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Natural air circulation is a preoccupation of green architecture. With the widespread adoption of air conditioning after World War II, the typical office building was constructed to be more airtight than a mummy's tomb. Now designers are rediscovering principles of ventilation and air circulation familiar to builders of the 19th century. The Rocky Mountain Institute took part in an environmental upgrade of the White House and the vintage Executive Office Building nine years ago. "We discovered that the old office building was already designed with a natural ventilation system--a fairly brilliant one," says William Browning, the institute...
...most outspoken critics of the TSA, and he took a great deal of time to explain to us the alternative systems he has researched and proposed for his airport. It's a thin line for Baumgartner, and for me, really. Of course we want airport security to be airtight, and we do not want to reveal anything that might aid someone who wants to do harm. In my reporting since Sept. 11, I have discovered a number of security issues that I have in the end not written about because I have concerns about providing too much information to potential...
...odds are good that he or she is a crank. If the author publishes not in a standard scientific journal but in a book for general readers, watch out. And if the book is issued by the author rather than a conventional publisher, the case is pretty much airtight...
...Statute, which forces companies to rehire unjustly fired workers rather than simply pay out monetary damages. Though it generates only a sprinkling of cases each year, Article 18 has become an all-or-nothing battle cry for both camps, which see it as the symbol of Italy's famously airtight job protections. Antonio D'Amato, head of Confindustria, Italy's leading employers' association, says unions are waging an "ideological campaign" rather than facing real negotiations. "We have never asked for the freedom to fire, but instead the freedom to hire," he says. So far at least, labor has been racking...
Knowing how often heirs fight over family possessions, estate lawyers frequently ask clients to write into a will a line intended to assist the family when the time comes to divide the effects, either suggesting a specific method of disbursing them or offering an airtight incentive to work things out amicably. "You can say in your will, 'In case there is any conflict with dividing the personal property, it should be arbitrated by so-and-so'--the executor, for instance. You don't have to get overly complicated, but you do need to try and anticipate how intense things might...