when it comes to housework and child care, but collectively they're not the slackers they used to be.

如今，美国男性在做家务和照看孩子方面仍然不够尽职尽责。 但总的来说，他们不再像过去那么爱偷懒了。

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Collaborators, advice-seekers, slackers and loners have different work styles, but each knows the work habits that help him or her to get the job done.

合作者、寻求建议者、懒惰者和孤独者有不同的工作风格，但每个人都知道帮助他或她完成工作的习惯。

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"A year ago when we started to do fairly serious work on the launch process I thought we were dealing with families who had slackers" she said.

一年前，当我们开始致力于这项启动程序时，我以为我们要对付的是有懒虫的家庭。

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But if recent reports that she monitors her employees' remote data connections are accurate, she could have fired the slackers who failed to log in rather than demanding that all workers get back to the office.

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Even more compelling work is under way to produce a predictive genetic test that can reliably distinguish between the tumors that will kill you and the slackers that grow so slowly they will never cause any harm.

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Because for the past forty years, we've all known who the "takers" were, or were supposed to be, anyway: the welfare queens, the urban rioters, the students, the slackers, the various people the Democrats sided with in the 1960s, most of them, in the partisan story-telling, African American.

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