Britt Aboutaleb, a style news editor for Elle magazine, oversees the news section of Elle.com, and spends about 60% of her day editing and then the rest of it working on writing Web site features.

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Both these features make writing and enforcing contracts which take every possible eventuality into consideration difficult, or even impossible.

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Down in Knoxville, Tennessee, the International Biscuit Festival (May 15-18) this year also features a big food writing conference along with its famed Miss and Mr. Biscuit pageant.

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At meetings and conferences, filter-tipped cigarettes were standard features on the podium alongside writing pads, pencils and ashtrays.

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Carr believes that both of those features make writers self-conscious and hurt their writing.

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Besides writing the weekday advertising report as well as other news articles and features, he also writes a weekly e-mail newsletter In Advertising for the New York Times on the Web.

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