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In discussing a time when black men and women with an intellectual vocation were deprived of the chance to make a living through the pen, there is a case for looking in American black life for the places to which those thwarted thinkers diverted their energies.
Water gushes down from the mountains; some is diverted to hydro-electric stations, but a lot simply drains off into the sea, splashing off passing cars like a natural car wash or amusement-park ride.
The gambit is called "pagejacking," and the one used to force the diverted surfer to click through numerous pages at the porn site before escaping is known as "mousetrapping."
Parents weigh all--or at least most--of the costs of an additional child (resources diverted from their other children) against only a portion of the benefits (they count their own love for their children, but not others' love for their children).
The WSJ 's "Work Week" column reports that Y2K preparations had diverted computer specialists at many companies from other projects, which are now back on the front burner.