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...passport on Yang Hua's desk is stamped with visas that would alarm immigration clerks around the world. He showed up in Indonesia two days after the Bali nightclub bombings in 2002. He's logged trips on a moment's notice to Iran, Yemen and Qatar, as well as to the U.S., Australia, Canada, England and Brazil. But Yang doesn't try to hide the substances contained in little glass vials that he brings home from his travels. They're lined up on the windowsill of his Beijing office, affixed with labels such as "Saudi sweet." As senior vice president...
FRANK'S FANCY LINCOLN HAS EVERYTHING A ROAD warrior could want: plush leather seats, extra legroom and a sleek fold-down desk that can be positioned just so. There's a bottle of spring water in the cup holder to my left and a pile of individually wrapped Life Savers under the armrest. A screen suspended from the ceiling is playing a DVD. But here's the real perk of this ride: I can surf the Web on my laptop from the back-seat of this automobile while Frank, the driver, takes me wherever I want...
...this seems to be that the value it offers to the viewer begins and ends in the participation. You wouldn’t be surprised to find a miniature version of a piece like “Wave” in a Sharper Image catalog or sitting on the desk of some executive. Which is not to say that playing with “Wave” isn’t fun, but rather that it is, ultimately, dumb. At its best this work offers a very immediate satisfaction, but they are more diverting than enlightening. The artists might have...
...Percentage of people who say they eat lunch at their desk...
...chain's Angus Steak Burgers and a clear spoof on the late diet guru Dr. Robert Atkins. In an effort to convince people that burgers are still hip in a calorie- and carbohydrate-obsessed age, the site, angusdiet.com lets visitors send personalized advice from Dr. Angus, seated at his desk, telling others to loosen up, make lifestyle changes or, as CP&B had the doctor advise me, "stop being a slave to story deadlines...