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Multitaskers' downfall

'Ugly Betty' shows need to focus on one task at a time

Poor Ugly Betty. What doesn't ABC's favorite brace-face, Betty Suarez, put up with as assistant to the editor in chief of Mode?

Amidst a constant barrage of telephone calls, text messages and e-mails, Betty must cope with everyday office nightmares such as a know-it-all boss without a clue and a bottomless work pile to the more prime-time issues of deportation and death threats.

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