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Most often the problem is poor ventilation. Sometimes the difficulty stems from design flaws. In some buildings, for example, air-intake ducts are built directly over loading docks; exhaust fumes from idling trucks are drawn in and circulated through work areas. During the energy crunch of the 1970s, conservation measures such as installing sealed windows, closing air-intake ducts and overinsulating roofs only made matters worse. As a result, most -- and at times all -- of the air in many office buildings is recirculated. "Without adequate dilution by fresh air, pollution levels build up," explains Robert Phalen, an environmental specialist...
Clothes are important, and a thrasher turnout has standard components: oversize T shirt, baggy shorts, high-top sneakers and, often topping it off, a kind of revisionist Huntz Hall cap. Those basics allow for infinite variations in color and design, and the skateboarding T shirts sold in stores like Rip City in Santa Monica, Calif., have a heady graphic punch that combines elements of biker insignia, psychedelic coloring and underground-comics' goofiness. Surfers favor light colors, but skaters go for darker hues. "Dark colors make more of a hard-core statement than bright surf wear," says Santa Monica Artist...
...DESIGN: Two unrepentant old modernists win architecture' s most prestigious award...
...that are making their debuts in U.S. camera stores this month. Not only are they packed with computer chips and high-tech features, but each also sports a new, high-tech look, one that owes more to the smooth curves of the video camcorder than to the basic rectangular design that has dominated 35-mm cameras since the 1924 Leica Model "A." Says Yasuhiko Nakayama, the veteran video-camera designer who created the Chinon Genesis: "We wanted a unique design concept to match the new type of camera...
...three models, the Olympus SuperZoom makes what are perhaps the most impressive technological leaps. To keep its weight and cost down, the camera uses a separate viewing window rather than the so-called single-lens reflex design adopted by Yashica and Chinon. To ensure that what the photographer sees matches what is captured on film, Olympus engineers had to link the viewing window to the main lens in such a way that the viewfinder zooms as the lens does. Yashica and Chinon avoided this complication by using the standard SLR prism-and-mirror arrangement that lets one view and shoot...