But as I grilled Mr. Ferriss and a handful of his Silicon Valley peers, who have made a sport of stripping time and pain out of routine nuisances, it was clear that even I could learn a thing or two.
In court yesterday, Chrebet, Elias and his brothers pleaded guilty to a lesser offense of violating the town's public-nuisance ordinance, a routine procedure, according to the deputy court administrator, Mary Jo Pisciotta.
Instead, at weekly meetings of precinct commanders and other department officials, progress in combating nuisance crimes will be discussed and officers out on routine patrols will now be expected to pay more attention to them.
(Researcher, Mozambique) Similar concerns were voiced in South Africa, where both research and routine programme monitoring had highlighted community dissatisfaction with DDT because it left a residue on house walls and stimulated nuisance insects such as bedbugs (Mnzava et al. 1998).
"What seems unusual is merely routine when you live in a state where the alligator population is 1.3 million," said Linda Collins, the call center supervisor at the Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program, or SNAP.
