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Teenage terror to-do list

WHAT would you think if you found someone in possession of the following list: “Mow lawn; do laundry; buy groceries; clean gutters; do homework; trim trees; mail anthrax; pick up dry-cleaning”?

Doran Amos has this list. Doran Amos is not a suburban teenage terrorist. We definitely believe this reader should not be subject to “extraordinary rendition”, nor made to wear orange.

Amos’s story, and he is sticking to it, is that he was just trying out the experimental “Sets” program at labs.google.com/sets. Type in a few words or phrases, such as “mow lawn”, “buy groceries”…

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