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Should you travel by bus, you may also be susceptible to promotional onslaughts. In 20 Trailways Transportation System coaches that run along the Northeast corridor, a company called NRoute Communications has installed TV monitors that descend from overhead compartments. Using wireless technology, the company can beam news, information and ads specific to the region the bus is passing through. "It's a great time to reach people because we're not competing with anything else--not the dog, cat, kids or spouse," says NRoute CEO Carlos Garcia, 36. "You don't have a choice in these vehicles--you are required...
...before trying to pass. I’m already frequently mistaken for a man. When my hair was cropped to a half-inch buzz, I was often asked to leave women’s bathrooms by crusading gender do-gooders who couldn’t see beyond their narrow corridor of femininity...
...wonder what other silences we live among, unknowingly. The kiss-in has a parallel philosophy. It steps outside the boundaries of everyday public behavior to give a new perspective on the commonplace—(straight) hands held en route to class and (straight) kisses good-night in the corridor...
...quarantine ward at the Shanxi Medical University No. 1 Hospital, another makeshift isolation section had been set up in the back of the hospital. Many of this ward's rooms have as many as five suspected SARS patients squeezed into them, their coughs wafting freely through screens into the corridor. Family members can intermingle with patients, and some relatives are not even wearing masks...
...Hirst's spotted Mini is roaring down the stairs as in a scene from The Italian Job. The staircase takes you to Hirst's sliced-up bovines, Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything, brooded over by Ron Mueck's London Angel. A corridor, giving a distant view of the shark, leads to the double-height circular conference room, now staffed with Saatchi icons. Offices that once held bureaucrats - each with its own unique marble fireplace - now contain single works like Hirst's giant (full) ashtray. It's not the only work that assaults...