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Be Productive, Read This At Work

We’re doing our part to help the economy.

That’s according to new research out of the University of Melbourne, which found that Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing (WILB) improves productivity by giving internet-centric workers a chance to refocus their minds between tasks. The increase is startling; workers who spend as much as 20 percent of their office time leisure browsing actually get more work done than workers who don’t.

Rebel Down

A fascinating tale of political intrigue gripped the UAE (or at least its press) last week, with the assassination of Chechen ex-rebel Sulim Yamadayev near his Jumeirah Beach Residence home in Dubai (the same area where Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim was murdered last year).

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