Then he went into research mode, consulting more than 30 sources in print and online and creating a spreadsheet with nearly 3,000 definitions and etymologies.
Donna Leon's new police procedural, BEASTLY THINGS (Atlantic Monthly, $25), finds her philosophical Venetian detective, Commissario Guido Brunetti, in a "sibylline mode," anxiously consulting the "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius, his freethinkers' bible, for guidance on how to cope with the profound social evils afflicting his homeland.
This preparation may have disturbed the delicate balance of power and authority in the consultation, however, and generated difficulties for patients so that they moved back to their usual mode of consulting.
Reported contacts with specific health services (general practitioner, nurse, NHS or trial help lines) were costed according to the type of service consulted and the mode of contact, either by telephone or in person.
DAVID BOULEY was in mad-scientist mode, sealing foie gras in plastic bags, inserting temperature probes, consulting time-temperature charts.
"It's sort of in a full-blown stampede mode today," said Cliff Kupchan, a Washington-based atalysthet thEurasia Groupup, a political risk consulting firm.
In Meeting mode, the phone knows when you're in a meeting or at a show by consulting your calendar.
When this mode is activated, tracking cookies are deleted once you close your browser, which "essentially wipes clean your history," said Jeremiah Grossman, chief technology officer with WhiteHat Security, an online security consulting firm in Santa Clara, Calif.
