CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
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For fun, ABC ended its newscast with a feature from Laura Marquez in Silicon Valley. The workers there are "going topless," in the phrase coined by Website designer Dan Saffer. It is a response to the distracted mood in business meetings, where participants pay try to discuss and multitask at the same time. Firms are banning laptops--hence "topless"--and cell phones and pagers and BlackBerrys: "The experts do not call it attention deficit so much as continuous partial attention."

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