is because they "need to take a vacation" from their "alpha-male" selves and have someone else tell them what to do, for a change.

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We invited our readers to communicate with their future selves by writing a letter, which we would store for them, and send at a later date.

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