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/^t/Television hasn't been with us all that long, but we are already beginning to forget what the world was like without it. Before we admitted this "time-consuming monster" into our homes, we never found it difficult to arrange our daily schedule of certain activities. We used to have time both for top duties and certain pleasures as well. Nowadays the whole schedule, previously so cautiously arranged, seems to be broken. The reason for this lies in the simple fact: everyone nowadays seems to be obsessed by a popular, however, time-wasting activity, i.e. TV watching.