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...special black baseball cap to signal that they are absorbed in a project. Department head Lois Beggs says she takes several hours "under the cap" to catch up on her 150 emails a day when she has been away from the office. At Quarasan, an educational-product developer in Chicago, workers take "focus blocks" of up to three hours when they absolutely cannot be interrupted. "They know they don't have to jump when someone comes to their desk or have a Pavlovian response when the phone rings," says president Randi Brill. In any week, about 25% of the staff...
...INDICATORS Case Dismissed A U.S. federal court threw out Hollinger International's $1.25 billion racketeering case against ex-chairman Conrad Black and other former executives. The Chicago-based newspaper group had claimed the accused looted $400 million of company funds. The judge said the allegations should instead be considered under U.S. securities...
...words of others, he quotes them properly and generally cites them to the original sources (Mark Twain, Palestine Royal Commission, etc.) [Finkelstein’s] complaint is that instead he should have cited them to the secondary source, in which Dershowitz may have come upon them. But as the Chicago Manual of Style emphasizes...
...over again, Rebecca would probably change only one thing: using a college-gift registry to avoid the kerfuffle of receiving six laundry hampers as off-to-college presents. "That," says Rebecca, "was a little over the top." --With reporting by Karen Ann Cullotta/ Chicago; Jeanne DeQuine/ Miami; Rita Healy/ Denver; Chris Maag/ Ada, Ohio; Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles; and Nathan Thornburgh/ Princeton
...quit in the B's. But even more important to Jacobs' emotional maturation than one-upping his dad is dealing with the tension of failing, over and over, to get his wife pregnant. Although, really, you don't expect a guy who goes to the Britannica headquarters in Chicago to report two errors to have boys that swim really fast...